Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Stieg Larsson

I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.

John Vane

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

Hilary Clinton

It is one thing not to know exactly all we should be doing to protect our homeland. It is something altogether different not to be doing the business we are expected to do to provide as many resources effectively deployed as possible to try to ensure that so far as humanly possible we have done our job.

P. J. Harvey

Inevitably, a dramatist writes one play, his director interprets another, the actors perform a third and the public sees a fourth and an altogether different one.

Richard Doherty

If you look at BMW and Mercedes and Ferrari and Lexus, altogether they aren't even 5 percent of the world's car output,

George Bernard Shaw

If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

Ralph Perry

If patriotism is "the last refuge of a scoundrel," it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether

Ricky Ray

I'm just proud of the way the guys came out and played. In all three phases, we played an altogether great game tonight.

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

Robertson Davies

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Zola Jesus

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

Sarah Davis

There was a problem with a refinery that wasn't operating fully.

Mike Jacobs

It's in the realm of operating systems that the most troublesome problems exist,

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Dasha Zhukova

It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.

Nellie Melba

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Virginia Graham

I am a living soap opera.

Thom Yorke

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

Joan Van Ark

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

Alan Perlis

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.

A. Hodge

What will be very interesting at this stage is that for a lot of guys, this will be the first time that they have raced all year.

Christy Austin

I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.

Martha Graham

The center of the stage is where I am.

Maria Callas

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

Judd Hirsch

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.

Mojo Nixon

Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.

Mike Birbiglia

Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage.

Nikki Sixx

When I'm onstage, I'm more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'