Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giraldus Cambrensis

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

Wendell Berry

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

William Kamkwamba

I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation or for drinking.

Vivienne Westwood

I don't feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don't have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you've got the money to be able to afford it, then it's really good to buy something from me, but don't buy too much.

Clive Thompson

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

Emmitt Smith

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

Elizabeth Warren

It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.

Chen Shui-bian

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.

Charles Pena

The political atmosphere is charged. Democrats can't afford to be seen as soft on defense or terrorism. They're going to have to fight the social cuts without bargaining on defense.

Yael Naim

My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.

Todd Rundgren

My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an album of Robert Johnson covers that, well, while not totally faithful for blues purists, is faithful for people like me that grew up with the '60s and the electric blues-rock versions of Johnson's songs.

Iggy Azalea

People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.

Idina Menzel

Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.

Idina Menzel

A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

Ian Anderson

Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

Gerry Beckley

Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album to album and that was our way of doing it.

Glenn Tipton

There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right reasons. At the time there was no Judas Priest and I certainly wasn't going to hang my hat up on my musical career.

Chet Faker

An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.

Colin Greenwood

Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

Bill Bruford

We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through.

Mark Stevens

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

Siouxsie Sioux

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

Jon Anderson

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Colin Greenwood

On the last two records, Thom was definitely looking for other instruments to give him voices rather than have his own voice at the front.

Colin Greenwood

One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.

Jeff Beck

I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.

John Deacon

I have a few personal ambitions for the band.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Yann Tiersen

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

Timothy Noah

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Timothy Noah

Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.

Irving Stone

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

Inga Cadranel

You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.

Inga Cadranel

It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.

Garry Wills

I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

Gina Bellman

I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

Zoe Sugg

The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.

Barack Obama

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage - they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

Natalie Massenet

My experience is in merging extraordinary creative content with innovative global commerce.

Nikki Sixx

Traveling around the country, meeting fans and hearing their stories in person and on my radio show has reenergized my commitment to creating honest and inspirational content that not only serves my own creative purposes but can help and touch others as well.

Terry Garcia

The artifact itself and its contents were in danger of being lost forever.

Jeff Fisher

We were getting questions about the content of some of the sites, and as a result, we took them all off.

Dave Linsalata

Typically, most pages don't look very good on a mobile phone, but Opera has done a good job formatting and compressing the content for handhelds.

Dean Jones

We're working with industry to find out what should be the content and then determine how much it will cost.

Jon Oringer

We have a lot of customers in Japan, but they don't quite get the local content that they always need, so we want to encourage all of our product teams to start thinking globally.

Ian MacKaye

Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

Gilles Villeneuve

I will drive flat out all the time. I love racing.

William Kent Krueger

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

Benjamin Spock

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Steven Milunovich

The PC is not the driver of technology anymore, ... We are big believers, however, in handheld devices, such as those made by Palm and Research in Motion. A lot of applications are going to migrate to handhelds.

Brandon Flowers

At home, I'm not a rock star. I wear dad-appropriate attire. I drive a truck. And we go out to the mountains to light fires and have barbecues. Even then, The Killers are usually in the back of my mind.

Beeban Kidron

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

Dennis Christopher

In my drive to be the perfect artist, I've left a lot of living to the side.

Brock Evans

The American people love this law. By majorities of 75 or 80 percent, they want to protect species and don't want to consciously drive them to extinction.

Carrie Brownstein

I have no problem spending money on a great meal with friends or a flight to see somebody that I love, versus something like a fancy car. I don't need a fancy car. I don't need a giant TV.

Duncan Brown

The apps are very simple. The terminals and networks are not up to the fancy things that are being touted.

Ted Dent

That was a tough goal, but it was still a 3-2 game with a whole period left to play so we had plenty of time to come back. We just didn't generate much in the third period. We tried to be fancy too much, and didn't get the puck to the net.

Philip Greenspun

Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.

Rudyard Kipling

We ain't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints

Faythe Levine

I tend to try to support women artists. Women often don't get as much attention. I thought it would be nice to have a group show with all women involved with a fancy lady theme to work with.

Michael Vick

We don't see too much of a spy look anymore, ... because of our run game and because of some of the things that we do. We see more straight-up coverage. ... They try to stop me that way and not be fancy with it.

Henry Irving

You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests.

Herbie Hancock

I would be all over the piano, but Miles would play a few notes that would just wipe out all that fancy stuff I was playing.

Abraham Lincoln

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Evangeline Lilly

In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.

Deborah Eisenberg

I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.

Nikki Reed

What is important is to treat everyone like an individual and learning not to generalize autism. With autism, people make assumptions, but it's very broad, and everyone's so different. You have to treat each person as an individual.

Sean Maher

I love 'Richard III,' but in terms of a general play, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' has always been a big one for me. It's just so sexy.

Scott Rudin

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

Roger Stone

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

Mark Zuckerberg

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.

Jennifer Pahlka

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

Isabella Bird

The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.

Evel Knievel

My grandpa got me a set of Wilson clubs, Sam Snead models, when I was 12. Many years later, when I'd become well known, I got to know Sam, and we played a lot of golf together.

Nancy Gibbs

It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.

Pierce Brosnan

I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.

Patrick Stewart

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

Rickie Fowler

My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don't know, it didn't take me long to realize I'm a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.

Nicholas Haslam

Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting.

Mats Wilander

Who knows, she can then be the top-two or the number one, or even win a Grand Slam.

Mary Pierce

weirdest situation that I've ever experienced in a Grand Slam.

Irving Ravetch

Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

Nicole Scherzinger

I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'

Rachel Cusk

I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

Patrick Rothfuss

I know better than to read reviews but I do it anyway. Somebody described my pacing as 'glacial.' I wasn't thrilled, but I think they meant it in a not entirely unflattering way.

Russ Brown

I think the streak meant more to the alumni. It was more of a distraction for the players.

Anja Paerson

I think this week was not meant to be.

Yuri Kochiyama

Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.

Sara Hunter

On paper, I'm sure everyone thinks this year has been terrible. But our seniors meant so much to this team. It's so sad to see them go. We just need to keep building.

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.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Bob Bertini

There is still some sales impact, particularly on the West Coast.

Shawn Roop

At first, all I wanted the Web site to do was $50 in sales a day, then $100 -- now I look for $350 a day.

Catherine Lee

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

James Farrior

I think our scheme is very difficult. It seems like we do a lot of different things and, if you don't play us that often and you have never seen anything that we've done, it's going to be tough.

David Graeber

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.

Larry Neumann

Understand this about that scrimmage. We didn't scheme any for Jasper.

Dave Attell

I have no grand scheme.

Frank Herbert

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Etgar Keret

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

Matt Hasselbeck

There really isn't a weakness I see right now. Their scheme is so sound.

Jack Warner

They are critical, they are important, but in the (overall) scheme of things they are not mind-boggling.

Jeffrey Eugenides

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.