Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenny Chesney

In all the years that I've been doing this, I've never launched a tour and launched an album at basically the same time. Doing one of those things is enough!

Kevin Chamberlin

When I auditioned for 'Jessie,' I knew that Disney Channel basically will do 100 episodes of a show if it's a hit; they'll stick with something. It's a great network to work with because they make a nice big commitment to a show.

Stan Collender

Whenever you talk about something 10 years from now, it's always basically going to be guesswork, something approaching science fiction and fantasy more than reality.

Robert Irwin

Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.

David Macklin

We had big hopes of winning the national championship, ... and those were basically shot. Our dreams were gone.

Ken Hill

We had been playing with three players in the back and loading the midfield, but this year, with the talent we have, we can play with four in the back and it works out to basically give us an extra forward because the defense shifts in reaction to the overload,

Hans Vestberg

When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.

Paul Vachon

We're going do what we've done well all year, and hopefully good things come our way. We're not going to do anything special. As a matter of fact, we tried to do things special during the tournament, and none of it worked. All we did is move right back to our basics, and our basics got us this far.

Don Young

We're looking at staying as long as it takes this time, ... We're going down there basically to make a wage with our equipment.

Granth Sahib

When the king makes a demand, and it is met, the bond is established. When the hungry man eats, he is satisfied, and the bond is established. In the famine, the rain fills the streams to overflowing, and the bond is established.

Lee Siegel

A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation.

Alan King

We're glad that our bond package provides for growth, ... We certainly are going to need to build east elementary, and the enrollment figures reinforce that.

Kate Philips

We're concerned that S&P (Standard & Poor's, a bond rating agency) might be watching this situation. And we're concerned for all the businesses that depend on the port in the region if the river is not dredged. A lot of sectors are watching this very closely.

Ronald Reagan

Let us resolve that we will stop spreading dependency and start spreading opportunity; that we will stop spreading bondage and start spreading freedom.

Tania Kotsos

Low inflation is bullish for bonds in Hungary and therefore for the forint. We could see some gains in the currency on anticipation of a lower-than expected inflation figure.

M. Wolfe

Low inflation contributes to the solid performance in Canada's bond market. It is certainly something bond investors always want to see.

Amanda Padilla

Last year, there wasn't much team chemistry or leadership; it was just in small groups. We have a good bond this year and will work well together.

Konrad Lorenz

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know exactly what the people have said. This November's election was different. Not only did the people speak, they spoke clearly.

Ron Gardenhire

We needed a win, desperately. We needed to get back and have a better feeling around here, and that's exactly what happened tonight.

Brad Johnson

We're getting warmer at exactly the time of year that snow needs to store water. It's a real threat to our water supply that we should take seriously and address.

Ed DeChellis

Last year, they knew exactly what they were doing. This year, this guy's starting, that guy's starting, probably because that's just the way it is. They're trying to find the right mixture.

George Soros

I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don't exactly see what is going to reverse it.

Emraan Hashmi

Somehow, I always knew I would get married by the time I was 27. Even in college, I had this weird thing in my head that I would get married when I was 27, and hopefully my career would be stable, and I'll have kids by 30. And that's exactly what has happened.

Erica Jong

I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he'd have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily.

Lorrie Moore

I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.

Kapil Sharma

People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.

David Viscott

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

David Brooks

It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.

Arne Jacobsen

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Rick Bowers

We accomplished one more of our goals. We just have to perform.

Denny Hamlin

It makes me very hard on myself when I don't achieve the goals I want to achieve. But I feel like that's what makes me as good as I am - I push myself to be better, constantly.

Denzel Washington

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Denis Waitley

A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.

Denis Waitley

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

Denis Waitley

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

Ben Stiller

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

Ayn Rand

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Carol Anshaw

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

William Shakespeare

Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

Caroline B. Cooney

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me

Bryan Fuller

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

Connie Willis

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

Billy Wilder

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

Edgar Bergen

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

Alan Coren

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Bill Hybels

God made you on purpose, for a purpose

Brandi Carlile

The purpose of it all is love.

Brandi Carlile

There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.

Bruce Springsteen

We're here tonight with a mission, we're here tonight with a purpose,

Gary Sheffield

So I think he did it on purpose,

David Kim

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

David Kim

On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.

David Graeber

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

David Rockefeller

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

David Brinkley

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

Bear Grylls

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Audre Lorde

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

Arthur Rimbaud

What am I doing here?

Arne Jacobsen

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

Denise Levertov

we are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story....

Deborah Moggach

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

David Hilbert

Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.

David Hume

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Audrey Tautou

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Antony Beevor

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

Antonin Artaud

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.

Ed Westwick

'Villain' is such a harsh word.

Ruth Rendell

I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.

Alex O'Loughlin

I like playing the villain.

Alfred Molina

I love playing villains.

Alexander Pope

The villain's censure is extorted praise.

Alan Moore

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Seth Rogen

There is no such thing as a villain. It's the others who are wrong. In as much, all villains are the same.

Cassandra Clare

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

Judd Nelson

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.