Famous Quotes & Sayings

Granth Sahib

Like the mad dog running around in all directions, the greedy person, unaware, consumes everything, edible and non-edible alike. Engrossed in the intoxication of sexual desire and anger, people wander through reincarnation over and over again.

Samuel Smiles

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

Ayelet Waldman

I've always written about maternal ambivalence. It's the subject that consumes me.

Mark Ruffalo

This country consumes more pornography than any other country in the world.

Chris Lynch

consumes significant amounts of management time and encourages a short term focus on what is a long term business.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

Loretta Mays

In my present position, personnel management consumes about 95 percent of my time. I have experience working with people, and I'm also a people person. I think all of that will be important in this role.

Rick Majerus

He's real energized and enthused. It consumes his every waking moment,

Hasnat Khan

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

Kourtney Kardashian

I am obsessed with my sisters. Being the oldest, I probably just have that in me. But I also think I am the youngest sometimes. We all have moments when we are the maternal one of the group.

Barbara Windsor

I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature, but I nurture adults: my friends, the people I work with. I don't want to nurture children.

Bhagavad Gita

Teachers, uncles, sons, grandfathers, maternal uncles, fathers-in- law, grandsons, brothers-in-law, and other relatives.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health

Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

Gin Wigmore

I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.

Mitchell Kertzman

We have been the subject of their threats and intimidation,

Joe Solmonese

I don't think it has anything to do with the subject matter.

Alan Simpson

Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.

Dan Smith

He was getting at a really important subject and he did it thoughtfully and gracefully.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

F. Sionil Jose

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

Russell Smith

The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.

Rainbow Rowell

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

Mark Sheppard

When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.

Thomas Schaaf

We haven't written off the title. If they stumble, we will go after our chance.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.