Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Payne

There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'

Jim Sullivan

It's kind of a bizarre board. In my view, they didn't seem to come well-prepared.

Gale Gordon

For comedy to be good, it has to be played straight. And again, the greatest example of this is Lucy Ball. No matter how wild the shows were that we did, no matter how bizarre the situations were, they were never played as if they were funny. They were played like serious incidents of ordinary everyday life. And that's why they are terribly funny and are still considered classic comedies.

Dan Brown

This is the strangest start to a season I've ever had. It's been a really bizarre start. We haven't been able to field the same lineup for any length of time. In fact, we've had only three or four days with everybody together.

Maurice Hinchey

It's a bizarre appointment. It doesn't make any sense.

Anita Gattis

It really sounds like somebody she knew. It's just kind of a bizarre thing, but then again, this whole thing has been bizarre. We're just waiting to see what comes of it.

Ronnie Arnold

There's been some strange things happen, but this is one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard.

Ken Hitchcock

It was a really hard, really bizarre game.

Geoff Davis

It's a window into an extremely bizarre world.

Mark Hyman

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it's that innovation in the 21st century that will drive tomorrow's economies.

DuBose Egleston

We're moving into the 21st century - and people expect you to be available. I've had about 200 visitors to the site so far in this campaign. Two hundred people - that's 200 people that you might influence to vote for you.

Tom Browning

We're moving into the 20th century. I know it's the 21st century already, but at least we'll finally be in the 20th century.

Siri Hustvedt

Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century has never left me.

Michael Leavitt

Three times in this century we have experienced pandemic influenza and they will come again. We must be ready,

John Charles Polanyi

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

Stewart Schwartz

A century ago, developers thought about where the retail and services would go in relation to housing. That has to happen again.

Brett Bell

It seems like a century ago. It seems like forever, just rehabbing and everything.

Charles Stuart Calverley

I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.

Charles Spurgeon

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.

Alan Moore

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

Alan Jackson

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

Alan Beck

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!

Alan Cooper

Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.

Alan Bennett

Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life. Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.

Al Pacino

Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

Al Pacino

You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?

Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Edward Hirsch

One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

David Hume

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Bear Grylls

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Frederic Bastiat

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Derek Jacobi

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Carlos Beltran

I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.

Carlos Castaneda

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

Charlie Munger

One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely

Carol Vorderman

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

Elaine Donnelly

We have never seen so many female soldiers. They are mothers. Some of them are single mothers ? great numbers of them. And we are sending them to fight our wars in a way that is unprecedented, not just in American history, but in history around the world.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Alexa Von Tobel

When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor.

Tyga

There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality.

Camille Paglia

There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.

Camille Paglia

Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.

Carl Jung

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

Diego Rivera

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

Charles Stross

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

David Duchovny

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

August Wilson

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

Antony Beevor

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

Linda Flohr

We started slow today. In the second half we played with better intensity than we did in the first half.

Jim Mott

We struggled a little and they made it very hard to penetrate the middle. We made some adjustments at halftime and played better.

Dean Montzingo

We started each half missing a wide-open lay-up, and that kind of set the tone. My top three scorers couldn't find the basket.

Jeff Carter

We spent the whole second period in the box. It wears half the team down. We can't be doing that. It kills us.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Beth Moore

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Amanda Seyfried

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

Elizabeth Arden

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that.

Robert Henderson

We're going to be very transparent and let them know any possible thing that happened.

Lori Haley

They're being processed for removal and possible prosecution.

Chris Browning

It was awesome. I tried to stay as relaxed as possible because I haven't been in there for a while. I was happy.

Mike Cunningham

Anything is possible in a world of dreams.

Alan May

Quite frankly, I don't think that would be possible with over-the-counter trading.

Roger Romines

We've got a really young team this year. If they stick with it, they have the potential to get one of those scholarships that are out there.

Bobby Collins

We feel that the potential is unlimited for Wise County.

Amy Vanderbilt

They're worried about potential under-cutting of the road surface.

Hines Ward

It's tough to go undefeated, but they have the potential.

Jeff Gordon

It's not there yet, but it has the potential.

Paul Tobias

There's a potential for abuse. I'm sure there's been grumbling.

Jeff Ulbrich

sees a ton of potential in every single guy.

Alan Greenspan

rare occasion, warranted because of the potential for serious disruptions to markets.

John Walsh

The very first day there were 80 (violators) in one zone alone. You can see the potential to reduce violations is enormous.

Al Sharpton

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

Chris Christie

When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.

Chris Christie

He [Doanald Trump] had no business being president of the United States.

David Brooks

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

Louis C. K.

When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president.

Bill O'Reilly

It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.

Bill Moyers

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

Benjamin Harrison

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

Jeff Parker

It was very satisfying to see, ... but disappointing not to be part of it.

Dwyane Wade

You probably make about two out of every 10 or 12. That's why it's so satisfying when you make one.

Greg Evans

There is nothing more satisfying than being able to understand.

Chad Hurley

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

Jonathan Tropper

There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

Michael Shanks

I find directing more satisfying.

Fred Solomon

That will go a long way towards satisfying some of our critics.

Joel Grey

How satisfying it is to do theater that really has ""something important to say.

Joe Torre

Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Janet Anderson

It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation.

Scott Gomez

It seems like it's early. But it isn't. We need these points.

Jeffrey Cohen

It seems like a wonderful thing to do.

Jim Smith

It seems like a simple business. But it's as complicated as it can get.

Max Winkler

It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.

Pete Kendall

It seems like a long time since we've done anything.

Melanie Troxel

It seems like we can do no wrong. I'm as surprised as anybody. I don't want to wake up from this.

Larry Coker

It seems like three years to the players.

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Billy Wagner

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.

T.O. Sterrett

There's a lot of talent around, but sometimes talent can't find opportunity.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Swen Nater

The talent is better but your teamwork is not.

Beth Jones

I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.

Thomas Jefferson

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

Billy Donovan

So much of it right now has nothing to do with the talent level. It has to do with their makeup. It has to do with what they're about.

Lee Smith

This is a win-win for the region. She has so much talent.

Bob Rae

I hear [my Twitter followers] say, you know, 'Bob Rae, you're an asshole'. [...] I'm working my way and trying to represent the people and speaking in Question Period and here we have vox populi, the thoughtful man on the street, 'you are an asshole!'. Thank you very much. I read it on my Twitter and I get up and ask a question.

Lionel Blue

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

Carl Jung

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Jung

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Brad Bird

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

Source Unknown

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Thomas Watson

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Peter Stringfellow

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

Ona Solomon

I'm a woman of mystery. I can do anything but skinny.

Gina Servedio

It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.