Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.

William Weld

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.

Vincent Bugliosi

This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.

Chuck Palahniuk

There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Constance Wu

I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian - that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.

Colin Angle

Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It's gratuitous robotics!

Clive Thompson

The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.

Chris Bohjalian

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.

William Weld

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

Vincent Bugliosi

This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.

Chuck Palahniuk

There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Colin Angle

Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It's gratuitous robotics!

Clive Thompson

The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.

Emilia Fox

People think of me as a privileged young girl born to wear a chiffon party dress. I was born into a big acting family, and although I absolutely adore them, it's taken me time to work out how or where I feel comfortable.

Donald Payne

The policy now seems to be that 'if you say you are friends with us in the war on terror, we'll forget about what you do to your own people,' ... That's unbelievable to me. There is absolutely no shame - it's disgraceful.

Tony Blair

The police and security services are saying this is absolutely necessary for the security of the country

Jonathan Cohen

The pending decision against Microsoft and the decline in the share price was absolutely the catalyst for the sell-off. To the extent these companies may do very well in the next year, I think there may be buying opportunities here.

Yuri Milner

One of the companies that we've invested in is called Facebook. In only two years, between 2009 and 2011, the information exchanged between people increased 28 times. And that cannot be explained by new people joining Facebook.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.

Walter Smith

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

Abraham Lincoln

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

Wyclef Jean

What I learned from people like Carlos Santana is that you cannot get too happy after working for five years in the industry. It takes years and years, and I learned to keep a straight head and keep on working harder and harder.

Christian Louboutin

You know, you cannot be comfortable on a high heel shoes the way you would be in sneakers. But, you know, not everyone wants to be on sneakers. Sneakers are for different purposes.

Colin Morgan

I cannot wait to come back to Glasgow. I know the place like the back of my hand. In fact, one of the jobs I had as a student was in Cineworld. And I was always at gigs in King Tut's, Nice 'n' Sleazy's and the Barras. I played Ultimate Frisbee down on Glasgow Green and pulled pints in O'Neill's on Queen Street.

Chris Carter

Even if I see 300 'X-Files' fans together, I can't fathom - I cannot imagine - the audience itself. All I think about is the show and all I think about is why I like it and why I like to write it and why I like the characters and what I have to say through them.

Ellen Key

The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.

Candice Olson

I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

Casey James

My family has had a lot of trouble with cancer in particular. There are a lot of great causes out there but for me to pick one I would say anything that is cancer related.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

Sergei Lavrov

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

Lewis B. Smedes

Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.

Leon Jouhaux

The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise.

Charles Ramsey

We still don't have a hard lead, ... We still don't have anything that causes us now to focus our investigation on one of the main possibilities that are still open to us, so right now we're still wondering what happened to Chandra Levy.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war.

Sebastian Pinera

There is a trend toward the left and populism that causes problems. The future president will have to face this with firmness and defend Chile's interests with energy.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

We have a spirit of working together, and we have a passion for cars. And we also have a great desire to see the Ford name in the forefront of world transportation.

William Wirt

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

Donatella Versace

I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.

Dennis Ross

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

Comte de Lautreamont

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

Peyton Manning

I guess, to tell you the truth, I've never had much of a desire to grow facial hair. I think I've managed to play quarterback just fine without a mustache.

Todd Haynes

Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling and dangerous.

Caroline Knapp

Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Seinabo Sey

I remember Alicia Keys and Usher had released a song called 'My Boo,' and my music teacher got me to sing a duet with a friend of mine, and I remember being so nervous because I loved to sing, but I could never fathom singing by myself. And when I did that, I remember how proud I was of myself. I was 12.

Bruce Rauner

I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.

Jan McDonald

We are not playing the rest of the season due to an insufficient number of players.

John Jewell

Wherefore your poor subjects' most humble petition to your highness is, that the laws touching such malefactors may be put in due execution.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

Jim Smith

There are three large refineries that have been shut down since Katrina that are due to come online at the end of this month. That bodes well for lower prices.

Richard DeKaser

There are not a lot of surprises here. We knew February will be a down month in spending after a torrid January due to mild weather. This is exactly what we got.

Michael Hughes

We have had a strong run, largely pushed by the miners and energy stocks. Perhaps these sectors are due to take a break.

Peggy Noonan

The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.

Mark Hamilton

The overall quality of women's golf is getting better, ... It's a natural evolution that these players are better.

Anthony D'Angelo

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

Charles de Gaulle

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

Stephane Simean

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

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.

Martin Luther

Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

Martin Luther

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.

Martin Luther

It is God who creates effects and preserves all things through God's almighty power.

Maria Montessori

A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

Billy Graham

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Zubin Mehta

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

Celso Senise

The political factor is what's most influencing the market. It's just a few participants who are pushing the market around.

