Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kirk Franklin

Having been raised by an aunt who set the CDF kind of example, I can truly say that this great organization already feels like family to me, and I look forward to doing all I can to amplify their message.

Tyler Oakley

In creating my YouTube videos, I don't want to speak for my audience and the people I represent; I want to amplify their voices.

James Bay

When I'm writing, I need to amplify my thoughts and feelings on just a conversation that I might have had with somebody - somebody close to me. It's often the case that the people closest to me are the people on my mind the most.

David Lawrence

If that much near-surface permafrost thaws, it could release considerable amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and that could amplify global warming. We could be underestimating the rate of global temperature increase.

Wolfgang Ketterle

Amplifying atoms is more subtle than amplifying electromagnetic waves because atoms can only change their quantum state and cannot be created. Therefore, even if one could amplify gold atoms, one would not realize the dreams of medieval alchemy.

Alanis Morissette

I want to poke holes in the erroneous beliefs about what fame provides. It won't raise your self-esteem, it won't create profound connection, it's not going to heal your childhood traumas, it's only going to amplify them. You're going to be subject to a lot of criticism and praise, both of which are violent in their own ways.

Garry Trudeau

I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

Indra Nooyi

When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.

Jeremy Irons

You have to communicate on a much greater scale, ... With a camera, you can use the flick of an eye. On stage, a lot of other things are happening that can pull focus or energy. You're always thinking the same way, but you have to amplify your thoughts with the volume of your speech and the ways you use your whole body to communicate what you're feeling. It's a little bit different from film.

Jim Smith

He considered himself an anarchist, and his core beliefs were developing and supporting people's right to freedom.

Frank Sr

I think we have the common beliefs that you have to have a solid run game - you have to run the football to be effective. The bottom line on offense is when we step on the field, we have to maximize scoring opportunities and you've got too minimize mistakes. If we can, then we should be able to put points on the board.

John Raese

I coincide with much of his beliefs -- low taxes, low regulation and a support for a free enterprise.

Billy Donovan

He has a great passion and vigor for life. He has great respect for people - where they come from, what their heritage is and what their beliefs are.

Roger Graham

I am an old man in a small town in Cambodia. I don't want to cause any trouble for anybody. But I do have my own beliefs which, if I can, I will tell people about.

Michael Gaffney

The course challenges many of the ideas and beliefs that so many of us hold with little investigation into a proper defense for these thoughts. Though the process can sometimes be frustrating, I'd rather have a process that makes me reconsider my thoughts about important issues than to progress through life having never considered the ramifications of my positions.

Dick Durbin

It's going to make for a very difficult line of inquiry at our hearing, but we have to understand what she's all about, what her values and beliefs are, so we can make an informed judgment,

Charles Schumer

served his country with honor, dignity and distinction for over 30 years. He was grounded in his beliefs and was a staunch defender of an independent judiciary. People of all philosophies and viewpoints greatly respected Justice Rehnquist and will miss him.

Sidney Hook

It still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probabil

Ken Ham

Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Matt Carle

I was joking with Chris and Brian up there, how all three of us were just glad this thing was coming to an end after all the hype in the last three months. Now they're both competing for a national championship tomorrow (today).

Julie Martin

Kingma is just a phenomenal player, both offensively and defensively. She really got into Dunbar in the second half and was a great leader for them.

Don Williams

Kim woke up to hearing some people screaming. We smelled some smoke and we both walked out on the balcony and saw these embers flying by.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Kevin is a big guard who can defend both positions on the perimeter, ... We liked the effort he put forth during summer league play and wanted to take a second look at him.

Ed Steadham

Keystone was a very important part of our business. We build helicopters, they did the completion that finished our helicopters. We knew the company and were impressed with the company. The marriage has enhanced the both of us.

Bob Cortelyou

Kiev will be the latest destination in Delta's expansion into the key business and leisure markets of Eastern Europe. Delta will be the only U.S. carrier to serve Kiev, and business travelers on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as friends and family of Ukrainian heritage in the United States, will look forward to this new non-stop service between New York-JFK and Kiev.

Peter Warrick

Kit and I talked about this a long time ago. He said it would be a great system for the both of us. I never really thought it would happen. Then, once I got here (for a visit), Kit told me about the coach and how he is such a great guy. Here I am.

