Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Charles Powell

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

Dennis Lillee

Australia was ambushed by England because way too many people right across the board were living in a comfort zone. The first priority is to appoint a captain who can lead from the front.

Peter Blake

Prices were high across the board, showing that the global market is strong. We are extremely proud of our team in Florida. The yard and customer service teams worked hard for our customers. They did a terrific job and deserve the accolades.

Walter Higgins

Prices for natural gas have skyrocketed to unprecedented levels across the nation over the past year.

Rand LaVonn

Prices are going down because the weather is warmer than normal. We've seen that across the country where prices are falling.

Ross MacDonald

Property transactions were down in the Highlands, but they were also down across the state.

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Michael Leunig

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Kris Kobach

Article II will trump anything Congress tries to do through statute.

Bob Gibbons

Arthur is a McDonald's All-America kid who had some contact with Indiana before. It's possible he could reopen that door, but it might be too late.

Pat Bowlen

Arthur has a point. We have to be careful that we don't have owners put perks on it to help decide where we play the Super Bowl. I don't think it's there yet.

Arthur Ashe

Arthur Ashe Jr. is a true Virginia hero, and he belongs here,

Shinichi Suzuki

Art Exist for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world

Paul Klee

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible

John Lasseter

Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.

Thomas Friedman

I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world.

Tavis Smiley

He was an authentic American hero whose work will be respected and dissected for years to come. This media empire is still number one and still 100 percent black-owned.

Francis Clines

He sits at the kitchen table, which is the only authentic way to touch down at home in Queens.

Reese Witherspoon

They had authentic country roots. But I think they believe they were put on this earth to be together.

Bryan Robson

The way he's done his job is very good. This is the reward for that and I'm delighted he's signed.

Sidonie Colette

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Alice B. Toklas

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

Sandra Hebron

We are delighted with the quality and strength of this year's selection.

Rumi

Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

Michel de Montaigne

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

Thomas Cole

Nature has spread for us a rich and delightful banquet. Shall we turn from it? ... We are still in Eden.

Sandra Moore

She is pretty healthy for her age; she doesn't have anything major. She uses a walker by herself. She reads the paper from her hometown. She can really be a delightful person to be around.

Tubby Smith

We fully expect him to be back at some point when the NCAA finishes their job. Everything has been documented and processed on our side, and we'll wait for the NCAA to finalize their decision.

Sally Smith

What are our choices? ... We can yo-yo diet, which has been documented as unhealthy, or we can try to be as healthy as we can, regardless of our weight.

Deborah Nigrelli

I don't think society as a whole realizes that there are needy families in South County, that the numbers have been documented over the years. A lot of people do fall through the cracks.

Emmett Brown

One of the most troubling pieces of evidence (submitted by WRMA) was that 53.6 inches was at great odds with the documented information.

S. Hughes

By the time you're 50, most people have something wrong, ... The vast majority of these retirements are documented and justified - by and large, they come with the nature of the work.

Peter Sis

My father documented on film for the last time what Tibet looked like before the world got there.

Jorge Mujica

We don't want to go from being poor, undocumented workers to being poor, documented workers. It's not going to give us health care; it's not going to give us the overtime employers are not paying us.

H. Auden

Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.

Jose Theodore

People talk a lot about Pittsburgh, but Pittsburgh showed tonight they're really a good team. They have so many skilled players, it's scary to face them.

Fernando Ferrer

Oh, he went into the valley to do battle, and all the smart money was on Goliath. And, then, who had to face 'em?

Moises Alou

Anything can happen in the playoffs, especially when you face good pitching,

Armon Johnson

After a while, I think we got a hand in his face and cooled him down a little. But he's a great player. It's tough to stop a shooter when he gets hot like that.

J. Horton

Somebody out there knows this man. I know his face is covered, but if it were my husband and I saw him, I would still recognize his movements and his body.

C.C. Sabathia

Some people may not know us. But I guarantee you that in clubhouses around the league, they know who we are. We don't have to see our faces on TV every night. As long as we're playing in October.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Ted Shaw

Quite a few of the men I've recommended for release have failed, and I've had to face that.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Jesse Williams

It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.

Daniel Briere

It was tough. When something like that happens, you realize that hockey's a game, life is life, and that there are more important things in life than hockey.

Waris Ahluwalia

I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.

Jillian Bell

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

Claire Tomalin

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.

Melora Hardin

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

Ariel Winter

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

Jeff Mathis

I've been waiting all my life for this opportunity, and I'm pretty excited. I'm not going to put too much pressure on myself. I'm just going to do what I've done in the past.

Jan Connelley

In the past, there has been up to 100 yards of material in the basket.

Dan Modzelewski

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

Barbara Pym

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Matthew Stover

It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

Frank Norris

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Anselm of Canterbury

God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

Joshua Harris

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

Maxim Gorky

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

Steve Gunderson

Reclaimed water is not raw sewage, but it's still unauthorized.

Fred Goss

We're not trying to be blue. But we're pretty frank, we're pretty raw and we're pretty real.

Ryan Stiles

That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough. They can make worms in your tummy. Worms in your tummy.

A. Hodge

They are 4-0 for a reason. We know it is going to be a true test.

Cesar Chavez

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Demi Lovato

He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.

Dean Koontz

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

Eckhart Tolle

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

Elbert Hubbard

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Jan Lindholm

To some extent, this is also true in China.

E. B. White

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.