Famous Quotes & Sayings

Goodman Ace

TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.

Dixie Carter

I will not do humor that is derived from private parts or going to the bathroom. I won't do anything that involves making fun of people.

Tino Sehgal

A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point.

Tino Sehgal

We package everything as a product so we can derive income from it. Then we can occupy ourselves with higher-order psychological lifestyle things. This is a very new issue. Money still matters, but other factors have joined the status game - like how interesting, how meaningful your work is.

John Luther

What we're having a problem with is, where was the three-foot figure derived from?

Michael Steinhardt

Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.

Nicholas Kristof

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.

Robert Hendrickson

The saying may derive from a 12th-century Latin expression referring to the Apostles: 'As it were that one would crucify Paul in order to redeem Peter.' The words usually mean to take money for one thing and use it for another, especially in paying off debts,

Toshihiko Fukui

They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices.

Kyle Rase

I talked to the kids about giving free passes, free runners, those are very costly. There was a perfect example of that with all the free runners they had tonight.

William Shelton

I think it's a good example of wishing a problem away. Unfortunately, more than not, we face these issues as they arise. It's like putting out fires.

Thomas Wilson

He was a great example of love expressed that expands and does not contract.

Rob DiMaio

He led by example and the way he played. He didn't have to talk. He was one of those guys who just played.

Rod Marsh

He leads by example, but he also thinks about the game as well,

Roberto Luongo

Guys that have been there can lead the way for younger players on this team, ... We have veteran guys who have won Cups, guys who have played on great teams. They know what it takes and know what it takes to put pucks in the net. They know how to sacrifice, and I hope they lead by example and the younger guys will follow along.

Shyam Selvadurai

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

Patrick Robinson

He's a good example of what can be done wrestling outside of the scholastic program. The vast majority of our kids don't. But they also play other sports. Wrestling is Dan's only thing.

Todd Chanko

Here, you have a great example of two sister operations with mutual needs being satisfied by the other,

Bhagavad Gita

Whatever is endowed with glory, brilliance, and power; know that to be a manifestation of a fraction of My splendor.

John Keeley

The vast majority of Americans pay their taxes even though a small, tiny fraction of them will ever get audited. That's because the punishment for not paying your taxes is jail.

Thomas Carlyle

Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee: out with it, then.

Karen Ross

That's just a fraction of the rate we saw in the late 1990s.

Nell Minow

Yes, it's meaningful money, ... But it's still a fraction of what was lost.

Clint Hurdle

Every year you show up here, you at least have a fraction of hope. This year there's a lot more substance to go with that hope. They know (the division) is open. It's time to make a statement on the field.

The Talmud

Only a fraction of a man's virtues should be enumerated in his presence

Harry Emerson Fosdick

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

Lurlis Simmons

We're in the process of rebuilding the garden and refurbishing everything in it.

Wallace Stegner

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

Samuel Beckett

Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.

Zach Braff

When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On Garden State I did different lines on every take, just making crap up. And it was great each time.

Zach Braff

I like to think of myself as the Chris Benoit of the movie industry, capable of taking any picture and carrying it to box-office success. Take Garden State, without me that would have just been two hours of Portman doging.

Zac Posen

I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

Voltaire

Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

Voltaire

All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

Voltaire

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

Martin Scorsese

Just when people think he gives you one thing, ... he gives you another.

Doug Wilson

Josh didn't do anything wrong, but this gives us some flexibility on our roster. This is the way the waiver rule should work. Players like that should be playing in this league. We had a good talk this morning.

Kevan Barlow

I talk to him all the time, and he gives me his opinions about our situation, ... He might as well be Nostradamus , because he predicted everything Ê that we're going through.

Jeffrey Edelman

I think it gives them another way to become more visible.

Steve Sanders

I think it gives me more of a leadership role on the team, because some of the guys know I have a son and they see how I act,

Charlene Lui

I think it is a good idea because it gives everyone responsibility.

Harold Wilson

He wanted to play hard. He gives it all he's got. That's why I've got to sub him pretty frequently, because he plays hard.

Bruce Bochy

He can play all three outfield positions and first base. He's a solid player. He gives you quality at-bats.

Dennis Tomasevicz

He just gives it 100-percent everything he does.

David Eckstein

Knock on wood, I've been hanging in there.

Jackson Brundage

Here in California, it's living the life, going to school, playing sports and hanging out with my friends. But, when I'm in North Carolina, its all work, work, work.

James Brolin

I don't care who you are, the pressure is on to go to the next task immediately. What happened to the days of hanging out in the hammock all afternoon?

Robert Plant

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

Roger Waters

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

Ramon Rodriguez

On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

Bob Greenly

If you lose by hanging back, you will always regret it.

Rashard Lewis

I honestly thought about it (not playing) last night and all day today, but I didn't want to leave my team hanging like that. I just wanted to give some kind of effort, to let them know I'm still with them.

Fred Ward

I'm not a hero about stunts, but I want to put my movement into it whenever I can. I do lots of fighting, climbing, hanging and swinging around.

Richelle Mead

Can't you... I don't. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby.

Richelle Mead

Being charming is my hobby.

Henry A. Kissinger

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

Larry Ellison

I have hobbies. I do all sorts of ridiculous things,

Joan Fontaine

If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

John Mellencamp

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

Geddy Lee

I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.

Heston Blumenthal

But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.

Arthur D. Levinson

Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

Horace

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Virginia Woolf

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

William Congreve

Who pleases one against his will.

Voltaire

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

William Feather

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Samuel Johnson

The great source of pleasure is variety.

Robert Morgan

Part of the pleasure of being a writer is that you get to go to unexpected places. If a place sounds interesting, I like to go.

William Cowper

I never received a little pleasure from anything in my life; if I am pleased, it is in the extreme.

Jose Gonzalez

I like mixing or combining hobby and pleasure with work and have-tos.