Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite bearing, gritted teeth with a piercing look - each of these reveals dignity. Such outward appearance, in short, comes from constant attentiveness and seriousness.

Yolanda Adams

It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.

Zac Goldsmith

If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.

William Whitelaw

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

Will Shetterly

Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.

William John Wills

The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

Ernest Walton

Particles were coming out of the lithium, hitting the screen, and producing scintillations. They looked like stars suddenly appearing and disappearing.

Elijah Cummings

The picture was being painted that things were not as bad as they appeared to be

Ian Mckellen

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

Isaac Brock

Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.

Garry Hynes

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

George Allen

Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans.

Donald Trump

I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

Vivek Wadhwa

After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic.

Vivek Wadhwa

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

Billy Graham

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

Wynton Marsalis

I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it's impossible for me to say I regret having lived there.

Bill Vaughan

Vote in a national election.

Vladimir Ryzhkov

Today, there are a lot of opposition members of parliament who are not only ready for elections, they're pushing for them,

Ranil Wickremesinghe

We have to now ensure there are free and fair elections.

Trish McDermott

We have to know what single people are thinking and the upcoming election is part of it.

Larry Sabato

Usually this happens after the mid-term election of the second term -- during the start of the seventh year of an eight-year presidency.

Mahmoud Abbas

Voting is the right of every citizen. It's a national obligation because the results of the election should reflect a truthful expression of all Palestinians.

Jay Lapeyre

(Voters) wish there were an election right now.

Peter Spencer

With the election well out of the way, the chancellor's forecasts have taken a step back towards reality.

Jendayi Frazer

With the election of their first president, now is the time (to get Taylor in court).

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Pico Iyer

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

Raymond Queneau

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Azim Premji

You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.

Harry Conover

You can have all the plans you want, but unless you test it, you never know.

Brian Cashman

We haven't made any contingency plans on if he doesn't come back.

Kiran More

We have some plans for the team, you don't need to know everything about it.

Jim Parker

We're in the process of making plans for this Sunday and beyond.

Mark Williams

We've been working all weekend, putting plans together and talking to various vendors and suppliers,

Louis Orr

I can't speak for Seton Hall. I don't know what their plans are. I can only speak for me and our team.

Dianna Agron

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

Joe Dumars

We have no plans to do anything with Derrick at the moment.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Wayne Peters

We're here. We're ready. We have proposals on the table that haven't been responded to.

Sergei Ivanov

If such proposals come -- we have not yet received them -- I am sure that they will not solve the ABM issue,

Pele

When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire.

Gordon Brown

The breakthrough is that we now have a set of proposals that are supported by the whole international community.

Robert Rubin

You've got a lot of proposals that have been advocated by a lot of people,

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

Errole Rembert

We'll play the j.v. and they play the varsity. Rather than get destroyed, we get (our kids) to play the right way.

Mary Hansen

Most of them do walk rather than take the bus.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Zana Marjanovic

The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Tanith Belbin

We'd rather it be here than at the Olympics. So in that respect, it's good.

David Chaney

We'd rather her be here, even if she does win all the time.

Mary Lambert

I have a big thing with eye contact, because I think as soon as you make eye contact with somebody, you see them, and they become valued and worthy.

Cindy Sheehan

We have to stop it as soon as possible.

Bob Coleman

We don't store it on the property. So, as soon as it comes out of the pipe, it's burned. So, if we have an interruption on the other end of the system, very soon we could have a shortage.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Dorothy Johnson

It can't come soon enough, ... It is going to be thrilling.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon us do what we do,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon not watch them any more, they look pretty good.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.