Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernard Beckett

The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.

Reza Aslan

There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.

Henry Spencer

Claiming that solid rockets are necessary for a heavy-lift launcher is obvious nonsense.

Jason Schultz

Those who have been claiming that the DMCA does not threaten reverse engineering are plainly wrong, ... The DMCA has become a powerful anticompetitive tool, and that means consumers will see fewer innovative products in the marketplace.

Martin Jacques

The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a way of acknowledging this and framing its ambitions and interests accordingly. Instead of claiming the right to continuing primacy in east Asia, for example, it should seek to share that primacy with China.

Ronald Reagan

Our friends in the other party will never forgive us for our success, and are doing everything in their power to rewrite history. Listening to the liberals, you'd think that the 1980s were the worst period since the Great Depression, filled with suffering and despair. I don't know about you, but I'm getting awfully tired of the whining voices from the White House these days. They're claiming there was a decade of greed and neglect, but you and I know better than that. We were there.

S. Walker

Our policy on this mirrors many other states' and there is no intent to prohibit any person from claiming a prize. They simply must have the required identification.

John Key

I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

Michael Leunig

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.

Eric Fellner

It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.

Seinabo Sey

At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.

Tyler Oakley

I'm a genuine lover of music. I've always watched the Grammys from home.

D. H. Lawrence

When genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot

Camille Paglia

No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

Chris Hayes

It is genuinely shocking to me that I'm on a television show.

David Simons

We're a very angry, very political show. Because these people are genuinely trapped.

Phil Klay

It's often difficult to get perspective on your own stories, on your own experiences, without talking them through with someone who is genuinely interested in thinking about them. And that's the key.

Randall Kennedy

Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

Ben Chaplin

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Ben Barnes

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Nick Jonas

I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.

Charlton Heston

It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.

Damien Chazelle

As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

Laurence Housman

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

David Buckley

When the universe was very young it was smooth and had a uniform distribution but now it is quite clumpy,

Vikram Chatwal

My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

Ken Dixon

We're kind of blase about 'just ride the bus,' but you don't realize how tough it is. It's quite a trip, especially if you have kids.

Evel Knievel

I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

Karl Pilkington

With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?

Jason Fuchs

When you work for DC, it's sort of like working for the CIA. You have a vow of silence.

Nikki Reed

I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.

Nikki Sixx

If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.

S. T. Joshi

I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.

Susanne Bier

I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.

Barbra Streisand

It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

Alan Greenspan

I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Francia Raisa

I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

Cobi Jones

The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.

Ron Moore

We're wanting to do an upscale natural-habitat project.

Brad Meltzer

There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.

Brad Meltzer

The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?

Rachel Campbell

Some of them aren't out yet and they've been wanting those.

Jodi Collins

I think like everyone, we've been wanting to do something, and now we are.

AJ Michalka

You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend.

Delta Goodrem

I was just burning, wanting to be on stage.

David Tom

I think it's more willpower than anything else, wanting to win more than anything else.

Gary Moore

We've been wanting to get that for a long time.