Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clay Shirky

I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not taken in moderation have negative effects. But the alarmism around 'Facebook is changing our brains' strikes me as a kind of historical trick. Because we now know from brain science that everything changes our brains.

Chet Faker

I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.

Anthony D'Angelo

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement.

Noreena Hertz

The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.

Trip Adler

Just as it can be addictive to be in a real world bookstore or library, it's the same on the Web.

Lauren Weisberger

I'm addicted to 'Lonely Planet' guides. Naturally, I'll buy one whenever I take a trip somewhere, but it goes beyond that: I've begun buying them for cities and countries I just hope to visit one day.

Jane Green

I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married. I don't do the chat rooms anymore, but I have become completely addicted to Ebay.

Nikki Sixx

When the addict gets recovery, his family gets recovery, right?

Nikki Sixx

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

Amy Grant

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

Gabriel Byrne

Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.

David Suzuki

People don't even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it apart in our mouths. And incorporate those molecules into our own bodies. We are the Earth in the most profound way.

Norman Finkelstein

My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

Norman Finkelstein

Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

Paul Weller

The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it, when we were still playing the pubs and clubs - around '75. Shocking, really - what would you call them apart from 'horrible?' We'd wear these white zip-up bomber jackets with black kind of loon pants and black and white shoes.

Amy Manco

We played well in the first half, but we shot ourselves a lot in the second half and it snowballed from there. We were falling apart and some things didn't go our way. We will learn from this and get better for the next game.

Hilleary Bogley

We probably searched about 100 apartments and houses.

Caroline Dhavernas

At least, I'm very happy that it's going out on DVD because if it wasn't for the fans who signed this petition and were really ongoing about how they loved it, we wouldn't see this DVD right now.

Denis O'Hare

I've been watching 'Lost' on DVD recently. I keep thinking, 'Where are those actors now?' Nobody knows.

Catherine Hardwicke

When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.

Derek Jeter

During the offseason, I go to the movies almost every day. You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

Bill Gates

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

Michael Moore

I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.

Nicolas Cage

I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options.

George Schweitzer

In the past, we have had street teams giving out show premiere DVDs and things like that, but this is the first time we are doing these big-scale events.

Brian Graden

In the past, if 'Laguna Beach' was a hit, you wait a few months and put out the DVD and then make sure you've got some information on MTV.com -- but all of that was very ancillary, ... Our proposition is that it's not ancillary. In fact, it's reinforcing, all feeding each other.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.

John Brady

The outstanding ones are usually gone. You have to start over with freshman and sophomore talent.

Kevin Campbell

The pattern we see is when students have a rough freshmen year, they come back for their sophomore year. But if they have the same pattern, they start to lose hope and start looking at other options; sometimes it?s night school, sometimes it?s a GED.

Brandon Flowers

I live a normal life. But I'm always thinking about what I'm going to do next, musically. 'Do I need a fresh producer? What was Peter Gabriel doing when he was 32?'

Scott Sanderson

We practiced on Monday, but we didn't practice very long because I think it's important that we have fresh legs because this game, going over there, is going to be so emotional.

Vivica A. Fox

I must always have fresh orange juice, alkaline water and hazelnut creamer for my coffee.

Nimrat Kaur

These are stories you hear... of people sitting in a mall and being spotted, and you think it will happen to you. And when you're fresh off the boat, and new in Bombay, you want those kind of things! They are magical fables. You want to, somewhere, be a part of it, something people will read about. But reality is different.

Michael Kors

I wear the same thing every day. I always pack two black jackets, loads of black T-shirts, loads of white jeans. I feel a little fresh and glamorous and graphic.

Greg Kampe

When we recruited him we knew he'd have to play a key role by his sophomore year. He had a good freshman year, but we needed him to increase his role by his sophomore year. Am I surprised at how he's done? No. Glad? Yes.

Bill Hader

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

Conrad Burns

This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.

Theo James

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

Stephen Covey

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

Vonda Shepard

My nature is to worry about everything too much.

John Sculley

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

James Garner

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

Mahavira

All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

Nalini Nadkarni

When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.

Felix Hernandez

When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.

David Duchovny

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

Dido Armstrong

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

Beth Orton

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

Rajneesh

Your so-called religions have made you very tense. Because they have created guilt in you. My effort here is to help you get rid of all guilt and all fear. I would like to tell you: there is no hell and no heaven. So don't be afraid of hell and don't be greedy for heaven. All that exists is this moment. You can make this moment a hell or a heaven - that certainly is possible - but there is no heaven or hell somewhere else. Hell is when you are all tense, and heaven is when you are all relaxed. Total relaxation is paradise.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.

Henry Rollins

Capitalism does what it does and money doesn't belong to anybody. It just stays in someone's wallet for a while, then it goes somewhere else. It always goes somewhere and it is always about to go somewhere.

John Baldacci

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

Louise Brown

People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.

Francis Lawrence

Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.

Natasha Leggero

You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Madhur Bhandarkar

Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.

Nigel Barker

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

Hayley Orrantia

Whenever you go into an audition, you have to be as prepared as possible.

Andrew Hall

Usually it was 6:30 p.m. to whenever we were tired.

Jacob Burtschi

Whenever we got close, they widened the gap.

Charles Smith

Whenever we go somewhere, it's like, 'What are we going to eat?