Famous Quotes & Sayings

V. S. Naipaul

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

Nawal El Saadawi

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

Joe Tiller

We have utilized the quarterback as a runner, but not as an option guy. We haven't been convinced we can put all the time into the option and the spread passing game and be equally effective at both. We feel we can do that now.

Richard Leakey

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

Philippe Petit

I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.

Bernard Thibault

We haven't yet convinced the prime minister to withdraw the C.P.E..

Bill Richardson

When I saw that program in 1967, I was convinced I was drafted, ... And it stayed with me all these years.

Atharva Veda

Wherever I look, there You are; I am totally convinced of this. Unto whom should I pray? The Lord Himself hears all.

Jim Foster

I think they probably were convinced they couldn't play any worse.

Whitey Ford

Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.

Nancy Astor

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

Carrie Underwood

I love going out to clubs. Granted, I don't get hammered or do anything to embarrass myself. I'd call myself wholesome but it's not like I only drink milk.

Bette Davis

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Ashley Tisdale

I don't go clubing. So, I don't smoke or drink.

Ashton Kutcher

I gave up smoking, I never gave up the drinking. But it's hard to smoke and swim at the same time. You'd get to the edge of the pool and all you'd be wanting is a cigarette when all you actually really want is oxygen. So I traded the smoke for the oxygen.

Bill Vaughan

If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies.

Mario Andretti

I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.

William Lashner

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

William Lashner

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

Will Rothhaar

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

Emma Watson

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Jeffrey Archer

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Wayne Schwertner

The past year we should have had a good hatch. We should have had a good hatch for the last few years.

Brian Kernighan

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

Bobbi Brown

Many women like to wear nude eye shadow during the day, but it doesn't really do much for you. Instead, try one that's a few shades lighter than your skin tone.

Bill Hader

I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.

Abraham Lincoln

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Evangeline Lilly

In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.

Deborah Eisenberg

I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.

Scott Rudin

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

Mark Zuckerberg

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.

Jennifer Pahlka

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

Tom Jaffee

You can generally talk about many things, as long as it's not, you know, a turnoff or offensive.

Kris Reyes

We generally find that if it?s warm over the hill, they?re going to be heading here.

Victor Webster

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.

Thierry Henry

I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wife's nerves. But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Abraham Torres

The overall way it is being handled for public relations and for the whole hospital is wrong.

Dale Romans

The pedigree says he should handle the distance, and he trains like it, too.

Dennis Christopher

I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.

C. S. Lewis

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

C. S. Lewis

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Carrie Brownstein

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

Bethany Hamilton

There's no such thing as a handicap - it's all in your head

Bernard Beckett

I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.

Carl Jung

There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.

Yoko Ono

My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

James Mullen

The pay was fine, but I was not able to work out a relocation and compensation package that met our needs at the time.

Margaret DiNinno

We could have met several times in December; unfortunately, PTEA rejected all of those dates.

Mike Murphy

We played OK -- I thought we were a little sluggish and methodical on offense in the first half. I thought we got out-hustled in the first half.

Rodney Stark

A whole lot of Americans have never met a Mormon.

Todd Pletcher

We'll point for the Met Mile. That's been the plan.

Megan Fox

Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.'

Gang Four

Metal is what it is, when it is what it always was.

Rocco Buttiglione

metal detectors, X-rays, the usual sort of things.

C. S. Lewis

This moment contains all moments.

Carl Sagan

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

Amy Irving

Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft. You do your homework. The reason I always need to go back to theater is the most stimulating moments are in rehearsal... whereas often in film, you've go to do it on your own.

Roy Jorgenson

We had chances. We had looks. We played a 'B' game. There were moments where we played 'A' soccer.

Lance Armstrong

Those are motivating moments for me. That's the way I can give back to someone who is in the same position I was.

Randy Shaffer

I have my moments - my ups and downs.

Jeff Fager

What you get on Yahoo is an expanded version of different moments in the story.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think it is tough; I think it is difficult. But you know that's just the nature of our business. I'm sure he has moments of frustration and/or disappointment. But he has a lot of fiber.

John Smith

I can't remember too many moments that exciting.

Carl Rogers

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

Sonya Hoiaas

I think I was more nervous then she was.

John Shepperd

I think this is going to be a nervous week.

Gaston Gaudio

I was very nervous at first because there's so much pressure on me and the expectations are so high,

Ben Kingsley

It doesn't get any easier. I still get very nervous and excited, but I'm hoping... what I'm trying to do is simplify. That's what I'm trying to do.

Rusty Wallace

I think I make Steve a little nervous sometimes, so I'm going to be comfortable sitting in Homestead watching his race, off and on.

Craig Austrie

When it comes to basketball, I've never been nervous in my life. Why start now?

Andrew Bell

We'll get a positive return from equities in 2006. I'm not nervous about markets.

Jimmy Littleton

We were just as nervous as they were.

Yani Tseng

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bernard Arnault

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Ashton Kutcher

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

Jason Alexander

The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.

Peter Murray

The pilot never stopped. He never slowed down,

Eric Zahren

We interviewed the pilot and he was unaware that he had wandered into restricted airspace.

John Hotard

Today we have 2,077 pilots on the sick row.

Dave Barry

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

Alan Shepard

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Chesley Sullenberger

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Bo Jackson

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Brandon Jay McLaren

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

Quinton Ross

That was incredible. It seemed like he made every shot tonight. Every time he got the ball, he made a shot.

Mary Leakey

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

Jim Colborn

I was very impressed. He seemed to get stronger as he went along. He stayed in his delivery.

Lindsay Davenport

I was, today, trying to get a lot of just first serves in and not tried to go for too much, ... (It) seemed to work.

Jamie Lawson

I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

Richard Cooper

He seemed to know more than a little about just about everything.

J. C. Watts

He seemed to have a fascination with this stuff, ... We don't know, really, what he was up to. There were some pretty strange writings.

Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

Bette Davis

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

Arsene Wenger

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Arsene Wenger

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

Rodney Brooks

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Mark Zuckerberg

The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.

Michael Hein

I was shocked. I won't say it was crushing, but it was surprising and disappointing.

Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Carol Windley

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

Philip Schiller

We want things to be beautiful, surprising to see, but they also have to be functional. One without the other doesn't make any sense.

Steve Bisley

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

A. S. Byatt

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

Marc Benioff

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

Carrie Fisher

All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you each night, it's bound to do something screwy to your psyche.

Carrie Underwood

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

Bernard Beckett

I write with teenagers in mind.

Sean Covey

That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.

P. C. Cast

Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.

Beck

I had long hair when I was a teenager.

Kathy Gallant

I was used to teens who had everything they needed.

Rory Kinnear

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.

Devon Sawa

I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.