Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Rimbaud

. . . be absolute moderne.

Darrel Cole

We absolutely want to hear what they're saying. That's why we're having the workshops.

Eric Brewer

We absolutely want to be in The Villages and can't wait to open.

John Culp

We absolutely think that we can get a deal done if management is serious about reaching a comprehensive agreement.

James Mays

We absolutely support the concept of Secure Flight, or whatever name you want to give to passenger pre-screening. It's the concept that we support. We don't support at this time Registered Traveler, we think it takes the focus away from where we really ought to have it.

Pete Witte

We absolutely support all these efforts (by the police), especially when we're coming into warm weather.

Michael Cunnah

We absolutely reject the claims that Multiplex make.

William Griffith

We absolutely positively have to do some major belt-tightening. We're accumulating debt at such an alarming rate it is truly unsustainable.

Stephanie Eby

We absolutely played horrible in pool play, then we advanced to the bronze bracket and blew everybody away.

Darrel Cole

We absolutely want to hear what they're saying. That's why we're having the workshops.

Eric Brewer

We absolutely want to be in The Villages and can't wait to open.

John Culp

We absolutely think that we can get a deal done if management is serious about reaching a comprehensive agreement.

James Mays

We absolutely support the concept of Secure Flight, or whatever name you want to give to passenger pre-screening. It's the concept that we support. We don't support at this time Registered Traveler, we think it takes the focus away from where we really ought to have it.

Pete Witte

We absolutely support all these efforts (by the police), especially when we're coming into warm weather.

Michael Cunnah

We absolutely reject the claims that Multiplex make.

William Griffith

We absolutely positively have to do some major belt-tightening. We're accumulating debt at such an alarming rate it is truly unsustainable.

Stephanie Eby

We absolutely played horrible in pool play, then we advanced to the bronze bracket and blew everybody away.

Jeb Bush

We absolutely opposed to that as well, ... The economic benefits do not outweigh the environmental hazards.

Kiesza

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.

Joe Paterno

We have to realize a kid will love us one day and hate us the next. That cannot change who we are and what we are about.

John Eldredge

The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.

Tullian Tchividjian

The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness.

Timothy Noah

An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.

Kevin Kelly

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.

Robert Falcon Scott

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.

Robert Casey

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

Italo Calvino

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

David Hume

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.

David Hume

From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions.

David Beckham

Wayne can play any position but the way he plays for Manchester United, just off the main striker, is unstoppable. He runs at players and that is what causes teams most problems.

Denzel Washington

I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

Charles Churchill

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

Blaise Pascal

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

Bill James

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

Bill Hicks

Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.

Damien Woody

When your defense scores two touchdowns and causes four turnovers and you still lose, that's bad. That's real bad. We couldn't do (anything) on offense. That might have been the worse offense I've ever seen ever.

David Hume

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.

David Brainerd

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

David Brainerd

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

David Brainerd

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

Ben Stiller

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

Beatrix Potter

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

Beau Bridges

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

Audrey Tautou

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

Arnold Palmer

A lot of tournaments that I can remember I made a few bad shots and I was afraid I would lose the tournament and it seemed to work, the putts seemed to go in. Just the Desire.

Kevin McCloud

Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma.

Kandise Gilbertson

We recommend that teachers don't give homework or have big projects due during testing.

Nathan Dehne

Last years number of international students was higher than the typical historical number. We were expecting five more international students last semester, but due to problems with their Visa they had to come one semester late.

Laila Robins

I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

Judy Blume

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Edward R. Murrow

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Eric Behrens

We are taking this very seriously. The process is cumbersome, but it does provide for due process.

Trevor Packer

One reason New York leads the nation is due to the tremendously strong programs in place on Long Island - it's really impressive.

Dr. FitzGerald

One of the surprises in this study, where we put some of the people through the same protocol five times, is that there is substantial variation with a person on how they respond day to day. That can be due to a lot of potential sources, including environmental factors, that we don't understand.

Charles Darwin

Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

Louie Schwartzberg

I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.

Eckhart Tolle

Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

Charlie Miller

This project is part of a series of projects we laid out in 1999. The timing isn't anything more than the natural evolution of the growth in the community.

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.

Charles de Gaulle

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

Charles Sanders Peirce

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

Stephane Simean

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

Denis Simonneau

France has noticed a light, or gradual, evolution in the American position.

David Douglass

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

David Bryant

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Audrey Hepburn

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

Antony Jay

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

Derek Jacobi

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Alain Badiou

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

Al Gore

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

Ajay Naidu

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

John Green

Whenever you use historic models, the housing market is going to be underestimated, and I think this is what has happened here.

Terrell Owens

When I haven't been outside signing autographs, I've been on the inside (rehabilitating) my groin. And that's what happened today.

Steve DeLuca

We're showing that there is life after this and if it happened to us, it can happen to anybody,

Amanda Lenhart

We're seeing things that have always happened before, with teens saying and doing inappropriate things. They just didn't happen in such a public way.

Andrew Taylor

Life has overtaken our original plans, and we're hear tonight to talk about the tragedy this weekend. We're here to talk about what happened and to try to prevent it from happening again.

Lixion Avila

Let's put it this way, ... I wish it could have happened in the middle of the ocean.

