Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Griffith Wilson

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

William Griffith Wilson

We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.

William Griffith Wilson

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

William Griffith Wilson

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

William Griffith Wilson

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.

Chuck Zito

There's probably about 150 charters in the world. We're the biggest international club there is.

Chuck Zito

Then we have a World Run, where representatives from all the charters meet.

Chuck Zito

Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.

Betty Hill

And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground.

Richard Burton

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

Mats Sundin

It definitely deserves something. That shot goes into the history books.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no other place to be.

Nicolas Cage

I wish I had learned more about it in high school, but they didn't put it in the history books, ... I have great respect for the Navajo Code Talkers and their heroic acts.

Paul Gray

It even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills.

Calvin Baker

We're not trying to eliminate books. We love books.

Chris Rankin

I'm also a fan of the books, long before I got into the movie.

Mark Twain

I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot

Larry Hackett

He has a small 13-inch TV, eight CDs, six books.

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.

Bette Davis

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

Bette Davis

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

Peng Liyuan

My daughter likes Korean drama more than I do.

Peter Senge

Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.

Scott Parker

I think they really like him and he likes them.

Becca Fitzpatrick

She likes you, she just doesn't understand you.

Matt Williams

We know Jess likes to run so we just give her the reins and let her run.

Didier Drogba

Nobody likes to be substituted but solidarity with the team always comes first.

Ian Hamilton

Nobody likes going into an office supply store to purchase cartridges,

Michael Caine

Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed.

Madeleine Stowe

Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.

Larry Fitzgerald

Michael was just throwing it up and I was just trying to make a play. That's all. I couldn't tell what was going on back there (in the pocket), I couldn't see.

Brian Hill

Michael Redd is an outstanding offensive player. He made some big shots down the stretch.

Dave Whelan

Michael rang to say thanks for trying to sign him,

Terry Stotts

Michael played a terrific game. It was entertaining, but I'm not taking much consolation in that.

Adrian Bevington

Michael Owen will not be travelling with the team to Turkey on Thursday afternoon,

Jean Todt

Michael is normally quite cool, but the way he reacted is quite significant, ... He missed an opportunity, and we know that we haven't had so many opportunities this year.

Mike Gatting

Michael is getting stuck on the crease and is not moving his feet,

Yani Tseng

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bernard Arnault

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Ashton Kutcher

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Gin Wigmore

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Brian Harvey

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

Brendon Urie

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Ramana Maharshi

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

Carrie Preston

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

Ian Mcewan

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.

Terry Teachout

Nobody reads a reference book to be amused, much less charmed.

Jon Gruden

He had some reads that he routinely makes,

Ta-Nehisi Coates

When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.

William Shenstone

Thy verses are eternal, O my friend, For he who reads them, reads them to no end

Sam Taylor-Johnson

My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.

Craig Brown

More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.

Dale Lennon

If you look at our numbers, the play of our quarterbacks was very impressive. They made the right reads on their passes.

Miriam Kramer

It reads like one and it smells like one.