Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Ebert

Well, you know, a lot of modern directors and their movies are influenced by the flat lighting and textbook cutting style of television.

Richard Roeper

In the last few years there's been an explosion of bands that flame to the sky with one huge release - only to burn out just as quickly.

Irving Babbitt

A gross and palpable error of the era that is just closing has been the confusion of mechanical and material progress with moral progress.

Lester Bangs

Things do go in cycles so I never believe rock was really dead it was really finished or had it, it just comes back in a different form.

Leslie Fiedler

What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.

Vincent Canby

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

Robert McChesney

So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.

Lester Bangs

No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.

Robert McChesney

And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.

Kelly Rowland

As women, we have to realize what we bring to the table. What do you want to do for the world? How do you want to change it? And when you know that, you don't have to compare yourself to anybody else.

Jim Calhoun

Khalid El-Amin put up with a great deal of grief on the road. And it was the best coaching that anybody could have done for me, because Khalid loved every single second of it. He loved to show you.

Henry David Thoreau

I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

John Pine

Just the sheer size of it and complexity of it, it is beyond what anybody has seen -- not just in Louisiana but anywhere.

Lamar Butler

I think it's a Hollywood story already. If anybody wants to make a movie, come see me. I'll play my part. I'm a good actor. I can make a serious face.

Abby Arledge

I think it really just helps out our team because you have one person in there the whole time, so you have that constant defense on the back row. Even if it was anybody else in the position, just having that constant back-row person has helped.

Ross Mathews

I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.

Courtney Taylor

It ain't, 'I've gotta (catch the ball),' it's, 'You'd better catch this ball,' ... You don't want a lot of people hating you for not catching the ball. I'm serious. I'll tell you, I don't want anybody hating me.

Carl Banks

He was a great player and a great team leader. Harry didn't back down from anybody or any challenge. He was very good ... now it's safe to say he was great, because he's finally in the Hall of Fame.

Michael Lopez

Latinos have the highest increase in fatality rates of all populations. Safety has to be a top priority.

Ernest Dimnet

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things

Teri Barbera

We have no idea who fired the fatal shot.

Paul Pate

Could you imagine reducing our fatality rates by 60 percent?

Mike Woods

We just finished 2005 without a fatality in Illinois. We haven't had one for two consecutive years. That's the first time since records started being kept in 1882 that's been accomplished.

Robert Thompson

Obviously, we are disappointed. We never want to see fatalities go up. Even one fatality is too many.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.

Aidan Gillen

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there.

Justin McCareins

I was wondering who that guy was throwing that ball. We'll get it fixed up for when it matters the most.

David Tom

I'm on medication for it and I'm going to get it fixed pretty soon. They're going to fix it so I never have to withdraw after playing nine holes ever again.

Michael McCoy

It used to be our kids would come in here and follow us, but that's not the trend anymore. I just think it'd be nice if General Motors could get everything together, get it fixed and get going again." ()

David Richards

Ronnie's not an ideologue in the sense of people who have fixed views on some sort of issue, ... He's an idealist.

Sathya Baba

Pray to God and recite His Name or meditate on His Glory for some fixed period of time everyday; you will find it amply rewarding.

Gary Hamilton

The sad part about it is, they haven't fixed it right yet. It's still rough. And if it rains again, it's going to happen again.

Deane Beebe

This is going to be a devastating loss for seniors on fixed incomes.

Henry Renteria

There are some things that are wrong that need to be fixed in California.

Bob Elliston

There are fixed costs, so the more horses we get, the better the situation is for us. We can handle about 900 horses; we had applications for 1,100.

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Stuart Freeman

We've been thinking that the Nasdaq, as an index, would likely outperform a lot of the other indexes this year. It's a lot about secular growth. We're seeing growth in technology. And for the most part, it's been a tech year.

Paul Polzin

We've got to go back to the 1970s to get three strong years of 4 percent growth.

Preston Beckman

I think we're relieved and a little shocked that it's showing such growth this year. For us, having maintained the ratings we had last year would have been a plus.

Joe Lieberman

I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector,

Eric Schmidt

I don't know where (Chinese) revenue growth will be, but it will obviously be large.

Benn Steil

He made some mistakes on the growth side.

Ruben Studdard

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

Samuel Smiles

True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

James Baker

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Rich Baccellieri

I think (the point spread) would go to 3 before it went up to 4. But I think it's pretty solid at 3 1/2.

M. Thompson

I thought she was going to make a four- point difference. Turned out, it was five.

Steve Rucchin

I don't feel I've done much of anything through this point of the year.

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Jeremy Miller

He has the right to go to trial, but it would be a moot point by the time he did, because his shares will be gone.

William Golding

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.

Tom Schatz

Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

Trisha Goddard

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

William Jennings Bryan

In our election manifesto is: we keep the right to create money and to bring in circulation, for the cause of the government ... Those who do not share this view, reply us to the issue of paper money is for the banks, the government should stay out of the banking business. I agree with Jefferson's opinion ... and just like him I say again: the issue of money is a matter for the government and the banks should stay out of government activity.

Virginia Woolf

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Viola Spolin

It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.