Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Key

When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

Nicola Formichetti

Thierry Mugler is about the power of glamour and walking straight into the future. He's been a god for successive generations in the fashion industry. He fused pop and high fashion, told a story in style and combined fantasy with reality.

Brian Reynolds

We had some incredible swims by a lot of kids. We had some fantastic performances combined with several very solid ones.

Jan Egeland

We're doing too little combined as an international community because it's too vast. We have 140,000 tents now in the area. Normally, that is more than enough for even large-scale emergencies. This is probably only one-fourth of what is needed.

Sander Levin

I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.

Paul Harris

We were struck that the courtroom is such a great theater for ideas -- and that we couldn't think of a film that had combined the horror and courtroom genres, ... We thought we could really develop something provocative out of that: structure the movie with multiple points of view like Rashomon and weave the narrative in and out of it.

Shannon Hurst

We'll now have data on the three offices combined on one Web site.

Andrea Horan

Uninspiring results in the core operations, combined with unfavorable exposure to the U.S. dollar make the current fundamental outlook somewhat bleak.

Nariman Behravesh

The problem is the combined effects of the disruptions from Katrina and Rita, plus the ripple effects in the economy from higher energy prices,

Ellen Key

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

L. Doctorow

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Patrick McGowan

We openly talk about wilderness in this administration. We are not scared of the word. We use it openly. And I think the next generation of users is going to come to Maine for wilderness experiences.

Karl Inderfurth

We have lost touch with a generation of Pakistani military leaders.

Vinod Khosla

You know, one of the great things about most renewable technologies - not every technology, but many of them - is the jobs have to be local. When you're talking about a power plant and power generation using solar thermal technology, the jobs will be where the plant is.

Laura Leighton

I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when the show was on, or set your VCR. But that was a big thing, and people of my generation still talk about that. They remember where they were, at what point of their lives that show came, and then talking about it the next day.

Kris Jenner

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

Travis Barker

Volunteering is the last thing that this generation is going to do on their own, ... so if this is what it takes to get them to volunteer, then so be it.

Karen Kain

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

Val McDermid

I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

Vivica A. Fox

I'm just so glad that girl power is working in Hollywood.

Keahu Kahuanui

I do what I'm allowed, but I gladly let the professional - and often incredibly talented - stunt team to do their jobs. Even with all their training, they still get hurt.

Lizzo

I'm glad I'm a woman; I'm glad I'm a rapper because I get to speak to these people who did not get spoken for in this genre.

Larry David

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

Tim Hulsey

We still have some work to do. I am glad we got this win. The guys did the things they needed to do.

Craig Lambert

We are just abusing ourselves with our schedule this year. But with the way the weather has been, I'm glad we're leaving town and going where it's warm.

E. O. Wilson

We are glad we had such a large turnout and it is surprising but I understand why they are here. People are tired of what's going on in our schools.

Whit Hartz

Unlike rock, which is pretty consistent, ice is always changing, sometimes by the hour.

Steve Denney

We're going to be stocking 20,000 legal-size rainbow trout as soon as the ice is off, as soon as we can get to the lake.

Bernie Williams

We had to win the first game. This was the ice breaker.

Charles Caleb Colton

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

Carol Adams

Worldly things were of little meaning. She lived for hamburgers, ice cream, pencil and paper.

Shannon Kleibrink

We struggled with our weight all game. The ice was perfect. I love the ice here. We've had two picks all tournament. Today we just didn't throw right.

Eartha Kitt

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

Bear Grylls

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

Arne Glimcher

If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.