Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kay Redfield Jamison

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

Neil Tennant

I think it proves that being gay isn't a cultural choice, which means you've got to like Barbra Streisand records. You can be what you want to be.

Tim Berners-Lee

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

Sam Brownback

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

Thomas Hahn

He represented kind of the lowest residue of cultural knowledge. The implication is that every English speaker by the 1380s would have known Robin Hood. ... That's a pretty extraordinary idea.

Thomas Hahn

He represented kind of the lowest residue of cultural knowledge, ... The implication is that every English speaker by the 1380s would have known Robin Hood. ... That's a pretty extraordinary idea.

Diego Della Valle

La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy's cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image. Closing it would send a message to the rest of the world that Italy doesn't care.

Bob Dixon

I think that was a contribution to the community, an enlightening cultural exchange,

Jay Chism

It is important that a good sales staff know which product works on what pest. It is also important for retailers to know when to recommend good cultural practices. Not every problem in the home landscape can be cured from a pesticide bottle.

Jeremy Barnes

I was looking for a fast ball, and just hoping it would fall. But I'll play wherever they put me, I'll do anything I can to help.

Jason Kendall

I was looking for a fast ball, and he (Lackey) threw me something else and started talking to me. I can't repeat what he said to me, but nobody is going to talk to me like that.

Brad Turner

Jacksonville was faster and Forney was bigger, so we've seen different types of defenses, ... We feel like we can do some things.

Louis Eppolito

I wrote it four times for her. It didn't go fast enough for her.

Mark Morehouse

Kelly's 200 IM was just a phenomenal swim. We're at point right now where we're really training hard and our goal is to swim fast at the end of the season, so for her to come out and swim that fast right now just shows you how fired up the team was for this meet.

Peter Karpas

Karpas Law of Computing: If it's not instantaneous, it's not fast enough.

John Thomson

Keeping them off my fastball made my fastball that much better. I think that's the big key for that lineup, because they're such a good fastball-hitting team.

Stuart Schweigert

Just watching him run around in practice, seeing how fast he is, you could see how he could do that. I really respect him for what he's doing out here. We like to kid him, though, about his scouting job, wondering what he's writing about himself.

Jim Barks

Josh had a good day. He always will have a good day. I'm pleased that he placed in the 100. He's a fast, big kid. He's in that because we don't have a fast 100-meter person to put in there. I'm tickled pink for him to score points in the 100. He scored in every event. The relay, he won the discus and shot put, and took third in the 100. He's putting points in the till for us to help us out. That's pretty cool.

Sathya Baba

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Purnama Dharmaji

It can be turned into a powder that can be sprinkled on top of food, just like table salt.

Grant Achatz

Ultimately, the perfect meal is when those things come together - circumstance, the food, ambiance, and you're with the person that you want to be with.

Daniel Boulud

I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally sourced.

Daniel Boulud

Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.

Nancy Williams

It hurts all of the food banks. Food is costing more and it's harder to get.

Eric Wareheim

L.A. malls are so different than a 'mall' mall like we probably all grew up with that had a food court and the sword shop, the yo-yo kiosk.

Timothy Ramey

There is a lack of innovation, lack of reinvestment, and lack of news in the category. We're not recommending any large-cap food names.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Dan Glickman

Kansas is not going to become the Hollywood of the future. But the film studios are looking to make quality stories, interesting stories, all over the country.

Sam Simon

I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.

Trevor Noah

I'm not a big Hollywood guy. I don't know how the machine works. I leave that to people better than myself.

Johnny Grant

his vigor and passion for Hollywood that's just so infectious and so important.

Scott Caan

Hollywood is sort of a small, little town, and doing things like that - like writing a play or selling a script - those are the little things people see.

Fred A. Allen

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for a star.

John Rose

Hollywood is always paranoid about that sort of thing.

Nikki Sixx

We are from Hollywood, you know that's where we started.

Alex Jones

Hollywood is owned by the Arabs.

Scott Erickson

What we wanted to do was just put to rest the question of, 'Hey, are they going to be around now that (Apple is) making a major switch to Intel?

Jon Cryer

His name is Blane? That's a major appliance, that's not a name!

Dr. Armstrong

I think it's a major step forward. There's no question about it.

David Becker

I think it's a major step forward, I don't think it signals any retreat from vigorous enforcement.

Rhodri Morgan

It is all part of a major Welsh revival. We are raising our game, and not just on the rugby field.

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Sylvana Foa

I think (that) the major conclusions are that there are a lot of very rich people who are getting very, very rich, and there are a lot of very, very poor people who are getting even poorer.

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Sam Worthington

I do movies I would go to see.

Sam Raimi

Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

Stephen Sondheim

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

Justin Mason

There are a lot of stereotypes from non-Greeks. I think they see movies like 'Animal House' and think it's all parties and poor academics.

Nadine Velazquez

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

Mort Sahl

I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.

John Fithian

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,

Sarah Baker

With movies, you get to be in a bubble while you're creating it, and it's not until it comes out that you see whether people like it or not.

David Hunt

I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

Rob Sheffield

The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-water mark of bro culture, nothing can ever top the MTV series 'Bromance,' with Brody Jenner and his search for a new BFF.

Kirsten Dunst

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

Ozzy Osbourne

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

Nick Rhodes

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

Nafisa Joseph

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

Leonard Slatkin

I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.

Pete Wentz

My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like "I don't care what MTV says you are.".

Prince

At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.

Prince

The Internet's completely overThe Internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.