Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yehuda Berg

We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.

Natasha Trethewey

Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

Feist

As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.

Tim Sutton

We have tried to heighten the awareness of who's on the lot.

Mark Zuckerberg

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing.

Patrick Modiano

A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.

Ray Tanner

We've gotten better, but as I reminded the team there is just a few steps between the outhouse and the penthouse. You've got to play with heightened awareness all the time.

Stan Dixon

We've made a number of strides in getting information out to property owners. We feel we have more awareness in Franklin County about these issues than this office ever has before.

Stephen Walkom

We have to have awareness for the soap opera. It's a vicious circle, the way it works.

Igor Luksic

Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.

Geoff Davis

This campaign was special because we always kept the challenger mentality we had from the start. We managed to keep the against-all-odds, can-do spirit that kept us going when no one thought we could win.

Bob Schieffer

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

Bob Kaufman

We have a new campaign that started in the past couple of days, called Interns,

Joe Trippi

We have a national campaign, and running a national campaign is more expensive than running in just a couple of states.

Bob Marcusse

We could not have imagined a few years ago that the Dream It Do It campaign would lead to this, but it has, and we are grateful and pleased.

Roger Stone

Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd.

John Edward

Today, the voters of Wisconsin sent a clear message. The message is this -- objects in your mirror may be closer than they appear, ... They want a debate. They want this campaign to continue. They want someone who will stand up and fight for them.

Andrew Card

We have a lot of priorities that would come before campaign finance reform, but we do respect the leadership that John McCain has offered in this area, ... Face the Nation.

Gaines Adams

I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 pounds will help me stop the run better and be a more dominant pass rusher.

Yo-Yo Ma

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.

Elle Fanning

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

Boris Boehm

The overall performance of the market in the last couple of days has been impressive. Investors are locking in profits.

Bryan Cogman

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

Carl Reiner

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

Bill Bryson

You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

Bette Davis

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

Ashton Kutcher

I have someone that cooks for me... that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel... so I want to have a couple of options... I like to have a couple of options.

Peter O'Toole

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

Ann Rice

You'll sing a song of victory, eternally, though there is none to be had.

Robert Preston

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

Jane Goodall

We reckon that in about 20 years there'll be none left.

English Proverbs

One of these day is none of these days.

Mike Kuntz

For whatever reason none of us had the sense to make it come together until yesterday.

Skip Brock

He hasn't said one word about it. Honestly, none of us even realized it at the time.

Caitlyn Jenner

I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.

Jillian Rose Reed

I don't drink any soda. None at all. Just water with lemon. If I need something different: iced tea. I don't have anything like protein shakes.

Carrie Underwood

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.

Bethenny Frankel

If you're happy on your own you are going to be okay.

Chad Pennington

We have a lot of work to do, ... But as long as we keep making progress, we'll be OK

Rebecca Ferguson

I can do an OK manicure, but I need to stick to singing.

Jon Kyl

Well over 60 percent of Americans in all the polls I see think it's OK to have temporary workers, but you do not have to make them citizens.

Bill Gibbons

We have to keep stealing some on the road and we'll be OK in the second half.

Bill Self

I thought it was two teams playing really hard. I thought Oklahoma State played really tough and it rebounded well and pressured us out of what we wanted to do. We kind of did the same to them for awhile.

Jarrius Jackson

I think I had an off day shooting, but we still got the win. I did OK at the end.

Timothy McVeigh

Yes, ... That thing in Oklahoma City, I guess.

Anish Kapoor

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

Andrea Arnold

I don't read reviews.

Oscar Levant

I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

Mark Cuban

There was one person, or probably two people, that wrote reviews saying this movie should not be made,

Ian Mcewan

I often don't read reviews.

Chris Hardwick

I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

Faith Prince

I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.

Candice Bergen

I'd seen the show, and I'd read the reviews of the show, and I said, 'Oh! What I wouldn't give to work with those two guys.

Michael Chabon

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.