Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential forms?

Russell Smith

Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in an alphabet no one can understand - and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.

John Williams

I don't think we're going to get into the Greek alphabet this year. The good news is it's still 56 days before it starts.

Steve Farhood

From the inception of the alphabet organizations, they have been very, very selfish. It's never been about what's good for boxing. It's always been about what's good for them, specifically what's good for them financially.

Graham Nelson

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!

Frank McCourt

I'd just go into a room in my memory and just look around and start seeing things that I'd forgotten, like the alphabet on the blackboard in Irish, which we had to chant every day for months and months and months. I remember the Gaelic script and things like that. And this awful, putrid lavatory that we used outside." ()

Jim Lushine

We don't know. It will go to the Swahili alphabet or something else,

Mark McKinnon

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.

Ione Skye

Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

Richard Morris

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

Granth Sahib

When it pleases Your Will, then we merge in the Name. You Yourself inspire us to chant the Name.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Whether you wish to chant 'Our houses, our selves' or 'We have houses, hear us roar,' for us women, home is where the heart is.

Jimmy Calderwood

He responded magnificently to be our top scorer last season and he has come back with two important goals which has got the supporters chanting his name, which is tremendous for the kid.

Jim Finn

He's got my vote. I had the chant going.

John Pettit

If they start chanting something, then we'll try to match it with a song,

Kevin Anderson

I did a sort of Gregorian chant yesterday. Nobody really told me what they thought of that. Today it was more of a robotic thing.

Justin Pogge

I can't explain how it feels with that many people chanting your name. It is such a great feeling.

Eddi Reader

I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

Carter Burwell

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

John Dewey

Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Lisa Payne

We have no volatile memory, so the tag can go to 'sleep' and still monitor conditions.

Adam Loewen

I don't remember what he said. I've got a short-term memory.

Paul Burrell

Whatever I write about her (Diana) is in memory of her and it is the truth.

Doug Noble

He is mostly the same old person, but he does have memory loss.

Frank Robinson

He has that mentality, ... You have to have a short memory as a closer.

Manny Lawson

Getting a shutout here is going to be a memory for the rest of my life.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

When you want any memory you can use the mind just as you can put on your tape recorder.

Natalie Williams

Hopefully, we'll be making (a memory) in the next three weeks. That would be a perfect way to end a career.

Evangeline Lilly

My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.

Ashton Kutcher

When you do movies, it's you have a 3-month family and then everybody goes away and then joins another family, you know?

Greg Valliere

I think it will be months and months before you see this clarified.

Zach Galligan

An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

Nick Saban

I wonder what this technology is up here, ... (Rewind it) to six months ago. You'd get the same answers.

Bob Straus

We don't see the type of value in the sector that we saw six or seven months ago.

Shelli Rushing

We'll have another public workshop here in three months or so to start talking about getting into more specifics about the plan. We're supposed to wrap up the plan by the end of the year.

Bill Ryden

We are really working on the perfecting part of the sport. Sometimes it takes months to fine-tune.

Dean Hachamovitch

Nine months is very aggressive, but 18 months is too long.

Wislawa Szymborska

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

Carl Sagan

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

Bill Vaughan

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

Tilda Swinton

till I was about 17. I can't remember why I stopped. I've tried (to suck my thumb) since, but it doesn't work anymore.

Eric Osmundson

I thought oh, not again. I remember my first year here was a similar situation.

Christian Moody

Julian just went up, and I can't remember who he dunked on, but who he dunked on will remember it.

Beck

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

Juanita Johnson

I was thinking, 'Well, this is easy.' Three-fourths into it, I remember sweating. I hadn't sweated in a long time.

Larry Anderson

I was here for Camille and I'm leaving. I was here and I remember it well. I don't want to be here for another one.

Vince Clarke

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.

Carrie Fisher

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Bill Bruford

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Madonna Ciccone

I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.

Pat Nixon

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.

Tony Russa

I think the thing not to misunderstand is that he has not been sitting in the training room or on a bench. He's been taking 100 swings a day.

Richard Riley

little room for testing or for any slippage in their schedules.

Terrence Holt

I still have my same room over there. I can still crash.

Richard Kovalcheck

We don't have room to not be focused,

David Hewson

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

David Boreanaz

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

Nicole Holofcener

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

C. S. Lewis

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

Bette Davis

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Benjamin Rush

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them...

Peter O'Toole

You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.

Paul Hogan

I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.

Richard Rossi

I was very ambitious, and I wrote a script that was 180 pages,

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

Johnny Damon

That was good, just seeing Keith out there, doing his thing. He's only going to get better.

David Levine

You are going to start seeing a lot of squirming and shaking now.

Cheryl Kirkland

Usually, we're kind of seeing what the other team has...but we were overheated in the beginning. It's just a different temperature down here.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing us on TV. We're on TV so much, it's ridiculous.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing it on TV. I'm sure they are.

Bob Cotton

We are not seeing cancellations, but we are not seeing new bookings either,

John Landis

We were just seeing how wacky you can be.

Von Roebuck

We are seeing some cases. It could be life-threatening.

Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Charles Davis

That was his first start and he was sharp.

Kim Parker

That will be a big start all over for us, but you've got to start somewhere,

Neil Thompson

That way we have something to start with if you do go missing.

Linda Flohr

We have a must-win on Saturday, so that is what we are going to start working on.

Scott Jones

We were handicapped from the start from our own error.

Olivier Martinez

We were going to start working on it after the tour was over,

Paula Abdul

You are 16, and from start to finish, you are a star.

Mario Andretti

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.