Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Warren

I had tried patches, hypnosis and everything. Nothing worked.

Lorenzo Romar

He was kind of in a daze in the first half. Someone snapped a finger, the hypnosis was over, and he was back to Jon Brockman.

Lars Trier

Idiocy is like hypnosis or ejaculation: if you want it, you can't have it-and if you don't want it, you can.

Agnes de Mille

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

Billy Sheehan

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

Janet Reno

I worked with some wonderful people, tried my best and I feel comfortable.

Charles Fort

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

Dennis Cardoza

House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

Deepak Chopra

It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.

Cynthia Payne

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

David Steel

I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.

Jeffrey Archer

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

Michel Martelly

Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.

Narendra Modi

If we have to build the nation we have to start from the villages. I will present a complete blueprint of "Sānsad Adharsh Grām Yojana" where each MP, must establish model villages in their constituencies.

Narendra Modi

The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.

Tony Blair

Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay.

Theresa May

People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.

Terry Pratchett

Making money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP.

Timothy Noah

The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago.

Clive Thompson

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.

Alice Walker

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

Gore Vidal

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

Bethany McLean

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

Bill Bryson

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

Bertrand Russell

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

Jerry Hill

We could have other cities coming to us with similar requests in the future.

Susan Bandy

We have very strict rules about what we can and can't do in terms of the USOC. What we can't do right now is lobby, ... The odds are that if the rules had not been changed, all the cities would be talking to the IOC to get it to influence the USOC.