Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Perlis

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Akio Morita

Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The trouble is that the whole 'accept Christ' attitude is likely to be wrong. It shows Christ applying to us rather than us to him. It makes him stand hat-in-hand awaiting our verdict on him, instead of our kneeling with troubled hearts awaiting his verdict on us. It may even permit us to accept Christ by an impulse of mind or emotions, painlessly, at no loss to our ego and no inconvenience to our usual way of life.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Worship is to feel in the heart . . . it is an attitude and a state of mind. It is a sustained act, subject to varying degrees of intensity and perfection . . . Real worship is, among other things, a feeling about the Lord our God . . . It is in our hearts. And we must be willing to express it in an appropriate manner. If we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Where God and man are in relationship, this must be the ideal. God must be the communicator, and man must be in the listening, obeying attitude. If men and women are not willing to assume this listening attitude, there will be no meeting with God in living, personal experience....

Hendy Springer

We want to try and get our mental game right. That is shortcoming in Barbados' cricket - the way we prepare ourselves mentally and our general attitude going into first-class games.

Chogyam Trungpa

Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.

Chogyam Trungpa

We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.

Tia Carrere

This bizarre, dysfunctional but loving family strikes a chord when there are so many untraditional families today.

Tommy Chong

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.

Dave Davies

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

Stevie Jackson

Actually, it's just the opposite. Stuart is still the main guy, obviously, but he now draws more from the group than ever. In the old days, people would come in with their finished songs. Now, everyone in the group contributes ideas ? a chord sequence or a riff or a rhythm or anything.

James Miller

...power to fill her life, with happiness, to wake her heart's chords to touch her soul's depths.

Tim Roberts

It was an enormous success. It's been remarkable. (The show) obviously touched a responsive chord here . . . and it was embraced in a staggering way. We're really proud of what we were able to do.

Bob Myers

The stories strike a chord deep within us, ... They take us back home, back to our roots.

Jeff Tweedy

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

Kendra Wilkinson

I would get my laugh insured! Because my laugh is very important: it's a million dollar laugh, so if my vocal chords make my laugh any different, then I'm going to have to get insured.

Charles Spurgeon

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

Charles Spurgeon

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

Alan Moore

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

Aiden Wilson Tozer

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

Chinua Achebe

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

Chin-Ning Chu

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

Edith Stein

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

Edith Wharton

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

David Hume

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.

Lisa Cholodenko

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

Ruth Coleman

We are proud to be able to offer such a wide variety of maps and guides for people to plan their visit, as well as souvenirs that hold memories of the enjoyable time they had.

Henry Samueli

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

Alexander Ovechkin

We have nine games more, we have to try to win five or six. We don't have any pressure right now and we're enjoying ourselves.

Kelly Gilmore

Whenever you have an evergreen property like Superman, retailers will enjoy enormous successbecause recognition is so high.

Gail Kautz

We were always very ambitious. We enjoy working hard. We had a lot of fun -- we're not done yet.

Alexa Vega

I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!'

Nick Robinson

I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.'

Lennon Parham

Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other.

Charles Dickens

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

Charles Dickens

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Charles Dickens

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

Charles Dickens

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Charles Dickens

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

Charles Caleb Colton

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Alanis Morissette

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Alan Parker

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Alan Alda

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

Chloe Sevigny

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

Chin-Ning Chu

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Earl Warren

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

Denis Waitley

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Denis Waitley

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

Denis Waitley

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Jane Smith

This kind of work takes too much time. Mine's all needlework.

Eido Carney

It's at least 15 years. It takes that long.

Charlotte Observer

After all, it takes 18 to 20 years to 'grow a child.'

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Tom Kloza

The wheels are in motion. It just takes a while for it to deluge into retail.

Jessica White

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.

Hines Ward

Each and every day, Jerome is always teaching me something, what it takes to be a professional athlete. That's why I want to win it more for him than for myself.

Camille Paglia

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

Michael R. Bloomberg

thrilled if I won by one vote or more.

Will Whitehorn

It's time we rediscovered the thrill of space,

Shane Pearsall

It was a thrill just to be part of this.

Mike Lalonde

I understand I'll be the first one from this team, and that does make it special. I'm just thrilled to get picked.

Ashwin Sanghi

The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called 'Little Red Riding Hood.'

Maria Semple

I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.

Jarrid Rodriguez

We were thrilled for her. It was awesome.

Tim Mambort

We went in pretty confident. It was all right. I don't think we were that thrilled about it.