Tommy Chong

Look what happened to me for a bong,

Ellen Muth

Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore.

Justin Kirk

When I'm watching television or a movie, I like to see stories that are extraordinary. I don't need it be something that is, 'Well this makes more sense to me because I can see this happening to me, or this happened to me.'

Arnold J. Toynbee

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Antony Beevor

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Octavio Paz

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Kara Walker

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Carroll Quigley

I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.

Alan Furst

I invented the historical spy novel.

Alan Coren

Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

Marissa Moss

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

Jim Crace

When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.

Robert Redford

There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago.

Sathya Baba

Love expands; it does not limit itself to boundaries.

Enya

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

John Eaton

We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

Louis MacNeice

A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms.

Kage Baker

The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

JR

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.'

Louis Navellier

One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.

Beatrix Potter

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

Diego Rivera

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

Dennis Lehane

And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.

Tiffany Davis

We're sending a message. Just because we lost to Woodside doesn't mean we're not still ready. Don't underestimate us.

Debbie Pace

Madison never incorporated and didn't get its own government. We don't want to get lost in the shuffle.

Jasmine Guy

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

C. S. Lewis

Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.

Darcy Tucker

We've said since the time we lost the two Montreal games, we won't quit.

Calvin Coolidge

A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.

Carey Mulligan

I have always hated nightclubs, and don't like loud music.

Cesar Millan

I'm naturally a loud person. It can be a bit overpowering.

Lolo Jones

When I'm standing in a stadium packed with 80,000 screaming fans, I can't just whip out my Bible before I run. That's when I start praying! It's so loud that I can't even hear what I'm saying, but it always helps.

Brian Eno

I love good, loud speakers.

Robert Boyd

She screamed so loud that she scared the other teachers.

Mary Lauby

I can't say what I thought. I know what I thought, but I can't say out loud what I thought.

Charlie Trotter

I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.

George Shinn

If we sell out that game. That's a loud message. We're just trying to find out if these people are serious or not.

Joe Jurevicius

This stadium has got to be the loudest I've ever played in. But that's not to say it's loud enough; next week it's got to be louder.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Douglas Fairbanks

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

Thomas Couture

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

Uday Kotak

As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

Lee Majors

The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.

Kevin McCloud

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

Ronnie Milsap

I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Baruch Spinoza

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

John Armstrong

Much had he read, Much more had seen; he studied from the life, and in th' original perus'd mankind

Bertrand Russell

What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Elias Canetti

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

Elias Canetti

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

Karen Maitland

People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.

Tim LaHaye

But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.

Charles Cotton

The shadows now so long do grow,That brambles like tall cedars show,Molehills seem mountains, and the antAppears a monstrous elephant.

John Knox

The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

Holly Black

I like all the things that make you monstrous.

Carl Elliott

We are going to make the necessary adjustments to him not being around.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Sharon Stone

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Siv Meisingseth

One of the three stewardesses did not have the necessary qualifications to work on this plane.

Sam Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with respect to strategic reserves,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Ron Dittemore

We're satisfied that the necessary precautions have taken place or we wouldn't launch.

John Dryden

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.

Angus King

If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.

David Ricardo

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

David Hyde Pierce

There's nothing more powerful than someone who has the disease who can be articulate and go in front of Congress or go to local government and say man, this is what's happening, and it's going to be you.

David Horowitz

It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.

David Hockney

I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.

David Hume

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

David Draiman

Everyone has a struggle in life, and the question is do you allow yourself to be overcome by it or do you master it with unified strength and power. This is exactly what the music was meant to do, to transend your normal world, to make you more than what you are, to make you set down your burden for a while. Feel powerful, feel invincible, feel indestructible; believe in something as opposed to believing in nothing; spread the sickness, infect the world.

David Brin

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Deborah King

Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.

Dick Cavett

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

Bryant H. McGill

Meeting another human is always a sacred event.

Carl Sagan

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

Carl Sagan

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

Barbara de Angelis

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Cesare Pavese

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

Desiderius Erasmus

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Clarice Lispector

For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting.

Brenda Fassie

I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.

Gary Murphy

We, as adults, try to shout at them about it and it doesn't always work,

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Ruby Dee

I used to want to shout 'Help me!'

Billy Casper

As long as you're not shouting and hollering.

Emily Hughes

A little over a week ago, I wasn't even supposed to be here. I went out there for warm-ups and they were shouting my name. That's the first time that ever happened.

Niall Horan

I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.

Steve Jones

I'm tired of Glen Matlock saying he was the songwriter for the Sex Pistols. I co-wrote as many songs... but I don't go shouting about it.

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.

Blaise Pascal

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Brian Jacques

I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed. "Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!

Charlotte Bronte

I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.

Charles M. Schwab

You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself 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.

Bodhidharma

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Phil Harrison

It doesn't put us at a competitive disadvantage at all. Throughout our history, we have never been the first to market.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George H. W. Bush

one of the worst humanitarian tragedies of our time.

Charles Miller

They had some tragedies up in that area, right up under your nose.

David Hume

To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.

David Hume

Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.

David Hume

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

David Duchovny

I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.

Audre Lorde

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

Antonin Artaud

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

Denise Levertov

I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder....

Denis Waitley

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Al Gore

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.