Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Michael Leunig

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Bob Gibbons

Arthur is a McDonald's All-America kid who had some contact with Indiana before. It's possible he could reopen that door, but it might be too late.

Pat Bowlen

Arthur has a point. We have to be careful that we don't have owners put perks on it to help decide where we play the Super Bowl. I don't think it's there yet.

Arthur Ashe

Arthur Ashe Jr. is a true Virginia hero, and he belongs here,

Paul Klee

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible

Stewart Cink

Augusta was always a place where you could have a lot of fun and you could demonstrate an artistic talent for strategy around the golf course. Now it's not.

Mark Joseph

Ralph is not only a man of accomplishment, but a man of integrity. Those of us who knew and loved Bob are confident that Ralph is just the kind of artist that he hoped would one day take the stage.

Frances Cornford

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Robyn Jones

As far as I know there has never been a public library branch in May's Lick.

Tucker Carlson

The Bush campaign is claiming that they've been working hard and they've had everything in place and they're ready to go and they're going to be able to pull it off. But it's really complicated. Thousands of people are going to get new jobs. The whole city and the whole executive branch are changing.

Stephen Kane

People don't know that there is room for negotiation and that it is Town Meeting who decides. I feel it is like Congress, it is the legislative branch of town government.

Alenka Grealish

Do you open a limited branch? Or will you have a loan officer that goes out to a remote area? ... One thing that this product can do is be a leading indicator of whether you should open a branch in a new area.

Chen Shui-bian

During my 8 years in office, I set up a special investigatory branch as part of the highest court level. As it happened, from the time I set it up until now, I'm the one who has been investigated under that procedure. Of course, I had not expected this to happen.

Indian Proverb

A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved

Tom Kelly

Every time there is a robbery at one of our branches we try to figure out what happened and why the numbers go up ... most of us are left scratching our heads.

Jackie Cooper

Keep 'em clear of things like leaves and tree branches and stuff. They run hot.

Thad Cochran

I think we shouldn't impose any deadlines or date on the military or on the executive branch for conducting operations in that part of the world that we feel are important to our national security interests.

Mark Twain

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

John Mason Good

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

Norwegian Proverb

Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Mike Levine

The faculty have been working hard on this for a year now. We are starting a school improvement team which consists of faculty, parents, and students.

Anne Patterson

We are looking for 30 to 35 teams to sign up for this year's event. A team consists of eight to 15 members and each team can select its own anti-cancer slogan.

F. Sionil Jose

For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.

Soren Kierkegaard

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

George Herbert

He that once deceives is ever suspected.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

Ignatius of Antioch

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

Thomas Gray

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

John Gay

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

Alice Meynell

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Matthew Prior

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

William Congreve

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.

Virgil

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Abraham Cowley

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

William Empson

You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.

Francis Quarles

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

Archimedes

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

Bashar al-Assad

In the End, a Lie Is a Lie.

Ayn Rand

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.

Bertrand Russell

I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

Bertrand Russell

The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

Benito Mussolini

Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.

Benito Mussolini

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

Brian K. Vaughan

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

Brad Barkley

But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

Joe Adams

Steroids are not really needed, ... You can get nearly the same results through training.

John Joyce

Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.

Geoffrey Zakarian

When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.

Gregg Williams

Cod and halibut tend to co-mingle quite a bit.

Bill Rodgers

I usually get side-aches when I am really tired and or when I am not quite warmed up.

John Pilger

Quite frankly, they just haven't been doing anything lately.

Fran Townsend

Quite frankly, I think we did quite well.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Gil Dufour

We have quite a lot. I think we have ten or twelve colors. The varieties of blue, the varieties of red and of burgundy.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.

Michael Small

We've had quite a run in the Caribbean.