Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vitruvius

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

Robert Hayes

The overwhelming bewilderment begins with the scores of competing plans that are being offered,

David Carson

I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.

David Eddings

I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

V. S. Naipaul

If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

Patti Davis

Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

Robin S. Sharma

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

Tom Bunnell

Today, the campaign begins speaking directly to voters about Conrad Burns' record of delivering for Montana. Montana is a better place to live, work and raise a family because of Conrad Burns.

Rob Morosi

We have the money now, and there's no denying that the roads we're rebuilding need to be done.

Rafael Cruz

Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

Mark McKinnon

Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.

Boris Labusov

It is completely absurd. We are tired of denying these assertions.

Kevin Renbarger

Manchester did a nice job of hitting the shots and winning that game. This was a game we thought we could win and needed to win in the conference. Now we are going to need some help in the conference. We have to do a better job on our interior defense. But, that also comes with denying the pass from out top.

Byron Miller

We are denying any involvement in any property acquisitions for such a purpose.

Aaron Gray

We drew up a play and Connecticut did a good job of denying me in the post. It's a tribute to great Connecticut defense.

Doug Hamilton

We'll evaluate the staff at the end of the season and make a decision. But there's been no denying I'm not overwhelmed with our record so far.

R. Ingram

We took it upon ourselves (to investigate) because it is a town that seems to be arbitrarily denying people their rights.

Rob Pike

To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.

Bobby Knight

Parcells and I have learned a lot of things during a lot of years since we first met. But being graceful about losing has never been one of them.

Leon Panetta

He was always graceful in the way he handled his guests, ... He always talked about substance. He never made snide remarks.

George Will

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

Yuri Semyonov

The Mir has lived a wonderful life and must end it in a graceful way,

Andy Parsons

Is it as meticulous and graceful as a human touch would be? No, it's not,

Pete Seeger

It was not going to be a graceful symbol of the past. It was going to try to restore the river.

Omar Minaya

The key thing with Mike is to communicate and we did that, ... He's gracefully done everything we've asked.

Tilda Swinton

This film is all about questions and gracefully not about answers. This film steers away from that.

Benjamin Rush

In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.

Gerald Anderson

I was thinking about leaving here, but not because of Fred,

Tom Gonsalves

I was upset because we have been in tougher situations than this, and we lost our composure. They were leaving the person they were guarding, and doing their own thing on defense.

Robert Earl

I think I'm ready. It'll be tough leaving school behind, but I think I'm ready for that phase of my life.

Todd Turner

I wish the legislators would see how much money is leaving the state.

Michael Woods

Give yourself plenty of time to get wherever you're going. If you're leaving at your normal time, you've left too late.

Chris Aguila

He wasn't leaving a lot of stuff over the plate.

Michelle Langsford

I have been with him from day one, and I was not leaving his side when he needed me most.

Lauren Emerson

I didn't want my teammates to feel like I was leaving them because I was injured.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

Charles Gargano

That was why we privatized the World Trade Center, by means of a 99-year net lease.

Marcus Samuelsson

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Woody Johnson

We all recognize that there are similarities here. We will be searching out the possibility that we have a serial bomber.

Domhnall Gleeson

I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

Larina Kase

To become successful is to recognize every tiny step towards successand then take more of them.

Tariq Aziz

We don't have any relationship with the Taliban, ... We didn't recognize the Taliban.

Bobby Gonzalez

I don't know what it was with Jason. I didn't really recognize him today.

Gail Goestenkors

We've watched enough tapes of them to recognize they are scrappy.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Yael Stone

I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

Walead Beshty

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

Brina Palencia

I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me.

David Steinberg

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested.

Carrie Fisher

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

Carl Reiner

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

Carl Rogers

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Bette Davis

Yes, burn your bridges.

Anthony Storr

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Phoebe Philo

It's been a bit tricky trying to establish a 'designer' profile and not a designer-cum-girl-around-town.

Richard Garnett

He was a follower. He got tricked easily.

Cassie Desmone

He managed his way through a lot of tricky holes.

Nestor Carbonell

It's tricky to do a serialized show and not lose viewers along the way because you really have to watch every episode.

Gary Sinise

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Tracy McMillan

You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way.

Gavin Hood

Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

Douglas MacArthur

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Dorothy Richardson

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

Bill Bradley

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

Maurice Maeterlinck

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

Diane von Furstenberg

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

David Suzuki

The event of creation did not take place so many eons ago, astronomically or biologically speaking. Creation is taking place every moment of our lives.

Cesare Pavese

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Alan Parker

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you experience your wisdom and the power of things as they are, together, as one, then you have access to tremendous vision and power in the world. You find that you are inherently connected to your own being. That is discovering magic.

Chogyam Trungpa

When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.

Cher Wang

If you have a vision, no matter how difficult things are, everything just becomes a process.