Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Haneke

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.

Stanley Elkin

What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.

Ruth Ann Minner

This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers.

Steve Spurrier

We are satisfied with the results. We appreciate the NCAA basically agreeing with our proposal. For the next couple of years, we will only have 83 players on scholarship.

Stuart Pearce

What has happened is disappointing but I still feel as though something will be sorted out in terms of agreeing a contract with Joey.

Mahmud Othman

We're still a long way from agreeing on a government.

Nicholas Wright

We want it to be a private event and corporate function venue, rather than a vertical drinking establishment. We are in negotiations with the police, with whom we are building bridges. They are fairly receptive and co-operative. It's really a question on agreeing on wording.

Jim Newberry

Agreeing to a spending limit would put me at a disadvantage.

Kenichiro Sasae

Agreeing a common document does not mean that the solution to our problems has been found.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh.

Christine Pelosi

My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches.

Rahul Dravid

We played with five bowlers because we thought it was our weak area. But we lost the opportunity after restricting them to 216-4 at one stage.

Paul Hoolahan

We plan to move back eventually. As soon as I get the Sugar Bowl wrapped up, I'll go home and start renovating.

Tyler Oakley

In middle school, I was really into the 'Redwall' series, about anthropomorphic rodents in medieval times. I had a bowl cut, too, if you need the full imagery.

Katherine Center

We are big composters. We compost everything - bread, tea bags, coffee grounds. I even dump out my old coffee in the garden. We keep a mixing bowl on the counter and just fill it up as the day goes along, then dump it in the mulch pile before dinner and wash it with the dinner dishes.

Andre Johnson

We had an opportunity to coach him in the Pro Bowl and that's a special player,'' Cowher said.

Michael Strahan

When you're older, it's harder to stay in this game and play at a Pro Bowl level. I definitely feel it was one of my better years, if not the best. Experience definitely helps, realizing you don't have to rely so much on bulk, mass and strength. You can rely on what you've learned over the years and you can be just as effective.

Henry David Thoreau

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

Ben Elliot

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

Donald Norman

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Chris Jericho

When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler.

Donald Trump

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

Naomie Harris

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

Dustin Diamond

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

Persis Khambatta

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

Sunil Mittal

I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods.

Yotam Ottolenghi

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

William Shatner

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

Will Chase

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

Evel Knievel

There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

Evangeline Lilly

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

Emma Watson

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

Peter T. King

In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.

Katie King

We'll probably keep saying all that to ourselves, but it sure doesn't make this feel much better.

Denis Breslin

We're not saying a whole lot right now.

Harold Williams

We are saying we won't look into the provenance.

Eric Dubin

Wait, are you saying because they spoke Spanish they were illegal?

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Raymond James

What they're saying is the conventional firms are waiting too long,

Chad Caldwell

We're saying (this) is a lockout because of retaliation over that no-layoff arbitration that we won.

Larry Coker

We were totally inept, to put it bluntly.

Nik Rapelje

(Interstate) 70 is usually worse, so (U.S. Highway) 6 is standard. But if 6 is totally clogged you can always go Colfax.

David Schultz

The real breakthroughs will be in a totally different category.

Jordi Molla

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

Stefano Gabbana

My mum is totally crazy for fashion still.

Colleen Schreier

I was throbbing. (My hand) was totally swollen.