Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.

Dan Kirkby

We're delighted parents will be able to voice their views, and make a binding decision one way or the other. Should they come, we can guarantee London will give them the warmest of welcomes.

Eva Nogales

What we were able to do is compare the binding site of both the viral RNA and the cells' cap binding protein on a factor that is common to both mechanisms in eIF3. The binding cap is one of the complexes required by the cell, but not required by the virus. For translations, this cup binding protein has to interact with the eIF3.

Michael Wynne

Just losing a case hits hard. Merck is like our big brother. I can call him a jerk, but you can't. This is binding people together, not pulling them apart.

John Serino

It cannot be a binding resolution. It would have to be non-binding.

John Charles Polanyi

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.

Malcolm Sharp

Wayne and I are trying to keep an even keel and talk to our boys a lot, more than we normally do. This has been a real binding event. It kind of keeps your perspective.

Lysander Spooner

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Myles Munroe

When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.

Debbie Taylor

I think Old Dominion is the only team that doesn't have an on-off switch.

Bible Bible

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Catherine Booth

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

Catherynne M. Valente

Death hath no dominion.

George William Russell

We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.

Aaron Klug

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

Albert Camus

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

Debbie Taylor

When things go wrong, most teams flip into another mode, where Old Dominion is always the same. I don't think other teams in this league are that bad; I just don't think they're as steady. Teams in this league can be really good and they can be really bad. Old Dominion is never bad.

Connie Mack

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

Mark Shand

The combination of a brand like Cartier and the immense heritage that India holds can go places.

Jim Peters

We have to hope that Mother Nature holds out, and that the weather is good, and that we can return everything to normal.

Colin Falls

He's just making one move and not thinking about it. I think sometimes he holds onto it and over-analyzes. He catches and makes his move (and) that opens us up on the outside.

Anthony Anderson

Kangaroo Jack is the first movie I've been in where I was the star, or co-star, so this is my baby. This is the one that holds special meaning to me.

Mike Hidde

He holds the offense together. He can do a lot of things. They throw in a lot of kids, but he's the one consistent. He makes plays and makes things happen.

John Gibbons

If the Yanks don't win the division, they'll win the wild card. New York knows how to win when it has to, plus Joe Torre holds things together.

Mark Fox

Idaho has been playing better. San Jose State holds the lead at Utah State with a minute to go last Saturday.

Betsy Ross

Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.

Mark Shand

When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.

Olly Murs

To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.

Carl Duke

We aren't sure whether it is an older male or not. He could be student there.

Meg Tilly

I have a lot of male friends. That's good. But that's all I want right now. Keep that sort of thing away from me.

Bryan White

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

Catherine Hardwicke

Of course, the male-directed films make more money.

Camille Claudel

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

Nick Flynn

There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.

Nick Harkaway

I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried.

John McEnroe

I think it can. The powers that be, IMG, the ATP, need to work together more coherently.

Michel Gauthier

Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

Stephen Kinzer

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.

Michel Gauthier

Mr. Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

Walter Rodgers

powers at work about which we have no knowledge.

Brian Kelly

We all are going to outplay and outperform what we do and it's up to the powers that be to recognize that and acknowledge that.

Buzz Hargrove

If you devolve all the powers to the provinces, what do you have left?

Matt Mauck

All I know is the powers that be selected us to be in this game. We just received the trophy.

Andy Serkis

I've always been really in touch with my primal instincts. In my profession, you have to be.

Martin Henderson

There's something incredibly primal about facing something treacherous but doing it anyway.

Brenda Lee

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

Brad Katsuyama

I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.

Austin Butler

I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.

Katey Sagal

I was very rebellious.

John Cusack

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Rocky Smith

If they put together some type of a waiting list, my service would not be needed.

Sebastian Thrun

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

Gerry Waldron

I did keep a local-only service for just that reason.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

David Turangal

We've survived 50 years because of our service.

C. S. Lewis

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

Bill Vaughan

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

Bill Vaughan

A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!

Bertrand Russell

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

William Shakespeare

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

Will Durant

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

Che Guevara

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

Charles Colson

The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, the better read it becomes.

Kate Winslet

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

Ian Gray

It is not so far-fetched for a 63-year-old woman to be with an 18-year-old boy.

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Ona Solomon

I'm a woman of mystery. I can do anything but skinny.

Gina Servedio

It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.

Imelda May

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

Gillian Armstrong

Maybe not many women are going to film school.

Zoe Lister-Jones

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

Bella Abzug

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Bobbi Brown

So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

Carrie Snow

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

Carrie Chapman Catt

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Bette Davis

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.