Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

David Nicholls

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Marina Abramovic

Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.

Nicole Beharie

I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.

Feist

Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us?

George Carlin

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it.

Ferdinand de Saussure

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

Helen Keller

Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.

Catharine MacKinnon

Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.

Ashley Scott

Things were different when I was single though, and I'd go out all the time and dudes would do their thing. i don't really go out much now though.

Jamie Dimon

Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.

Bobby Farrelly

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

Ben Harper

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

Anne Lamott

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

Andy Richter

It's funny, because 'Arrested Development' is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called 'Quintuplets' for a season for Fox, and this was while 'Arrested Development' was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.

Sally Quinn

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

Stephen Spender

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.

James Zoltak

Reading the language in some of the recent filings, it seems very personal.

Billy Connolly

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

David Hamilton

Everyone wants to do the right thing and meet the spirit of the legislation. The language now leaves so much up to each municipality. We need a cohesive plan that addresses everyone.

Anna Jameson

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Stephane Mallarme

To give a purer sense to the language of the tribe.

Douglas William Jerrold

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

Annie Proulx

I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language

Amos Oz

Every language has influences and is an influence.

Anna Held

I was very adept at acquiring languages.