Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice James

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

Diane Ravitch

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

John P. Kotter

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

Joseph Addison

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

John Hawkes

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

Rick Warren

Familiarity breeds complacency.

Tom Brown, Jr.

Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young. I've never quite been able to shake that.

Ashley Tisdale

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

Ashton Kutcher

There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.

Bill Vaughan

We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.

Michael Phelps

Being able to do something that's never been done before, that's what I've always wanted to do. . . . There was nothing that was going to stand in my way of being the first.

Don Bluth

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

Dave Chappelle

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

Carl Sagan

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Bryan Singer

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Paul Harding

Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There's all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification.

Paul Rand

Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar cliches or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.

Helen McCrory

A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theatre, the Donmar or the National. It's a cliche for an actor, but I enjoy going as much as possible.

Bob Consalvo

I hate to use the old cliche about how it will improve the quality of life. But it's true.

Becky Hultberg

Former Gov. Knowles threw out a lot of easy cliches, and is very good at delivering them, but cliches aren't going to get Alaskans a gas pipeline.

Diana Gabaldon

The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.

Brad Holland

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

Wolcott Gibbs

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

Win Butler

The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.