Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Feiler

It turns out there's only 10 minutes of productive conversation in any family dinner. The rest is taken up with 'take your elbows off the table' and 'pass the ketchup.' And what researchers have found is you can take that 10 minutes and put it in any time of the day and get the benefit. So, if you can't have family dinner, have family breakfast!

Ray Charles

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

Cullen Hightower

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.

Thalia

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

Bruce Catton

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Donna Brazile

We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.

Pat Coyle

We had a private conversation about a month ago. She told me that I could use her in key moments down the stretch, and she's proven that.

Kenneth Burke

Where does the drama get its materials? From the "unending conversation" that is going on at the point in history when we are born.

Nancy Gibbs

There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.

Zac Efron

I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

Walter F. Ulmer

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

Valerie June

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

Val Kilmer

The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Le Corbusier

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

Lilly Singh

When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.

Alan Cohen

The best way to lose weight is to know that you are light.

Alan Cohen

You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined.

Ernest Hemingway

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

In the broken places, the light shines through.

Sen Freedman

The reaction of Northeast Utilities, particularly the Connecticut Light & Power division, to the winter storm during the week of Jan. 15, 2006, was unconscionable.

David Briggs

There is light at the end of the tunnel, but how long is the tunnel?.

Ian Shepherdson

There is at least some light at the end of the tunnel, but unfortunately it is still a long way off,

Nigel Barker

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

Hedi Slimane

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

Gin Wigmore

I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

John Searle

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed

Mahatma Gandhi

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.