Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

Tina Brown

Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals.

Idina Menzel

Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'

Idina Menzel

I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!

Isaac Brock

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

Isabella Bird

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.

Giles Foden

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.

Gil Gerard

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.

Thomas Hardy

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Jim Margolin

We know that some of these fugitives might come to New York to blend into the crowd or hide in plain sight.

Padgett Powell

Every other year, I was the new boy. I found that the only way to survive was to embrace it, make a little fortress on the outside and to pretend to blend in but not to invest too much because you'll be somewhere else next year.

Larry Wayman

We have a good mix of seniors, juniors and sophomores. Blending them together was the key, but early on, we made a lot of mental and physical mistakes.

Pauline Neville-Jones

It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys.

William Morris

Join hope to our hope and blend sorrow with sorrow, And seek for men's love in the short days of life.

Jerry Jones

We gave up experience to have the opportunity to not only have good information now but build for the future. We have a good blend of veteran guys with guys that have not been doing it as long.

Rudy Provoost

We are blending movie and bonus material such that you won't see a difference anymore.

Igor Jablokov

We're blending speech recognition with Web browsers, so you can talk into the Web browser and get information back.

Gabriel Mann

Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.

Don Rickles

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

Brittany Howard

Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.

Craig Conroy

That was the difference tonight. We had some opportunities, some chances to score, but it just didn't go in for us. The bottom line is we're going to score goals. We just have to work hard and keep moving forward and not let this bother us.

Eleanor Norton

We have trivialized this park, residents make too little use of it, and tourists don't know where it is, ... Neither the city or the federal government has bothered to make maximum use of it. The problem is that it had no plan and it's in a state of great deterioration.

Joseph Garcia

We came out lethargic in the first half. Audra (Major's) back was bothering her like it did before Christmas, and the guards really had to step it up.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Web searching and cellphone use both flourish in the wee hours. Before the dawn of the web, I would stay up watching television. But there is something soporific about television: I would often nod off. Not so when I'm online. As technologies expand, these problems may only worsen.

Rupert Grint

Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like we've both got red hair, we both like sweets, we've both got lots of brothers and sisters.

Mark Zuckerberg

It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

Giancarlo Esposito

What I love about 'Breaking Bad' is the reflection of many people's - it's more real in terms of people have faults, people have character traits that they don't like about themselves. It resembles more of what the human journey really is and it's less fantastic and hero-driven than other characters and shows that we watch.

Gillian Armstrong

Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.

Will Poulter

I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

Vikas Swarup

I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.

Emilia Fox

I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.

Michael Spiller

The pilot is a sales tool; it introduces you to the characters and might set the template for what the show is meant to be, but there's so many boxes you have to check off on a pilot that it can sort of hurt the storytelling in a way.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.

Brina Palencia

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

Deborah Eisenberg

I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.

Yael Grobglas

Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

Yanni

I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.

Tim Burton

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

Imelda May

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

Idina Menzel

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

Ian Mckellen

Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

will.i.am

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

Chris Bohjalian

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

Jim Scarborough

The acquisition of B.C. Moore's represents a logical next step for us following our successful integration of Peebles. It significantly enhances the strategic and geographic development of our business, improves our competitive position, and presents us with a compelling opportunity for increased sales and earnings.

Steve Moore

The 12th Man' is one of our most treasured traditions, recognized by most as one of the most compelling in collegiate athletics.

Paul Haggis

You can't plan for people to like your movies. I knew that people were not going to run in droves to the theater for the 'In the Valley of Elah.' I knew they might not want to see it, but I still had to the movie; I felt very strongly about it. Wanting to keep telling a good story is what you want to do, a compelling story.

Suranga Chandratillake

We wanted to make the experience of finding compelling multimedia and making it portable, as efficient and easy as possible.

Kay Nehm

We have compelling evidence that this money was used to finance this terrorist operation.

Marc Guggenheim

With 'The Flash' in existence, there's no real compelling reason for us to do superpowers on 'Arrow.'

