Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Ashton Kutcher

I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.

Art Alexakis

My favorite drive is Highway 101 in California between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. I love the 101; Highway 1 is too windy, and 5 is too boring - the 101 is just right. It's like the Mama Bear of scenic drives.

Jerry Martin

That will provide roughly 10 percent more gasoline for California users and hopefully stabilize availability, which we hope will stabilize prices.

Brooke Julicher

We have more people graduating than usual, but the girls that we'll have next year are solid, and our B-team is getting better. Also, people in California know that this is a good school for lacrosse at this level, so we always get good recruiting.

Russell Sheldon

With the U.S. economy hot and global growth accelerating, the issue of Fed tightening has become the conceptual equivalent of pondering a possible California earthquake. It's going to happen, but probably not tomorrow, and participants would rather not think about it.

Penn Badgley

I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.

Mike Fleming

When the California Highway Patrol contacted him, he said its a miracle. He's very excited about it. He's flying in tomorrow.

Kevin Starr

We need to reclaim the ethical high ground of what California should mean,

Yael Grobglas

Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

Yanni

I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.

Tim Burton

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

Imelda May

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

Idina Menzel

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

Ian Mckellen

Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

will.i.am

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

Chris Bohjalian

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

Carl Sagan

Valid criticism does you a favor.

Michael Ballack

The 2-0 defeat by Slovakia saw the players come in for criticism and the young players need to learn how to handle it,

Raven-Symone

It's difficult to not be able to just be yourself without criticism in any position, whether you're in high school, college, or this industry.

Northrop Frye

A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.

Howard Jacobs

We've talked to a lot more experts, people who are well-respected, top of the industry, on all facets, anything that could possibly be related to this test, and they all have serious criticisms of the test.

Gregg Laskoski

You always hear criticism that when wholesale prices come down there always seems to be a delay when the retailer follows suit.

William Shakespeare

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

Helen Suzman

For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one.

William Safire

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'

Chino Moreno

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

Brendon Urie

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

Mike Gonzales

With the electronic age, we wanted a way to help keep our members informed on what is going on.

Jim Barnes

Who knows? Maybe eventually I'll be doing my nightly read with an electronic device. It's hard to imagine, but a lot of things are hard to imagine, but then they come true.

Peter Nelson

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in this electronic village, all the village idiots have internet access.

Peter Nelson

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in the electronic village all the village-idiots have internet access.

Philippe Petit

I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.

J. Hoover

We can get electronic test results back within 24 hours, ... Teachers will be able to use the results right away to help with the curriculum.

Ramana Maharshi

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Kurt Knauff

That was the greatest thing she ever did.

Shimon Samuels

That was the greatest disappointment for a man who had invested his whole life in this.

Brian McCann

That won't sink in for a while. He's one of the greatest pitchers of all time.

Ralph Regula

You are embarking on the greatest marathon of your career,

John Warden

With the greatest respect for your Honor, that isn't enough time for us.

David Hudson

will be remembered as the patron of some of Mercer's greatest years.

Sidney Crosby

Who better to mould him than the greatest player ever.

John Capel

Justin Gatlin's on his way to being the greatest ever.

Anton Corbijn

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

Baz Luhrmann

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.

Megan Fox

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Azzedine Alaia

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

William Shakespeare

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

Elaine Post

Until you know where the source is, how do you know you're treating the right one?

Hayan Saad

What? He is the source of our troubles.

Calvin Trillin

There's always a source for humor.

Bill Hybels

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

Arthur Baer

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Ayn Rand

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

Mitch Kapor

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Caroline Kennedy

In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

Denzel Washington

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

Bob Barr

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

Birch Bayh

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

Benjamin Tucker

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

Chelsea Clinton

I'm definitely voting for First Gentleman.

Janet Yellen

If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.

Avi Rubin

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

Avi Rubin

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.