Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vikram Seth

I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.

Colm Keaveney

There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society.

Nicholas A. Christakis

We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or 6 real friends.

Francis J. Grimke

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

Sean Covey

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.

Roger Wicker

Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

Patrick Carman

I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.

Holly Edwards

We've learned a lot about how weather affects counts, and really refined our calculations about the weather and the days that we fly, I can't say it's not a possibility that there were 3,000 manatees in 1991.

Tim Roberts

We're watching to see if and how it affects domestic steel.

Yani Tseng

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

Tina Fey

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

Thomas Friedman

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

Isabella Bird

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression.

Ian Watson

It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Gabriel Mann

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

Glenn Tipton

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

Gin Wigmore

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

Will Rothhaar

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

Isabella Bird

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

Evangeline Lilly

Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.

Lauren Morgens

The only rats are the ones she brings aboard to play with.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

The political moment is not good and football always brings happiness to the Brazilian people, especially if we succeed in qualifying for the cup,

Bill Belichick

The overall competitive nature he brings as an owner and as a franchise (still exists),

Barry Hyman

The payroll numbers were extraordinarily supportive for the economy. But counter to that, the report brings back the Fed and inflationary prospects, and that's why you see just a modest up day.

Dolly Parton

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.

Ravi Zacharias

How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth.

Francisco Goya

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

Sebastian Horsley

My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death.

Johannes Ullrich

Typically, the infective vector is a laptop connected to unsecured networks,

Jacob Davis

We have been very connected our entire relationship.

Randy Bachman

Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.

Doug Krieger

Mercury is sometimes naturally occurring in the state, it is not always connected to mining tailings. We are trying to identify where it is and where it is not, so the testing is a multi-year project.

Hillary Clinton

I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.

Lisa Jennings

Maybe some representatives or senators are connected to that in some way, but I wouldn't know and can't speculate on that.

Ben Horowitz

The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

Tim Fletcher

It doesn't constitute illegal market manipulation. It's not trading on any inside information. They are not a connected party with the company.

Idris Elba

Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

Ian Mckellen

Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

Chris Carter

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Chino Moreno

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

Kevin Garnett

That was so unfortunate. It could have happened to any of us. I kept telling him, 'You'll be OK. We're right there with you.

Laurent Gbagbo

We have always wanted sanctions after what has happened in Cote d'Ivoire,

Reid Scott

One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White Stripes fan, and I did a whole 180. It was like my jaw hit the ground.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.

Sepp Blatter

The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Joining a new church and starting a new life is never easy and often frightening.

Audre Lorde

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

Noel Redding

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

Greg Steinhoff

We are joining with other Midwest states to get over the fly-over syndrome that we suffer from. We are making it known that there are tremendous biotech resources in the region.

Nick Logan

We did try. At this point, he will not be joining us.

Sondhi Limthongkul

Our Monday protest will have more people joining from the provinces.

Michael D. Barnes

But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

Graeme Smith

I think he will be joining the squad (this week). I don't know if he will be playing though.

Stephen Kinzer

As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

James Clarke

We have two skeletons preserved, the larger lying on top of the other one.

Joe Wilcox

Microsoft had tremendous success with larger businesses, but that market has become very saturated.

Rease Watson

We have one of the larger parts to cover.

Rebecca Mangieri

You'll always want to find an actor in the larger role first.

Cassandra Dunn

The problem was much larger than we expected.

Richard Boucher

little pieces being picked out of a larger context.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Julie Martineau

We will screen questions for relevancy for the position.

Craig Harris

Most of the questions were about the stage of development we are in.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo

We can't be talking about changes. There are questions to which I say 'next question' and this is one of them.

Mike McCurry

Those who are undecided are still seeking some of those fundamental questions answered. Who you are, what your values are, is something these voters really look to." ()

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Sonny Jackson

He was in there long enough to raise questions.

Larry Sabato

He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified.

Don Cheadle

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

David D. Burns

Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad.

Byron Katie

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

Cary Elwes

The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.

Alan Watts

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

Alan Watts

I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

Edith Stein

Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.

Beatrice Wood

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

Kurt Vonnegut

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Ashley Tisdale

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.

Ashton Kutcher

I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary.

Bill Burr

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

Rodney Brooks

Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time.

Jeff Bruggink

Nick's a special kid. It's actually kind of scary to think where we would be without him.

Frank Tavani

He was scary a year ago and he was scary out there today.

Bryan Ferry

Performing was terrifying.

Cesare Pavese

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Catherine Deneuve

I'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type.

Billy Wilder

I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.

Andy Murray

I didn't practise it loads when I was at the academy in Spain, but when I got on the ATP Tour it's something I dedicated a lot of time to.

Ilse Hartung

I've been teaching 22 years, and I've never been to Spain. I'm from a Spanish-speaking country, but Spain is very important.

Rafael Nadal

I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.

George Papandreou

If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice.

Mario Monti

If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny.

Paz Vega

I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

Paz Vega

All my life is in Spain. I will stay.