Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Davidson

Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

William S. Burroughs

The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement.

William J. Clinton

When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

William Congreve

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.

Robert McCracken

We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

Robin Skelton

It requires less skill to love than to be loved.

Robert Wright

Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.

Anton LaVey

One of the keys to success is an unflinching belief that there are no rules. Anyone who's ever succeeded has gone on that premise; not buying established procedures, business or otherwise. The naysayers are inevitably left behind amid shouts of 'it cannot be done' and "should not be done'."

Richard Curtis

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

Reza Aslan

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

Rex Stout

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

Sarah Palin

Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we [in US] start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to energy, we're never going to get there.

Richard M. Nixon

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

Ricardo Semler

The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

Sandra Pupatello

Thanks to the FedDev Ontario funding we were able to get a number of key initiatives underway to mitigate the potential negative economic impact of the Heinz closure. With this additional funding we will continue to be in high gear within the food processing sector to continue with business retention, expansion and attraction activities in the Windsor-Essex region.

Wallace Stevens

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Mike Breen

I know if we're going to go any further, we need to play three periods of hockey.

Pat Robertson

Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken!

Asghar Farhadi

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

Manolo Blahnik

I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.

Robert Rodriguez

It was a tale of two periods -- before Sept. 17 and afterwards.

Benjamin Walker

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

Kurt Angle

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.

Lauren Kellin

We usually get it done somehow. We've always been a third-period team. As soon as we put all three periods together, we feel there will be no stopping us.