Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom G. Palmer

Rather, classical liberals and libertarians argue that the system of justice should abstract from the concrete characteristics of individuals.

Douglas Trumbull

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.

Kenneth L. Pike

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Twyla Tharp

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

Auberon Herbert

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

Mark Williams

Everything is so abstract at this point. All that has to be worked out.

Ruth Ginsburg

You are well aware that I come to these proceedings to be judged as a judge. ... It would be wrong for me to say or to preview in this legislative chamber how I would cast my vote on questions the Supreme Court may be called upon to decide. ... Judges in our ... system are bound to decide concrete cases, not abstract issues. ... A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints. ... It would display disdain for the entire judicial process.

Legal Maxim

Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility

Ed Kowalczyk

This song probably has the most memorable melody we've ever recorded. I really like how we're using something so catchy to convey these abstract lyrical ideas I have about songwriting. When I sit down to write a song, I always feel like I'm wading into a river where a nurturing female presence guides me and pushes me along when I need it.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

As a result of its tremendous box office success, the potential to tell a new chapter in its story and the popularity of the film's characters, we are excited to announce that we are making 'Madagascar' our second company franchise -- along with 'Shrek,

Douglas Brinkley

As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar.

Don Walker

The boundaries are marked and signs are up. Parking facilities are being developed. The public will need to park along maintained roads for now.

John Eisenhower

The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

Phil Johnson

a very good guy -- happy-go-lucky. . . . He got along with everyone.

Source Unknown

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

Steven Whittaker

At youth team level, I always played in central midfield alongside Kevin Thomson and I used to get well up the park and score quite a lot of goals,

Ehud Barak

a true partner for (Yitzhak Rabin) all along his life, and the woman that carried the torch of the peace process since her husband was assassinated.

John Connelly

Bally's growing slot machine business within Macau and throughout Asia -- along with serving a key Bally Systems customer, Sands Macau, and our Bally Table Management Systems (TMS(TM)) customer, Galaxy Entertainment Group -- prompted the opening of this office, which further demonstrates our commitment to the region while establishing Bally for future expansion throughout the Asia-Pacific market.

Seth Godin

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

Debra Burlingame

This is a ruse to convey to the public that they somehow are doing something.

Henry Lee

The eyes are the most difficult part. It's essential to have a pair of eyes that convey a vivid expression and spirit.

Morris Chestnut

I felt it was important to convey to people, especially younger people, that everything on the surface is not always what it seems.

Lawrence Korb

Who is out there that is more ready than we are? What military in the world are we not ready to take on? I think it's dangerous to convey to the rest of the world who looks to us to provide leadership that we have more problems than we are letting on.

Tim Smalley

We were lucky to get Terry to help us with this project. He is not just an expert angler but also a gifted teacher. Terry puts on dozens of fishing seminars throughout the year, so he knows how to convey his knowledge to anglers in an understandable and entertaining way.

Bill Bestwick

He conveyed that to (co-owner) Ken Wagner. Ken stopped in Vancouver and met with Shaun and his father on Sunday morning, hoping to convince him on the merits of being a Nanaimo Clipper.

Robert Thomas

The administration relies on Senate to convey the students' wishes.

David A. Bednar

Revelations are conveyed in a variety of ways, including, for example, dreams, visions, conversations with heavenly messengers, and inspiration. Some revelations are received immediately and intensely; some are recognized gradually and subtly.

Hank Sheinkopf

Using 'it could be great' hits the so-what problem, because it doesn't convey a sense of urgency for voters to do anything. There's no emotional potency. But that's the story of the Ferrer campaign.

Tina St. John

He was on his knees before this female, and he'd gladly stay there for the rest of his life.

Sandra Bullock

I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.

Andrea Dean

They looked over the roster and matched up the females on the roster with the information given in the tip.

Pam Grier

It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.

Jo Brand

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

Janina Gavankar

I feel like in Atlanta, if you were a female dancer, the more you can dance like the boys, the more respect you get. I was thrust into that kind of dance culture, and it was in my body.

Camille Paglia

There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.

Carl Jung

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

M. Russell Ballard

Remove any of your fear with faith. Trust the power of God to guide you.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brian Tracy

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

Brian Tracy

Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

Brenda Ueland

You do not know what is in you - an inexhaustible fountain of ideas.

Brad Meltzer

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Jane Jacobs

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Jane Jacobs

New ideas often need old buildings.

Erich Bergen

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

Drake Bell

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

Burning Spear

Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?

Albert Einstein

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.

Albert Einstein

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Albert Einstein

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

Albert Einstein

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

Albert Einstein

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

Albert Einstein

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

Albert Einstein

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

Albert Einstein

It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

Tagg Romney

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

Antonio Porchia

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

Edgar Allan Poe

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

Aristotle

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

Alain Rene Le Sage

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

Pocahontas

What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing.

Orson Scott Card

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

Daniel Boone

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

E. B. White

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

Amanda Lamb

Do you think it's a waste to have all this stuff sitting here?

Stephen Cohen

The site is safe... everything is functioning as normal.

Jennifer Hill

It was weird not having him sitting there telling us where to stand. It was hard, but the team stuck together.

Johnny Rivers

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

Bryant Young

That's just one game, and to sit here and say we've arrived, I can't say that, because we haven't,

Stephanie Zimbalist

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

Brad Williams

Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.

Russell Dynes

We really haven't had a situation like this.

Peggy Lee

Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Aretha Franklin

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Brad Paisley

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard

Brad Paisley

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

Brad Paisley

I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

Brad Paisley

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

Jana Kramer

I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with I Hope It Rains it was definitely somewhere in the middle with being sassy but also a little class in there as well. It was a good blend for me and who I want to be perceived as an artist.

Ben E. King

I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that this is going to be like this for the rest of my life and I knew that what, what they were doing was going to be successful because with each session that we would do, it would get better and better and better, the songs would become better, the, ah, the feeling of success was there and we were all in the middle of that as well.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.