Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

Loft living is the antithesis of suburban domesticity, if only because the open spaces don't easily accommodate family life. Lofts also offer residents the opportunity - and responsibility - to structure their own space to reflect what's important to them.

Sam Shepard

I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

Michael Wadleigh

Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again.

Jerry Angelo

When we drafted Mike we were in a different scheme. We were the antithesis of what we are now. Now is that to exonerate him not playing because of the scheme? No. Part of it, he needed to get better at certain things, but he didn't. He's got the tools. We got into the third year and we didn't see a big advance.

Ernst Mach

The popular notion of an antithesis between appearance and reality has exercised a very powerful influence on scientific and philosophical thought.

Trent Reznor

one that was the antithesis of 'The Fragile,' which was complex. Songs flowed into each other, and it was layered. This record I wanted to be as stripped down as possible. I wanted it to be more real, more organic, not overly fixed or chopped up. At the end of the day, it reminds me of 'Pretty Hate Machine.'

John Boyle O'Reilly

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.

Thomas Quincey

Books, we are told, propose to instruct" or to amuse." Indeed! . . . The true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure," but power.

Andrea Seigel

TV's not the problem, and I'm tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV's getting in your way of writing a book, then you don't want to write a book bad enough.

Zubin Mehta

Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.

Jeff Horner

The poise of this team was very good. We could have easily shut it down down four (points), but we didn't. That says a lot about this team.

F. Sionil Jose

All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

Caity Lotz

I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

C. J. Mahaney

I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

Beth Young

We probably have six who can score 18 to 20 points. We have five to six which can easily do it.

Lance Loud

I don't know if hep C is called 'the quiet killer,' but it easily could be, so unnoticeably does it nestle into your body before crankin' up the screws and letting you race to figure out what's going on.

John Spratt

What we've got now is a situation where none of this is easily possible,

Nasim Pedrad

I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.

Walter Brennan

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

Wendy Cope

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

Billy Graham

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

Zubin Mehta

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

Constance Marie

My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

Constance Marie

I'm very supportive of women getting to a place in life when it's right for them to start a family. It's important for women to take their time to come into their own. I only want to say we might not have as much time as we think we have.

Chris Bohjalian

When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

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.

Carol Wood

We're living in a different world now. We have lots of security measures in place.

F. Sionil Jose

I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

Laura Ahearn

Using the Internet, a sexual predator can be in any parent's living room without them knowing.

Christopher Ricks

The one thing worse than not living for ever would be living for ever

Lorraine Bracco

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Michael Franti

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.

David Duchovny

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Axl Rose

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Carol Lewis

Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?

Natalie Jeremijenko

I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.

Bob Snyder

I'm thinking that $6000 to $10,000 is a lofty goal, but an obtainable goal.

Wesley Ruggles

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Brian Molko

So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself.

Logan Marshall-Green

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.

Nigel Turner

We were stuck in the 1970s in terms of our offering to our customers.

Jeff McCutcheon

Troy used to offer a program on insects. This year he's talking about dirt." ()

O. J. Simpson

You know he didn't have a caddie, so I offered to caddie.

Djimon Hounsou

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Damien Rice

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

Randy Martin

We plan to be open by summer 2006.

I. Stone

We opened May 2, and by the third week in June, we were selling out, ... Wicked.

Peggy Laskowski

We opened it up to the community, and it went pretty well. It was a lot of fun.

E. Hicks

We opened in probably the worst way you can open a school.

Arthur Hiller

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.

Stephen Frears

When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.

Mike Birbiglia

When I go to bed at night, I wear a sleeping bag. And for a long time, I wore mittens so that I couldn't open the sleeping bag.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Boris Johnson

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

Douglas Conant

You have the opportunity to make a tremendous impact on the lives of the people with whom you work and live. Make the most of it.

Tommy Lasorda

You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.

Tom Rooney

As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.

Alexa Von Tobel

Tax time is the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your spring-cleaning by tackling your financial to-do list.

Steven Spielberg

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Doug Ewell

We had an opportunity to end it in overtime, but it didn't fall.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.

Alan Cohen

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Peter Orszag

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Lyssa Dennard

We had to reflect on what went wrong.

Josh Beekman

You are a reflection of the school. You're not just representing BC, but also yourself.

Martin Sheen

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.

Charles Dickens

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Charles Dickens

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

Alan Pardew

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

George C. Marshall

Climate change is a very unusual ethical challenge because it's so completely measurable...one of the reasons people should take action is because they have a responsibility for their emissions...therefore what somebody else does is really irrelevant

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.

Lynn Coady

I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches.

Dick Cheney

We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.

Derek Fisher

You know, I have a responsibility to my team that if I'm going to be on the floor, then I have to make a difference.

Pierce Brosnan

Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.

Patti Smith

When I'm writing a book, I don't have any responsibility to anyone. I'm solitary. I'm writing on my own. I write by hand. And I write every day. I mean, it's part of my daily discipline.

Lindsey Graham

You know, the commander-in-chief's first responsibility is look out for those in uniform who fight the wars.

Rusty Schweickart

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

Meg Cabot

I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.

Geoffrey Canada

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

Arizona Muse

From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.

Tom Stoppard

There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out.

Jerry Green

We still have old time play time at recess, but we have structured play as well.

A. R. Ammons

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Laura Puchowicz

We wanted to make the motel better, but renovating the old structure would just have been a humongous problem.

Carl Jung

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

Demetri Martin

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Dave Foley

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Paul Provenza

We didn't choose the joke because it's filthy! We chose it because of the structure!

Marisa Tomei

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

Paul Muldoon

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed

Linda Hanson

In terms of a suburban city, we are a very old neighborhood.