Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Brian Martin

I think it's a great idea, there are a lot of different cultures in the fire departments throughout the country. It's a neat idea.

Otton Solis

I think it is a very delicate moment for the country and we are going to wait until the end, until the electoral tribunal has processed all the votes because with such a small difference, anything can happen.

Silvio Berlusconi

Italy will always be grateful to the United States for what this country has been doing to free us from totalitarianism in the past century,

Tony Greig

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

John Cornyn

What worries me more than anything else is this mind-set that once people go to Mexico there's nothing law enforcement in this country can do.

Bruce Anderson

Hawaii is leading the country in development of offshore aquaculture. It's been done well here, with minimal environmental impact.

Gary Arnold

Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation.

Patti Smith

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Howard Lee

We must find creative ways to re-energize students and get them to be prolific readers.

Tyler Cowen

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

Tracy Kidder

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

Wislawa Szymborska

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

Will Self

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Yves Klein

My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.

Twyla Tharp

Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.

Ben Romans

I think it helped my creativity to be in a town that didn't have that influence. It helped the productivity to be in a place where there wasn't much structure. You had to make it happen for yourself.

Muhammad Yunus

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

Richard Holbrooke

The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy.

Roger Enrico

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

Umberto Eco

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

Truman Capote

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

William McDonough

We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?

William J. Clinton

The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Russ Reineke

What matters most is how we lived and loved between the dash.

Al Sevier

He was just a little bitty toddler when he lived here.

Mikael Tellqvist

I don't feel too much pressure like that (taking over as No.1). I've lived with it since I was 7 and I can live with it now.

Andrew Marvell

Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.

Vicky Gunderson

I read it and put it aside. Until I lived it, I didn't understand.

Shannon Hildreth

I lived in Louisiana. They (the recreation league) wouldn't let us play until we were 8.

Samantha Aldom

I lived here until I was 13, and since my dad's a member, I know a lot of them. It's nice going through this process with people you know.

Joe Mantello

I lived with a playwright for 12 years,

Linda Brown

I know one thing. If the commissioners lived in this park, it would have never had passed.

Dale Carnegie

Monotony reveals our limitations.

Tommy Bowden

They ran a lot of pursuit drills. If you noticed they ran a whole bunch. They ran their tails off pretty good. That's while they're dragging.

Dave Lewis

I wish I had noticed the teammate's number so I could tell you his name. He is a true American hero.

Randy Bachman

I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.

Randy Pausch

If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Doug Bruno

You know, I noticed that she went smaller, but I don't think it made a difference.

Al Boliska

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Penelope Mitchell

My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy things.

Rowan Atkinson

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

Zig Ziglar

Take time to be quiet.

Bruce Goldstein

It's a very quiet film, it's all about quietness and relationships.

Julia Quinn

Just be quiet and accept the praise.

Natalie Clifford Barney

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Marquis de Sade

Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?

Nikki Sixx

The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter.

Kevin McCloud

Awesome is loud but awe is quiet.

Joyce Carol Oates

The quiet people just do their work.

Samuel Rogers

Then never less alone than when alone.

Samuel Johnson

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

Salvatore Quasimodo

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

Nelson Mandela

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.

Oswald Chambers

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

Pablo Picasso

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.

Ralph Ellison

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.