Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

Ian Watson

The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.

Gillian Armstrong

I put on 'Starstruck' for my kids, and they started getting bored. I was so upset, I took it off. They preferred 'Home Alone.'

William Shatner

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

Warren Bennis

How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

William Whitehead

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

Zubin Mehta

My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

Colin Morgan

If I had auditioned for 'Merlin' on magic alone, I don't think I'd have got it. Like any kid, I probably had a magic kit, but it's not something I ever pursued. I've never watched a magic show like David Copperfield or used him to base my character on, but I really like David Blaine and Darren Brown. They are doing wonders.

Louis D. Brandeis

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

James Stephens

There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement.

Atharva Veda

Renouncement of evils and sins helps in the attainment of prosperity and success.

Henry Mayhew

The attainment of the truth, then, will be my primary aim; but by the truth. I wish it to be understood, I mean something more than the bare facts.

John Abernethy

There is no short cut, nor ""royal road,"" to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.

Benigno Aquino III

My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.

Arnold Palmer

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Bhagavad Gita

Detachment, non-fondness with son, wife, and home; unfailing equanimity upon attainment of the desirable and the undesirable; and / Unswerving devotion to Me by the yoga of exclusivity, love for solitude, distaste for social gossips; and / Steadfastness in knowledge of the Supreme Spirit, and the perception of (the omnipresent God as) the object of true knowledge is called knowledge; what is contrary to this is ignorance.

Bhagavad Gita

They prescribe various specific rites for the attainment of pleasure and power to those who are full of desires, and hold the attainment of heaven as the highest goal of life. The rebirth is their fruit of action.

Howard Safir

It doesn't mean we're perfect, ... It doesn't mean there haven't been these horrific incidents and it doesn't mean that we can't improve. But when you look at the overall record of this police department, it's something that is envied by the rest of the world.

Susan Minot

When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.

Aeschylus

If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

Martin Freeman

I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'

Marc Warren

I've always envied girls having Ugg boots, so when I found some for men, I had to have them.

Jamie Bufalino

By all accounts, they were a perfect couple. Many of their friends envied their relationship.

Berkeley Breathed

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

Arnold Schoenberg

There are no more geniuses, only critics.

Bertrand Russell

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

Maude Adams

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.

William Cowper

Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit

Jeff Mullins

To have a filly like this is unbelievable, ... She's so smart. It doesn't take a genius to train her. I'm glad I have her.

Mike Kopp

He's a good coach. You know, you don't have to be a genius when you have 6-2 and 6-2 on the front. But the system he runs, he understands his strengths and stays within them. I think that says a lot about their program.

Lenny Simpson

He's been playing great. I had nothing to do with that. It's not genius on my part; he's just playing great.

Ze Frank

We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions... or whatever it is he does.

Valerie June

It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'

Ezra Taft Benson

What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others.

Dean Montzingo

We need to learn to run better offense. The kids are talented and gifted but we need to learn to play more unified. We do what we need to do to get the lead and we kind of stop.

Alice Walker

I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

Ethel Rosenberg

We are innocent... To forsake this truth is to pay too high a price even for the priceless gift of life.

Erykah Badu

I was given a tremendous gift and a platform, and it is my responsibility to use my platform to do the work of the Most High.

Avery Johnson

I think I'm gifted to do what I'm doing, that this is what I'm here for.

Ron Lanphier

We'll give special rates, and we're thinking about starting a gift certificate program and accommodating parties.

C. S. Lewis

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

David Atkins

He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's hopeless in the soft.

William Shakespeare

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Avril Lavigne

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I`m also a hopeless romantic inside.

Alex Pettyfer

I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.

Aldo Leopold

That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

Aaron Paul

I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC

Abraham Cowley

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

D. H. Lawrence

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

Donald Johanson

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

Don Clark

We'll pick up trash first. If labor is available, we'll do more.

Norm Johnson

We have the labor. What we're going to need is the materials.

Bill Scott

We have some of the weakest labor laws in the industrialized world.

Paul Gurgol

I have labor pains right now -- I'm pregnant with all this stuff.

Tim Heekin

I don't think we're going to be able to see anything much until we at least get past Labor Day,

Ella Wilcox

Here, on this side of the grave,Here, should we labor and love.

Michael Wasserman

I think it's a tremendous help. You've got people of all walks of life who are represented by labor unions. I think that's tremendous when you have that kind of support.

James Campbell

Get us the cargo, and we'll get you the labor.

will.i.am

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Boy George

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Malala Yousafzai

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

Caronica DeBose

You know, I haven't even though about it. I have not even thought about it.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.