Roger Entner

Wireless high-speed data is their one shot to stem the precipitous decline in voice (average revenue per user), which they need to make up with really compelling features.

Richard Dickson

While you had groups complaining about the violence and sexuality, what really sold those games were the compelling stories. Without them, you're just shooting people and stealing cars.

Steve Elmendorf

I think Kerry's dead because I don't think he has anything to say. Message has something to do with this, and I don't think he has anything interesting or compelling to say. He's a weak third in Iowa and a weak second in New Hampshire, and I think if you finish third in Iowa and a weak second in New Hampshire, you're through.

Ian MacKaye

Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

William Kent Krueger

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

Beeban Kidron

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

Robin S. Sharma

I try to work out daily in the morning hours. This drives up energy levels dramatically. You'll feel more inspired. And you'll need less sleep.

Ozzie Guillen

We're up by four runs and then we're up by one run. It drives the manager crazy. Rowand had a big night. From now on somebody needs to step up and be a hero every game. Tonight it was Rowand.

Jeff Jennewein

Whittaker drives so well to the bucket, and then he can pull up and hit that jump shot. He finds a way to slash and slide in there and takes it up strong.

Dan Hill

I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.

Kyle Orton

Those drives are just demoralizing for a defense,

Chuck Amato

Those are such nagging things that help keep drives going. There's no excuse for that.

Ian Mckellen

Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

David Friedman

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

John Morrison

We have to walk a tight line to get what we want. It keeps my mind off farming.

Miley Cyrus

Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Frank Kelly

You kind of feel a little sorry for the guy. What keeps going through my mind is (growing up) he could look out his window and see the cemetery, and there he is three years after he lived there, back in that cemetery. It really wasn't much of a life.

Jim Montgomery

I think the theaters are wise to find a specialty, something that is their forte, that they can then sell or entice theatergoers to come to because that's what they're looking for. You'd be nuts not to give it to them. It keeps the theater alive.

John Salmons

When it keeps happening, it shows that we're not learning from our mistakes. We keep doing the same things, and that's the frustrating part.

Megan Mires

Those meetings are so good. It keeps me proud and keeps my resentment down. It reminds me of why we are over there.

Henrik Lundqvist

When I try to relax, it's more Swedish rock, softer music, and I go out and do fun stuff. I play guitar, but it doesn't matter really what it is - just something that keeps you away from hockey.

Carl Jung

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

Bill Nye

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

C. S. Lewis

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious,

Bill Hybels

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

Diana Vreeland

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

Demetri Martin

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

Ayn Rand

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

Albert Pike

Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.

Albert Einstein

I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

David Shields

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

David Shields

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

David Shields

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Alan Moore

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

Carter Burwell

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Ajay Naidu

I hear music as narrative.

Bruce Springsteen

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

A. S. Byatt

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Idina Menzel

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

E. B. White

We will respond when we have seen the revised toll offer.

Jaromir Jagr

We didn't respond to the stuff they played. We weren't smart enough.

Skip Prosser

We didn't respond back. We had a run to start the half, they had a run back, and it was up to us to make a run back at them. We didn't have the wherewithal to do that.

Jorge Ortiz

Bartlett just seemed to get stronger and stronger. We just couldn't respond to their speed that they had.

Woody Allen

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I-I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I-I ripen and then rot.

Brandon Roy

I don't think he was sure how we were going to respond to him. He was a little down. He was pretty upset he made that mistake.

Anne Keene

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

Gary Harris

When we have a call, it's not a stranger we're responding to,

John McNally

It hasn't been unsafe, but there are situations where it could be.

David Patterson

I think the teams struggled when we were in those situations too.

Derek Jeter

Those are situations we need to come through in. Those are big. This time of year, especially, you've got to take advantage.

John Tortorella

We've been through a lot tougher situations than this in our past. We will get it done.

Joe Torre

He's come up in situations and you say,

Carl Jung

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

Levance Fields

We've been in situations like the one we had (Sunday). Down the stretch, they made more plays.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Liz Vassey

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.