Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pedro Reyes

If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.

David S. Goyer

When Superman was originally created, by Siegel and Shuster, they were two Jewish immigrants that were desperately trying to assimilate into America. They were having a hard time because they were Jewish. They wanted to get in to mainstream publishing but they couldn't. That's why they, and a lot of Jewish guys, went into comic books.

James Stokes

We have our hands full. We have a pretty good idea of what they're doing. The question is, conveying it and getting the guys to assimilate it.

Billy Porter

I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch.

Alex Segura

I think they'll assimilate into the culture and realize what they have. Once they see the culture here turning in the direction of Mexico . . . , they'll attempt to stop it, because they don't want it.

Richard Holbrooke

Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.

Yale Galanter

wishes to be an important part of this community and wishes to assimilate well into it. ... He looks forward to putting this unfortunate incident behind him.

Art Alexakis

Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with time to assimilate what's going on in front of you and what's going on in your head.

Herbie Hancock

Technology has made so much information available but what the technological community has not done is to make any attempt for us to figure out how we're going to assimilate all this information.

Wes Anderson

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different.

Virginia Postrel

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.

Colin Angle

In the smart home of the future, there should be a robot designed to talk to you. With enough display technology, connectivity, and voice recognition, this human-interface robot or head-of-household robot will serve as a portal to the digital domain. It becomes your interface to your robot-enabled home.

Eve Ensler

Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like other cells and the body invites it in.

Bob Verdi

When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.

Bel Powley

When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.

Brandi Carlile

When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump in my throat when I sing that song. And also 'Before It Breaks.' So I'm just a different songwriter now. And the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to deliver those songs casually.

Brad Goreski

With glitzy add-ons, the bright, girly dress you bought for daywear becomes fancy enough for evening.

David Ulevitch

With DNS, it's possible to control key components of Internet navigation. Google already controls search, they are quickly gaining market share to control the browser, and when you put in DNS, it becomes the trifecta of complete navigational control.

Isabella Bird

Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.

Evangeline Lilly

I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm.

Doc Hastings

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.

Ken Bacon

The pay is now going up about 3.5, 3.7 percent a year, more than the rate of inflation, and that's built into the five-year plan. So pay is improving.

Anne Wilson Schaef

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

Brunello Cucinelli

I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.

Christopher McDougall

We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.

Denis Villeneuve

In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.

Nina Easton

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.

Ian Mckellen

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

Gene Ween

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!

William Shatner

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

Emilia Fox

Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.

David Stern

All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.

David Horsey

Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.

Christopher Guest

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

Clint Eastwood

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Chino Moreno

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

Ezra Taft Benson

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

Alice Walker

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

Betsey Johnson

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

Phil Schiller

Sure, the labels and publishers get the rights for songs to be remade into a ringtone. So part of what we do is to work with those content owners to make sure that there are rights in place for every piece of content to be made into a ringtone.

Art Alexakis

Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids.

Hal Newhouser

I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that.

John Abraham

I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

Nathan Barankin

I don't know that it's ever been tested in court, but the law does label it a crime.

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.

Gillian Armstrong

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Sue Enquist

The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team.

Arlen Specter

We have a major, major problem on our hands, ... It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.