Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcia Townsend

We also want to get more benches and tables. It's a nice place to come to just sit and relax and read a book.

Alan Keyes

We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.

Bruce Hoffman

Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.

Jim Ryan

We pretty much cleared the benches by early in the third quarter. We played a lot of kids, which was nice, ... I would say a large number of kids had two or more quarters. There were very few starters who had four quarters, and the only ones who did were kids who were filling in on a special team here or there in the fourth quarter.

Ashley Johnson

He seemed like a cool person to me. He sits by the benches with us while we are playing.

Dirk Benedict

At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.

Barry Gibb

We could have been sleeping on park benches now but fortunately everything turned out well, much better than we had ever hoped.

Main Street

We have the ?Keep Main Street Blooming? project, and we honor downtown businesses, and we have donated two benches and matching garbage cans ... make it a better, happier, more fun place to be.

Ken Gaddy

You can go get ideas from any institution, other museum, or public space. Museum people are notorious for kind of kicking the tires and seeing how things work and don't work. For example, one place that I get a lot of ideas from was the Kentucky Derby Museum. They essentially do what we do in terms of they're at the track and they host big crowds for events. They host a lot of media. Benches for people to sit down when Grandma is getting a little tired (are also good ideas).

Ron Wilson

We actually got right down to the wire on both kills. I think maybe we let our guard down a little bit.

Jack Berry

We always hate to see employees move out, but we're always seeing movements, both in and out.

Atharva Veda

Wealth comes naturally to a person, who is endowed with both these qualities.

Plato

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

Kourtney Kardashian

My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

Kevin Rose

Since news breaks on digg very quickly, we face the same issues as newspapers which print a retraction for a story that was misreported. The difference with digg is that equal play can be given to both sides of a story, whereas with a newspaper, a retraction or correction is usually buried.

Kevin Kline

I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

Kathleen Battle

Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists.

Kathleen Sebelius

There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

David Hume

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

Richard Boulderstone

We acknowledge the considerable work that has to be undertaken by publishers to make the transition to a new structure for their electronic journal content. However, by supporting a common structure for e-journal content we have established a shared international context in which such migration can now proceed.

Tom Stoppard

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

Rob Bell

Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people.

Richard P. Feynman

Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one's common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.

Richard P. Feynman

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Joel Bernstein

Like anything, ... you got to use some common sense.

Scott Pelley

Lt. Col. Ronald Stallings told investigators, quote, 'he had no idea,' end quote, that prisoners were being chained overhead for 24 hours and more. What you seem to be saying is that it was common knowledge.

Lajos Kossuth

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

David Douglass

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

David Bryant

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Audrey Hepburn

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

Antony Jay

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

Derek Jacobi

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Alain Badiou

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

Al Gore

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

Ajay Naidu

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

Langhorne Slim

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Fidel Castro

Neo-liberalism and globalization and the way they are being implemented today are tantamount to new and sophisticated forms of plundering,

Richard King

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

Linda Kent

We're still faxing the forms and we're still getting information,

Chris Coleman

I am glad he has tied his future to us, he forms an important part of my plans.

Walter Kirn

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Alice Morse Earle

Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.

Dennis Campbell

We are looking at a variety of forms in which investment could take place. There are no specific items that I'm in a position to discuss.

Andy Serkis

I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.

Isabella Rossellini

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Isabella Rossellini

It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

Mallory Ortberg

After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.

David Cole

Low risk is something we generally recommend that users can ignore. Medium risk is something we quarantine, and high risk is something we automatically remove.

Lord Byron

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

John Noble

'Lord Of The Rings' fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

John Eaton

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Carroll Quigley

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

Byron Katie

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

Kathi Glist

We approached the Hilton. We were looking for a nice, intimate venue, an intimate place. It was our first choice.

bell hooks

Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person – the personal – citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self.

Blake Shelton

There's something actually more intimidating about playing a small, intimate room. Your mistakes are that much more under the microscope.

A. B. Yehoshua

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

David Harrington

We wanted to go from the most intimate sound to the largest, in the space of a heartbeat.

James Levine

People are turning away from the more formal, traditionally posed wedding photos to a more intimate and natural approach,

Todd Brown

Competency means having the technical understanding ... teaching the intimate details,

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Robert Reich

When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've never had a very great public life.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Arizona Muse

From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.

Geoffrey Canada

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

Rusty Schweickart

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

Meg Cabot

I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.

Joss Whedon

Because you should always do something on a spaceship if you canà

Tom Stoppard

There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out.

Randeep Hooda

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

Jeffrey Berger

Aspirin is a drug that has been used for many years - it is well-understood, effective, inexpensive and widely available.

Dr. Berger

Aspirin has been used for many years, it is well-understood, effective, inexpensive and widely available.

Jack Hooper

That makes them widely consumable all over the world.