Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

Yann Martel

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Abraham Lincoln

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

Ezra Taft Benson

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

David A. Bednar

One of the ultimate ironies of eternity is that the adversary, who is miserable precisely because he has no physical body, invites and entices us to share in his misery through the improper use of our bodies. The very tool he does not have and cannot use is thus the primary target of his attempts to lure us to physical and spiritual destruction.

Joe Hart

The police were here 60 seconds after they attempted to break in.

Tony Blair

The police told me, and the security services back them up, that they may have stopped two further attempts since July 7, ... There are people we are tracking the whole time.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

John C. Calhoun

I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.

Yael Naim

I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

Glenn Tipton

It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.

Ze Frank

The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.

Zac Efron

I think the only real knowledge I had before I went to Iowa was what I learned from 'Food Inc'. But once I got there and developed these extensive relationships with the farmers, I realized that we're basically made of corn.

Will Yun Lee

My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It's part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing up.

Warren Stephens

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

Vivek Wadhwa

You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who's struggling, basically - who's had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can't start companies.

Ben Affleck

I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies. You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Scott Olson

The only real configuration work is basically just deciding what policies you want to enforce in your network and configuring our device to help you do that.

Garry Winogrand

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

Evangeline Lilly

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

Rick Havercroft

The over and back call, we were clearly pushed over the line.

Madeline Albright

The path out of the wilderness is uphill, but it is clearly marked. It is time to move up that road.

Arndt Ellinghorst

The outlook that the first half-margin should be similar to the second half last year clearly highlights that the market pressures will continue and that Peugeot is less resistant to these pressures, given that their cost savings are flattening out and the new models are delivering less of a positive volume and mix effect than the company was expecting.

Bridget Kelly

Dream and Ne-Yo understand what women go through, what we feel, what we talk about, what we're scared of, and I think that their records show that clearly as well.

William Hague

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Nicole Holofcener

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

F. Sionil Jose

At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

Itay Talgam

Kleiber was the perfect dancer - so perfect that you could see the process. After all, dance is a process; it's a series of snapshots. Kleiber knew how to connect people to the flow, so he could stop managing people.

Jane Seymour

I really love the independent movies and I just think that sometimes when they throw a lot of money into it and a lot of special effects and a lot of stunts that you lose the connection, the human connection and I personally love movies that are about the human connection.

Zaha Hadid

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

Will Rothhaar

I think that, just in general, my number one priority is to just go out of your way to stay yourself and put yourself out there in a positive way. It's so easy, and you can connect with a lot of your friends.

Will Champlin

Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?

Chet Faker

I think that connection with humans is so important. Sometimes I'll do this monologue and talk to the crowd, like, 'Come on, let's really connect here.' I don't think a lot of people understand it's a two-way exchange. Some people go to a show and are like, 'Yeah, you make me feel.' That's not how it works.

Etel Adnan

My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.

David Byrne

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

Aaron Pipkin

The people are really why I do it. I do it because it's a way we all connect to God and to each other.

Brady Corbet

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to the subject in the photograph.

Ranbir Kapoor

There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.

Nick Clegg

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.

Bill Bradley

That was a tragedy but what it said to me was that the real tragedy was how deeply racial profiling had seeped into the police department.

David Treadwell

That will be helpful for the division. Eric deeply understands developers and what they want and need.

Saint Bernard

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.

Paul Auster

I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

Akifumi Uchida

With the U.S. so deeply involved in the Middle East, anything negative (for the region's peace efforts) bodes ill for the dollar.

Octavio Paz

Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

Idina Menzel

I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

Ian Mckellen

It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

Isabel Sanford

I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Evangeline Lilly

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

Lisa Brown

She does that regularly ---- she's just a solid player. She is just great. She is just all over, a well-rounded leader.

Andrew Grossman

Target and Wal-Mart simply aren't on the same scale. Wal-Mart regularly seeks to be treated differently.

Marcia Gay Harden

With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.

Vladimir Putin

The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.

Gordon Davidson

We've been talking pretty regularly through all this.