Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Leakey

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Ashley Hanhurst

We've almost been a team that likes to come back.

Becky Christofferson

We usually play full court almost every game. The second half has been ours the whole season. We play better in the second half for some reason.

Samir Haj

We struggled until almost the end. But it will show our kids that if you don't concentrate and play hard from the beginning anything can happen.

Jamie Mauthe

We struggled to put Sarah through college so that she could become a certified X-ray technician. But we are not big spenders and have almost no personal debt. It's all in the farm.

Mike Urich

We are a different ball team than we were almost two months ago. We feel a lot of what we do they may know what's coming, but as long as we execute like we have, I think we will be OK.

Paul Murphy

We are at the point now, for the first time in this peace process, where almost all of the parties are at the table,

Rob Stewart

There are continually mixed messages, and there is almost increasing confusion in the mind of the average Joe.

Jeff Lenard

We're in hyperdrive. These wholesale increases are going to be felt almost immediately.

Paul Hill

We're going to take the time and snap some pictures from some angles we've haven't seen since the last orbiter was there.

Lisa Roth

They (the students) now have to deal with knowing where the camera angles are going to be on them and understanding that there isn't going to be as much applause and as much reaction.

Claude Chabrol

There was one thing which I thought was tremendous fun, namely finding as many angles as possible within the confines of a single room.

Chad Campbell

There's a lot of good drives I hit that end up in the rough, and that's kind of the way it is. As long as you're missing on the right side and have angles to the pin, you can manage.

Tim Church

It requires us to use some of the tactics they use. We're always looking for new angles ? billboards, buses, television ? to reach kids and young adults.

Justin Griffith

It's all starts with footwork. Both backs taking angles, the linemen taking angles and getting defensive linemen and linebackers to flow. Even we don't know where the ball may end up at. It may go front side, it may come all the way back.

Tony Severino

They're similar as far as their knack, their knowledge of the game. They both run great angles to the ball. They have a great feel for the game.

Miles O'Brien

As far as different bells and whistles that we offered, there wasn't anything tremendous that stood out. In theory, in the future we could feed multiple camera angles online and people could direct their own launch, which would be nice.

Mark Mason

Our sense when it hit was that it was bad but could have been worse. For us, the coverage we gave it was a lot. We weren't looking to create angles beyond the obvious ones, like the impact on gas prices. That isn't the WINS way.

Leslie Allen

We want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists,

Konrad Hilbers

We are pleased to have secured such an important element in creating our new service, one that will benefit songwriters, artists and consumers alike.

Billy Joel

There are certain artists who have taken it upon themselves to save the world, and I find that gets tiresome. I think the artist's first obligation is to the art, not to the issues . . . I think if I have something to say the best way to do that is just to tell a damn good story.

Hedda Sterne

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

Jose Gonzalez

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

Cindy Cook

There is no question that music continues to play a pivotal role in video games and video games continue to play a pivotal role in promoting new artists to a wide audience. Through this contest, we are giving musicians an unprecedented opportunity to be seen and heard by potentially millions of fans worldwide as well as the opportunity to be associated with this year's most anticipated video game and one of Hollywood's most iconic characters.

Trey Songz

I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do whatever's comfortable for you. From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core. I have the capability to make pop records and crossover, but that's not my aim.

Mario Testino

Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.

Nathan Sawaya

What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Alan Moore

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

Lisa Cholodenko

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

Michael Specter

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

Pete Nichols

We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson.

Marc Short

There are communities that have not been as proactive as say, San Francisco and Oakland in having a mutual plan in how to respond or how to prevent certain attacks.

Richard Hell

There are characters in it that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas,

Mike Johnson

There are certain types of situations when it is more likely.

Rae Tyson

There are certain types of crashes where SUVs may provide you with some type of protection but you have to look at the overall safety record.

Denis Leary

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

Charlie Munger

Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.

Erika Christensen

Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional.

Kent Beck

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

Callie Thorne

Even though the third season of Necessary Roughness was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.

Aaron Warren

A lot of people reject being in a place where they're physically confronted. We try to maintain an intense confrontational edge.

M. Wolfe

American and United are vigorous competitors and intense rivals.

Tom Workman

They were intense and physical like they always were.

Chris White

It's nothing like on TV, ... On the way down there we knew we had no idea what it was going to be like. I've been shot at before in life, and it wasn't as intense as what I saw.

Akshay Kumar

Linen is good because it looks trendy and at the same time it's very comfotable

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

Chris Adrian

I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you are frightened by something, you have to relate with fear, explore why you are frightened, and develop some sense of conviction. You can actually look at fear. Then fear ceases to be the dominant situation that is going to defeat you. Fear can be conquered. You can be free from fear if you realize that fear is not the ogre. You can step on fear, and therefore, you can attain what is known as fearlessness. But that requires that, when you see fear, you smile.

Chita Rivera

I never like the way I look. I don't. I never look at myself.

Edward James Olmos

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent

Edward Hirsch

And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never recaptured again by that poet."

Dayo Okeniyi

Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.

David Riesman

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

David Suzuki

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

John Anderson

Some things they see here are things they can't see on a smaller scale at their own school.

Dinesh Keskar

The scale is going to go up for them.

Jan Egeland

I've never seen such devastation before. We are in the sixth day of operation, and every day the scale of devastation is getting wider.

Sam Altman

The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.

Brian Chesky

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

Ginni Rometty

We're about to scale something now that couldn't have been scaled before.

Dave Barth

Enterprises tend to have a lot of scale issues.

Ron Silver

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

Al Sharpton

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Eartha Kitt

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

Shepard Smith

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.

John Stossel

I like taking the subway to work.

Fran Lebowitz

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

Cassandra Clare

Demon slayers take the subway?

Nancy Williams

It's very scary. But I have to take the subway to work.

Joan Allen

I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem.

Neil Patrick Harris

I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.

Annie Lennox

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

Asif Kapadia

My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.

Stevie Wonder

is a different kind of lyric; it's very picturesque. I can see everything that I'm writing, I can visualize all those things happening.

Louis Cataldie

I don't think a visual identification will be possible. It's not about the numbers. It's about the body.

Louis Cataldie

I don't think visual identification will be a possibility,

Louis Cataldie

Being in the water that long makes visual identification essentially an impossibility,

Elliott Erwitt

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

Claude M. Bristol

Undoubtedly we become what we envisage.

Lenny Kravitz

When I hear music, it’s visual; I see things,

Chinua Achebe

In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

Charles Frazier

My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

Philip Shanks

It's just devastating. I don't have another word in my vocabulary for it.

David Crystal

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

Carl Sandburg

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Dean Koontz

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

Charles R. Swindoll

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

Edward Sapir

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.

Edward Abbey

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.