Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shatner

Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.

F. Sionil Jose

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

Vince Staples

The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.

Leila Janah

Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly.

Douglas Alexander

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

Hideo Kojima

I don't like necessarily that people think 'Metal Gear' defines me. I love 'Metal Gear,' don't get me wrong. But as a creator, I really want to work on other projects, including new games.

John Dickerson

We have by-law 461 that defines what a residence is. It defines a residence as a place where 95 percent of important family time takes place such as sleeping, where mail is received and where meals are prepared.

Jonathan Maberry

'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.

Quint Davis

The true heart and soul of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, as with New Orleans itself, is music. It's the force that drives and defines us. It's not just for entertainment, but it feeds our soul.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Fareed Zakaria

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

Will Packer

When people have options for what they want to see, it forces the quality of programming and content to be higher.

Peter Pace

Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.

Eddie Compass

We have thousands of people who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time, ... Once they are all out, then we'll concentrate our forces on mandatory evacuation.

Robert Tuttle

U.S. forces do not use napalm or white phosphorus as weapons.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to rule out anything, but we don't have any plans at the present time to use U.S. forces in that way,

Elizabeth Warren

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

Ralph Nader

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Patrick Murphy

I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

Sergei Lavrov

A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.

Tommy Lee Jones

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

W. C. Fields

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

Adlai E. Stevenson

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Karl Rove

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

Karl Rove

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Sarah Hall

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.

Kurt Vonnegut

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

Alva Myrdal

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Paul Verhoeven

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

Kelis

I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

Bill Cowher

We didn't play well enough offensively and defensively, but I can't say enough about our special teams.

Rick Clausen

We know it could be a special year,

David Rudisha

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

Carl Hiaasen

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Carl Jung

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Eddie Marsan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.