Andruw Jones

Hank Aaron's in the Hall of Fame; it's a good record. But I don't worry about it. My goal this year was not to hit 40 home runs, but just to improve my consistency. When the season's over, that's when I'll look at that stuff.

Gary Hatch

He's been one of my hall of fame guys. Stephen worked his tail off to become a starter. It didn't happen until his senior year.

Jerry Colangelo

He was looking though the glass at the photos that were up on the wall in their hall of fame. He said, 'Dad, I want to come here and do what you did to follow you.' I said, 'No, Bryan. That was my life. You're going to have to live your own life.

Robert Pattinson

I suppose I should understand it [fame] better by this point, but I really don't.

Rod Stewart

There is this power that comes with being famous.

Zachary Quinto

My return to the theater in New York was so specific. I didn't want it to be about leveraging my exposure or my fame, so the first show I did in New York was an ensemble piece at an Off-Broadway theater, and I wanted to make sure that it was just about the play and about the experience.

Pierre Corneille

To myself alone do I owe my fame.

Patty Griffin

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet's food is love and fame.

Joe Gibbs

Keeping a team healthy is a huge deal,

Henry Chan

I think it's a healthy correction, some valuations got a little high.

Dave Reed

I think it'll take time to heal everything.

Brent Guy

He (Jackson) hasn't complained and said he is fine. It was worse than we originally thought. ... It took longer to heal than we thought.

Karl Dorrell

He's healthy enough, he's throwing the ball, he's getting his timing back,

Mike Imoh

It hurts not being out there. Things just weren't healing right, though. So I didn't have a lot of choice, really.

Bob Filner

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.

Jacques Rogge

We support that (tests). The reason for the tests is to protect the health of the athletes. These are health tests, they are not doping tests.

Francis Gannon

I think it was a very healthy thing that we saw this week, ... It was a valuation correction, not a fundamental correction.

George Clooney

What you learn after you're 40 is it's just about plugging up holes in the boat,

Tuesday Weld

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

Carlton Fisk

I'm a six-handicap but those two holes scare me every time,

O. Singh

I'm just not playing well enough to win on Sunday. There are too many mistakes. I play two or three holes that really put me down. That's what's been happening.

Stuart Appleby

You can't run away from the pack if you aren't running away from it. Running away would be six shots up with six holes to play. That would be pretty much a run away. There is a lot of golf, 25% of the tournament still left out there.

Bob Sanders

The holes weren't as open as they were last year. Last year, there were gaping holes in there.

Tom Harkin

The holes in these protective suits show the holes in the Pentagon's procurement process.

Denny Green

A runner has to have holes to run through. J.J. needs holes,

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Take less time to read the scorecard and more time to read the hole.

Gene Upshaw

The price of poker will go up. We can not stay in the place where we are now.

John Cornyn

By the time the process is over, she will have been ... poked and prodded enough to satisfy even the most skeptical mind.

Vesa Toskala

I thought I had him with the poke check. But he got me 5-hole.

Richard John Neuhaus

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

Woody Allen

One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.

William Faulkner

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.

Richard M. Nixon

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Richard Rohr

Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.

Pope John Paul II

Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.

Pope Francis

The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.

Pope Francis

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Paulo Coelho

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Trace Adkins

You can raise her up a lady but there’s one thing you just can't avoid...

William Mapother

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

Larry Harris

If you can raise up and shoot from 15 to 18 feet, you can play in this league,

David Scott

It's really a pretty simple model. Raise the pay.

Scott Porter

I was raised around music.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

S. Walker

This is the only way I think we can get this done without having to raise taxes.

Linda Jacobs

This is the only time of the day I raise my voice.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Dan Smith

He was getting at a really important subject and he did it thoughtfully and gracefully.

Jess Walter

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

J. J. Johnson

I just find the whole subject so exciting, it really is my passion.

Mahatma Gandhi

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

Laura Miller

It's very, very troubling, and very subjective and very unfair,

Henry Morton Stanley

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

Alton Brown

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

Rick Riordan

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?

Woody Allen

[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.

Mahatma Gandhi

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

Noam Chomsky

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

Jose Maldonado

You'd think if he was a violent offender, they wouldn't let him be out.

Theodore Zeldin

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

Hannah More

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ...

Chelsea Cain

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.