Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathryn Bigelow

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.

Kathryn Bigelow

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.

Ted Demme

Like a Pearl Harbor, they're going into their opening weekend knowing that they spent $110 million making this movie. That pressure must be enormous.

Robert Townsend

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

John Milius

'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.

Michael Ritchie

Los Angeles has always been on the table with us.

John Chrysostom

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

John Chrysostom

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

John Chrysostom

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

David Kinkade

We always expected that Beebe would reap the benefits of his many contacts with special interests in Arkansas. He's raised a lot of money but spent an inordinate amount of money doing that, so we're quite comfortable with where we are right now.

Kerry Healey

The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.

Jason Ritter

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

Robert Sweeney

We needed a tremendous amount of manpower to get the water and the hose up to extinguish the fire,

Donald Sutherland

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

Thomas Dolby

The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it.

Thomas Gibson

In a way, as an actor, you do all the preparation and then you want to forget it and just play the scene. As a director, you can't forget it because somebody will remind you that you forgot something. But you can know your plan well enough that you still have a certain amount of freedom.

Tao Lin

I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.

Tom Stoppard

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor.

Tia Carrere

When you're an actress, you feel like you have to constantly be running, running on the treadmill, or you're going to miss an opportunity,

Tessanne Chin

I want to make the music that people remember, and it doesn't need a trend; it doesn't need to be constantly hyped. There's no time period for it. That's the type of music I want to make.

John Cohen

We're constantly working together. We explain what kind of surface, thick or thin, we want.

Steve Williams

We're constantly preparing for emergencies, ... This just shows that the preparation works.

John Banville

We're constantly losing - we're losing time, we're losing ourselves. I don't feel for the things I lost.

Debra Wakeland

We're constantly getting feedback. We're making this better for our members.

Peter Chane

We're constantly exploring new ideas on how to deliver content to users.

Kevin Phillips

We're constantly cruising and now we are facing more than 40 shows. But we want to take over the world. We are going to rock 'n' roll, which is, to make good music and to have a good time all the time.

Gayle Bradley

We're constantly continuing improvements in our programming and facilities, and facilities management.

David Walker

Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears.

David Ricardo

It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.

David Ricardo

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

David Ricardo

No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.

David Ricardo

It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported

David Ricardo

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

David Hilbert

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

David Icke

What is interesting to me, as I travel, is that exactly the same agenda is being implemented in every country I travel to. Because people from different countries don't talk to each other and the international media are being used to bring about the changes desired by the global elite, nobody realizes this.

David Hockney

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Carl Jung

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.

Albert Einstein

One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good

Seth Godin

It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

James C. Collins

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

Howard Nemerov

History is where tensions were.

Josh Brown

I'm going to do something. There's a little tension between us.

Orhan Pamuk

When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.

Kanye West

Let the music defuse all the tension.

Jane Gardam

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Jim Gresh

She's just a tremendous athlete. She can do it all. She's very versatile, and she can really play any position.

Robert Matthews

I had many, many wonderful conversations with her about everything under the sun. She was one tremendous person.

Joel Quenneville

He's had a tremendous year, I'll tell you,

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Lloyd Carr

He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.