Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bronson Pinchot

'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

Pink

I wanted to do it my way with my career, and I had this arrogant notion that people weren't just interested in my music but me as a person. That was my bit of arrogance, I guess. That's something I learned from Madonna. I was a fan right from the first time I heard 'Holiday.'

Preston Sturges

I am, of course, directly descended from Brian Boru, the last king of Ireland, a fact certified by my mother and therefore beyond dispute. But as everybody else with a drop of Irish blood in his carcass is also a guaranteed descendant of the old billy goat, I am not overly arrogant because of this royal strain.

Rosie Perez

Why would someone be so arrogant and smug to think children would only want to learn one language?

Earl Little

You can call me cocky, arrogant or whatever, ... I think I would have made that play.

Mark McClain

Management's arrogant and excessive demands are unacceptable and are putting Northwest's future in serious jeopardy.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

Robert Burke

I find some of it insulting. It is a little arrogant to say 'I am a designer'. We in the business hold the true idea of fashion closer to our hearts.

John Howard

I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.

Bertrand Russell

When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know

Rob Parish

That was a very courageous effort, considering the circumstances.

Rick Dickson

We have tried to create a stable environment. There were tough circumstances in Jackson. Here we knew we would have the (Conference USA) conference office that could communicate for us. (Wednesday) we struggled just to communicate with people without land lines. The (conference) was able to pro-actively set things up for us.

Patricia Clarkson

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

Steve Burgess

We have to make sure that the people in this circumstance have some access.

Chris Farrell

You'll be totally relaxed, feel good and it's probably something you wouldn't do under normal circumstances. And you'll have a really nice memory.

Kevin Jackson

You just should not give that information out, under any circumstances, when it's unsolicited.

Slim Jimmy

You can have nothing and be sad, or you can have nothing and be, like, positive and look at it in a good way and try to make your circumstance better.

Nicholas Burns

will not, under any circumstances, tolerate a government installed by force or intimidation in Burundi.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.

Gloria Gaither

Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment.

Gillian Armstrong

Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.

Zoe Kravitz

I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.

Zayn Malik

I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.

Yoko Ono

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

Vikram Seth

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

Brad Berenson

The overall lesson of the two nominations taken together is that there is considerable safety in drawing from the very small pool of people who are universally considered qualified for appointment.

Brian Bell

When I was thinking of people for the Space Twins, I wanted people who were sort of space cadets in the first place. I consider myself to be one.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way.

Barack Obama

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Art Alexakis

I've always cared about the world. That's never been an issue. But with learning how to smile, it's been learning how to feel comfortable within my own skin, and to feel accepted, and to feel empowered, and to feel worthy.

Nancy Keenan

The American people need to know where this man stands on the issue of privacy.

Dennis Hastert

The American people are really kind of tired of this finger-pointing issue and politics all the time, ... I think it would behoove all of us to work together to try to find the answers.

John Snow

That will tee up the next major issue for the president ? broad-based tax reform,

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.

Bob Apodaca

I talked to them (Sunday) and I talked to them (Saturday) and stressed to them that every inning is important. We are not able to coast.

Diane von Furstenberg

Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

Diane von Furstenberg

The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.

David Nail

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

Stephanie Uecker

Whenever we would get stressed out, we would talk.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The "work" of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ.

Jamie Redknapp

The importance of a warm up and cool down can't be stressed enough.

Eckhart Tolle

The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live.

Eckhart Tolle

You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment. So, you can choose to re-enter the present moment.