Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gurdon

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

Kate Moss

I take full responsibility for my actions. I also accept that there are various personal issues that I need to address and have started taking the difficult, yet necessary, steps to resolve them. I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co- workers, business associates and others.

Kevin McAvoy

He was a huge help. He got me used to what the kids are expecting. I just came up with an open mind and the guys accepted me.

David Shaw

He was a commercial spokesman and a barely adequate actor. That means he needs ... public acceptance, and if he doesn't get public acceptance, he doesn't have much of a future if he wants to make any money.

Shah Rukh Khan

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

Seth Shostak

Exploration is an oft-lauded human activity, and one that resonates in the same way that music and good stories do. It's hard-wired into our species (and into many others), no doubt because it has survival value. Exploration occasionally rewards those who accept its risks, usually with new resources.

Clarence Briggs

There are some who've asked us if this isn't simply part of the cost of doing business. That high a cost is neither acceptable nor tenable.

Grant Teaff

What will come out of this is there will be uniform rules set. What'll most likely happen is that they'll put in a rule: Here's the standard. You either accept it or you don't accept it. And I think nationally they'll accept it.

Nabil Sha'ath

What will break the deadlock is for the Israeli side to really accept the American initiative that we accepted.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Dan Castellaneta

Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

Eric Johnson

James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.

Steve Cram

I would say the decision to run both events would mean she has to make compromises,

Hanya Yanagihara

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

Jon Huntsman

Just the fact that they have taken a position on it will resonate with many both in state and out,

Darin Dollemore

Josh and Nathan both got better as the day went on.

Dick Nyman

Jon is a returning starter who provides experience. He has good size and is strong with both feet.

Steve Clapp

John came in and pitched three quality innings and had a real good game at the plate. Zach did a great job to pick up both wins.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Gerhard Richter

A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.

Jim Hawkins

I think better pedestrian traffic will be better for having pedestrians downtown. And, the long range plan calls for that. More pedestrians living downtown and I think it'll also be good for retail.

Keith Lucky

I don't know much about them. I've made a few phone calls and not had much luck. But we have to worry about us. If we take care of ourselves, that is all that matters.

Jim Calhoun

I can feel the emotions start to build, ... I've had conversations with my first recruit at Northeastern, with eight kids from my Dedham High School team that won 21 straight games, a lot of phone calls from my former players ... it's an exciting time for me.

Jay Carson

He takes calls from world leaders every day on a variety of topics.

Chan Gailey

He's a young player who had not played center; we moved him to center when he got here. He's got excellent toughness and good strength. He is lost right now, learning how to play the position. Centers have to make all the calls and are in charge of a lot, so he's got to learn that and it's going to take some time. He's made very good progress, but he's got a long way to go.

Mike Trgovac

He doesn't get into the calls that I make. Sometimes he'll talk about certain situations ... but he doesn't mess with you much on game day. Sometimes, he will come up to you and say stuff. A lot of times I've already seen it, but he's making sure that I've seen it. It's the job of a head coach to do that. He doesn't leave any stone unturned.

Jason Collins

He got fined $15,000? Well, maybe we need to get fined, too, because there were some calls tonight that didn't go our way.

Colin Gorman

The cruelest joke in the history of the world was man being given so much reason and women were made unreasonable, while women were given so much tolerance and men were made intolerable.

Richard Gallienne

The cry of the Little Peoples goes up to God in vain, / For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain.

Georgia Witkin

To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday.

Isabelle Huppert

The story is very cruel and very sharp,

Terence Young

Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.

Kara Swisher

My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

Michael Collins

Lost Souls ... a dark, violent mystery spiked with some cruel humor and plenty of social criticism.

Kate Forsyth

It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.

Lauren Beukes

I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the opportunity to do something terrible, and a lot of the time it's about impotence. They feel powerless in the real world.

Russell Crowe

If I'm creating the composition, it's easier for me as an actor because I've just cut out the middle man. Because I've created the composition and now I'm in it, I already know exactly what I want to get out of it. So, bang!

Rhonda Britten

Listen to others as if they are telling you the truth, ask questions when you aren't clear, and allow others the room to have different feelings than you. No more assigning hidden motives, prejudging and cutting people off before separating fact from fiction.

