Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Jackson

The big thing is it's brought us closer to friends from 40, 50, 60 years ago. They're calling and sending notes.

Danny Thompson

People saw we had kids and they brought us a canopy and a tent,

Kenneth Koch

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

Jim Ratcliffe

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

Rick Anderson

The other day, I brought up (video of) Silva this year and Silva last year. And he's night and day with his delivery.

Kristen Newlin

We know she likes to go to her right, so it was my job to sit on her right, and we brought the double-team from the left.

Gwendoline Christie

Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling.

Bob McKenzie

State Route 160, we've been talking about for a while. We think the meeting was important in that it brought all the parties together to make sure we're on the same sheet of music and so Las Vegas knows it's a primary concern, with all the growth in the southwest.

Richard Butler

It is essential that Iraq is brought into conformity with the law.

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

Jason Shirey

It was a long day. There was a lot of character to come back. To lose 3-2 and not lay down ù these kids have done stuff like this in summer league.

Brandon Sanderson

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

Azim Premji

The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

Brad Falchuk

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

Calvin Coolidge

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

Channing Tatum

You don't try any less hard on the ones that don't. I've gotten lucky to work with some amazingly talented people that have helped the ones that have worked work. I think you just have to keep doing the stories you love and the characters that you love and are drawn to.

Channing Tatum

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies.

Jane Austen

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Jose Rizal

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Howard Jacobs

We felt U.S.A.D.A. made the proper ruling. It seems to me the anti-doping rules are lacking any notion of common sense.

Dan Stessel

There's no common thread to the delays. We understand the customers' reaction to the delays. We are working diligently to correct the problems.

S. Walker

There's no common theme or thread, nothing unique to Southern California.

Diaa Rashwan

There's nothing in common between these two guys. They were two different people from different places with a different history. I have my doubts about whether the two guys are really with the same organization.

Scott Cowen

There's nothing in common about this model and what was in existence pre-Katrina.

John Wilmot

There's not a thing on earth that I can name, So foolish, and so false, as common fame.

Xanana Gusmao

What concerns me is not the revelation of the truth, which is already common knowledge,

Carl Pettersson

It was a little easier in the dreams, ... It's nice to finish it off the way I did.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

Nido Qubein

This is a turning point for High Point University, ... Mr. Wilson's gift will enable us to fulfill many dreams and heighten our standards to new levels of excellence.

Bobby Byerly

Never did I think we'd score 15 runs on this bunch. Never in my wildest dreams.

Jeff Mangum

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

Hilary Clinton

In my dreams I meet six New Yorkers I screwed over. Whether I did it legally or not is irrelevant.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Tom Verica

I am definitely most proud of 'American Dreams.'

Marguerite Gardiner

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Bryce Harper

D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.

Joey Tribbiani

Colby had a good game, and that was big for him,

Joe Cunningham

Cody, he's the type of guy, no matter what, he's going to work his rear end off. He wanted to get off to a good start and might have been trying a little too hard.

Brian Divelbliss

Devin does a good job communicating and Joey is really fast, really quick. Kyle is just a good presence in the goal. We have options and we're starting all three to see what they can do. They're all good.

David Steele

Development and good conservation planning are not mutually exclusive.

Jason Calacanis

You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

Annie Proulx

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.

Philip James Bailey

My favoured temple is an humble heart.

Erykah Badu

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

Euripides

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

Harold B. Lee

Stay true in the dark, and humble in the spotlight.

Isak Dinesen

My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...

Johannes Tauler

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

Larry Hagman

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

Daniel Woodrell

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

Chuck Norris

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Thomas Reed

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Suzanne Collins

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.

George Mikes

If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are nearer in spirit to a YMCA than to dens of iniquity.

George W. Bush

Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.

George W. Bush

What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.

George W. Bush

You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Roy Oswalt

They pay you to pitch and that's what I'm going to do.

Vanna Bonta

Pay me for my work, but I dont do it for the money

Suzanne Collins

Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

Stephen King

Some things it don't pay to be curious about.

Stephen King

Pay and the story rolls, .. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

Sonam Kapoor

I don’t spend much because a lot of it is freebies. Though, usually, I pay.

Sylvia Plath

Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.

Ronald Burkle

I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.

Nick Lewis

We went in a little too confident. We've got to realize it's tough to win on the road in any conference.

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Alexander Milinkevich

It is important that the Russian authorities realize that we are sincerely willing to respect Russia's interests. But we are not going to sacrifice our interests, either.

Michael Newdow

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

Melissa McCarthy

I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don't have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless.

Suzanne Collins

Just remember, stealing's punishable by death

Sigmund Freud

That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

Neil Gaiman

I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.

Lisa McMann

Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.

Beck

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

Gary Snyder

That's the part most of us can remember being part of homeroom,

Candace Bushnell

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

Jared Leto

I remember seeing this image of these women wearing these bright clothes and patterns, and it struck me. I remember taking note and going, like, "What is that? Who is that?" and finding out it was Gucci and being surprised.

Erin Gruwell

Remember not all Germans were Nazis.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Edward Abbey

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

Dr. Seuss

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Andrei Sakharov

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Amy Tan

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

Thomas Jefferson

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Swami Vivekananda

Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.

Swami Vivekananda

And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

Ann Voskamp

Manna today or I starve.

Richard Branson

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Phil Garner

I don't think it was Weaver today as much as it was us,

Irving Penn

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

Jack Ma

Yahoo today is not a portal. Yahoo today is a search engine.

Jack Ma

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

Jack Kilby

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

Dave Sherrod

Most of what we see today is 4,000 years old.

Azzedine Alaia

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

Blaise Pascal

Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

Claire Danes

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Mark Zuckerberg

You can be so bad at so many things... and as long as you stay focused on how you're providing value to your users and customers, and you have something that is unique and valuable... you get through all that stuff.

Mark Zuckerberg

Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.

Margaret Mead

We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.

Marcus Buckingham

We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.

Marcus Buckingham

Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.

Kina Grannis

Being hapa, or more specifically, half-Japanese half-Euro mutt (English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, French, Welsh, German. . .in case you were wondering), has definitely helped shape who I am. It's very cool to get to identify and learn about all these unique cultures and I think it's helped put the world in perspective.

Melissa Etheridge

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Viktor Yushchenko

Enough arguing: There is enough work for everybody.

Willie Randolph

Even if he comes back, he's going to have to work his way back in there. ... There's no rush. That's for sure.

David McCullough

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.