Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shatner

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

Warren Bennis

How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

William Whitehead

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

Zubin Mehta

My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

Colin Morgan

If I had auditioned for 'Merlin' on magic alone, I don't think I'd have got it. Like any kid, I probably had a magic kit, but it's not something I ever pursued. I've never watched a magic show like David Copperfield or used him to base my character on, but I really like David Blaine and Darren Brown. They are doing wonders.

Emma Roberts

I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan; I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him.

Ellen G. White

Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.

Ellen G. White

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

Ted Naifeh

When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.

Tamara Ecclestone

I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

Stewart Butterfield

I learned so much in the year after Flickr was acquired. People forget, but Flickr launched in February 2004. And a year later, the deal was done with Yahoo, and we closed it in March of 2005. It was really independent for a relatively short period of time.

Kurt Vonnegut

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Jeffrey Hammond

We have linked this gastrointestinal outbreak to the Sprayground attraction, and it has been closed down for the year.

Dante Jimenez

We (are) not closed only to one, let?s say the organizers (of the show). We think many are responsible.

John Kinsey

When (the TSX) opens after being closed while the U.S. market was open, all the inter-listed stocks get adjusted.

Noah Feldman

Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows.

Louis Freeh

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

Peter Jackson

In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on, and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities.

Lesley-Anne Down

The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.

Monica Procar

We can custom order for anybody. We have dozens of different fabric choices, and tier curtains and panels can be ordered as well.

Colin McGranahan

You can't get shower curtains in a Home Depot. You can at Lowe's,

Sandy Puccio

It was actually a little nicer than what you might think, but it was very small. Windows were blacked out with curtains so that no movement or light could be seen. They did have a radio but could only listen to it at night, and they listened to BBC, not German radio. They would talk about their dreams and what they would do when the war was over.

Jane Huff

I figured, rather than hanging curtains I'd use stained glass,

Bible Bible

And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

Steve Jobs

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Sophocles

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

Laura Linney

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

Octavio Paz

We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Time driveth onward fast,/ And in a little while our lips are dumb./ Let us alone. What is it that will last?/ All things are taken from us, and become/ Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past.

William Cowper

Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise;Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies;Like Eden's dread probationary tree,Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

Yanni

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

Gabriel Mann

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

Amy Fessler

We want them to think of it as their gym. That way, they'll grow up thinking exercise is fun, and not something you dread doing.

Douglas Coupland

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

Willa Fitzgerald

I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.

William John Wills

I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

Emile M. Cioran

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Elaine Stritch

There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.

Eva Figes

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

Dennis Christopher

Because of fear, and the way my career went, I started playing a lot of villainous roles.

Victoria Osteen

Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

Nicolas Roeg

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

Valerie June

When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

Lee Sullivan

The police begged him to come out of the yard and I heard them telling him to 'drop it,' ... They were pleading with him for maybe 10 minutes. They told him, 'We don't wanna hurt you,' and then I heard one shot.

Sathya Baba

The PEACE that pervades the heart can never be shaken for any reason; only PEACE of this kind is worthy of the name.

Brittany Snow

I can hear someone's voice once, and I can pretty much mimic them. Not to make fun, but I can do an impression of them pretty well.

Daniel Radcliffe

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

Judith Butler

The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.

Richard Daley

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

Nicole Holofcener

I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.

Nicole Holofcener

When I hear that a project takes place out of town, the material better be terrific, and it has to come at the right time. My kids are getting older, so it's getting easier, but being a mother - it's a difficult thing to juggle.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Edward Snowden

I do not expect to see home again, though that is what I want.

David Bailey

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

Alan Levenson

The overall affordability of a home is still ample,

Colonel Sanders

I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess.

Yoko Ono

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

David Steinberg

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

Bill Cosby

I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.

Rick Pitino

I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.

Dries van Noten

When I get very stressed, I make jam. I like things that produce a quick result, because fashion has such a long lead time. With jam, you start, and two-three hours later, you have 36 little pots, all full.

David Fincher

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

Al Pacino

You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.

