Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clara Shih

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Buck Showalter

Joaquin was outstanding. His background is that he struggles from the fourth through the sixth. It's been a challenge, but today he was outstanding,

Grant McCasland

He comes from a really tough background as far as growing up in Brooklyn and he's helped really helped our team by being someone who can go and get a tough basket or a rebound. We're going to need him to be successful at the regional tournament.

Nick Saban

He is respected throughout the league and has a strong background in player personnel,

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Arnold Fielkow

I think it's important to let the presentation be made. Because I think you have to give some background to it.

Kantathi Suphamongkhon

He has management skills, and he has international experience. He is dedicated to the work of the international community. So he has the strength, background and experience, ... We feel that he is appropriate for that position.

Russell Baker

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

John Grady

Patient care volunteers work with the team, of doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other disciplines. There are 24 hours of training required and medical and background checks because they go into the homes to provide practical and emotional support for the patients and families.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Phil Harrison

There are the born teachers who just want to do it. People will do it because they want to put something back into the community. Or they will have a passion for what they do and want other people to share that passion.

Laura Schlessinger

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Jeffrey Kluger

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

Carlo Rubbia

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

Daniel Gibson

I think what happened opened his eyes. Something you love can be taken at any time. He's borne that out through the season. He came out motivated.

Cori Boston

The pain was bad. The doctors told me I was born with weak tissue there. But I am ready to play this season.

W. G. Sebald

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

Lorraine Corriveau

Rabbits make wonderful pets, but they are a 10-year commitment. Like any other pet, they require attention.

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Lois Capps

I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive,

Alison Goldfrapp

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Bill Bradley

In all honesty, I'd rather be speaking on Thursday night,

Peter Liguori

I know you get second-guessed in this business, but I'd rather be second-guessed for the right reasons.

Rita Clifton

It was one idea which was rather relentlessly executed,

Lars Trier

I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film.

Rob Sheffield

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Richard Dawkins

If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.

Richard Dawkins

I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.

Richard Dawkins

Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.

Richard Whately

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

Russell Crowe

I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood.

Roger Babson

Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.

Tryon Edwards

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.