Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ferdinand Buisson

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

Orson Welles

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Johnny Damon

We had opportunities; we just couldn't capitalize. That's the most aggravating thing about this game. When you're not hitting and scoring runs, it dictates how well your season goes.

Gilbert Hernandez

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

Mitt Romney

Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.

Zakk Wylde

For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

David Yalof

What history dictates is even relatively weak presidents have often gone for home runs with nominees,

John Scalzi

When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.

Sean Ellis

Our position dictates toughness. It's an honor to be a Carson linebacker.

Henry David Thoreau

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

Ben Elliot

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

Donald Norman

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Chris Jericho

When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler.

Donald Trump

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

Naomie Harris

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

Dustin Diamond

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

Persis Khambatta

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

Sunil Mittal

I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods.

Yani Tseng

So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

Bill Baker

We played okay. We had 15 hits and we had an eight-run second inning.

Stephen Hall

We played a little more intense in the second half, and hit some 3-pointers. But in the first half, we were just having fun.

Danny Smith

We played a big physical team. They couldn't play us (man-to-man), so they had to play zone. We hit 10 threes in the game.

Kevin Froud

We proceeded to quit scoring. We were getting shots in the lane, but we weren't hitting them. We weren't playing with our head, but we made the plays in the end that we needed to.

Willy Taveras

We practice that a lot, ... But that ball, not many people can hit it there.

Brian Smith

We opened up that third quarter pretty much on fire. When we're hitting 3s, we're pretty tough to stop.

Tippi Hedren

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything.

Tyler Farr

Just because you've got a hit doesn't mean you've made it.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Alan Ackerman

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

Greg Hill

What you've got here, essentially, is a very high-powered marketing operation--meaning Microsoft--versus Linux.

Carlos Ghosn

We are not particularly optimistic about the U.S. market in the next six months and next year.

Peter Hillyard

We are not going to plunge to $500 or $400. The market is going to stay within a price range of $540 and $650.

Nicholas Winton

Everyone thinks my story should be marked by heroism, but there was no risk to myself. You see, no-one in Prague at that time thought they were going to be at war with England.

Ezra Taft Benson

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Alexander McCall Smith

With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Laurence Housman

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

Mike Short

We're not going to get them just because they're a novelty item. We have to be responsible with our budget.

Pearl Cleage

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

Charles Palliser

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.

Teemu Selanne

This schedule is unbelievable. I don't know what kind of Superman you have to be to stay healthy.

Allard Beutel

We know there is going to be a schedule impact, ... We don't know what that's going to be yet.

Bryan Ferry

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Ato Boldon

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

Arthur Bloch

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Mark Few

When it all shakes out and these teams play on, it's going to be the toughest non-conference schedule in the country.

Nathan Fennell

We're going to play a rougher schedule this year than we have for many years.

Aaron Sorkin

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

Bill Hybels

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

Al Madrigal

I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.

Jim Gillespie

We're not going to be taken seriously if we speak or we may not have a voice at all,

Alex Rodriguez

We're taking this (stretch run) as seriously as the playoffs.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing serious in Mortality

Scott Smith

We had discussions, but nothing serious enough to warrant any offers.

Mitt Romney

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Tracy Reese

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Tim Curry

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

Mike Nichols

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

Jim Lovell

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.

Don Shula

You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

David Byrne

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Colonel Sanders

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

Brooke Burke

I've always done ab work, even when I was pregnant.

Dennis Christopher

Work has been my lover - I've shied away from any commitments.