Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vanessa Paradis

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

Chuck Palahniuk

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

Billy Graham

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Billy Graham

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Zubin Mehta

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

Ellen G. White

I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

Esther Rolle

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.

Ben Affleck

It's wrong and disgusting to follow children around and take their picture and sell it for money.

Debra Robinson

The only reason this is about race is because the school district has yet to do its job in educating children of color.

Wynton Marsalis

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

Laurie Pirtle

The overtime was an emotional issue. Our kids were shell-shocked that we were in that situation.

Ben Bass

The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.

Paul Haggis

Film is an emotional medium; it's not a logical medium. It's not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in the rejection of logic.

Rob Mackowiak

We opened in New York in 2002. So that was an emotional time especially after what happened in 2001. This was extra special -- you're home in front of your family.

Katrina Kaif

With every film, we form a small little world for a period of time. Everybody is close, and then one fine day everything is over. That can throw you off. So you have to learn to take things in your stride and not get too emotional about people or situations.

Alan Cohen

Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear.

Erica Jong

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

Mike White

You can come to a political position from an emotional place.

John Day

When fully deployed, it will include 8,000 lightly equipped troops, but will also include engineering and medical expertise,

David Pope

was obscured by equipment needed to operate the train.

Jamie Shea

We know that some transporters have been heading from southern Serbia to northern Kosovo -- that's the primary equipment you would send if you were planning to withdraw.

Asif Kapadia

We were studying at Newport Film School, and I found that the only way for me to make films - because you need people and you need equipment - was that I had to be a student.

Dale Williams

Typically if the rating goes down, then your response times go down, the equipment is better and the overall level of the suppression of fires is better.

Jeff McCutcheon

Tillage is now greatly reduced. Multiple passes of equipment has been reduced, sometimes to just one pass. And there is also the no-till method." ()

Saudi Arabia

well equipped with thousands of kilograms of explosives, with money and fake documents.

Paul Stromberg

With the equipment we have we can start this week. But for big numbers we need larger planes, which we are trying to get now.

Michelle Shafer

The problems are not necessarily inherent in the equipment itself, but in the initial intersection of the new technology and the people who use it.

Bruce Rauner

I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children.

Jeb Bush

trapped in failing schools. She reads at a fifth-grade level.

Chris Young

We have a huge immigration problem here and the government is completely failing in protecting us on the borders.

Calamity Jane

Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

Mark Cuban

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.

Eddie Izzard

Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.

Diego Klattenhoff

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.

Earl Weaver

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

Benjamin Franklin

The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.

Edmund White

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

Tim Hetherington

With soldiers, their wives are so fundamental in their relationships, and yet there's this kind of other war happening back in the States, where wives of soldiers don't quite understand what their husbands have been through, because their husbands won't really talk about it, and that's really the hidden war.

Kevin Spacey

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

Nikki Sixx

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

Evan Peters

'American Horror' in particular is a really crazy show. We have crazy crap happening to us on that show.

Sandrine Bonnaire

I've never really played everyday people. I've played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters.

Plato

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Antonio Banderas

There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.

Mindy Grossman

You have to understand who your customer is and her motivations and marry it to what's happening in the outside world.

Baruch Spinoza

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Bruce Graham

What we need to do is sell this idea (to the town). It's not going to sell as a 'Save the Church' (proposal). The way we need to present it to the town is to find a sensible, practical use for this structure.

Al Jarreau

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'

Barry Schwartz

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

Paul Hubbert

Theoretically, they still have time to do it, but from a practical standpoint, I don't think they are going to let it happen.

Rick Snyder

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

John Taylor

From a practical standpoint, most Americans don't live there.

Holly Tachovsky

She would not sugarcoat it for you. It was always very practical and real-world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

Mark Cuban

Doesnt matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you cant get your head right.

Robert Kiyosaki

Don't do anything for the money you WILL make, but instead for the SKILLS you will learn.

Robert Kiyosaki

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.

William Shakespeare

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Carl Icahn

Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.