Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Sergeant

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Ann Smith

The pen and pencil of the 21st century is the computer.

David Eagleman

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

Chuck Schumer

The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.

Natasha Trethewey

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

Nathan Myhrvold

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

Edmund White

Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

Bernard Beckett

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

Ellie Goulding

I've got a song called 'Salt Skin' because when you run in the heat it evaporates and you've got salt crystals on your face. I love that, because it means you've worked really hard.

Morgan Tsvangirai

The people are now crying for peace and national healing,

David Walton

The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

Niecy Nash

When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was tacky. I didn't know that I was getting married in a quinceanera dress, because there was nobody there to cry over me and tell me I look like a fool.

Michael Sheen

I cry when I feel moved by incredible generosity or a connection to someone. We spend so much of our lives being separated. It's the relief of connection that produces the tears.

Adriana Lima

When I was young, around 5, I was crying in all the pictures of me. I did not like the flash; it scared me!

Lucy Alibar

Mostly I do Iyengar. I like anything that's hard enough to make me cry in class. I like to be pushed over my limit and broken down a little bit.

Candace Bushnell

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

Anne Graham Lotz

I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.'

Vivek Wadhwa

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

E. O. Wilson

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

Becky G

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Bethany Mota

I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but didn't think it would actually happen. So when I heard I had the opportunity to create my own perfume, I got super excited.

Vidya Balan

Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

Walter Jon Williams

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

Carly Fiorina

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Preity Zinta

Yes, you have to be brave enough to take steps that your heart is telling you to take. Because when I decided to go into cricket, not one person told me I was making the right move. At that time, nobody thought the IPL would become so big. I was nervous at that time, because suddenly I was in an uncomfortable spot.

Malcolm Gladwell

We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.

Naomi Wolf

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

Gerhard Schroeder

We Germans know from our own experience that dictators can sometimes only be stopped with force.

Carl Safina

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

Bill Kristol

Surely the United States should do what it can to prevent dictators elsewhere from inferring that repression works.

Mike Jaskie

We're also going to point out dictators that are supported by the U.N..

David Horowitz

Her cozying up to dictators will erode ... any support she may have had from the patriotic anti-war camp.

Kenneth Roth

When Western governments try to use economic pressure to secure human rights improvements, China's no-strings rule gives dictators the means to resist.

Dave Brat

If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries.

Brendan Sexton III

Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.

Ben Carson

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

Dennis Muren

I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally.

Ezra Taft Benson

Unless you and your mate are united in purpose, dedication, and loyalty, you will not succeed to the extent you otherwise could.

Eve Ensler

I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth.

Theo Zwanziger

We did underestimate the extent of the whole issue and I regret that, I say it quite openly.

Raymond Carver

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

Patrick Kavanagh

Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.

Britney Spears

Well, we didn't really know the extent of it because they had a warning for like two days, and then all of a sudden, I didn't hear from my mom for like a week.

Tom Hickey

We've known that we've had a problem with unbundling. We just didn't know the extent of that problem.

Naji Sabri

the outstanding problems which were left on the Iran-Iraq ware of the 1980s and later on.

F. Sionil Jose

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

Travis Leggett

When a tree is down and power is off, whether it's late at night and it's raining, it doesn't matter. You do it.

Don Herold

When a speaker says, "Well, to make a long story short," it's too late

Najib Mikati

In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.

Cheryl Ward

You know how some people just need the latest cell-phone technology? If you could say, I just got this from Punt, you were at the top of the heap.

Reed Johnson

Those late runs are always huge. We only had a 2-1 lead at the time, and we were able to stretch it out to 6-2. That's huge, and it takes a lot of pressure off our bullpen. We haven't been able to do a lot of that lately for our pitchers.

Jerry Bell

We'll maybe find out something there later this week.

Tony Blair

Though there may be pockets of resistance, the idea that this is some kind of tactical retreat is just the latest Taliban lie. They are in total collapse,

George MacDonald

Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.

Nelson Wolff

We played a quiet role, I think, ... as long as we've got the right leadership there.

Tom Coburn

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Alan Cohen

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Alan Cohen

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

Bill Owens

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

Ben Watson

We still have a long way to go, but when we are struggling, that's when your leaders step up. That's what he is.

Marcus Eng

We are looking for people who can become role models and leaders. We want people who are teachable.

Jessie Evans

We need to have more patience. We need better leadership ... especially from our perimeter players.

Neil Kurshan

Morality is not only taught; it is caught.

David Harsanyi

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

Alan Greenspan

We have a moral obligation to use our prosperity at this moment, especially to uplift communities in poverty,

Clarence Seedorf

Today's victory was important for our condition, morale and conviction.

Gary Johnson

Tiffany ran very well. We had a lot of moral victories for the girls.

Avery Johnson

We didn't come here to get any moral victories. I'm disappointed with his loss.

Al Sharpton

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

Carl Jung

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Edmond Rostand

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

David Harsanyi

For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.

Bob Wallace

That was one of the things that was perplexing about this.

John Rees

It was very disappointing, ... It was also perplexing that we had so much of the domination, possession and territory and could not make them tell.

Sir Vanbrugh

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable

Atul Gawande

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

Dennis Rosa

This seems like the prudent thing to do. Some of this may have been a surprise to some of us, but it's a timing thing.

Daniel McConchie

I don't think it's the most prudent thing to do at this time. It's really a long-shot type of situation." ()

Brian Billick

For Todd, it's time to go after it, ... We'll be prudent about it.

Mike Eaves

I don't think that would be very prudent on our part.

Don Madden

It's just being more prudent with the resources we have.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.

John Maynard Keynes

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

Andre Gide

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

Comte de Lautreamont

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

Christopher Paolini

It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

Tommy Allain

We didn't do nothing. How can you punish somebody for doing nothing?

Charles Caleb Colton

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

Charles Spurgeon

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

Bryan Stevenson

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

Cesare Beccaria

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Catherine the Great

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

Carl Jung

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Hussein Chalayan

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

Bill Simon

I really just want to pursue other avenues, ... I got a lot accomplished in my tenure here and I wanted to try new things.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

Kerri Strug

I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.

Dan Stephens

We'll aggressively pursue ... (the lawsuit) as was planned.

John Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

George Washington

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Harry Reid

We know the questions that must be asked, ... Now we need answers.

Julie Martineau

We will screen questions for relevancy for the position.

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Orlando Cabrera

These are complicated questions that require complicated answers. It's going to take some time.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Tony Blair

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

River Phoenix

I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

Laura Gunn

We know there are more victims out there.

Jennifer Garraway

We have to do something for the victims and that's why we do this program.

Rep. Schultheis

You don't want to make two victims from the same crime.