Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Platt

I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.

Paulo Freire

At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.

Tom Brokaw

My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s.

Chris Jordan

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.

Kim Prunty

Walt Disney World engineers and ride system experts completed a thorough inspection of the attraction overnight and found it to be operating properly. A representative from the state Bureau of Fair Rides Inspection monitored the ride inspection and testing.

Mark McKinnon

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.

Sebastian Faulks

It's possible there are no two books in publishing history more dissimilar than 'Human Traces' and 'Devil May Care.' And that was really the attraction of it.

Rainbow Rowell

Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

Matt Passmore

We're used to boy meets girl, boy likes girl, instant attraction on TV. But you throw a son in there, you throw a marriage in there, and you've got some really good character stuff.

Zac Efron

I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

Walter F. Ulmer

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

Valerie June

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

Val Kilmer

The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Allan Palmer

The outside (of Hangar 37) has to be restored, and we've got to repaint it and put a new roof on, and make it look like it did in 1941.

Pete Wentz

It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.

Lin Loring

We practiced outside on (Wednesday), and it went well.

Lillian Bullock

We're like a tag-team. If she's not posting you up, I'm outside shooting the jumper.

Rohit Sharma

You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Buddy Trask

We were at the rim, and didn't have to rely on outside shooting and we made the big plays when we had to make them. We always want to make it interesting though.

Chris Boyd

We were trying to live outside regular society three months.

Charles de Lint

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Don Yaeger

In sports, championships often define a person's legacy.

Peter Steele

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

Tora Berger

When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

Jerry Seinfeld

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Nikki Reed

I'm into outdoor sports like hiking, windsurfing, water-skiing.

Stephan James

Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner.

Larry King

Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.

Wilson Bethel

I do like all different kinds of sports and stuff. I've taken up gymnastics and slacklining - you know, tightroping, basically.

Pete Rose

You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.

Henry Adams

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

John Barrymore

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

Edgar Allan Poe

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

Serena Williams

A lifetime with Venus Williams will not be enough.

Ovid

Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Ben Jonson

She is Venus when she smiles; / But she's Juno when she walks, / And Minerva when she talks.

Ovid

Venus favors the bold.