Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.

William Weld

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.

Vincent Bugliosi

This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.

Chuck Palahniuk

There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Constance Wu

I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian - that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.

Colin Angle

Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It's gratuitous robotics!

Clive Thompson

The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.

Chris Bohjalian

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.

William Allen Butler

And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.

Virginia Postrel

We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.

Ellen Key

In the new woman, the feeling of life will be enhanced; her experience will be more profound. Her soul life, her demands for beauty, her senses will be more developed and refined. She will be more sensitive, more delicately vibratory; she will therefore be able to be more profoundly happy and also to suffer more keenly than the woman of our time.

Edward Gibbon

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Cherie Lunghi

I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'

Amisha Patel

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

Christo

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

Wole Soyinka

I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

Nancy Friday

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

Warren Bennis

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

William Billings

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

Vivek Wadhwa

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

Virginia Postrel

The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - the technocratic philosophy of the 'one best way' embodied in our pharmaceutical regulations. On the Net, medical information is abundant, and pharmacies, domestic and foreign, operate on many different models.

Venus Williams

Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

Abraham Lincoln

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

Colin Angle

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

Connie Mack

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

Clive Thompson

Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

Haz Iwendi

The police moved in, shot at the (kidnappers') vehicle. They killed the driver of the vehicle but the kidnappers dropped the dead body and went away.

Greg Wilkinson

The pilot was able to eject from the jet, but we were actually able to locate his body about 300 yards away from the crash site. Unfortunately he did not survive.

Mallory Factor

The PCAOB is an unaccountable, unconstitutional regulatory body. It's the poster child for the dangers of a runaway bureaucracy.

Brunello Cucinelli

St. Benedict said to take care of your mind, body and soul. I swim for an hour every morning, do 15 minutes of Tibetan stretching and breathing exercises, and play soccer with friends four or more nights a week.

Bonnie Tyler

Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.

David H. Murdock

It is never too late to change the way you eat - once you do, your body will thank you with a longer and healthier life.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Did you ever think that your body is holy? You are a child of God. Your body is His creation.

Erin Heatherton

Healthy body image is not something that you're going to learn from fashion magazines.

Edmund White

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

Billy Graham

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Kevin Quinn

The police response was excellent and the bomb squad was here in 12 minutes. It was an unfortunate situation but it ran smoothly. The students were very mature and excellent in terms of their cooperation.

Bharati Mukherjee

I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room.

Alice Walker

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Peter Singer

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and - as evidenced by YouTube videos - entertaining cats.

Stuart Symington

It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.

Nancy Pelosi

I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.'

Gareth Davis

We relied on runners and ambulance crews passing on information as they dropped patients off. When the last telephone call you receive said eight bombs have gone off, it sounded like Armageddon.

Annie Jacobsen

Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

Wesley Clark

I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.'

Viswanathan Anand

I honestly don't remember when and why I started calling my mom 'Momsi'. These are family things; it starts for some reason. It's not that I just call her Momsi; I call her other things as well!

Constance Marie

Family to me is foundation. It's the people that you can call on whether you love them or hate them. When push comes to shove, they're there for you, and that's kind of how this family is.

Chris Carter

If you look at 'The X-Files' generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not 'mythology' episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder's sister. They deal with what I would call the 'saga' of 'The X-Files.'

Don Rickles

I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

Rob Bishop

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.

Martin Lapointe

The overtime calls hurt the game. It's a big game, a big rivalry. the refs should let us play. I guess this is the new NHL. To lose a game on a cheap penalty is not the way to play hockey.

Constantin Brancusi

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Luke Evans

One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about.

Julien Dray

The head of state should take measure of what is happening. Perhaps he should separate right away from his prime minister, perhaps he should envisage new elections.

Haruhiko Kuroda

Before we can realistically envisage any single currency, we have to have a single market as the European experience shows.

John Reid

And I have said since around June that I envisage that that process, which will start unequally in different parts of the country, could start within a year.

Alan Phillips

There is no timing on it, but I don't envisage seeing Martyn much this week,

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

Bill Watterson

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

Plato

We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

Henry Adams

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

Pharrell Williams

My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.

Baruch Spinoza

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

Cameron Diaz

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

C. S. Lewis

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

William Shatner

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

Brad Grey

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

Denis Lavant

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

Desiree Rogers

This ability to mix people together is something I learned early on.

Sophia Amoruso

I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.

Tommy Caldwell

Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.

Trip Adler

The original idea was to make it easy to publish content on the Web and find an audience. What we learned from publishers is that the thing they want the most is more readers and more revenue.

Michael R. Bloomberg

We have learned that our city's strength is unbreakable,

Pam Brown

We have learned not to be overconfident when it comes to requesting any type of taxation. However, West Vincent has a proven track record with how transferable development rights are used.

Zac Efron

Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have yet to meet a carnivore who doesn't love a sausage roll.

William Shatner

I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them.

Will Chase

I would love to do a political drama. I'm a 'West Wing' fanatic.

Ville Valo

I love the Ronettes, the 'do-run-run-run' pop stuff. I love the lyrics, having 'blue, blue blue' being repetitive.

Billy Graham

To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.

Billy Graham

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Chet Faker

When I was 21 or 22, I realized I was never going to be something else - I had to be a musician. I can't commit to anything unless I love it.

Chet Faker

I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.

Phil Schiller

Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.

Meg Graham

The quality and sterility of the products made there was never in question.

Bob Turner

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

Ayumi Hamasaki

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

James Inhofe

I am a product of the draft.

Mark Pincus

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

Jerry Yang

one of the better products we've launched in a long time.

Al Rauch

I think most of the biotech products are going to be safe for the rest of the decade.

Shawn Amos

Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company's narrative.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donatella Versace

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

Brittany Howard

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

John Morgridge

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. I've always wished that for myself.

Emily Hughes

She called me, wished me luck. She said she was going to watch.

A.J. Chilson

If you already have something you wished for is there a need for something else you want?

Mike McCurry

They congratulated him on his re-election and wished him well." ()