Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Ritter

In fact, the very policies that we are executing today only alienate us abroad, strengthen Saddam Hussein and give him cause to reconstitute these capabilities once he has the means,

Rachel Cusk

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.

Joseph Thorndike

When you talk about a tax plan that has to make it through Congress, you can't alienate the blue states, because you need a lot of red votes in blue states to get it passed.

John Budd

Northwest has to be careful not to overreach and push the various employee groups over the edge. For the flight attendants to offer wage cuts in excess of 20 percent and a host of other concessions, speaks volumes as to the sacrifices they're willing to make. Northwest will alienate all of the employees if it continues to push for even more.

E. P. Thompson

An invisible line has been crossed, and the decline in Rumsfeld?s tenure has now begun. He has gradually alienated each of his core constituencies, including the Congress, the media, the think tanks, the defense industry and now much of the officer corps.

BD Wong

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

Daniel Woodrell

There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.

Greg Gianforte

If Oracle and the others are going to embrace this model, they have to alienate all their business partners and build a whole new ecosystem.

Selwyn Pieters

It does more harm than good to the crime-fighting efforts of the police as the same people who should be enlisted to assist are those who are being alienated by feeling like they are under the gun.

Stephen Pagliuca

Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.

James Collins

I suspect they'll probably get a kick out of the illusions that can be created to give them a more total immersion experience as part of virtual reality,

Ted Manning

I think it's a great concept. It's something unique to the market and something that hasn't been done before. I think they've created a niche people are going to understand.

Billy Donovan

He created and made some things happen. He made some very timely 3point shots when they were trying to make a run.

Billy Donovan

He created and made some things happen. He made some very timely 3-point shots when they were trying to make a run.

Stephen Happel

Greenspan's policies have created huge amounts of wealth for Arizona.

Doreen Cronin

Harry has created this whole world out of little, tiny things we don't think about,

Mary Rosza

Harriet Nowell created the illusion of a hoop skirt by the types and placement of the fabric in her design.

Stephen Sondheim

Every single song I've ever written is sung by a character created by somebody else. Some might have a jaundiced view of love, some don't. But none of these songs is me singing - not a single one.

Rekalin Sims

I was knocking down shots. I hit the offensive boards. I just played better. Sometimes you have good games, sometimes you don't. I just felt like my rhythm was a lot better.

Jacki Gemelos

I was in the air, and I felt a pop in my right knee.

Terri Johnson

I was interested in these two performers who felt they could do something quite symbiotic,

Damien Chazelle

I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.

Phil Jackson

Kobe fought his way through it tonight. It was one of those games where the numbers of shots he took was too high, but he thought he was going to get fouled and he took the shots because he felt the pressure on him.

Dick Franti

I would say it's been a learning process. We were somewhat inexperienced when we started the year. Simon Store was really the only guy back with a lot of experience, so I kind of felt there would be come growing pains and there have been.

Nancy Giles

I yearn for a time when we are more engaged. When Dr. King was alive, no matter how you felt about him and what he was saying, people were talking.

Joe Williams

Kelly was also second in the 1600, so we felt pretty good about our young runners.

M. Thompson

Just to get that hit, it felt great.

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.

Seve Ballesteros

I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I hole it.

O. Singh

The first hole played downwind. No. 4 played downwind . . . and 11 played downwind.

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.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

Martin Amis

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

Pema Chodron

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

Pema Chodron

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

Chogyam Trungpa

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

Sebastian Horsley

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

Richard Wilbur

Odd that a thing is most itself when likened

Rick Riordan

Americans are an odd bunch, but they grow on you.

Yoko Ono

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

William Petersen

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

Libba Bray

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

Lynn Shelton

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

Pierre Salinger

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

Evander Holyfield

Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.

Pico Iyer

The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.

Michael Parenti

You don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day

Loretta Young

So I'm a square! Well, at least I'm not a square peg in a round hole.

Libby Smith

I'll try to think of it as just another tournament; just think of it as the first round of about 120.

Sarah Brightman

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

Rich Miller

This is really like our first round of the playoffs.

Cliff Thompson

Overall, I'm happy. During the first round of the state tournament, you just want to get a win and get the jitters out.

Lefty Grove

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

Trey Anastasio

What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.

William De Morgan

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

Morihei Ueshiba

THE BODY SHOULD be triangular, the mind circular. The triangle represents the generation of energy and is the most stable physical posture. The circle symbolizes serenity and perfection, the source of unlimited techniques. The square stands for solidity, the basis of applied control.

Bruce McPherson

then we'll have to go back to square one.

William Shakespeare

Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk!

Danny Meyer

Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.

Ben Okri

I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

C. S. Lewis

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.