Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodor Mommsen

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

Margot Asquith

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

John Boyega

My earliest vivid memory would be my Nigerian mother. She would wrap me on her back. I remember being on her back a lot. It felt like a ride, like I was riding a dinosaur; going everywhere and seeing everything.

Lemmy Kilmister

My earliest memory is shouting. At what and for what reason, I don't know. Probably a tantrum; or I may have been rehearsing. I was always an early starter.

Rick Bayless

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant.

Mohsin Hamid

My earliest memories are of watching 'Star Trek' and 'MASH' while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.

Jonathan Nolan

My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

Ellsworth Kelly

My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.

Michael Moorcock

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...

Anton Chekhov

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Pete Earley

People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

Thomas Mann

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Ed Looney

I think it's a devastating illness, it's an illness that if it's not treated, it will end up that the person's whole lifestyle will be affected.

Paul Larsen

People like to think mental illness means insane, when thats just not true. There has to be a social conscious-wakening around it.

David Dye

We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatality, one mining injury, one occupational illness is one too many, and you know we still have work to do.

Andrew Flintoff

There have been injuries, illnesses and that's not been ideal. But it's an opportunity for the team to show what we can do.

Julie Gerberding

The specter of pandemic influenza is very frightening to people, ... It does remind people of the importance of influenza as an illness ... and in the long run may result in people being motivated.

John Sebastian

When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.

Jared Leto

I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.

Robert Wilson

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

Jacqueline Novogratz

Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.

Kathryn Harrison

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

Kristin Armstrong

The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.

Thomas Mallon

I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of the fiction and nonfiction I've written.

Sharon Stone

I don't really want to be fat, so I stop before I am. I'm not a vegetarian, but I might go through a phase when I'm not interested in eating protein for a week or so, and then I might go through a phase when I eat nothing but steak.

James Matthews

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success

Bill Hicks

Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern.

David Mitchell

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

Bertrand Russell

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

Ashleigh Brilliant

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

Bruce Lee

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Donald Curtis

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Dalai Lama

Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

Albert Einstein

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought

Albert Einstein

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

Twiggy

My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

George H. W. Bush

make it possible -- more possible -- to do our job.

John Corcoran

We did everything possible to save his life.

Sean McCormack

She raised (the case) in the strongest possible terms." ()

Beth Moore

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Elizabeth Arden

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that.

Robert Henderson

We're going to be very transparent and let them know any possible thing that happened.

Albert Osterhaus

Cat-to-human transmission is theoretically possible and not to be excluded.

David Hockney

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

Thomas F. Wilson

Crispin Glover is unusual, but not as unusual as he sometimes presents himself. We got along nicely.

Charles Bukowski

There's nothing unusual about love.

Bobby Farrelly

In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.

E. M. Forster

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

Dan Hill

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

Mike Owens

I wrote 'white, back of wing.' It was unusual enough that I wrote it down.

Mark Grossman

It is kind of an unusual thing to see happen.