Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rian Johnson

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

Tove Jansson

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

Robin Morgan

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

Veronica Roth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Bob Taylor

I'll probably be working. To the ordinary run-of-the-mill person, I think this will just be another day.

Narciso Rodriguez

For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

Rick Vanhoy

Darius is stocky. And he's not an ordinary fullback because he can run right by you.

Simon Armitage

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

Lionel Blue

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Woodrow Wilson

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

William J. Clinton

I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.

William James

Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

William James

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

William James

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

William James

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Jay Siegel

I don't know where that sound comes from,

Robert Crais

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Raymond Chandler

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

William J. Clinton

Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles....