Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Ian Black

I take it for what it is, and sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it.

David Griffin

This is a serious occurrence. I'm not trying to down play that, but we're also trying to give you a perspective on the frequency of these activities. Sharks do frequent those areas.

Mark Goodman

(We're) as prepared as we should be given the lack of frequency of earthquakes and the lack of intensity of earthquakes.

Richard Prum

We had to have some kind of frequency multiplier,

Clarence Otis

People like Smokey Bones, but they don't come with the visit frequency that we would like. We think that a lot of it has to do with a positioning that is more barbecue-centric than it should be.

Dan Sheeran

What you get to in the pretty near future is a mass medium with potentially greater reach and more frequency than other media.

Jeff Emerson

Each of the state's nine underground mines is getting inspected and the state is complying with the law regarding the frequency of inspections.

Chris Brathwaite

It's going to be mostly reduced frequency out of our hubs, not huge numbers.

Alan Cohen

God is a frequency. Stay tuned.

Michael Howe

We want to remain the number one frequent flier program,

Natasha Trethewey

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

Brian Moehler

We're going to make mistakes. That's just the way it is. Hopefully you learn from those mistakes and don't make them as frequently as the year goes on.

Chris Towne

This is worst in the refugee camps, where there is the most poverty and the most frequent confrontations with Israeli soldiers.

French Proverb

Tell me who you frequent and I will tell you who you are

Katharine Lee Bates

Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire.

Harry Blackmun

Controversy over the meaning of our nation's most majestic guarantees frequently has been turbulent,

George Gershwin

I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.

Harry Seidler

Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

Charles Stanley

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

David Hockney

The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.

David Brinkley

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

Arthur Peacocke

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

Denis Waitley

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

Chang-Rae Lee

You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now.

Charles Simic

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

Charles Schumer

There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.

Charles Hazlewood

The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Bill Nye

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Chad Smith

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

Chetan Bhagat

Don't be serious, be sincere.

Cher

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

Eddie Izzard

Sharks are just evil bastards. I'm quite happy if all the sharks just went, because they eat fish and us. And we need the fish.

Carlos Mencia

That's not news! When a shark comes out of the water, walks into a 7-11, and bites you in the ass, then it's news!

Cher

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

Bill Gates

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

Dave Barry

I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called `A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark'.

Lisa Balabanow

No. Sharks are kind of lazy, and they know they're going to be fed.

Ashley Scott

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

Demetri Martin

I'm afraid of sharks - but only in a water situation.

Blake Mycoskie

Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.