Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giraldus Cambrensis

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

Wendell Berry

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

William Kamkwamba

I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation or for drinking.

Vivienne Westwood

I don't feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don't have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you've got the money to be able to afford it, then it's really good to buy something from me, but don't buy too much.

Clive Thompson

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

Emmitt Smith

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

Elizabeth Warren

It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.

Chen Shui-bian

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.

Charles Pena

The political atmosphere is charged. Democrats can't afford to be seen as soft on defense or terrorism. They're going to have to fight the social cuts without bargaining on defense.

Giles Foden

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

Zaha Hadid

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

Vince Cable

We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.

John Stokes

The Pinelands Commission is thankful that the court recognized and acknowledged the clear threat to the unique resources of the Pinelands area attributable to the proposed facility.

Eric Hansen

The pictures are really interesting, ... As you look at them, you recognize areas, yet you don't recognize them. There are mature trees in one area or the building of new structure in another area.

Clinton Morrison

The overall growth of data storage is going up at about a 100 percent every year, and in conjunction with that, systems are getting more complex. So there is a big demand for solutions to help manage this growth. Storage area networks (are) still in their infancy. It's a fairly small market and I think the experts expect to see very rapid growth in the order of 50-to-100 percent in the market for a number of years.

Eric Klein

The PC market is in a very mature stage in its evolution, ... That is why vendors are expanding their strategies beyond the box, expanding into services and storage. You also see Intel moving into the rapidly growing area of communications chips.

Thomas Dekker

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.

Ismail Kadare

The founding father of Albanian literature is the nineteenth-century writer Naim Frasheri. Without having the greatness of Dante or Shakespeare, he is nonetheless the founder, the emblematic character. He wrote long epic poems, as well as lyrical poetry, to awaken the national consciousness of Albania.

Ellie Goulding

As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.

Stephen Decatur

We came out really slow. I don't know what was wrong with us, but we weren't awake and ready to go.

Jeanne Young

Voyaging into the unfading, eternal sea of atoms...delving deeply...she journeyed inward to awaken her immortal soul...and found divinity.

Paul Stamets

My family is delighted every time I cook maitake. Our taste buds awaken in anticipation of its rich, deep and nuanced flavors.

Andrew Shue

When something tragic happens, it's a rude awakening that life doesn't go exactly the way we plan. You grow up faster and realize part of life's beauty is that it isn't all planned, that there are many unknowns. Nothing's guaranteed, but you have to live. You can't just walk through life, you have to actually embrace it and go after it.

James Daly

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

The Beatles

John was very human and sometimes in the middle of the night he would say, 'Are you awake ?' and I would say, 'Yes, yes' and he said, 'You know, they always cover Paul's songs and never mine and I don't know why'. I said, 'You're a good songwriter, it's not June with Spoon that you write. You're a good singer and most musicians are probably a little bit nervous about covering your songs'.

Mimi Kennedy

Friction is necessary for motion, labor necessary for birth.

Aaron Sorkin

As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction...

Meg Whitman

We've always sought to remove friction from e-commerce,

Hermann von Helmholtz

But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.

Dylan Trombetta

Roller hockey helps a lot in just keeping you in shape for ice hockey. Roller hockey is more tiring. I think it's just the friction with the roller hockey wheels. It's harder to get going faster. So you get more tired out.

Avigdor Lieberman

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.

Dave Morin

In mobile, people really love having single-use case experiences. They want low friction to getting to the application's use case.

Sgt. Kemper

(Gangs) look for a place they don't get friction from the neighborhood.

Salman Rushdie

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

Reid Scott

If I'm not barefoot, you'll probably find me with a pair of New Balance on. And I'm not one of those hipster-jump-on-the-band-wagon-ironically-cool NB fans. I've been rocking those kicks since they were true nerd shoes. Since the '80s, yo! Word.

Michaela McManus

I'm sort of like the kid that kicks around in Vans, beat-up Converse, ripped jeans, and t-shirts.

John Benedetto

We don't play him much defensively because he's such a threat on offense. Plus, he returns kicks for us. We use him where he's best, and that's at the receiver position.

A. Hodge

We'll never be a team that kicks away from anybody.

Aeschylus

Do not kick against the pricks.

Greg Owens

One of those things where it just kicks you in the teeth.

Behati Prinsloo

I try to do Pilates when I can all year around and I also like to swim a lot. I also have a trainer that kicks my butt when it's needed.

Leon Washington

We don't make kicks down here in Miami. I don't know what it is. Somebody put something on us.

Rob Varley

This is the last big weekend before the slow season kicks in.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

Charles Gargano

That was why we privatized the World Trade Center, by means of a 99-year net lease.

Marcus Samuelsson

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

bell hooks

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

Annie Proulx

What we fear we often rage against.

Dominic Cooper

I suppose theres an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

Leonardo da Vinci

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.

Christina Ricci

I don't have life rage anymore.

George R. R. Martin

When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

Hosea Ballou

Rage is mental imbecility.

Boris Trajkovski

The rage on the streets is not the answer,

Flip Saunders

We'll run our offense. We'll run our plays. That'll be the most relaxing time that I'll have at the All-Star Game, when they're on the floor.

Sherry Mowatt

It's very relaxing to just sit and watch them. It really is.

Donald Reid

Even if that's all you can squeeze in, it will be a relaxing treat,

Marc Guggenheim

Every season, we spend what really should be our hiatus, and what really should be me relaxing on a beach, planning out the whole season.

Mark Bedenbaugh

That takes away from one of your senses.

Diane Ackerman

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Neil Harbisson

If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

Eknath Easwaran

We become in part what our senses take in.