Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Irving Stone

In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

Evangeline Lilly

I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.

Paul Johnson

The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.

Richard Shim

The PC industry is quickly becoming commoditized as prices come down and penetration rates go up. ... But there are certain segments where folks can still make a lot of money.

Bruce Coville

The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.

Bruce Coville

I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love.

Bel Powley

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.

David Hanson

Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

Yanis Varoufakis

My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

Imelda May

Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.

Ian Mckellen

When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

Gilbert Hernandez

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

Donald Trump

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

Zac Efron

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

William Kamkwamba

People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.

Bill Bryson

There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

Bill Bryson

Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

Bill Bryson

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

Beth Simone Noveck

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Bill Vaughan

Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

Cody Irwin

That was the first time I've ever done distance running. Running 3.1 miles has massively helped with endurance.

Dave Sellon

That win in the 400 was huge for us. He is supposed to be a distance guy, but he has a lot of range. He had a great day.

Ivan Seidenberg

We have an expanding position in the growth markets of the future ? wireless, data, broadband, long distance ? and we're executing extremely well in these areas,

Raymond Bonner

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

Tyler Perry

There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized.

Ben Carson

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

Bruce Coville

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

Nat Wolff

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

Margot Robbie

I've got big, big dreams for the future.

Kate Miller

Will we ever return to a time before dreams were slogans?

Fritz Gampe

We are now working toward a more economically feasible design, not round, but stretched in length. It's an evolving process for our dreams to go Mars and have a nice habitat there, and not just repeat what cavemen have done.

Andrew Wilson

It felt good. This was a must-win for us in order to keep our tournament dreams alive.

Joan Rachetto

The 40 was really good from Tara. That was an excellent score for her.

Glenn Lincoln

That was the major problem in the game, and the Connolly team really hustled. They did an excellent job.

Dana Ferry

That was really a great goal. Just the way she scored the goal was impressive. She's really turned into an excellent player.

Michael Kelly

Tyler fits the Dayton mold. He's a quality student, has outstanding parental support and excellent leadership skills. He's not just a football player, but a well-rounded young man.

Steve Rives

We have a first-team all-conference player in Jeremy Richardson, a 6-7 kid who plays small forward. He gives us an excellent perimeter player. He's been at 18 or 19 a game.

Richard Giannini

We've had excellent discussions recently and our goals are the same for this football program.

Don Flanagan

We have had some inconsistency. But I do feel this is an excellent team. When they're good, they're very, very good. Last night I thought they were very, very good, and I think they can replicate that.

Nick Barnett

I would love to see Jim Bates back again. He's an excellent coach.

Kate Christensen

Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.

Glenn Ford

He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.

William Shatner

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

Brad Grey

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

Denis Lavant

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

Desiree Rogers

This ability to mix people together is something I learned early on.

Renny Harlin

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

Margaret Atwood

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Marco Rubio

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

Marilynne Robinson

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

Nina Easton

Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged.

F. Sionil Jose

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

Davey Lopes

That was right on the middle of the plate. That's what he told me to say.

Phil McGraw

Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.

Mike Greene

We're working with a number of other agencies. All I can say is we're in the middle of the investigation.

Bryce Fisher

Middle linebacker is the quarterback of the defense, and for that responsibility to be put on a rookie is rare in this league.

Jason Taylor

We have people out in the middle of nowhere come here and are on death's doorstep.

William Butler Yeats

Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,That long to give themselves for wage,To shake their wicked sides at youthRestraining reckless middle age?

Luke Clausen

It hasn't really sunk in yet. It's like you're in the middle of a dream.

Wentworth Miller

Acting was something I needed like air. It wasn't something I could walk away from.

Terri Mitchell

The overall plan was to play our zone because we have so much respect for the athleticism of St. John's that we really needed a containment mentality.

Nikolai Khabibulin

That was a save I needed to make to keep us in it. I didn't make it, but the worst thing is to get frustrated.

Mike Frosco

That was the play of the game. That was a big win for us. We needed that one, because it swept them for us.

Bob Zeh

That was typical of our night. Whenever we needed a big shot, we couldn't get one.

Lynne Roberts

We just didn't make stops when we needed to. We never could really get over the hump.

Brandon Morrow

We just didn't get the runs we needed this weekend. We've just got to roll with it.

Michael Kramer

We were going to play somebody. After the (Christmas) layoff we needed this time and if Sterling hadn't made it, we would have scrimmaged ourselves.

Peter Sis

The birds never needed passports... We always thought, the birds can go wherever they want, and we couldn't, really. The birds were very much the symbol of... free movement for me.

Dan Hogan

That was very frustrating getting a runner to third with no outs and not getting that runner in,

Maurice Greene

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.

Steve Walker

He's about as tough a runner as they come,

Emily Tucker

He is a very strong runner and also very smart in his races.

LaDainian Tomlinson

Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.

Tom Woodruff

We may tweak things a little bit. When we get runners on base, we have to get them around to score. We will do what ever it takes.

Mike Glaser

That's the kind of back he is. A real strong runner who doesn't go down easily.

Ichiro Suzuki

I wasn't surprised ... there's many situations where the runner on first runs in those situations.

Donna Martin

We had ample opportunities to score. We need to have better at-bats with runners on base.

Mary Lambert

I have a big thing with eye contact, because I think as soon as you make eye contact with somebody, you see them, and they become valued and worthy.

Cindy Sheehan

We have to stop it as soon as possible.

Bob Coleman

We don't store it on the property. So, as soon as it comes out of the pipe, it's burned. So, if we have an interruption on the other end of the system, very soon we could have a shortage.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Dorothy Johnson

It can't come soon enough, ... It is going to be thrilling.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon us do what we do,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon not watch them any more, they look pretty good.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.