Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Didion

The shock of it was that this time, she had a lot of strength, ... Her husband and I assumed she'd overcome it.

Kim Cattrall

I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a hundred dogs and a hundred kids.

Loretta Swit

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

James dyer

We had assumed or hoped for today to be so much more than yesterday. Isn't it strange how we do nothing and expect different outcomes.

Marcus Williams

Some people assumed I would go from 12 to 20, that is what I was hearing.

Michael McCoy

I assumed the patient was dead or injured beyond resuscitation," ()

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.

Chris Rupkey

The curve should be flattening if the Fed is assumed to be still tightening.

Gene Luen Yang

Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.

Dennis McAlpine

It would not surprise me if there were a deal, either way.

Tony Fadell

I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not.

Oscar Wilde

Things last either too long, or not long enough,

William Ames

The worship which directs itself toward God as our good regards him either as he is ours at present, in faith, or as he is to be ours, in hope.

John Burnside

The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary American poets and some Spanish language poets, and I keep in touch with their work through either their websites or email.

Rolf Peterson

The wolf is a hot-button species. It never fails to ignite passions, either for or against.

Deirdre Lovejoy

'The Wire' fans are very specific and hard core. Nobody is neutral about 'The Wire.' You either love it, or you couldn't watch it, and there is no in-between.

Christian Kane

The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

O. J. Simpson

Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Chris Dyer

Back then, youth issues were not very visible even in the nationwide organizations. Youth had consistently not been a priority in any of the Pride celebrations and we thought, here's a great way to help.

Don Shula

As long as they stay healthy, I think they've got a great shot at it.

Benjamin Franklin

A small leak can sink a great ship.

Mark Melton

A sloppy win is a lot better than playing great and losing.

John Wozniak

A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.

Robert Brooks

That park is great for trails and hiking. I don't really see home sites in that park.

Roger Federer

Rafael played a great match, it was tough to lose.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Steve Mullins

Streaks don't mean anything. We have snapped some pretty long streaks this year. What we did in the past doesn't mean a whole lot. It's what we do this weekend and how we prepare that is going to matter.

Mahmoud Othman

Someone should have said something. The other side is talking, and the American side is silent. To be silent here means you are on the weak side.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Miriam Landsman

Pretty soon, that part of the street won't have any trees. It would mean they have no trees, no coverage, no nothing.

Mike Plante

I've seen a lot of nice pictures. That doesn't mean it's going to happen.

Dale Jarrett

I've watched him race a long time and I don't mean him any disrespect, but if he comes here to race, that's none of our concern. I couldn't even tell you what he's running, how he's running.

Mike Leaf

I've said this before, and I know I'm repeating myself, but that doesn't mean much to us right now.

Daniel Hall

It would be the classrooms. I mean what is not to like about it plenty of room, place to learn, cozy.

Ashwin Sanghi

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

Baruch Spinoza

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Auguste Comte

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Azar Nafisi

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Ayn Rand

He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again.

Brian Tracy

Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.

Jane Jacobs

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

Juvenal

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

Juvenal

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Edward Young

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

E. Hicks

We've hadour wisdom wrungfrom emotion's spongeand yet it still drips

Anna Jameson

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

E. B. White

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Allen Tate

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

David Colton

There's really a lot of unanswered questions regarding this plan.

Francis Bacon

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Rod Barnes

I'm not going to take those questions today.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Mark Koenig

It was not something our competitors did. It was different, so we got questions about it.

Derrick Brooks

A lot of questions have to be answered,

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Edward Norton

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

Edward Abbey

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

Donald Knuth

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Colin Powell

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

Adolf Hitler

The root of the whole evil lay, particularly in Schonerer's opinion, in the fact that the directing body of the Catholic Church was not in Germany, and that for this very reason alone it was hostile to the interests of our nationality.

Andrew Weil

Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those that become more frequent as people age. It is a way of selecting and preparing foods based on science that can help people achieve and maintain optimum health over their lifetime.

Anne Sexton

But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.

Anne Rice

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

D. H. Lawrence

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

David Nash

If it works for you, then that's great. It's what makes you feel safe.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Dan Ryan

It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.