Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go.

Juan Enriquez

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

Andrei Popov

Our position as regards the restrictions imposed by the European Union remains unchanged -- these sanctions are unsubstantiated, deliberate and useless.

Cary Elwes

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

John Dingell

This is a gross and deliberate misrepresentation of the fact,

Terry Roberts

It's not a situation that makes me uncomfortable in the least. Mr. Petrash is doing very quality work for us and holding things down while we make the search, ... It's a luxury that we're able to be very deliberate in the process.

Kate Adie

Not so much deliberate as, I think, instinctive. There is a right time to go looking. Some do it when they are very young, others take a few years. That's why you should never be pressurised by other people. There's a time for everyone. A lot of things probably come together subconsciously, and we say, 'I'm going to do it now.'

Cary Elwes

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Joanna Scott

When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.

Shakira

I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.

Tim Jackson

I think you put the combination of those three elements together and you've got a real premiere festival,

Tom O'Neil

It has all the elements that the Globe voters like. It has an important social message. It has A-list stars. It's part of the public debate.

Tupac Shakur

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.

Vittorio Alfieri

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

Vito Fossella

Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.

William H. Gass

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.

Wassily Kandinsky

Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

Joaquin Phoenix

I was an actor because the work was rewarding. I never imagined that it would all lead to this moment.

Karen Knight

This was not something that was expected. We never imagined we'd be working with this population.

Romesh Gunesekera

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

Aaron Small

I never could have imagined having a night like this in my career.

Scott Rodes

I had never run more than three miles in a day and I never imagined I could run a marathon.

Luis Suarez

I never imagined playing in El Clasico. I used to watch the games and look at photos, and I used to say how incredible to play in it was.

Michelle Langsford

I never imagined it would be this bad.

E. B. White

I never imagined a phone would have such an impact on my business.

S. Hughes

The microbes are challenging us in ways we wouldn't have imagined 10 years ago and for which we're not prepared.

David Garrick

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll.

Ed Garland

His oath should have been, 'I Tony Harwood swear to lie, I say you should reject Tony Harwood 100 percent. Throw him out. He ain't worth nothing.

Cassandra Gash

I don't know where the responsibility lies, but I know I've done everything I can do.

Mark Twain

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Tom Nalen

Playing doesn't lie, you've got to go out there and get it done. And if you do, it doesn't matter how you got there, they'll find a place for you to play.

John Rzeznik

All we are is what we're told and most of thats been lies.

Joe Veronese

It's interesting that she put this in a memo. A police report with lies in it is a very serious offense. If she lies like that, you have to wonder what kind of stuff she puts in other reports.

Jason Dourisseau

It's going to be tough on Wednesday, I'm not going to lie. But I think we'll be ready to go.

Eric Anderson

As you say, ... the power lies with all the heterosexuals.

Sharon Stone

I've never thought of myself as a great beauty -- just a great magician.

Robbie Tobeck

I think we have a lot of pride, and I think we work well together. There's no magic here. It's never really talked about, and if it is talked about, it's only in passing.

Anton LaVey

Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

Bill Jackson

He was the magic that got people there in record-setting time. It is very much his accomplishment.

Richelle Mead

Besides, I could hardly complain to the administration that I was being forced to learn magic.

Richelle Mead

Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?" She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind." Oh. Great.

Tyler Hilton

I don't know how to make magic. For most songwriter's that has only happened once or twice, and I don't know how to re-create that. I know that there are some tricks and tools, but the magic is the amazing part.

William S. Burroughs

I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.

William S. Burroughs

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

Louis Agassiz

I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth

Pema Chodron

Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.

J. M. Roberts

They were here. After a while of their searching around and taking pictures, they took the kids.

Debbie DeCarlo

I find myself searching faces, but they all look the same.

Francois Lelord

Happiness often comes when least expected.

Chris Grinde

To go zone was just kind of searching to see. We were searching for something to be a little better.

John Hodgman

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Augusten Burroughs

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

Confucius

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

Alice Walker

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Robert Herrick

Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Stephen Sondheim

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Ted Cruz

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Randy Mayes

I can get a feel for whether the person is truthful or not.

Richard Paul Evans

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

Richard P. Feynman

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

Richard P. Feynman

We've learned from experience that the truth will come out.

Richard P. Feynman

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

Richard John Neuhaus

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

Richard Hofstadter

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

Byron Katie

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

Roger Federer

It's just unreal, I'm shocked myself. I've played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.

Sam Heughan

It sounds almost unreal, but I was born and raised on old castlegrounds - Kenmure Castle.

Helena Blavatsky

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.