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.

John C. Calhoun

Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.

Neal Asher

I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

Marianne Williamson

The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'

Anthony Burgess

When we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract

Mike Nichols

I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong subject. I think it may be my subject.

Lolo Jones

I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.

Jeff Nelson

We're locked into a gas contract right now that's fairly cheap, but we know it's going to go up. We could save $200,000 a year.

John Borden

We're like a balloon. We expand, we contract to fit the needs of the various programs we're in. That is not fun.

Herb Hunter

There are people disappointed out there. We thought the last five and a half years of the ESOP would make a difference in these contract negotiations.

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?

Jim Cavanaugh

We're suspicious of it, and we're alerting everybody. But we don't have it all sorted it out yet.

Christiane Amanpour

Now, ... now that we've got that sorted out, can we all go inside?

Ron Artest

There's no trade right now, but they (the Pacers) said they were going to try to get something sorted out to get the trade done.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Chris Pelchen

We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

will.i.am

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Tamara Tunie

Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

Nita Ambani

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

Sandrine Bonnaire

I'm not very eccentric. I wear more conservative clothes, though I do like mini-skirts.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

Chen Guangbiao

Even though I am smiling, I have some suffering in my heart.

Malala Yousafzai

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

David Quammen

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