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.

Jason Gore

We probably stole a few and left a few out there, ... That's kind of what you have to do in alternate shot.

Laura Anne Gilman

When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.

Bill Walsh

When he begins to find his second, alternate and outlet receivers, when he moves out of the pocket and stretches the pocket to hit those guys, that's when he'll start taking defenses apart. There's a total upside to everything he does. He'll demonstrate that this year, especially with the gifts Michael has that are so spectacular.

N. K. Jemisin

In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.

Robert Peterson

We are looking for an alternate way to reach a modification.

Adam Johnson

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.

Peter Jackson

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.

Peyton Reed

I hate when there's a deleted scene on a DVD with no explanation, or you have to go out of your way to find an alternate audio track.

John Sheridan

We have an alternate site we're looking at. The federal government likes to see that we have alternate sites in our filing. We do that in the event we don't go forward with the proposed route.

Ezra Taft Benson

Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters.

Neon Hitch

I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that was my dream. We just traveled the whole world, me and my mom and my little brothers and sisters. It was an adventure.

Nicole Richie

I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did.

Eric Fellner

When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes.

Edward Hoagland

When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.

Connie Britton

A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.

Don Everly

That's the one part where being brothers makes a difference. It's just instinct. That's the charm of what the Everly Brothers are: two guys singing as one.

Don Everly

I always thought I'd be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil.

Ansel Elgort

I watched 'Billy Madison' maybe 80 times. It's my favourite movie. Watched it, like, a million times. My brother and sister watched it with me all the time.

Greg Graham

We have nothing to disprove that, ... So he says he lives in the city, he lives in the city.

Alberto Fujimori

One by one I will disprove the accusations, and I will restore my innocence and my honor,

Fred Lewis

We will let our software do the talking for us. I'm not out to prove or disprove anything.

Christopher Monckton

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

Jacob Frenkel

What it means is they have locked down a key cooperator who can, at a minimum, disprove what has been a publicly articulated key element of her defense, that being the stop-loss order,

David Chang

I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.

David Gross

I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.

Stephen Kinzer

No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.

Robert Bucksbaum

Phantom Menace, ... disprove the theory that a Memorial Day release is the save-all of the industry.

Mark Hamilton

The overall quality of women's golf is getting better, ... It's a natural evolution that these players are better.

Anthony D'Angelo

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

Charles de Gaulle

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

Stephane Simean

We're following the evolution of tennis in general a little bit.

David Deutsch

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

Martin Luther

Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

Martin Luther

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.

Martin Luther

It is God who creates effects and preserves all things through God's almighty power.

Maria Montessori

A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.

Wentworth Miller

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

William J. Mayo

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

William John Wills

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

Frederic Ruffy

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.

Buck Leonard

I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.

Nayvadius Cash

I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

Nate Ruess

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

Kurt Vonnegut

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

David Carr

When I go on the field, I feel like I can make every play to put our team in position to win. If I have to make a play to win, that's when I have to step up and use what God's given me.

Tyler Christopher

Leaving 'GH' was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.

Sundar Pichai

Google search was important - one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accessed everything through a browser, and for us it was important for making sure we had an option there.

Paul Gillmor

It does seem fair to give them the option of a better return.

Fabio Capello

We had other options but Vieira was the one I wanted,

Scott White

Toll roads may be an option we consider, ... Everything is on the table out the gate.

Joe Krier

Tolling is an option today we can do.

Daniel Fuller

Yeah, it surprised them a little. That's part of the scheme, there is an option on every play for every running back.

Group Inc

We don't have many other options left. This is it,

Bob Elek

We're not trying to usurp or go around the municipalities. We're just trying to get a competitive option quicker.

Richard Russo

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

Jackie Smith

We have not received any paperwork on that from them.

Byron Katie

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

David Ricardo

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

Demetri Martin

Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.

Daniel Handler

Blank paper has always inspired me.

Bill Watterson

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

Randi Miller

We're still going to be a politically independent paper. We're still going to be the paper for Boulder's young adults and serve that readership with our reporting and advertising.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Towny Anderson

There are just too many reasons to do that.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Marshall Strickland

There are so many reasons for us to win.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

Dear Abbey

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

Charlotte Bronte

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

Byron Katie

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

Camille Paglia

Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.

Beverly Cleary

I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.

Deborah Moggach

Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with -sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.

Deborah Moggach

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

Anton Chekhov

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

bell hooks

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Chris Pelchen

We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.