Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vera Farmiga

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

Carine Roitfeld

When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

Don Everly

I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.

Brian Skerry

I have photographed sharks in waters around the globe, and I always want more and yearn to peer deeper into their world. To feed my passion and to raise awareness, I developed a story about sharks for 'National Geographic' magazine.

Matthew Fox

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Many salespeople are trying to make their quota rather than developing a deeper belief in their product or service - and even worse, they don't have a strong enough belief in themselves.

Mike White

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

Varley O'Connor

What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

Chuck Klosterman

I keep saying the word 'weird' over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it.

Pamela Stephenson

We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.

Nikki Reed

I think we use a lot of words and labels when trying to describe people: ones with autism, ones without autism. In general, I think that labeling people is a major issue, and people don't understand the power of language.

Errol Morris

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

Connie Sellecca

Any time they try to describe the tsunami to us, I am so touched by how high they look in the air, when they explain it with their hands-they go so high.

Steve Wilkos

It's hard to describe yourself as a hero - I just like to think of myself as a policeman. People can look to you like that, as a good guy who can help people.

Kurt Vonnegut

One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.

Tom Rosenstiel

When a president is popular, there's a tendency to describe events describing his popularity. When the numbers are falling, you use that as a lens to explain why his popularity is diminishing.

Eddie Guerrero

I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

Aimee Bender

I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something.

Yehuda Amichai

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

Yann Martel

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

Les Claypool

I have a very difficult time describing my music.

Jeffery Deaver

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Tom Waits

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.

Gabrielle Zevin

I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

Elizabeth Peyton

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.

Robert Fripp

You have to find a way of recognizing and describing the quality inherent in the music. If you fail to do that, then the piece itself is compromised.

Webb Simpson

I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

Stanley Elkin

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

Angie Proper

We got off to a slow start. We got into a hole and we couldn't get out of it.

Dax Shepard

I lived for going down the rabbit hole of meeting weird people. Of course, come Monday I would be tallying up all the different situations, and each one was progressively more dangerous. I got lucky in that I didn't go to jail.

John Stuper

We've been getting in the hole a lot lately. This weekend, we need to start striking first.

Reggie Lewis

We had holes in the defense. There was a lot of miscommunication tonight.

Stephen Hawking

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.

Tommy Amaker

We started to get some stops in the second half, and that was a key for us. We did some things that kind of put us in a hole early, but we showed some maturity to claw our way back in, and we didn't panic.

Bill Trumbo

We were in a hole early. We just couldn't let Williams shoot anymore. I was really pleased with the way we played defensively in the second half.

Will C. Barnes

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Japanese Proverb

The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone

Shannon Lewis

The pavilion itself could be the costliest part of renovation of this site.

David Friedman

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Giordano Bruno

I consider that all which lives must feed itself and nourish itself in a manner suitable to the way in which it lives.

Lord Byron

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Virgil Thomson

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Lemn Sissay

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

Noah Feldman

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.

Harvey Mackay

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

Alan Cohen

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

Alan Cohen

It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

Athanasius

The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.

Dear Abbey

Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.

Samuel Johnson

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Phil McGraw

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Ludwig von Mises

Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

Dogen

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Francia Raisa

I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

Cobi Jones

The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.