Virchand Gandhi

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

Woody Allen

When you make the film, it's like a chef who works on the meal. After you're working all day in the kitchen and dicing and cutting and putting the sauces on, you don't want to eat it. That's how I always feel about the films. I work on it for a year. I've written it, I've worked with the actors, I've edited, put the music in. I just never want to see it again.

Robert Rubin

All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.

Sarah Waters

She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Nick could see the gun shaking in Alan's hand now, in tight, terrified spasms. "Last night we put a magician in the river," Alan said, his voice low and intense as if he was making a promise."Maybe we should send you to join him." "You know the rules," the woman whispered. "Don't shoot the messenger." Nick interrupted, leaning down to speak in her ear. "Do they say 'Don't cut the messenger in half with your great big sword'?

Vivian Campbell

Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.

Andre McGee

I think it did have to be this way, so he could get the ending he deserved.

Ronald Utt

I think as a consequence you are ending up with a program that is excessively costly and socially destructive.

Randy Sherman

I think that served as a lesson to them. Every thing ending up alright.

The Vikings

I just saw the shot, did my routine and it worked out. I'm very glad we finished before the rain and storms came. It was just really nice to have a good day and it was a good ending to the official season.

Heather Williams

I just do not want to be a part of ending that life.

Folarin Campbell

I know it. We wanted a better ending to our story, but it had to end some way.

Matt Reeves

It's crazy when you think about the 'Apes' franchise and how dark all of the endings are and how dark the movies are, and yet there's something very pleasurable about these movies. It really comes down to the potency of this idea, of seeing intelligent apes.

Allison Janney

I walk on the set every day since his ... you know, since his death, and feel a great loss. It feels like a very organic ending to the show with him gone because I just can't imagine doing it without him.

Brian Brohm

No, maybe before or maybe after the game when the game is ending up, ... Not while I'm actually out there during the game.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Thomas Vinje

What Microsoft is talking about is freedom for them to innovate, not others.

Lyndsey Medders

He's given me that freedom since I was a freshman to make those calls. We have a lot of trust in each other. It's neat we're on the same page like that.

William J. Brennan

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

William James

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

William Ellery Channing

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

William Ellery Channing

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

Roald Dahl

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Toussaint Tyler

He talks to you like a normal human being and tells you what he wants you to do.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Rick Steves

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Sun Yuxi

In some Western countries, including in the United States, some people have ignored the overall development of China's human rights.

Adrian Molina

Immigrants are not felons. They are human beings.

Stephen Evans

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

Dave Finkel

I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you.

Thaksin Shinawatra

The separatist ideology remains and the violence will be a prolonged one because authorities need time to tackle this complicated problem,

Maajid Nawaz

Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

Barry Eisler

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Joschka Fischer

Violence was a mixture of ideology (and) macho status...,

Joel Friedman

Ideology aside, I think he is a terrific guy, a terrific choice,

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Richard L. Evans

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

Robert Orben

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Walter Matthau

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

Chan Gailey

I'm just listening to everything that's going on, evaluating everything that's going on, trying to see where it's headed, ... I'm not worried. I'm not sitting there worried or scared at all.

G. H. Hardy

I had this in my mind. I think about it before the game, every game. I see myself doing it before it happens. From the hotels. I'll be on the bus, just daydreaming, listening to music, looking out the window, and I see myself doing everything, and I just come out here and try to do it.

Stephen Tocco

In listening to the marketplace, it's obvious that we need to move more students toward completion. And we need to do it sooner rather than later.

Vivian Stringer

I'm not going to tell you now while everyone is listening.

Walter Lippmann

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

Jim Wallis

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Oscar Wilde

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Josh Billings

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

Georg Solti

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

C. S. Lewis

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

Orson Scott Card

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.

Juvenal

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

W. S. Merwin

I offer you what I have my Poverty

Walter Savage Landor

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

George Gissing

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Nelson Mandela

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

Kirk Douglas

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

Pam Grier

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Milton Friedman

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Warren Buffett

I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

William Blake

To generalize is to be an idiot.

William Blake

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

William Blake

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Wernher von Braun

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.