Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robertson Davies

For I was a collaborator with Destiny, not one who put a pistol to its head and demanded particular treasures

Pedro Medina

The suspect demanded to know the location of the vault and demanded the manager open the vault,

Moshe Dayan

The supreme efforts will be demanded of you, the troops, fighting in the air, on the land, and on the sea. Our security rests with you.

Ramez Naam

I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

Ted Stevens

I understand one demanded a new football field.

Liana Liberato

Every role that I have taken on has demanded some kind of emotional range. I really, really would love to do a comedy, but that opportunity really hasn't opened up.

Malcolm Gladwell

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

Steve Holloway

She is a playmaker. At halftime, she told her teammates to follow her and she would lead us back. We have demanded a lot of her as far as being a leader, and she has taken this team on her back.

Sidney Blumenthal

Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.

Taylor Hanson

About eight months in, we realized there was going to be more difficulty than we thought.

David Krell

It's not easy starting an exchange. We've had to explain the difficulties to a lot of people, including some in Washington.

Rob Enderle

This looks a lot like 15 years ago, when IBM was dominant and similar surveys showed a high tendency to switch from IBM to another vendor. The difficulty is that we're still waiting for the right kind of vendor to stand up and come forward.

Kathleen Gurney

often have the most difficulty because they put everything into their businesses. These people often find themselves misplaced a bit.

Bill Jones

The more organized you are, the better you are with keeping your items together and so forth it tends to take some of that difficulty out of the tax process.

Patricia Murray

The students are sent to use because they're having difficulty in public school.

Ross Millman

I understand the difficulty of that, with the talent here in the state. And it's only going to get harder. But nobody puts more pressure on me than I do myself. Each day in practice, I just try to focus on being a better golfer.

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

Kevin Smith

This is really the last resort because of the expense and difficulty.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.

Charles Caleb Colton

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

Charles Caleb Colton

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

Charles Caleb Colton

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles Spurgeon

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

Al Jarreau

Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.

Nicholas Jarecki

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

Michael Almereyda

Whether it would be a feature film or not I didn't know.

Rod Oden

When we began, we had him at receiver and I didn't have a guy who could tote the mail. When we moved him to tailback, I told him I was going to feature him.

Ross Levinsohn

We're looking for technologies or feature sets that give users tools to participate in the media rather than just sit back.

Sam Altman

Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.

Stevie Nicks

All my feather stuff is in L.A. at a temperature-controlled stage-storage place. I keep all my good stuff there because if I had it all in my house, I wouldn't have any room for my regular clothes. It has to, like, not live here.

Will Young

It's just a great feature when you have five or six people living in a house.

Zhang Yuanyuan

The young people are rather interested in watching the American feature films. But over time they found that the nature of all these films is kind of alike. They would like to see more variety of these American movies.

Bill Goodman

It saddens us that the illegal surveillance which had Dr. King as a target has become a feature of the incumbent administration.

Madeline Albright

Aung San Suu Kyi should be able to travel freely in her own country,

John Wilson

The support thing from their wives is huge, because they give freely of their time.

Thorne Smith

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.

Jean Giraudoux

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Bill Scannell

Never before in the history of our nation has government permission been required to travel freely in our country. It's un-American. It's unconstitutional. It's just plain wrong.

John Milton

Freely we serve / Because we freely love, as in our will / To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

Jane Walsh

Just because you work in one of the hottest restaurants in town does not give you the right to freely dispense the attitude.

Bruno Cullen

Most of the players we're talking to now, we're talking to freely with the knowledge that Shane could stay or go.

Bertrand Russell

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly

Mark Adams

We spent thousands of man hours tracking down the problem,

William Shakespeare

To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

Sgt. Delaney

We have to go through them. There's hours of work left to do.

Dr. Whyte

We have to get them that medicine within three hours of the onset of symptoms, which is the challenge.

Aaron Tveit

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

Neil Patrick Harris

Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to set and they'd be waiting and I'd film my thing and then I'd go back to school again.

Leslie Mann

I like being married to someone who does what I do, and we can talk for hours about all of this stuff that I struggle with and all this stuff that he struggles with because we're struggling with the same things. If I was married to a banker, I don't know what we'd talk about.

Justina Machado

When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling; I was never anorexic, just picky. When I was in my 30s, I'd go back and forth, now that I'm 41, I'm like, 'Whatever, man!' For the most part, I just do a regular workout.

Ian Fleming

Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

Kent Beck

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

Anthony Fauci

That's why we are preparing so intensely for H5N1 as well as any other pandemic,

Kenneth Branagh

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

Kerry Greenwood

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.

Michael Schiavo

We're an intensely private family. I'm a very private person.

Burt Neuborne

What remains to be done is intensely investigate these claims.

David Maroney

Months may go by when we don't have much contact, and it seems we aren't as intensely involved with the district. Just because it's quiet doesn't mean we're not doing anything.

Melissa McCarthy

I feel intensely guilty for working... You have to be able to provide for your kids. But I feel like it's a weird modern phenomenon that you always feel guilty for it.

Samantha Harvey

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.

Gina Laughlin

A lease rejection does not signal any type of reduced operation.

Celia Cruz

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

Ednita Nazario

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

E. Hicks

They're not at that stage yet. ... The time will come.

Paul Campbell

And there are some of them that we don't have. We have made stride, but as I said, 'getting to the stage where we want to, we have to add', and we are adding.

Dan Stessel

No way. At this stage in the game, it's like asking, 'Why not a sky-tram?' It's not in a let's-dream-about-it phase. This is not a theoretical exercise. The Tunnel is actually going to happen.

Richie Furay

Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage - I'm having fun.

Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.

Bridgit Mendler

I definitely get stage fright.

Alan Greene

There is nothing at this stage to suggest there is anything within the premises.

Joseph Hume

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.

Oliver Goldsmith

Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?

Greg Brunner

You're going on a touchy subject for me here, man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Alton Brown

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

Stephen Chbosky

Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.

Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

John Searle

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed

Dick Martin

It's not like there are wrecks or anything like that. It's just that the traffic is not moving.

Bob Campbell

(Developers) don't see the traffic because it's not there yet. But it will be.

David Williams

Right now we have to do this for our residents and we have to do something to alleviate these traffic concerns.

Ryan Seacrest

What it allows me to do is . . . be the traffic cop.

Terry Pratchett

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Jim Struzzi

Fortunately, traffic was stopped, so no one was injured.

Jim Capaldi

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

Stacy Pak

How do you get traffic in there? What's the plan?

Moby

Traffic terrifies me.

Bill O'Reilly

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

Charles Manson

I treat everyone just like I would myself. If you treat me right, I'll treat you right.

Caroline Flint

I have read some of [the Lisbon Treaty] but not all of it.

Sofia Boutella

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Dr. Esse

A lot of those could be treated out in the communities.

Chris Stevens

They treat us pretty good. They don't make us do all that much.

Tipper Gore

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

David Sedaris

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

Alec Baldwin

Actors are treated like suppositories that are inserted into cavities of the movie-going public.