Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Sharp

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

Jess Bosque

He couldn't run, so he did other things like swimming and the elliptical machine just to keep him in shape. We gave him rest and it basically went away.

Mike James

He couldn't be stopped tonight. He basically beat us by himself.

Ray Lewis

He didn't mean any disrespect. He was just basically saying he wasn't happy. Some people aren't happy with their job or their wife, they say it. That's all it was, him voicing his opinion. He has a right to do that.

H. Hart

He denied fighting birds here or being involved in fighting birds, ... but he basically stopped talking about it once we showed him what we had found.

Marcus Trufant

He just said basically that he expects a lot out of me and he wants me to play like it.

Nick Fazekas

He just ran into me and that was basically it. The ref saw something that wasn't right and threw him out.

Michael Greene

He knew when to put the pedal to the metal if some defendant needed a harsh penalty but his first inclination was always to make someone better. He was basically a wonderful, kind man whose chambers were always open. In the 18 years that I've been here, I think the system is a better place because of judges like him.

Gary Arnold

Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation.

Patti Smith

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Howard Lee

We must find creative ways to re-energize students and get them to be prolific readers.

Tyler Cowen

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

Tracy Kidder

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

Twyla Tharp

When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

Vince Gilligan

I wanna keep being productive and creative.

Vince Gill

I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you.

Vince Gill

We all get caught up in the process, especially when you have a wave of success. But to me, being creative is not about rehashing everything you've done over and over. It's to continue to grow, continue to get better.

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Matt Reeves

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Michael Steger

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

Kara Swisher

I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

Michael Smith

He had this zest to discover people and in discovering them, if they were in need, he tried to help them.

Walker Percy

Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

William Least Heat-Moon

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

Winston Churchill

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Rita Dove

In working on a poem,I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

Sheryl WuDunn

Women are not the problem they're the solution

Kate Voegele

I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.

Eckhart Tolle

Facing facts is always empowering.

Glenn Schifano

To put the shaker in his hand and then to get him to shake on his own, I think it was empowering for him and also empowering for parent.

Alexander McQueen

I want to empower women.

Alton Brown

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

Nina Garcia

It's empowering for women to have some tricks up their sleeve to help them look their best.

Michelle Bachelet

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

Ross Levinsohn

Fox Interactive Media's acquisitions of Newroo and kSolo demonstrate our commitment to empowering users with interesting tools that they can use to further enhance their online experience and online identity.

Zac Wright

In its first six months, it has already grown from five schools to 11. The program was started six months ago with the intention of expanding it, and that's already been happening.

Richard Rippe

It means manufacturing is expanding sluggishly and that's probably about what we want.

Bill Gross

What we're doing is kind of expanding upon the neighbor concept.

David Gross

Until I see an announcement that they officially have a league, I'm not going to comment. The NLL throws some things out there. They talked about having a second indoor league, the NLL2, and they've talked about expanding to something like 29 teams. None of that has come to fruition.

Chris Byrne

If it's a way of expanding toys into a year-long business, then electronics and furnishings make sense,

Marvin Lewis

Our guys responded, adjusted, and responded. Interesting enough, I talked to our guys all week about expanding their roles, and we had some guys expand their roles today.

James Blankenship

We had to start expanding our offense. We had been too simple for too long, and we had to open ourselves up. We felt like this was a very important game for us.

Scotty George

We're really testing the patience of investors who have lost substantial sums of money. We're also testing technical levels, with stocks expanding or retracting as we get near key lows.

Iain Sinclair

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Toussaint Tyler

He talks to you like a normal human being and tells you what he wants you to do.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Rick Steves

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Sun Yuxi

In some Western countries, including in the United States, some people have ignored the overall development of China's human rights.

Adrian Molina

Immigrants are not felons. They are human beings.

Stephen Evans

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Eddie Campbell

I thought about this, I thought these people are ringing me about horror. I don't think I like horror, I don't think I'm interested in horror.

Sean McGowan

The people who are obviously most interested in it obviously went out and did it already. He doesn't even talk about it.

Dan Hicks

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.

Madeline Albright

He was jovial and forthcoming, and interested and different from what we had all been led to believe,

Lynda Carter

I don't know that the people that are doing Wonder Woman are too interested in my point of view,

Phil Brown

Paulo would be one we are interested in but not at the moment.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Milan Kundera

Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.

Louise Gluck

I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen...

Jonathan Demme

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.

Judith Jamison

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

John Frusciante

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

James Merrill

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

Edward Abbey

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

Clive James

The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages.

Allen Tate

Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.