Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Harkaway

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.

Jacki Weaver

I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

Daniel Becker

It's appalling that Nissan, V.W. and Hyundai are accelerating in reverse.

Paddy Ashdown

Ten years after Dayton, that these two primary architects of these appalling crimes should still be free is a failure on all sides.

Stephen Evans

Complying with this legislation is costly for our business so to find out that a government funded-body is encouraging companies to ignore the law is appalling and puts us at a significant disadvantage to those companies simply because we are law abiding.

Doug Whitley

I find it appalling that legislators would wish to gag employers so that they will not communicate with employees regarding public policies and civic issues, when we know employees would very much want to know what employers think about issues.

Eric Epstein

I find it appalling from an ethical and moral vantage point that you can actually profit from stealing from the treasury. There should be an incentive to return the money.

Gustave Moreau

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.

Hugh Mackay

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

Jerome Bettis

The range of our emotions there were all over the place.

Jazmine Sullivan

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

Kenny Brown

I'm not sure what he did, but it looked ugly. It's kind of mixed emotions. The kids wrestled really well, but it's sad to see a kid go down with a freak accident. I would have rather we took second and have him back for the rest of the year.

Monique Currie

I'm really not sure I've got it all together. Things are happening so fast. I had a pretty tough loss, so I have a lot of emotions and mixed feelings. But I'm a pro now and it feels great.

David Caruso

Once they go through it, they see what their stomachs can take. It's all in emotions.

Gary Giancola

It's homecoming and I expect us to play with a lot of emotion.

Ben Agosto

It's been a very up and down (few) years with emotions. To now be here and have a medal around our neck is just amazing.

Ben Agosto

It's been an up-and-down year of emotions. We didn't know if we'd be here.

Ricky Ford

It's been mentally draining. The emotions have been up and down all day but I'm feeling pretty good about things now.

Mike Scioscia

Kenny's a fine manager. He was my vote for manager of the year.

Danny Meyer

I think that more and more and more really talented restauranteurs and chefs from the fine dining world are going to try their hand at fine casual. They're going to say, 'Why not us?'

Frank Miller

It is, not to put too fine a point on it, a piece of propaganda.

Jamie Dixon

He was pretty sick for about two days. But he looked like he was fine today.

Andy Reid

He was fine today. He did a great job.

John McLaughlin

I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

Darko Milicic

I didn't come here to sit on the bench. I tell myself that everything will be fine here, but right now, nothing has changed. I want to play. I need to play. I learn nothing sitting on the bench.

Graeme Souness

Ideally I would like a month's break, then I would possibly have them all back. Two weeks is fine by me,

Larry Eustachy

He was the leading scorer on a 2-14 team. Not knocking Rashaad, but this program is going to be just fine with or without (him).

Jim Harrison

We can keep people from experiencing remodeling horror stories.

Rob Zombie

What bother me, not "bother me," exactly; that's not the right way to put it. But especially in the horror genre, once a movie like Paranormal Activity comes out and becomes popular - and that's a totally fine and valid movie - everyone starts copying it. Everything becomes a found-footage movie that looks like somebody shot it with their phone.

William Friedkin

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

Tara Reid

I love horror movies. A good horror movie is always great.

Katharine Isabelle

Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.

George A. Romero

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

Meaghan Rath

I've always been into the horror genre, so I've seen a lot of movies with ghosts and supernatural stuff.

Bong Joon-ho

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

Chelan Simmons

Though I've been in horror movies, I just can't watch them. The first time I watched a 'Harry Potter' movie, I had nightmares for, like, two weeks.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Ron Shock

It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do.

Geno Auriemma

I think this is the first time in my life I have been rendered speechless.

Sylvia Fraser

It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.

Jason Robert Brown

I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life.

Richard Louv

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

Richard Le Gallienne

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

Robert Redford

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

Wallace Stevens

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

Wallace Stevens

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Willa Cather

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Vladimir Horowitz

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

William Blake

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

Julie Myers

I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do.

Malayan Proverb

If you have, give; if you lack, seek

Rumi

What you are seeking is also seeking you.

Danys Baez

We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration, it made sense for us.

Anton LaVey

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

William J. Clinton

An innocent bureaucratic snafu

William J. Clinton

I don't think the Republicans can damage my character

William J. Clinton

Character doesn't matter.

William J. Clinton

I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.

William J. Clinton

I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.

William J. Clinton

They are cutting medicare

William Galston

It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the ideological balance of the electorate in 2012 could look a lot like it did this year.

Will Forte

We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Markus Gandler

I just don't understand what is going on here. We have nothing to do with Walter Mayer.

Susan Gibbs

The cardinal's understanding is that he'll be here another two years or so.

Nate Mendel

Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

Robin Hobb

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Samuel Smiles

Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.

Samuel Richardson

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

Salvador Dali

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

Walt Whitman

A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.