Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Irving Stone

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

Zack Snyder

To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

Warren Farrell

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

William John Wills

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Billy Graham

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Clotilde Hesme

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Clive Thompson

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

Antonin Artaud

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Gore Vidal

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

C. S. Lewis

The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

Bethenny Frankel

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

Laura Bush

The American people realize we have a new culture and that is one of being vigilant,

Elizabeth Hoffman

We need to know whether there is a culture that promotes inappropriate relationships with women,

Reza Aslan

Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas.

Diana Lee

We wanted to live with our art. But the pleasure is not from owning the objects. The pleasure and the satisfaction come from using the objects to glean an understanding of a culture and a society so many years ago.

Orhan Pamuk

We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

Ken Ehrlich

It elevates what the Emmy means to the people who have won it.

John Frazier

Having him in the program elevates the program.

Brian Brandtner

He was really hitting some tough shots early. He's such a great jump shooter. He really elevates off the floor. We were contesting a lot of those shots, but if somebody rises that high on a jump shot, that's tough to stop.

E. B. White

He is guy who elevates people around him,

Don Lucia

He has proven that at tournament time, he elevates his game.

Mike Martino

He elevates his emotions. I'd like to tone that down a bit, but it works for him. Some athletes, you've got to find what motivates them, you've got to fire them up. With him it's not a problem.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Melvin Calvin

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

Paul Hancock

It's flatly wrong. It elevates the machines over voters.

Victoria Osteen

God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

Carl Sagan

The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

Orhan Pamuk

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

Dirk Johnson

You always worry about something like that. You have to feel fortunate everyday that you can walk into a locker room and be a part of a good organization. I'm not saying it's keeping me up at night but it's always in the back of your head.

Pixie Lott

I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.

Aaron Miles

I'm still here, still getting starts, still getting at-bats, so I feel like I'm one of the options. I'm not sure if they've made their mind up over who's going to be the everyday starter or where I fit in the mix, but I feel like I'm at least somewhere in that equation.

Terrika Cross

I'm strong. I'm a survivor, and I thank God now everyday for my life.

Gretchen Rubin

One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you.

Mike McGlone

Those are just some of the ways NASA is related to everyday life.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Jim Adams

We're already working on getting prices on materials for the building.

Peter Diamandis

We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Brunello Cucinelli

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

Don Brownlee

But the study of these materials will go on for decades.

Chuck Ewings

That was probably because of materials. After the hurricane, materials went up.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

Randy Pausch

If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Cillian Murphy

That was the first time people noticed me in the U.S..

David Sullivan

That was the first time people actually noticed her, and why, I don't know. She has been playing this tough for two years.

Dave Lewis

I wish I had noticed the teammate's number so I could tell you his name. He is a true American hero.

Tim Henman

When you speak to tennis journalists, you notice how little they understand.

John Zelezny

We are required to give a four-month notice before we can go off contract.

Yuri Kochiyama

I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

Kix Brooks

New York actually took notice of us and it wasn't in a hokey, hay-bale kind of way.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.

Seth Shostak

Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.

Michael Budman

White is very popular in Italy, and the U.S. wore it in '56.

James Shuler

I thought I was going to pop it. No one was going to take that away from me.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Baruch Spinoza

Popular religion may be summed up as a respect for Ecclesiastes