Jeremy Solomon

The policy is very clear. We still don't have all the facts of what took place.

Willie Randolph

The overriding factor for me is if he can help our club.

Oliver Plana

The peace and order situation is the primary factor that is weighing on the market right now.

Bikram Choudhury

Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.

Clint Eastwood

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

Chris Carter

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Chino Moreno

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.

Dylan O'Brien

I just happened to step into acting. And now I can't imagine myself doing anything else.

Chipper Jones

We pretty much got dominated. What happened (Monday) night was just incredible. I would've never thought that could happen to us.

Terry Gilliam

It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.

Sarah Hall

I've always been interested in the history of radical feminism - what happened to those women of the 1960s and '70s.

Victor Cruz

My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.

Ashleigh Banfield

We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?

Virginia Henley

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Nicolas Berggruen

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Lauren Willig

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.

Nancy Horan

If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

William Gibson

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

David Shulman

We're at the stage of the market where it seems to be detaching from historical fundamentals.

Minna Antrim

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Susan Morris

We had one on loan from the Maryland Historical Society, but they needed it back.

Ludwig von Mises

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

Will C. Barnes

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Japanese Proverb

The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone

Shannon Lewis

The pavilion itself could be the costliest part of renovation of this site.

David Friedman

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Giordano Bruno

I consider that all which lives must feed itself and nourish itself in a manner suitable to the way in which it lives.

Lord Byron

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Virgil Thomson

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Lemn Sissay

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

Noah Feldman

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.

Goeran Persson

We have lost so many -- a father, a mother, granddad, our little child, our small, small sister, my friend,

Lisa Brown

We have lost our way on our path. It is time to do things in a way that respects our spirit, our ancestors, and where we come from.

Tim Russert

We have lost one of our very, very best,

John Chernick

We'd like another chance; we lost to them at Amboy.

Jalen Rose

We are not getting it down. It's an embarrassment. We lost by 30 points at home.

Mike Nelson

Wasted possessions. We lost it because we had wasted opportunities.

Ricky Williams

Yeah, we made a bet. I lost the bet. I lost the bet.

Dave Forney

Those kind of get lost in the shuffle. He was there all night. He's been outstanding of late.

Zeke Jones

Unfortunately, we lost Dustin; he was never able to get his motor running, and that was disappointing for him.

David Morehouse

We got the message loud and clear, and did what we were supposed to do.

Marcus Williams

We're used to playing away games. It was loud in there. It was crazy. But we've been in situations like that before.

Sam Cassell

Ah, no. We've played in some really loud gyms before. This is like a wine-and-cheese crowd.

Marina Abramovic

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

Mary Webb

There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality with eagerness, beguilements, buffooneries, loud voices, 'the sound of battle and garments rolled in blood,' the anthologist is quietly ensuring the immortality of somebody else.

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.

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Prescott

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

William J. Mayo

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

Cheyenne Jackson

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

Carl Jung

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

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?

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Bertrand Russell

What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.

Nan Fairbrother

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

John Adams

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

Baruch Spinoza

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

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.

Holly Black

I like all the things that make you monstrous.

John Knox

The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

Charles Cotton

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

Francis Lockier

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

James Sensenbrenner

We're doing this to stop the next terrorists and to take necessary steps to protect the American people,

Patricia Birch

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

Jim Lewis

Yeah, that's awful. That's not necessary at all.

Lynn Woolsey

unless we take all steps necessary for nuclear disarmament.

Javier Solana

We have not been able to reach agreement. A precondition to constructive confidence, which is necessary now, is stopping all uranium enrichment activities.

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.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Christine Ebersole

There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

Meles Zenawi

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

James Howard Kunstler

Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing.

Alan Cohen

The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

Millard Fillmore

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Nydia Velazquez

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

Cynthia Ozick

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

E. F. Schumacher

Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything.

E. F. Schumacher

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

Alan Watts

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

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.

Cesare Pavese

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

Deborah King

Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.

Dick Cavett

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

Brenda Fassie

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Niall Horan

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

Louis Tomlinson

I'd like to make a shout out...SHOUT OUT!

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.

Michael Harrison

I'm ready. It's time. Shout it out loud, ... It's time. It's time. It's time.

Michelle Gomez

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'

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.

Felix Hernandez

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

Marie Osmond

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

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?

Mike Shanahan

We've been evaluating throughout training camp, two-a-days, the off-season program, all the way through. We'll be fine.

Joe Potter

We've kind of snuck in there. But we keep improving, and we have throughout the season. As the year got longer, we got better.

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.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Phil Harrison

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

Phil Gramm

Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

Kelly Price

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

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.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Ben Elliot

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

David Hewson

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.

Samuel Butler

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Samuel Butler

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Glenn Beck

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

Peter Ustinov

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.