Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Robert M. Pirsig

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Roland Barthes

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

Rebecca Solnit

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

Sam Abell

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

Wade Davis

Change is no threat to culture.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living

Tom Donahoe

It always is. People get excited when you win and too upset when you lose. There's never any middle ground.

Rob Vega

There are so many reasons to be excited about Glen Erin. It has no weaknesses.

Doug Murray

He's a great player, great guy. Happy for the team and for Sweden. I'm excited myself.

Rick Anderson

He's a totally different pitcher. That's why he can get excited about what's gone on this spring.

Jonathan Hill

He's a swimming legend. I was excited to meet him.

Ryan Tucker

He's awesome. He's got a great presence. I'm really excited about this guy.

Francis Collins

I think it's a time to be very excited and optimistic, ... within the next five to 10 years.

Matt Bowling

I think it's going to be a lot of fun because it's a wide open race. We're excited to get started and see how it all works out.

Steve Alford

I think the guys are excited about what they've done.

Brad Turner

Jacksonville was faster and Forney was bigger, so we've seen different types of defenses, ... We feel like we can do some things.

Dusty Baker

He wanted the victory and knew we needed it. His fastball was moving.

Johnny Damon

He can set you up with a changeup, then throw an 88-mph fastball by you.

Dan Hendricks

He can run, that's all there is to it. There hasn't been any faster horses in the races so far, and the next one there will be and it's a whole new game.

Steve Cox

He?s a great athlete. He?s a gunner on punt team, because he?s right there with our fastest guys. He runs a 4.7 40-yard dash. He can do practically anything.

Mike Setzer

He's a fast receiver, he looks like he's walking when he's running.

Mike MacDougal

He's a fast guy and I was trying to make the play. We battled back. I gave up a run at the wrong time.

Michael Lawson

Her stride frequency is so fast. She can turn her legs over probably twice or three times as fast as the glider or the girls with the long legs. You would think she's working harder than them, but she's not. I think that's one of her talents.

Michael Litzinger

He returned from a mission and got back to good form a lot faster than we expected.

Rosalind Wiseman

Kids for the most part talk to me about parents gossiping about each other and the other kids. I can't think of one kid who didn't know where her parents fit in the parents' social hierarchy.

Pierre Littbarski

Jacob looked good today. If he's fit he will play.

Dinara Safina

I talk to him every day and he is getting fitter and hopes to return in Rotterdam next week.

Tom Renney

He's a terrific young player who fits so nicely into their scheme. He's just a selfless player.

Jamie Winborn

I think it's going to be a perfect fit for me.

Eric Kanagy

Last fall, when this (tour) started we showed some short films, and it didn't really fit with the rest of the tour. So we wanted to do something that people could come in and look at.

Mike Dunleavy

We talked about the ways we're going to use him and how he'll fit in,

Andrew Strauss

We've got to play to our potential, play at 100%, get all our players fit and ready to go and not put ourselves under too much pressure.

David Byas

He's being very mature and realistic about it, and I think he has to be. Surely the goal is getting him back fit for the Ashes, and he's in good hands and working hard to get there.

Leon Kass

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

David Suzuki

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Edith Widder

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Bertrand Russell

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

Bing Gordon

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.

Arthur Erickson

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

Igor Shpilband

People try to be new. Sometimes they push it a little too far, I agree. I like innovation instead of repeating something that has been done.

Mary Madden

These sites have been able to respond to more specialized interests, and you'll see a lot more of that specialization and innovation happening.

Burton Richter

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Vance Havner

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

William Carey

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Ellen G. White

The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.

John Ellsworth

I want to make sure his mission is finished.

Dave Winker

It's nice to have this part of the mission done. It's been a long week.

Sam Altman

It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.

Frank Robinson

They were on a mission to win three ballgames. It's probably the first times this year we thought about sweeping a series before we played the first game, and we got it done.

Terry Pratchett

We're on a mission from Glod.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Dan Hawkins

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

Meghan Flynt

The neurologist told me that it would be a year before I could possibly play soccer again. That's not what I wanted to hear. I was crushed.

F. Stone

There was quite possibly one other person shooting, ... We do have witness statements.

Michael Brown

We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event.

Greg Norman

Would there possibly be another woman? Absolutely. Time will tell who that will be.

Reggie Sanders

What we're trying to do, ... is be as fine-tuned and honed-in on the small things as we can possibly be.

Chris Feist

He suffered a high-ankle sprain, possibly a fracture.

Howard Clark

My first thought was that she could have possibly been dead.

Rebecca Loos

Jealousy? Not at all. Sad, if anything, I thought. There is nothing she has that I could possibly want. Not even David.

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

William Congreve

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.

Henry Rollins

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Henry Rollins

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

James Hunter

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

James R. Thompson

At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Abraham Torres

I've been up there a long time. I just don't see the justification for what is taking place.

Bob Krabbe

This is devastating. It's unfortunate it's taking place.

Abdul Sattar

First of all there are the American offensives and then the threats from the militants that they will kill those taking part in the referendum.

Roland Herwig

We'll have to see. We're taking it a day at a time.

Ed Kinney

At this point, we are taking all things into consideration. The tapes may have been taken, but they could have been misplaced. We're still investigating the situation.

Robert Orr

This is not some technical or arcane requirement.

Scott Stewart

That type of technical analysts does not have a lot of value.

Derek Magyar

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

Stephen Jay Gould

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

Sylvester McCoy

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!