Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Bohjalian

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

Neil Strauss

Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they're barely able to appreciate their accomplishments.

Nikolai Gogol

Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?

Pico Iyer

In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

Willie Bloomquist

We were half a stride away today. Jose made a great play, but the guy just barely was safe.

Garrett Smith

We've had Boy Scout projects to clean up that bike lane many times. The street is barely wide enough for cars.

Mitchell Baker

We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as computers. If you think about the future, when you're traveling around, it's great to have a lightweight, small form factor.

Helen Roberts

My body has held up like I can barely believe,

Simon Walker

Mike and I barely talked during the race,

Josh Lerner

The patent system is a trade-off. We get the 'good' of an invention in exchange for the 'bad' of a temporary monopoly on that invention.

Richard Leakey

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.

Lior Horev

We are not sitting quietly. ... We are molding the region, security-wise, the way we think it needs to look, and the Palestinians have a lot to lose. First of all in exchange for an independent Palestinian state, they have to provide security.

Tang Xu

We have a very good start for the foreign exchange regime ... We also want liberalization of interest rates.

George Carlin

Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day

Agnes Garvin

We're all in this together. So it provided an opportunity for us to exchange views.

Khaled Mashaal

We expect an exchange of opinions to take place and hope that nobody will put forward any conditions.

Rig Veda

Those who exchange ideas, views and knowledge can never be harmed by anyone.

Michel Alaby

One of the proposals is to link the sites. Another is to exchange information about investment, trade, tourism and business.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Arnold Rothstein

I prefer to make my living honestly.

David Akers

I'm honestly proudest of this kick today. I can honestly say that.

David Akers

I'm honestly most proud of that kick today.

Tom Reeves

We didn't even go. We honestly thought that $4 million was pushing it, so there wasn't any missed opportunity.

Ron Howard

I think people relate to the story for personal reasons. Some are interested in the mystery, some are interested in the spirituality and some are interested in the locations. I honestly think that a lot of people get a lot of different things out of it.

Wendy Crewson

Nobody honestly thought she would do the things she did.

Bob Morton

I look through the team and I can honestly say I can't see a weakness,

Keith Gayden

I have a lot of thoughts. I don't know what to say. I don't know what happened. I honestly thought he would be here next year. Put it like that.

Sami Gayle

I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

David Hewson

TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.

Jim Broadbent

I love a really good storyline.