Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sissy Spacek

He is just fantastic. As Ruth Fowler, I had to hate him while we were filming. And when I saw the film, I had such empathy for him.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Roger Ebert

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy,

Zhuangzi

The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.

Rebecca Solnit

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

Peter Greenaway

It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.

Jonathan Haidt

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

Katherine Ellison

Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.

Eric Fischl

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a ""crowned head,"" although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester:""If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester.""""The reason, Sire, that you would thrive,"" The fool said --""if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit."" --Oogum Bem

Paula Mitchell

Knowing that my mother's alive and how she fought her way out, that's helped me a lot, ... We've heard so much bad news all week, we needed some good news.

Bill Clinton

John had a dream of black people as successful and smart and beautiful and heroic, a vision of keeping hope alive by showing black people as faces of hope. He never gave up. He never gave in. He once said 'At the end of the day, we're all just trying to give people hope.' I liked John Johnson. I thought he was a strong and wise, straight forward and kind man.

Mike Hanson

He is very lucky to be alive. We were told he was lucky to be alive and his face had severe trauma.

M. Wolfe

GW is out, so it's anybody's. That's what we want. We're trying to stay alive and get an NCAA bid.

Mike Williamson

He's keeping us alive for stretches of games when we're not playing our best.

Dan Daniel

There is more of a diverse group in The Gulch than anywhere else in Nashville. It's an interesting, alive community and ICON is the first of many changes down there.

Paul Thurrott

I have certain misgivings about Vista resembling Mac OS X. With its translucent windows, such comparisons are going to be hard to avoid. But Vista's similarity with OS X goes well beyond window dressing. Certain applications, such as Calendar, Sidebar, and Photo Gallery, appear to be directly, ahem, influenced by similar applications in OS X. Microsoft has a response to that claim, which I'll reveal in part 3 of this review, but suffice to say they're going to get eaten alive for these similarities.

Jimmy Gobble

I'd like not to have got into that situation. I was trying to get out of there alive basically. I just had to readjust my thinking and try to get a ground ball or pop fly, and it happened. That is a positive way to look at it. I would say that it was a positive outing.

Deborah Fallows

For men, it's just, 'Give me the facts. For women, it's 'Let's talk about this. Are you worried about this problem?' It's keeping in touch and connecting with people in a richer way.

Jan Denise

When I am me, I can see me in my space. My desk faces the window and an ocean. The flower on my desk gives off a wonderful aroma. The refrigerator has something in it I feel good about eating. When I am me, I can see me in my day. I am writing. I am talking from a heart of love. I am reviewing my notes, or editing, or walking, or something outside. I am connecting with nature and people.

Geoff Mayfield

I know at least two major distributors think the gap will get wider before the end of the year. There has been softness in the top 10 throughout the year, and in most weeks, it didn't take as much to be in the top 10 as it did in 2004. The music is not connecting with consumers the way it did last year.

Rick Jackson

I never met a man that more personified the ideas of a Southern gentleman. And I've never heard another radio man who was better at connecting with his listeners.

David Horowitz

You can't read a story about me in a leftist journal without connecting me to right-wing funding and this and that. Why don't they just deal with the issues?

Dick Enberg

The ecstatic leap of two years ago ? smiling and subtle today. Phil Mickelson, at 35, connecting his personal legacy with the legends and tradition of The Masters.

Mark Cuban

It's just connecting with fans and lets them know we recognize that they're responsible for paying all the bills. It's not meant to be a league thing. It's a Dallas Maverick thing.

Summer Luciano

They're not connecting the dots between tuition increases and voting. So it's important to connect these dots to the issues.

Stephen Colvin

The point of doing the lounges is another way of connecting with our readers and for readers to connect with the Maxim brand,