Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Miguel Ruiz

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

William Gibson

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.

Paul Bowles

The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

William Cowper

Toll for the brave - / The brave! that are no more: / All sunk beneath the wave, / Fast by their native shore.

Brad Brownell

We've kind of been beneath the radar all year. People haven't talked about us that much.

Paul Di Filippo

Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others.

David Jackson

Most Americans think agricultural work is beneath them.

Xinhua Agency

Waves of the explosion pushed down the temple, and some people were buried beneath the debris.

George Williams

I was getting a piece of plastic and there was a young cottonmouth beneath it,

Imani Hakim

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

Zadie Smith

There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.

Vonda Shepard

My nature is... well... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking for Something.' How do I do it? I read a lot of spiritual books; I meditate.

Abraham Lincoln

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

Constance Wu

I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.

Bobby Wallace

As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.

Deborah Eisenberg

I'm constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche.

Mia Wasikowska

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.

Martin Henderson

You are constantly looking for ways to do something you haven't done before, whether it's a particular role or doing theatre. As a person, I'm really open to experience.

Colin Angle

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

Ellie Goulding

I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.

Ben Barnes

Almost every script that I've gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven't chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I've been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.

David Horsey

I've been a fascinated observer of grand public funerals since I was a kid, starting with the life-altering black-and-white images of President John F. Kennedy's funeral.

William Gibson

I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.

Noreena Hertz

I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.

Gore Vidal

I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.

Pico Iyer

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

Rick Smolan

I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.

Idina Menzel

My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Out of Sight' is one of my favorite films ever. Love Steven Soderbergh. 'Goodfellas' was a huge influence on me in terms of the use of camera. 'Black Orpheus,' a beautiful love story that very few people actually have seen, and that was an influence on 'Beyond the Lights,' too, in terms of the look of the film.

Zoe Kravitz

I love shopping in New York just because you walk around and find a little store you've never saw before, and you're like, 'Oh what's that? This is my new favorite place.' I love that about New York.

William Taylor

Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.

Vanessa Hudgens

I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.

Brittany Snow

I think my least favorite hair color was the hair color that I had in 'Pitch Perfect 2.' They really wanted me to be dark red, and I wanted to be lighter like I was in the first movie, but they didn't want that. But I rocked some light red for a year, after it faded.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

The only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.

Roger McGuinn

That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice.

Jamie Shea

The point we made last night is that we will go for the head as much as the feet in this operation.

Bob Tomlinson

That was at least 40 or 50 feet over.

Bob Hill

We could never plant our feet defensively and get a stop. Most of the time, when it really hurt us, it was the second shots. We'd get them to miss and then we just couldn't get the rebound.

Reese Witherspoon

Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.

Brian Sexton

You are 100 feet away from the $30 million fighter jets.

Bob Groves

Usually what we do is 'jog' the car, manually move it a few feet at a time, until it's in the station. We could not do that this time. ... That's very unusual.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

We are now all Pakistanis — not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on — and as Pakistanis we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.

Gary Robinson

Most of our shots in the first half were from 15 feet out.

Jerry Kleczka

You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and this is the time to go home and seek a new challenge.

Imelda May

I'm the youngest of five - three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

Ian Mcewan

Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.

Zoe Sugg

Who knows what will happen in five years' time.

Will Shields

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

will.i.am

If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.

Evel Knievel

I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

Emma Watson

I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

David Bailey

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

Tim Armstrong

The overall radio space looks similar to the way the Internet did five or six years ago.

William Allan

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

Bruce Weber

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

Brittany Howard

A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

Brian Kernighan

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

Bonnie Bassler

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

Nancy Gibbs

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.

Bertrand Russell

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Seth Numrich

Theater has been my way of learning about everything.

William K. Sessions

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Marshall Wittman

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

Maurice Greene

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Pedro Almodovar

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

Steve Violetta

You are always looking for something that has the wow factor.

Diane Davey

We've had everything from 80-degree weather to snow on the ground. We're looking for two nice sunny days.

Sgt. Phillips

We're really wide open in terms of looking at some things.

Molly Smith

We're really looking at our target as urban nomads.

Julie Bell

We're really looking at decision-making and problem-solving at the same time.

Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Carlton Reed

That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning.

Nick Umholtz

That was sweet. I've never been in a playoff before. Now I'm going to have to back it up for next year.

Jon Copper

That we have a teammate who may not be with us next year. I'm still not sure what's going on or how it's going to end up.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. There is no next year.

Charles Long

We're working on getting the sidewalk buttoned up.

Patrick McKenzie

There was no sidewalk there so he had to walk on the street.

Susan Bennett

The sidewalk has been out there 100 years,

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Harvey Korman

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.

Pamela Dixon

He walked in just like us and walked out like a high-powered attorney.

Greg Darnell

If they walked up to me today, I wouldn't know them.

Greg Beratlis

We did what was right ... If this person had been innocent, he would have walked out of there.

Rob Blake

It's the same as any year when I've walked in here.

Daniel Libeskind

We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.

John Bunyan

As I walked through the wilderness of this world.

Dr. Beebe

You've got to try and normalize your life. I just walked around every morning, the same as I do here (in Connecticut).