Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Curran

There was an act of defiance which goes on where these humans and aliens save these children, and hence the name/term of 'Defiance.' Formerly, it was St. Louis. This frontier town springs up from it. And everybody tries to integrate, they try to re-invent themselves as well.

Oliver Goldsmith

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by.

Jane Anderson

Defiance ... I would wager she just happens to have gotten those period roles because it was a turning point for women taking place in that period.

Christiane Amanpour

same kind of defiance as in his previous two appearances.

Sean McCormack

This is another step by the Iranian regime in defiance of the international community." ()

Jasper Fforde

Defiance through compliance.

David Draiman

It's that iconic imagery of that sea of raised fists during a live performance. It's a symbol of unity and strength and at the same time there are elements of defiance and rebellion that are inherent in that raised fist symbol. It's just one of those iconic pieces of imagery from the life of rock 'n' roll.

Yubaraj Ghimire

The level of defiance is unprecedented - it never happened before, even in 1990.

Christopher Bailey

There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away.

Anton Corbijn

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

Charles Garfield

The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.

Beth Orton

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Matthew Pearl

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

Rick Wagoner

We're pleased to see the significant progress in our first quarter results and in the implementation of all four elements of our North American turnaround plan.

Jonathan Davis

It's exciting with the new elements there. We knew we wanted to do something different and over the top and not a typical Korn show, so we're doing new things.

Robert Ford

There weren't any dummies in there. There weren't elements to test her, like someone known not to be near the party or involved.

Bob Bowlsby

There were a lot of elements to this. It wasn't just recent results. I've been contemplating looking at this situation real seriously for the last three, four months.

Andy Roddick

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

Steven Erikson

Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.

Stephen King

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts

Robbie Williams

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

Jens Lehmann

When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket

Fiona Apple

Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest

George Herbert

He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.

Jim Carrey

Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess.

John Cross

My fists get clenched, my muscles get tight, I'm getting hot.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There are things that are a given, that you've already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can't be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.

Scott Greenstein

I've always thought 'Today' is an iconic staple of morning life.

Annalee Newitz

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

Hendrik Poinar

I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.

Shawn Amos

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.

Stephen Malkmus

I like visual imagery in my head.

Steven Bochco

Imagery is like music.

Rosemary Mahoney

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

Danial Shapiro

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

Madhur Bhandarkar

My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.

Martin Freeman

Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.

Jeff Lemire

There's a lot of mystery just inherent in the story of 'Descender.' There's sort of a central mystery that runs throughout it.

Monty Python

Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed!

David Lodge

These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place.

James Gray

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

Peter Beck

The very nature of sweeping reforms would be inherently destabilizing to the regime. So it's more likely they would be halting reforms.

Alain Sergile

This is something that is not inherent in the operating system.

Joe Laszlo

E-mail addresses inherently are tied to the provider in the way that a phone number is not tied to a wireless carrier or phone company.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Stuart Rose

This is an encouraging performance, but there remains much to be done,

Geoff Peterson

It is unjust and unfair. Anyway, marijuana is not a performance-enhancing drug.

Peter Hitchens

It's a better performance from refining and marketing.

Liza Minnelli

It was done in one night. It was one performance only. That was it. That was our shot.

Steve Davies

It was a standout performance if I ever saw one.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Charles Mackay

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Calista Flockhart

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

S. Walker

We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.

Elizabeth Olsen

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

Benjamin Franklin

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

Bill Gates

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

Chris Masoner

The more pieces you have to a process, the more expensive.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Richard Genthe

This is the sixth consecutive year we've raised over $6 million.

Robert Thomas

It raised our spirits up and made us feel good. It makes us ready to play.

Dinaw Mengestu

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

Howard Wolfson

No wonder Ms. Pirro raised so little money,

Victor Herrera

The rumors that Mexico's rating is going to be raised imminently are groundless.

Derrick Williams

I used to live here. It's because they raised their rents I had to leave.

Bridget Fonda

I was raised on Bruce Lee.

Brenda Strong

There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.

Albert Camus

With rebellion, awareness is born

Andy Stanley

Rebellion never goes without consequences.

Thomas Jefferson

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

Francis Bacon

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

George Eliot

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

Henry David Thoreau

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

H. Rap Brown

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

Milan Kundera

Beauty is a rebellion against time.

Henry David Thoreau

if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

Audre Lorde

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Ato Essandoh

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

Antonis Samaras

We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

Denis Leary

When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.

Denis Leary

Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie.

Dee Snider

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

Dee Dee Ramone

I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

Chad Kroeger

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

Cassie Steele

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.

Charles Dickens

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

Charles Spurgeon

Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

Alan Watts

You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

Al Pacino

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

David Hockney

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

Arthur Ransome

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

Arthur Ransome

There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.

Arthur Rimbaud

Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea

Arthur Rimbaud

It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.

Charles Dickens

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

August Wilson

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

Denis Waitley

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

Michael Steele

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

Bill Moyers

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

Charles Lamb

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Charles Handy

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

Maajid Nawaz

The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

Diane von Furstenberg

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

Valentino Castellani

These 10,000 are an extraordinary symbol of our country's will to be there, to participate in these Olympics.

Arthur C. Clarke

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Allen Ginsberg

Things are symbols of themselves.

Alfred Korzybski

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

Rene Magritte

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

Sigmund Freud

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

John Schlesinger

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Alan Watts

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

Alan Watts

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

Edith Stein

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

Charles de Gaulle

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

Charles Baudelaire

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

Chang-Rae Lee

I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I want the reader to be transported. The novel is a big, complicated, unknowable thing before it's written.

Bill Ayers

I find some unity with Ron Paul.

Cathy Freeman

Peace, unity and harmony!