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.

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living

Renée Arrington

If you find that you have several disengaged workers, that might be symptomatic of your culture.

Beppe Severgnini

If you are the owner of a factory employing 500 people, on Monday you talk to any of them about soccer, and that's completely unifying. Italy doesn't have very much in terms of national culture like that. ... You have Hollywood and all the stars, we don't have anything remotely (like that). Soccer compensates.

Reese Witherspoon

I'm having a great time playing Becky, ... She's a world away from Elle Woods and for me it's a great departure. It was a natural decision for me to get as far away from American pop culture as I could.

Amy Jordan

I know it's going to be a major culture shock, ... From little Hibbing to big Beijing.

Bible Bible

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

Michael Williams

He has big ears and he's real skinny. People like to pick on him. It was like that as long as I could remember.

Merv Adams

He'll reach up and take one of those big old floppy ears and he'll say, 'I can't hear you,' and they'll start that all over again.

Plutarch

The belly has no ears.

John D. Rockefeller

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed

Phyllis Bottome

... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

Joyce Carol Oates

It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'--and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.

Joseph Hall

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

John Heywood

Went in at the one ear and out at the other.

Angela Jackson

We will be removing exotic plants at Fortress Rosecrans as well as on the greenway near the Overall Street trailhead,

Thomas Pynchon

But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).

Frank Zappa

It's the same mysterious exotic oriental fragrance as what the Beatles get off on.

Martin Parr

Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.

James Sullivan

Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

Jim McDonnell

Kids come and they have no expectation that there's anything like that when they're feeding the ducks, ... You can imagine what could occur.

Lynn Gray

I would think you would expect a lot more than (1,000). They may have 10,000 people out there.

Paul Kim

I would say it was a shock. I think a lot of people expected him to remain in tenure for at least another two or three years.

Stone Gossard

J was open to our style from the get-go. They weren't expecting us to do something that was unnatural for us.

Greg Paulus

J.J. is going to get the looks. Sure, he missed his first four 3-pointers, but we knew he'd come back and hit the shots. We expect him to hit them and we look for him all the time.

David Thurtell

I suspect jewelers and other fabricators probably haven't got enough stocks yet. So we can expect some more physical buying.

Billy Donovan

I think it probably means something to their players because they understand what they're representing. A lot of times, it's the past players that they know are watching them that gives them a level of expectation of the way they're supposed to perform. I think that's a good thing for a program.

Steve Fell

It always seems when you least expect it, that's when it really happens. It's a tough thing to really get a feel for.

Mark Richt

I would think he is going to roll into the fall as the No. 1 guy. I still haven't seen anything to make me think we shouldn't do that.

Shaquille O'Neal

As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I'd score 40 points. I'd come home and say, 'Look dad, I scored 40.' He'd never have a smile on his face. He'd be like, 'I saw that move you did. What if you'd hurt your knee?'

David Holmes

I think the market is very healthy. With investors still waiting on the sidelines to get in, I just don't see the market falling away.

Steve Pemberton

Last fall was dreadful. I think the market is better now than last fall.

John Davis

I think it's really fallen off people's radar. We don't hear much about it at all.

Robert H. Connelly

The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end.

D. H. Lawrence

I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life.

Ben Roethlisberger

He looked like he was about ready to fall asleep. That's how I was last year.

John Lucas

He needed to know he could get hit, he could fall and it would be OK, ... We had to let it happen.

Foxy Brown

Jacki-O proved you far from a fighter/ ... I'm not gonna come at you, I'm gonna come at your ghost writer.

Joe Gibbs

I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don't have to look real far to find somebody. I'm to blame.

Vincent Lecavalier

I think we're far away from each other.

Ike Nwaelele

I think we've had a good ride so far and we want to keep it going. I think our team showed a lot of heart by (playing hard).

Ira Black

I think what we're all learning now is that stem cells, regardless of source, are simply far more flexible and consequently far more useful than we had ever dreamt,

John Mathews

I think what people want to know is does Toyota get it when it comes to trucks. The answer, as far as I am concerned, is a resounding yes.

Scott Bowers

I think at times we forget how young he is. (Tuesday) and up in Orlando on Friday he was by far one of the better players on the field for us and for the other team.

Carol Potter

I think as far as marathons go, we are the 'Rookie of the Year,'

Mayer Morganroth

I think as far as he's concerned, he thinks that what he did was proper. He knew the risks, and in order to move the process, he took the risks.

Keating Holland

Part of it is his resume, part of it is his announcement bounce, part of it may simply be that he's a fresh face. He is, after all, the flavor of the month.

Aarti Sequeira

I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.

Stuart Fraser

The U.S. has been a graveyard for U.K. retailers, so investors are a little cautious. It could be that it wants to a get a flavor for the market through a small operation and then make a massive acquisition to get instant size.

Marc Levy

There are moments that have a certain flavor of eternity

David Chang

I love to eat sushi, and, you know, those flavors and wasabi and really eating spoonfuls of it... I would just mix it and put it on everything, literally.

Coco Lee

I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

David Mitchell

The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But you just know when to use maybe and when to use perhaps. I think it's because of this: You get to know the tastes or musical tastes of words themselves, and this informs your choice, whether you use them or not.

Dan Barber

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

Joe Reilly

We'll have to show the same old tapes over and over instead of our own stuff. You lose all the flavor and the emotion.

Maria Sharapova

I also want to play in the Olympics and would love to represent Russia there as well.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Audrey Johnson

When he saw her, he meant to have her. That was what he always said. He just loved my mother.

Rita Ora

When I perform, I usually wear wigs because I love them.

Willie Randolph

I think any manager in his right mind would love to have a Pedro Martinez.

Sterling Knight

I watch way too many VH1 reality shows like 'I Love Money' and 'Tough Love.'

Craig Conroy

He's big and strong, skilled and yet passionate about the game. You want more and more people to know him, because when they get to know him, they're going to love him.

Carl Jung

I love you," I whisper. "And I love you." He smiles, his lips seeking mine. "Always have. Always will.

Carl Jung

Damen, seriously, you must know I don't love you because you're immortal, I love you because you're you.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Siri Hustvedt

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

Mike Hargrove

He might as well have been wearing a sandwich board, with 'Eat At Joe's' on one side, ... and 'I'm bunting' on the other.

Richard Paul Evans

Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.

Richard Dawkins

I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

Samuel Beckett

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

Salman Khan

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.

Wesley Clark

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work

Walt Disney

The worst of us is not without innocence,although buried deeply it might be.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Martina McBride

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Joe Thomas

I was a little nervous at first. I never played reggae music in my life.

Kelli O'Hara

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

King Krule

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

Yoko Ono

I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

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.

Richard P. Feynman

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

Richard Dawkins

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Rick Riordan

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

William Morris

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Rebecca Stead

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Roald Dahl

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Richard Dawkins

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Robin Williams

We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Phil Klay

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

Jane Smith

You have to know where to look, it just takes a little practice.

Paul Tagliabue

But it really doesn't matter. If it takes 2 1/2 (months), fine. If it takes 5 1/2 (months), that's fine, too.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

James Woods

Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.

Henry Rollins

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Julie Burchill

Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause

Laurieann Gibson

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.