Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 Champlin

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

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.

Common

I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're really hard-working people that want to have a better life. And I saw the struggle that exists there.

Ashley Tisdale

I love keeping a connection with everyone I've worked with.

Jeff Ravencraft

The association models specification is a key differentiator from other wireless technologies. By providing a method for first-time product association, the specification helps ensure a secure connection between products from any vendor that complies with the Certified Wireless USB certification requirements. Certified Wireless USB supports the same ease-of-use and plug-and-play features consumers love and know from wired USB.

Patricia Heaton

I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.

Alice Walker

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

Gordon B. Hinckley

You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the things you do.

Malala Yousafzai

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.

Malala Yousafzai

Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

Bradley Whitford

We have all lost a dear, dear brother.

Kenny Leon

We've lost a great writer, I think the greatest writer that our generation has seen and I've lost a dear, dear friend and collaborator,

Gertrude Stein

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought.

Joyce Smith

I lost two things dear to me this year. I lost my husband and I lost my house,

Alexander Dubcek

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Alan Watts

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

Alan Watts

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

Chogyam Trungpa

You are actually doing something. You are getting into this process without making sure that what you're doing is okay. Things are actually taking place, almost of their own accord, very simply and directly. That is meditation.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

Chogyam Trungpa

That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.

William Shakespeare

In maiden meditation, fancy free.

Carol P. Christ

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

Wislawa Szymborska

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Near the sun is the center of the universe.

Roger Cox

The announcement you have today is not nearly enough. It's the tip of the iceberg.

Ruben Jr

We'll probably have something in the very near future.

William Wordsworth

Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar

Tim Finn

We have some dings and bruises. But we're be at near 100 percent participation, and having everyone playing at 100 percent.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

English 15th Century Proverbs

Near is my kirtle, but nearer is my smock.

Stephen Flynn

If I had to rank in order 10 things I'm worried about as it relates to security in our ports, the ownership of the lease of a terminal here in the U.S. is near nine or 10 on that list.

Dolly Parton

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

Bernadette Peters

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

John Cousins

We islanders have songs to sing and stories to tell.

Tom Lewis

I think it will be a lot like our first match, where Nos. 2-3 singles will be critical,

B. B. King

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

Chris Rix

We anticipated a lot more single coverage, but we didn't get it as often as we wanted to,

Kenny Williams

We'll never let A.J. get on top of the world. Never. Not one single day.

Eoin Colfer

Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over

Bill Bruford

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

Frank Busch

We have a lot of little things to work on - technique - but when you are tired, you tend to be that way.

Bruno Walter

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Alain Resnais

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Bela Lugosi

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

Bruce Lee

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

Cecilia Bartoli

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

Adam Baldwin

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

Donald Rumsfeld

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.