Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jhumpa Lahiri

As he watched, he had an immovable expression on his face, composed but alert, as if someone were giving him directions to an unknown destination.

Joan D. Vinge

The Big Questions, about survival and quality of life, are confronted by all the main characters in The Snow Queen, at some point.

Jared Diamond

Australia is the smallest continent, and most of it can support only small human populations because of low rainfall and productivity.

Oliver Herford

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Irving Wallace

Read all you can about it, interview experts on it, even travel to the sites of the story to guarantee authenticity and get a feel for the background.

Sarah Zettel

Oh, and for capturing the wonder and magic of fairy tales and turning that into fresh and modern stories, there is no one around to the Neil Gaiman.

Shelby Foote

During that year while we were waiting to be inducted into federal service, I wrote the first draft of my first novel, Tournament.

William Greider

A recent survey in Wisconsin found that only 6 percent of citizens believe their elected representatives serve the public interest.

Chaim Potok

Apocalyptic versions are fall-back systems when the normal systems cease to offer effective answers to the dilemmas of existence.

Anne Worcester

She's as composed and graceful and confident as I've seen in any 17 year old. But it's hard to come off that big a win and keep the momentum going. It's so much easier to get there than to maintain that level of success.

Laura Davis

She's pretty tough to beat. She's very composed and never seems to miss a putt.

Jim Nestor

She's doing a great job in the back. Composed and confident back there. So, with that we don't have to take one of our outside half(backs) that we were thinking (and moving them to sweeper).

Phil Garner

I thought he was as composed as I've ever seen him,

Mignon McLaughlin

Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show

Tom Inman

We've got right now what I was hoping to have in mid-January. I see a really seasoned, composed team.

Joseph Roux

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Helen Garner

I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go outside!' But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of... rather an introverted child, probably.

Yngwie Malmsteen

This was a huge, huge undertaking. I composed this concerto from the ground up. It took about two years total to compose, but there were interruptions when I was touring and making rock albums,

David Watson

Be prepared. The stress and the pressure can make you run in all sorts of directions for any job out there.

Craig Brown

Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.

Yale Hirsch

Nasdaq is not just another little place for a few stocks, ... It dominated the market and went in different directions than the Dow.

Marcia Adler

We can pull all the facility services in one place, so that we no longer have students running in so many directions to get their wellness needs. It is our opportunity to give students more services and big space in a more modern fashion.

James Riley

It wasn't a small ambush. It was a whole city. And we were getting shot from all different directions as we were going down the road.

Jim Paxon

With the fire spreading in so many directions it will be a long time before we can get it contained.

Gordon Richards

Railroading in a barn' was the expression they used, ... They'd get all the way here, and the view was shut out. The sheds were not very popular for tourism.

E. Hicks

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

Aretha Franklin

On the sly, scoping for love.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.

Carsten Juste

I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.

Charles Darwin

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

Jim Yong Kim

One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.

Bob Dylan

The executioner's face is always well hidden.

Bruce Lee

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

Hanan Ashrawi

Barak is going to the other extreme, he is giving the settlers too much influence, too much power.

Kasey Kahne

As Mark was reeling me in, I was doing all I could to go fast. I was giving about all I had those last 30 laps.

Ron Gardenhire

Radke is going to be in the rotation, Silva is going to be in the rotation, Lohse is going to be in the rotation and we're just trying to get them through it. We're in the first month of the season, so you've got to keep giving these guys the ball. What they've done around here and how well they've done around here for such a long time, you just have to keep giving them the ball.

Patricia Fripp

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

Donna Karan

No question about it. I think she's told us that. You know it's not about us dictating, just giving her tools for her to do it.

Emily Francis

Northwestern has been scoring a lot of goals, so I think they will be a handful for our defense, but they also have been giving up of a lot of goals. If our backline comes ready to play and our frontline starts scoring some goals this weekend it will be great.

Debbie Murry

The money from the foundation, is not only giving us money for the extras - it's helping us with the necessities.

Michael Landis

Aren't they great? We've been giving them out to our customers.

Bobby Smith

Stuff like that happens in baseball. We have been playing well and when you are giving it all you have sometimes there is just nothing you can do about it. You just have to get ready for tomorrow and get back to playing well.

Atharva Veda

The mind is uncontrollable; how rare are those who subdue it. Those who move the immovable become pure.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

Gotye

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

Jon Burnham

The big unknown in this is the geopolitical situation,

John Lennon

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.