Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Irving Stone

In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

Evangeline Lilly

I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.

Paul Johnson

The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.

Richard Shim

The PC industry is quickly becoming commoditized as prices come down and penetration rates go up. ... But there are certain segments where folks can still make a lot of money.

Bruce Coville

The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.

Bruce Coville

I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love.

Bel Powley

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.

David Hanson

Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

Brea Grant

I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy.

Bill Hader

I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.

Judith Butler

My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning.

Boo Rigsbee

That was awesome. It just shows that even when we did have errors, we persevered. We ended up making the plays that won us the game.

Bryan McClendon

We could have gone undefeated and still ended up in the same position, in the Sugar Bowl." ()

Ralph Bakshi

I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

Matt Wichorek

We have that kind of game. I had to keep them (Bartlett) in the game most of the time, and then somehow we ended up with the win.

John Tortorella

We were having problems generating chances, having problems with their speed. Obviously the second goal at the end of the period was key. That's what I like about what happened, we ended up finding a way.

Peter Nygard

I actually ended up in fashion as opposed to sport because I needed the money. And it turned out that it tapped all my skills.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.

William Shakespeare

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

Peter Jackson

If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book.

Granth Sahib

Wherever You seat me, there I sit, O my Lord and Master; wherever You send me, there I go

Bhagavad Gita

Wherever is Krishna, the lord of yoga; and wherever is Arjuna, the archer; there will be everlasting prosperity, victory, happiness, and morality. This is my conviction.

H. Hart

We need the Lord in our lives. I get my strength from His word and His people.

Donnie Miller

We are taking it day by day and trusting in the Lord and that where we get our strength from.

Alexander MacLaren

Only he who can say, ''The Lord is my strength,'' can say, ''Of whom shall I be afraid?''

David Reutimann

He got in the wall. Thank the Lord I missed it.

Source Unknown

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

Steve Tisch

I think one master serving 32 masters is much easier.

Johnny Damon

We know it's going to come down to this weekend. It's the master plan. God's way. Yankees-Red Sox.

Jamie Curtis

You know you have a problem long before you seek a solution to it. You think you can master it yourself.

Zeresenay Alemseged

I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

Steve Tisch

I don't think it's necessary. That's 2 masters serving 32 masters. I think 1 master serving 32 masters is much easier.

Tony Gwynn

He might just be very comfortable doing what he's doing. If he is, he's at the top of the list, then. He's a master of his craft.

Dave Parker

He is 50-50 right now for the Masters but we should know more after the operation.

Charles Caleb Colton

put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

Terry Fleck

That was the first place we said there should be a meeting ­ in Minot.

Darcy Tucker

We've had enough closed-door meetings this year. We don't need another one - the score said it all.

Mary Ford

We're really not in a very different place now than we were before. Unfortunately, this meeting really just didn't come to a conclusion.

Dan Rooney

I think they're meeting and there is some progress. But it's not enough, unfortunately.

Amy Poehler

It is completely improvised. We have had no meetings backstage, we have not written anything, and everything you see onstage tonight is being made up on the spot,

Robert Mueller

I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

Javier Solana

It does not make much sense to have another meeting if there is nothing new to put on the table.

Mike Miller

We'll have a meeting in a month or so before we get started.

Jacques Rogge

Well done and thank you. You have succeeded brilliantly in meeting your challenge. These were truly magnificent Games.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure.

Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

John Eberle

The propeller sputtered and that was it ... we recognized it was an emergency.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Warner Johnston

Our city's playgrounds are nationally recognized for safety.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

I think the ruling recognized the government's stance and its assertions.

Robin Weigert

I remember when 'Deadwood' had first come out, there was this whole deer-in-the-headlights sense of feeling really uncomfortable with being recognized in public.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Bill Cowher

For us to come in here and do what we did, it took a supreme effort.

Rand Paul

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Russ Feingold

should disqualify you from being on the Supreme Court.

Christine Pelosi

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

Hillary Clinton

I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

Henry Ford

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Elizabeth Gilbert

God is an experience of supreme love.