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.

Stephen Harper

Can the prime minister tell us why this Liberal culture of waste and scandal is only stopped once it is actually exposed publicly?

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.

Rebecca Loos

He's a stranger to me now. He looks very different to how I knew him. And the way he dealt with the whole thing. He's just a very different man.

Joe Torre

He had to have butterflies tonight. There's no question. But I thought he dealt with it really well.

Rodney Ellis

A lot of these organizations have historically dealt with people on the margins,

Jerry Angelo

We're going with the hand that we dealt ourselves. It's unfortunate; Rex will be missed.

Jamie Lynn Spears

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

Andrew Natsios

There have been problems. ... I think most of them have been dealt with at this point,

Jerry Angelo

Well look, but we're going with the hand that we dealt ourselves. We said that going in, and we're comfortable with it.

John Timoney

If officers are found to have overstepped their bounds, they will be dealt with,

Colin Murray

Howard was a truly evil man. He is the worst sex offender I have ever dealt with,

Lord Warner

We've been told for some time that we should be more self-sufficient in doctors and not suck in doctors from overseas.

David Oaks

We're opposed to all these techniques because they're inherently intrusive and irreversible, and they give doctors a lot of control. It's like throwing gas on a fire.

Craig Patrick

I think we'll take our time. The doctors said he could be working out in as soon as three days, but we'll monitor it and see how he's doing when he gets back.

Diana Zuckerman

I think a lot of doctors have been slow to change.

Richard Carmona

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.

Sarah Sutton

There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.

Vincent Canby

Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.

Samuel Barber

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

Rudolph Valentino

Well, doctor, and do I now act like a 'pink powder puff' ?

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Sakie Yokota

I survived this hardship for 20 years until I found out she had been abducted by North Korea.

Al Borges

He did a wonderful job considering he found out less than an hour before the game. We tried to keep it as low maintenance as we could.

Aaron Boone

He's a good dude. I found that out right away. Obviously, he's going to be a good player, and he knows how to act, too. I want to be there to help him out. But I don't want to overkill him with Johnny Veteran stuff. We're all men here and we're all teammates here. Plus, I like him.

Emanuel Brown

He's a senior and he wanted to finish, but unfortunately the trainers didn't want him to get up until they found out if it was muscle or bone.

Justin Scott

He's a very good player, a very good player. I found out he couldn't go right, so toward the end of the game I tried to make him go right. We tried to go around screens and help a lot.

Kyle Lowry

He shot horrible -- not horrible, but not as well -- last night, and we still found a way to win. This is what this team is made of. If everything is not going our way, we still are going to find a way to get the win.

Jan Roberts

He's a wonderful person. He's a positive role model for all these kids. He found his passion and worked for it.

Navtej Sarna

There is need for genuine dialogue. The solution has to be found by the people of Nepal through a peaceful but political settlement. We are ready to help in any way we can.

Michael Jacobson

It looks to us as though hospitals hadn't been thinking about how they've been preparing foods.

M. Wolfe

Every week, more than a thousand patients are killed in American hospitals as a result of negligence.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Simon Crisford

I think we will be recommending to Sheikh Mohammed that she stays in trainer next year because there is potential for more improvement from her.

Tyra Banks

Don't make excuses - make improvements!

James Anthony Froude

Human improvement is from within outward.

Skip Glover

That's a big step. That's a big improvement in this team since last year. Last year, a lot of times a team got physical with them they might be a little more hesitant, but not this time. They usually don't return what they get. They like to play their game.

Dave Long

It's much lower than it should be. There is much room for improvement.

David Snyder

It's worth it, ... You're going to pay for it over 30 years, and I think it's an important regional improvement.

Wally Buono

I wanted to see improvement or we were going to make moves. I said I was not going to be patient with the veterans, the ones who didn't show enough improvement. It's part of why we're 9-0 and other teams aren't. We feel that we made better personnel decisions, for whatever reasons.

E. O. Wilson

No matter how small the improvement, all (the coaches) are looking for is for everyone to do their best.

Bobby Holik

Jacques Lemaire said when a team fails, no individual is successful, ... When a team is successful, all the individuals are successful.

Michel Lu

It is not to be used for personal reasons or by individual personalities.

Tyler Blackburn

I really like individualism based on truth.

Sarah Vowell

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Rudolf Steiner

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

Walt Disney

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

Walt Whitman

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

Zora Neale Hurston

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

William P. Leahy

The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.

Ron Iwami

I talked to A&B and HCDA, the two parties involved and they told me 'Ron, we will not move on this signing until the Legislature decides'.

Jim Bell

I think it is our role to get involved and not just sit back and wait for someone else to help.

Charles Mason

There are simply too many players involved for a (conspiracy) to be plausible.

Raymond Cruz

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

Nick Cave

When you're making a film, there are so many people involved that you get opinions and notes from people and you don't even know who they are. I find that quite difficult and it wears you down.

Louise Nurding

I don't get involved in football! I haven't got a sporty bone in my body.

Ryan Phillippe

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

Joe Hall

Relatives said (Mr. Booker) made violent threats in the past, but were not sure if they involved the son,

John Foxe

If you watch us play, Steve Smith is involved quite a bit.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Trisha Goddard

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Richard Davidson

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

William Matthews

It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.

William McDonough

We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.

William Shatner

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

William James

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

Tucker Max

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.

John Buckingham

You ride out the downturn and you're usually rewarded in the end,

Marcia Gay Harden

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Rebecca West

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Russell Crowe

I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.

Ron Conway

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.

Trey Smith

Just the way they work together was really unique. A lot of other teams don't have that.

Bryan McCabe

It will be tough. Not many teams go out there and win too many games.

Devan Downey

They were one of those teams that we were so much better than them, we thought we could turn it on and off.

Rafer Alston

It was nothing that other teams did to us. It was a lot of what we did to ourselves.

Camelia Sams

We play a lot of tough teams out of the district. It's tough, but we need the practice.

Daniel Snyder

Some teams are contributing a little more than others. It's really a win-win situation.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Flip Saunders

Teams are waiting for us to get things turned up. When that happens, that's when we go on our little runs.