Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

Marcia Muller

We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.

Bernie Mac

Fear is not one of my attributes.

Ken Kercheval

My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.

Duane Sword

It's not just the deep knowledge about the technical specs or functional attributes of IMS people are thirsting for. It's the more pragmatic, pre-planning domain knowledge they want.

James Newman

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behavior, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.

Djimon Hounsou

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

Michael Shermer

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our evolutionary past, those attributes helped individuals to survive and reproduce.

Ridley Scott

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.

Peter Moores

We have to get credit cards out of the way. We've got to broaden this to younger demographics.

Michael Gregory

We're seeing signs that consumers are starting to feel the impact of persistently high gas prices. As prices stay high we're going to see the impact broaden from discount to more mainstream retailers.

Steven Kaplan

As we prepare for the future, we must preserve the elements that brought us to where we are today, ... We must extend and broaden our reach while standing upon a very firm foundation.

Jean Bozman

A lot of people continue to use Sun on Wall Street. They have a lot of investment in Sun software. What you see in this announcement is they have to broaden their offerings to reach that broader audience.

Linda Carroll

A lot of our marketing has been word of mouth, but with the city of Lansing, we're going to have to broaden that.

Greg Foster

This classic IMAX perennial is a hit in new markets worldwide, thanks in part to Warner Bros. Pictures' strong international distribution team. The expanding IMAX theatre network and growing IMAX DMR film slate has enabled us to broaden distribution for the studio, and offer more people another compelling reason to visit their local multiplex.

Brant Sponberg

This challenge continues NASA's efforts to broaden interest in innovative concepts.

David Sanborn

They thought there was a market out there for instrumental music. They were trying to broaden their roster of artists. I got in on that.

David Harsanyi

Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze.

J. K. Simmons

People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

Eric Nylund

I don't look at it as writing a book in a videogame universe. I look at it as writing for 'Halo', which for me, transcends being just a great video game. It's evolving into a whole new mythology.

Matt King

We'll keep evolving and go as far as we can go.

Gary Knight

Software is an evolving product. It's not static.

Jesse Plemons

'Friday Night Lights' was kind of like my college years because I did four seasons of that. It was my first series. It was the most time I had with one character, and kind of growing and evolving with the character over that long of a span of time, it just allows you to sort of learn in a completely different way that I had never experienced.

Daniel Boulud

I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.

Al Sharpton

but I also see him evolving into a new generation.

Jonathan Zittrain

How an individual's reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is institutionally mismatched to the evolving intricacies of the online world.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Bryan Pierce

It's typically not a 'no development' program, it's really a limited development program.

Rick Owens

It's not like I planned on producing it - but I would like it if someone wanted to do a limited edition,

Robert Gordon

There's been limited public participation up to this point, and what we're trying to do is solicit input.

Sam Buell

A watered-down version of what the government's most persuasive witnesses have already said can only dilute the case, even if limited to rebuttal.

Arlen Specter

I understand that you were sent over in a very limited capacity, with perhaps the calculation that you didn't have this information,

Chan Gailey

Things were limited somewhat because of practice this week.

Stephen Ward

This is really painful, ... It's going to be tough for people on limited incomes.

Roger Johnson

This is something that was a problem for a number of people. That's our concern, that it was not limited to Dr. Schmidt.

Paul Wall

You're working with such limited space, it's not really possible,

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Ted Schadler

It's not really about social networking. It's not wide open.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Jim Blake

As part of the deal, there's a social mobilization effort.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Chris Colfer

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

Chinua Achebe

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Chinua Achebe

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Chogyam Trungpa

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

Edward Gibbon

The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of German manners. The disposal of the landed property within their district was absolutely vested in their hands, and they distributed it every year according to a new division. At the same time, they were not authorised to punish with death, to imprison, or even to strike, a private citizen.

Edith Wharton

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

David Horowitz

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

David Hockney

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

David Hockney

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.

David Brooks

I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.

Denis Leary

I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.

Denis Leary

I wanted a more female point of view.