Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Jan Egeland

The way it is now it can not continue. We need security, which we do not have. We need a government that enables us to work and does not create obstacles to our work. We need a guerrilla (force) that does not specialize in hijacking relief trucks and fighting each other and displacing new people, which has happened in the past few weeks. And we need funding.

Kevin Appleby

We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.

David Rose

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

Dan Gertler

At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.

Dick Durbin

At the very least, Mr. Gonzales helped to create a permissive environment that made it more likely that abuses would take place.

Mark Egan

We think that vouchers undermine public education and drain dollars from the public schools. They also create double standards of accountability. Public schools are accountable to the public. Private schools are not.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Dalai Lama

I am just one human being.

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Carine Roitfeld

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

C. S. Lewis

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Al Gore

I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.

Charles Kettering

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Bob Dylan

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...

Bobby Fischer

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

Brene Brown

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems.

John Ernst

We want to find places that are interested in music.

Steve Swanson

We are interested in the volume ? we need the wood.

Giacinto Facchetti

We are interested in his signature, yet we will only talk about it next June,

Steve Langdon

He tried, and tried, but they weren't interested and weren't listening.

Dan Johnson

We're all interested in seeing what he can do.

John O'Keefe

I am particularly interested in Alzheimer's disease and have been for some time now.

Nader Agha

I am not interested in the newspaper because I am a developer. I am interested because I can make a difference. I can return it to the people.

Thornton Wilder

I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

Marilyn Monroe

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Ayn Rand

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Laurie Halse Anderson

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.

Kim Mathers

I am trying to move forward with my life.

Nancy Greene

I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eating side.

Ayatollah Khomeini

must be wiped out from the map of the world.

Pat Hill

That's the way the road map is for a school like ours, ... That's what we've got to do to have the kind of program we want.

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Aesop

One story sounds good until another is told

Renata Adler

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

Rumi

Enough of words. Come to me without a sound.

Neil Gaiman

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

Madonna Ciccone

I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.

Lucretius

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

Liz Phair

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

Michel de Montaigne

Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.