Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

Wesley Morris

If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this." I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing.

Wesley Morris

Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.

Wesley Morris

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.

Richard Rohr

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

Trevor Nunn

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.

Van Wyck Brooks

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Umberto Eco

I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.

Robert Rauschenberg

I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.

Alex Rodriguez

I think it gave us a little fire in our butts. We were a little flat, and I thought after that, we kind of picked it up a little bit.

Gary Gait

He just gets fired up and thrives on that challenge.

Dave Schmidt

He was still a little nervous going into the final. He didn't come out with that fire that he had earlier. But he'll get that back.

Bill Whitley

I don't know anything about that. I am here to represent the town in the matter of the consolidation of the fire department.

Dave Soutar

He had a pretty good fire inside, and when he put his mind to something, he was going to make it work.

Joe Hale

He is going to be missed very much. We still don't know what happened we don't know how the fire started.

Richard Whately

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

Richelle Mead

When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit. And nearly choked to death. It was like fire in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me. "Wh...what is this?" I asked, coughing. Viktoria grinned. "Vodka." I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before." "Not Russian vodka." Apparently not.

Roger B. Chaffee

We've got a bad fire let's get out . . . We're burning up.

Karl Shapiro

Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.

Pauline Kael

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

Josh Groban

My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.

Jim Morrison

the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre

William Shakespeare

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Charles Bukowski

You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

Amy Poehler

We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?

Thomas Lynch

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

Steve Earle

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.