Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rogers

I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking at it in a new way to see what interesting things can emerge.

Robert Wilson

I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to do a play that would run for days. I don't think time is that important. Nature doesn't hurry the sky, the changing clouds and sunsets.

Larry Young

We're not changing the nutritional value, sugar or calories.

Larry Ellison

We 're not changing our strategy. We have an Internet strategy; we decided that four years ago.

Carl Edwards

We're not changing a thing, ... If we're going to win this championship, we're going to do it by having fun. That way, even if we don't win it, at least we still had fun.

Stephanie Brown

We're not changing any of our plans going into the holiday season.

Dale Lennon

We're not changing any of our goals. I'm hoping for a typical North Dakota team that plays within itself and doesn't make mistakes.

William Winter

Life is arched with changing skies:Rarely are they what they seem:Children we of smiles and sighs --Much we know, but more we dream.

William Winter

Life is arched with changing skies: Rarely are they what they seem: Children we of smiles and sighs -- Much we know, but more we dream.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Barry Commoner

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Barry Commoner

The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

Barry Commoner

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Rachel Carson

Those who love and free nature are never alone.

Dennis Kucinich

If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

Dennis Kucinich

Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior.

Charlene Li

We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.

Billy Bob Thornton

Marketing is the devil.

Bill Gurley

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Robin Li

The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Deborah White

We're just going from U.S. market report to U.S. market report.

Ben E. King

It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.

Larry Goldstein

The one thing the market doesn't have is time and the administration reacted expeditiously this time. This was good.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

David Horowitz

If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

David Hume

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

David Hume

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

David Hume

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

David Hume

...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.

David Hume

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

David Hume

To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas, and endows them with particular qualities, according to their particular situations and relations. This instinct, 'tis true, arises from past observation and experience; but can anyone give the ultimate reason, why past experience and observation produces such an effect, any more than why nature alone should produce it?

David Hume

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.

David Hume

When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Charles Darwin

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

Del Ruiter

Luckily, Lord's will, we won and we're going to Canton and they're not.

Elizabeth Wilson

It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

C. S. Lewis

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

Abby Wambach

I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.

Barbara Kingsolver

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Lisa Hall

She did what she could with what she had. She did a wonderful job.

Bob Roach

She's very confident. She's well-integrated with the other kids. She's a wonderful young lady.