Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

Work is work; wherever I'm working, I do the best I can. If the actual dollars come from investors as opposed to taxpayers and patrons, what's the difference?

Tom Stoppard

I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it; if you're lucky, it's performed, and that's the end of the whole thing.

Tom Bodett

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.

Rick Blount

We're constrained on many levels. We subcontract our bread, but because of labor limitations at the bakery, we can't get our signature bread. So we're just taking regular French bread. We don't have enough manpower to cut our own fish, so we are subcontracting the actual filleting. It's a lot easier for us to judge the quality of a whole fish than it is to judge the quality of a fillet. But we don't have that luxury right now.

Rik Mayall

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

Reggie Watts

I'm very interested in writing an actual series, that doesn't have too much to do with my music - a world I create that has characters in it. I'm just trying to get there by doing things that I want to do.

Robert Kazinsky

I'm a massive Trekkie. I've got original artwork from the '70s. I've got outfits. Yeah, I have actual 'Star Trek' outfits that I wear. I'm a massive, massive 'Star Trek' fan.

Steve Wynn

Let a real sun shine inside and burn away our sins! Fear not the actual time of day!

Lea Thompson

I hate when people don't hear the actual words out of your mouth or even the intent of it. They just hear something completely different.

David Twohy

Damn, my first cut that I showed to distributors was probably about two hours and 20 minutes, even though my contract said two hours. So, I had to lose 20 minutes. It's incredible that it just keeps happening.

David Brooks

I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of domestic discretionary, which is welfare, education, all the stuff the government does, parks, FBI, and it shouldn't be coming out of Medicaid.

Ben Stiller

First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut -' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'

Audrey Hepburn

Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.

Antonis Samaras

We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members of Parliament]. We have cut expenditures that have to do with parliament. Everybody knows we are serious.

Antonis Samaras

There are going to be a lot of problems with social cohesion. We are already cutting down everything to the bone. Unless there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Rachel Caine

Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you...I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not." "I'm happy with you." She heard the smile in his voice this time. "So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half?" "I'm considering it," she said. And she was.

Anna Folmnsbee

We actually did that about a year ago. Even with a price increase and cutting routes from six to four, we're still losing money.

Charles Kimball

It is easier to know the truth than to seek the truth.

Kathy Najimy

It really depends, but, generally speaking, just because of the mechanics of it, voice-over is easier because there is no hair, no makeup, no wardrobe, no fittings, no line memorizing. You don't have to me woken up in Russia at 6 in the morning and go film a scene. It's just easier on the body, the family life to do voice-overs.

Jason Mraz

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.

Kevin Mitnick

What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology.

William Sullivan

makes it a little easier to push prices around.

David Clarke

Making a network faster has never made it more secure or easier to use.

Abel Maldonado

made it easier for government to take property away from private citizens. That should be harder, not easier.

Roy Halladay

Loyalty for me is very important. You don't see it a lot in sports, not as much as sometimes I think you should. It's something that's important to me, it's something I value. It makes it easier when you're treated the way I've been treated.

Earl Blumenauer

less about reform of the ESA, or to protect species, and more about making it easier for the exploitation of the environment.

David Walker

Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.

Mike Lucas

Last year, we lost about a third of the wild salmon we'd normally sell. If the fishermen don't do well, we don't do well.

Scott Simons

The people of Arkansas, the hunting and fishing community, conserved these woods.

Brandi Carlile

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

Brandi Carlile

I love fishing, any kind of fishing.

Richard M. Nixon

Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish spawn.

Tom Jones

Shannon kept throwing that rise ball, and we kept fishing for it. We had our opportunities.

Don Moore

Most places you spearfish, you're just over natural terrain so there will be a limiting depth. There is not a whole lot of structure on your way down, ... But here, on an oil platform, there are fish that hang out at all different levels. That is probably one of the most unique things.

Toney Baker

Me and A.J. and Dunlap, we go fishing all the time. Whenever we have free time, we like to get out there on the lake. That's what we do to get our minds off everything.

Denis Leary

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Leslie Caron

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

Charles de Secondat

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Charles de Secondat

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Charles de Secondat

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Charles de Secondat

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Charles de Secondat

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Kevin Rahm

I have my belief structure, and it's very important to me, but people start associating that with you, and you become that. I want to be judged for my work.

Ayn Rand

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

Bryant H. McGill

Let your resistance, judgements, angers and fears inform you.

English 15th Century Proverbs

No one should be judge in his own cause.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, if someone judges himself, only then is he known as a real judge.

Byron Katie

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

Charlotte Bronte

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Brian Jacques

A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement gets clouded. —Abbot Saxtus

Dean Acheson

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

Jeffrey Joerres

When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

David Dismukes

may end up importing labor from other producing regions.

C. Wright Mills

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

Carlos Mencia

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

Charlize Theron

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

James Campbell

Get us the cargo, and we'll get you the labor.

Tim Heekin

I don't think we're going to be able to see anything much until we at least get past Labor Day,

Joseph Hansen

If we do not drastically change, there will be no labor movement in this country,

Audre Lorde

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is not a luxury.

Audre Lorde

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Mike Maddux

We accomplished a lot. That's the luxury of throwing on the side. You can get things done.

Diego Della Valle

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

Dennis Lehane

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Alain de Botton

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Al Gore

Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.

Jane Austen

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Tom Wright

Manpower and materials are our two worst obstacles.

Keith Phillips

The new Manpower survey, I think, reflects the optimism in San Antonio.

Jim Widman

They've turned over a lot of supervisors, and there has been discontinuity on the project. They haven't been able to put the manpower on the project they've needed.

John Walsh

We need the manpower to try to get this to work,

Arne Jacobsen

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Derek Jacobi

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

Denis Waitley

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

Denis Waitley

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

Alanis Morissette

Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?

Alexis Carrel

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

Ed Comeau

We did have some quality shots and he made some saves.

Jane Austen

my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be...

Augusten Burroughs

Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life.

Italo Calvino

I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.

Tequan Richmond

I never got to go to prom. I never went to regular school. I ate lunch by myself.

John Danby

This was a sour way to end the regular season.

James Calhoun

Of course, any vote will be made in regular session.

Lisa Brown

She does that regularly ---- she's just a solid player. She is just great. She is just all over, a well-rounded leader.

Lance Gross

I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.

Marty Schottenheimer

We've won the first of a nine-game season. We have a nine-game regular season and right now we're 1-0.

Tim Taylor

The expectations are there for them. They've come through a big regular season, but now that's not enough. And that's a whole different animal.

Javon Walker

If it was the regular season, I could have played.

Abdul Kalam

SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.

Abdul Kalam

Success is when your signature becomes an autograph.

Frostee Rucker

When he stayed back this year it wasn't just to have fun. It was to put his signature on his work.

James Joyce

Signatures of all things I am here to read.

Lexa Doig

I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.

Tom Ford

Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.

Joan Rivers

[Signature phrase:] Can we talk?

Wendy Wasserstein

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

Lynsey Addario

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Jerramy Stevens

No one is going to give us anything. We haven't done anything in the past. But we've been out here taking it (respect) this year, that's for sure.

Slobodan Milosevic

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Steve Hall

We're still on a trend that is taking us downward.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Joseph Bruno

years and years. He was not taking anything.

Martin Kelly

I am taking it more as it comes (because it was unexpected),

Debra Shaw

Never thought I would be taking this trip again,