Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.

Sebastian Faulks

The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.

Oliver North

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

Pico Iyer

Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?

Douglas Altabef

You'll see markets continue to do the Cha-Cha, moving higher, but paced by brief retrenchments. It's not going to be as good as last year, but I think 2004 will still be a good year for the stock markets.

Brett Tomko

I strayed away from the game plan. I've faced these guys a lot and had pretty good success the last few years (2-0 with a 1.50 ERA last season). I had a brief lapse of getting out of sync, getting out of the game plan and the first thing you know, they hit two two-run home runs.

Frank Robinson

Just knowing him for a brief period of time, I feel like he's going to go out there and give it 110% and he's going to put the effort in to get better on a daily basis. He's not going to go out there and just put time in.

Harlan Ellison

Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

Hussein Chalayan

I can be working on a collection and a film at the same time. It can take a lot out of me, but the processes come from the same source. From a brief I set myself I can make a film, I can make a collection, I can make an installation.

William McDonough

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

Betsey Johnson

I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.

Allen Johnson

To like these kinds of cars, you have to be a romantic who loves history, ... When you fix them yourself, you're not just getting into the heads of the designer but into the heads of the guys who made the tools for the designer. It's an incredible trip.

Octavia Spencer

What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.

Azzedine Alaia

I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women.

E. B. White

I think one of the most interesting trends for spring is military. We saw it for fall, but for spring it's being shown with a floaty dress and I think it's made designers very creative, like, how do I do military but lighten it and make it soft?

Roz Savage

I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer clothes.

Warren Spector

For most developers, that kind of situation - a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn't intend - to most developers, that's a bug. For me, that's a celebration.

Max Azria

For me, one of the biggest designers is Azzedine Alaia. Everything he is doing is fantastic.

Yigal Azrouel

It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.

Catherine Malandrino

Macrame is effortless.

Mary McFadden

Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.

Rick Smith

People get stuck on power, but good swings can generate effortless speed, not powerless speed. Powerless speed comes from this violent effort to swing the club, and that's not how it works.

Michael Palin

Ronnie could turn himself into any character. He did it with an effortless ease.

Kerry Collins

Everything is so effortless for him, ... It doesn't look like he's running. I can throw it as far as I can and he catches up to it with no problem. He's a unique guy. He can run unique routes. Every day, I see something that's new and different, and it's something that I like.

Tom Petty

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

Eve Ensler

Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.

Ben Affleck

I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.

Bonnie Somerville

My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing.

Denise Richards

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

Viva Bianca

When I was a little girl at school, I really wanted to be Katie or Sarah or Sophie. When you're a little girl at school, you want to be like the other little girls.

Natalie du Toit

The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

Rebecca Romijn

I've become really good at turning down the boring, pretty girl roles, the trophy wife, supermodel, beautiful girlfriend roles. I mean, playing somebody who's perfect holds no allure for me, whatsoever. It's just boring.

C. S. Lewis

This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.

C. S. Lewis

And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?" "I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm tallest in my class." "You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?" "Well my mum's name is Helen..." "Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

Idina Menzel

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

E. B. White

We will respond when we have seen the revised toll offer.

Jaromir Jagr

We didn't respond to the stuff they played. We weren't smart enough.

Skip Prosser

We didn't respond back. We had a run to start the half, they had a run back, and it was up to us to make a run back at them. We didn't have the wherewithal to do that.

Jorge Ortiz

Bartlett just seemed to get stronger and stronger. We just couldn't respond to their speed that they had.

Woody Allen

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I-I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I-I ripen and then rot.

Brandon Roy

I don't think he was sure how we were going to respond to him. He was a little down. He was pretty upset he made that mistake.

Anne Keene

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

Gary Harris

When we have a call, it's not a stranger we're responding to,

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

John Meehan

I think it would water down the commissioners role and take away some of their authority.

Bill Belichick

He's a role player. His role's to play every snap. He does so many things well in so many situations. He's so dependable. You want him in there for everything.

Rodrigo Santoro

I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

Tommy Gibbons

We are functioning in a support role for the county.

Kelly Hu

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

O. Singh

He has not said what his role was. If he is responsible then he should be booked, and the sooner the better.

Joey Lina

The expulsion, my friends, is utterly without any basis.

Cate Blanchett

The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

Herman Gorter

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

David Byrne

I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

Carine Roitfeld

I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.

James Jannard

Anyone who wears glasses can be an Oakley consumer.

Tarik Minor

Persistence wears out resistance, or at least that's what protesters say.

Johnny Gimble

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

John Erwin

We'll do whatever we can do to assist,

William E. Conway, Jr.

If I'm going to create 1,000 jobs, or 10,000 jobs, or whatever the number is, wouldn't we all be better off?

Katharine Liell

It didn't matter. Whatever he said, he was going to be arrested, wasn't that true?

Orlando Dominguez

Whatever we can do to better our responses, we'll do.

Gary Brown

Whatever we can do for the kids, it's worth it.

Richard Lies

Whatever they want to do has yet to be worked out.

Chico Lynch

Whatever they did there, it has worked out well.

Robert Broadfoot

Whatever they achieve, the word that's going to be used will be cooperation, coordination.

Andre Cohen

Whatever she went through, I went through. We never separate.