Carl J. Lindner, Jr.

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

Debbie Coffman

We are not neglecting penmanship, but we have prioritized it in its proper order in the big picture of literacy. If we are in school for six or seven hours a day, it can't be an hour.

Neil Cross

The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

Howard Safir

We have not identified them as of this moment,

Julie Gerberding

We haven't identified anything about this strain that's different from strains in the other areas.

Craig Manning

We are getting better with every match, and performing better with every match. We have identified some things that we can do better, and we know what we can do to improve.

Leon Uris

You usually don't know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.

Chris Noth

Mr. Big has been sticking to me, and that makes me uncomfortable. I know it's meant well when people stop me in the street and say, 'Hey, Mr. Big!' But I don't ever want to be identified by any part I've played once it's over.

Greg Chappell

We have identified some bowlers, but at this stage we haven't been able to use them for various reasons.

Helen Arnold

We have identified 30 service personnel 29 men and one woman who could use our services.

Jill Paice

You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.

Yoko Ono

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

Foster Friess

What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

Nancy Roman

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

Birdman

I was a young-un when I got my first million. Then I realized if I got one, I could get two. If I could get two, I could get ten. If I could get ten, I could get a hundred.

Walter Isaacson

He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

Leo Veness

We will all soon realize that we are a society of spirit

Melissa McCarthy

I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don't have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless.

John Thorne

When I realized what was going on, I wanted to give. If you've got things that make sense to give, then we should do it.

Bill Hader

I don't like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.

Eric Ries

When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.

Ira Glass

In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.

Tyler, The Creator

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

Jack Johnson

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

Marsha Thomason

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

Casey Abrams

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

Carl Jung

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

Calvin Trillin

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

Margaret Mead

There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

Ted Cruz

A lot of times your spouse sees things about you that you don't necessarily see.

Marly Youmans

What is a spouse for? Not to be your personal servant, certainly!

Adam Richman

You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.

John A. Wheeler

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is a participatory universe.

Mira Nair

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Dean Stanley

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

Padgett Powell

I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

Charlotte Bronte

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics make strange bedfellows.

Charles Dickens

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Alan Arkin

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact that it's constantly changing. You never know what class you belong to unless you're one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

Chris Moneymaker

I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.

Charles Darwin

It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.

Jack Thompson

We are teaming up with the financially strongest partner,

Lex Luger

I used to be known as one of the strongest guys on the planet.

Joe Cocker

'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Bart Schouten

I think it's the strongest team we've ever fielded.

Bob Starkell

Cara always has some of the strongest performances.

Sonny Rollins

I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.

Wole Soyinka

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

John Runion

We have the talent; now we just have to make sure everyone's working in the same direction.

Harry Lloyd

If I'm honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason I'm still doing it, and if I'm still doing it in ten years' time, I'm sure I'll find something else.

Denzel Washington

We're not sure yet who will play my father,

Laurie McKager

We're not sure why that wall had not been tested.

Jeff Carr

We're not sure if the two discoveries are related. However, we will look into that possibility.

Eric Erickson

We're not sure if he made a right-of-way violation or not,

Jeff Goodby

was just throbbing out there, waiting to be appropriated.

Craig Patrick

We're done negotiating. We're just waiting for the answer.

Ken Henderson

We have been waiting all year to put it all together.

Kevin Doll

We're waiting to see what they're going to do with it. It could be a self-defense thing.

Jimmy Rollins

We're waiting on the big hit. It just hasn't come. It's single, single.

Michael Mason

We're waiting for the call, but it hasn't come yet,

Ted Forrest

We're waiting for him to get here, too.

Roger Legeay

Waiting - it's all we can do. We are all waiting, waiting, waiting. It's awful.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.

James Long

When the window shattered, you can't see through it.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.

Bill Joy

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

Arthur Rimbaud

I could never throw Love out of the window.

Bela Lugosi

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

Bill Gates

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Jim Varney

Please leave the window open.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

Scott Bleier

This has nothing to do with the Fed. This is all end-of-quarter window dressing.