Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giles Foden

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

Zaha Hadid

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

Vince Cable

We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

Brad D. Smith

Customer-driven innovation was at the core of Intuit's first product, 'Quicken,' and it continues to guide us as we look to solve new problems in areas like mobile payments. Products like Intuit 'GoPayment' and the IntuitPayment Network are helping small businesses get paid faster, keeping cash flow strong and their business healthy.

Victoria Osteen

Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.

Alice Walker

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

Stan Magee

The allegations were all baseless, without merit, highly suspect and I am very surprised that the TEA even bothered to get involved in making a judgement call in areas that were governed by our own board operating procedures.

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Ivar Giaever

When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

Ismail Kadare

I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent.

Abraham Lincoln

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Chris Crutcher

'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

Dave Brubeck

When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.

Natalie Massenet

As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.

Felicity Kendal

I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.

Carl Sagan

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Carl Sagan

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Mark Howard

You'll feel like you're walking on Mars when you look through our rooftop telescope,

Wendy Liebmann

Here's an interesting thought about what might result: a good-better-best approach, with Macy's the 'good', Bloomingdales the 'better' and Marshall Field's the 'best,'

Arne Jacobsen

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

Bill Kurtis

Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I've seen Bruno Mars before, he's amazing.

Kate Christensen

Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.

Ann Voskamp

Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?

Jim Graham

Marshall has a really strong team. We didn't play badly, they were just that much better.

Doug McCuistion

Mars doesn't treat you very well, for the most part. So this is a very challenging thing to do." ()

Christine Gregoire

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Ruth Rendell

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

Source Unknown

On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.

Wally Snyder

I had wanted them so much to be like the other kids. There was no reason for them not to have the kind of things that they ought to have.

Robert Morrison

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Louis Stokes

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

John Maynard

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

Jane Austen

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Ben Nelson

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.

Megan Fox

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

John Drinkwater

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

Neil Ingle

I wish there was something we could do to stop it, but it is zoned GB (general business), and it is perfectly in their right to put it there.

Bill Johnson

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

Aldous Huxley

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

David Schwimmer

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Elsa Peretti

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

Theophilus London

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

Dorothy Nolte

We're all interdependent and we have a planetary family,

Jim Watzin

LRO, in all respects, is a unique and challenging planetary mission.

Jim Fassel

I thought Jesse did all right, considering some things. We had some routes that weren't where they were supposed to be and protection problems.

George Taylor

We do have standard protection on every desktop. But shoot, we're seeing viruses all the time that our software doesn't catch.

Curtis Sliwa

It all starts with the protection of the victim.

Carl Jung

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Jane Austen

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Peter Mueller

We want this Bolkestein directive off the table. Social protection will be its only victim.

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.

Albert Camus

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

Stephen Mangan

Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.

Georg Greve

There could be something that addresses this if we can find a sensible way to put it.

Paul Ashworth

It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.

Charles Kennedy

Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.

Matthias Platzeck

Arbitration is a sensible suggestion which it is worth discussing.

Michael Adams

It was a tough call, but a sensible one.

Theresa Wise

This is a fantastically sensible idea. With the convergence of telecom and broadcasters through interactive television, there is a real need for a single regulator.

John Henry Newman

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.