Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

Tina Brown

Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals.

Idina Menzel

Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'

Idina Menzel

I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!

Isaac Brock

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

Isabella Bird

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.

Giles Foden

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.

Gil Gerard

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.

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.

John Eaton

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

Sivamani

I know I have experience, having worked with the likes of legendary composers like Ilaiyaraaja. And, I've been long enough with my dear friend A. R. Rahman, and we've collaborated on several musical works. All this gives me confidence.

Stephen Sondheim

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

Pablo Casals

Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Robert Morris

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Robert Walzel

Mozart was one of those composers who was successful in all genres, and we wanted to show the diversity of his music.

Bruce Kovner

It has been great fun to find these manuscripts and pull them together into this collection. I trust that what we are doing at the school will make it possible for Juilliard students and scholars to delve into the compositional processes of these great composers and share them with the rest of the world.

Christopher Young

Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five or more movies in a year.

Gian Carlo Menotti

My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'

Nina Bawden

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.

Peter Schmitt

That would be obscene. That is not what the people of this county intended when they elected 10 Democrats. ... The Democrats should be in charge.

Heather Danenhower

That was the trend. Marion County hired its first paid firefighter in 1979.

Campbell Mercer

We can't imagine Mr. Spinks wanting to do anything that could be as potentially harmful to Ohio County culture and history as this. If we do receive official notice, then we will respond at that time.

Carl Goldberg

We'll probably look first in southern Bergen County for a suitable site for the Jets. We'll talk to the mayors first and see what sort of land mass is available. I'm sure some communities would be quite enthused about that idea.

Jeff Pollick

We have three dual meets before the Allegheny County tournament. That would give Nathan a shot to reach 100 wins in the finals, if he wrestles five times at the county tournament. It would be great if it works out that way.

A. Hodge

We've gotten a lot accomplished and helped the county quite a bit,

Kent Williams

We've had good luck in the county with the wind farm we have right now ... By and large I think the greatest percentage of our population has been very supportive of the project.

E. P. Thompson

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County . We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.

William Shatner

I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?

Chuck Palahniuk

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

Yayoi Kusama

You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

Clint Eastwood

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I'd eventually run out of steam on that, and that would've been the end of it.

Natalie Massenet

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

Sebastian Stan

I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.

Rick Rubin

At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock because I liked Kiss, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, and eventually AC/DC.

Brett Mackey

We have the firepower to do that. A lot of it is as long as the kids stay patient and keep executing, eventually it's going to go.

DeShawn Stevenson

We're way more talented than our record. After the trades we made, you can see that in the long term we're going to be a good team down the line. We've got a lot of young guys who are 23, 24 and even 20 years old, and we're eventually going to be a playoff team even though we're struggling now.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

C. S. Lewis

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Cecelia Ahern

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Bill Bryson

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

Bertrand Russell

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Scott Mills

We can't go out and be everywhere, ... With the public's help, we are taking these 'grows' down one by one.

Annemarie Conroy

We're taking these 300 whether we get reimbursed or not.

Bob Hunter

I thought I was going to be a reporter, taking notes,

Robert Fowler

We can all look and see what is taking place.

Chris Carter

We are not taking walking wounded on the plane.

Jack Evans

There are not even any discussions about it taking place around here.

Geno Auriemma

I think she's taking it pretty seriously. You know, it's that time of the year.

Mohammed Kamal

We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.

Debra Shaw

Never thought I would be taking this trip again,