Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clayton Christensen

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

Jason Chaffetz

Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.

Nic Pizzolatto

When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.

Anne Donovan

It's one of the few times in my life ... when you try to articulate what's going on inside and I don't think it's possible. This is up there for me.

Ed Black

They're better able to articulate their strategy than in the past, and the new management talent has contributed to that capability. But there are still some real competitive issues, especially in the computer systems division, where they're facing declining market share. Sun has always been competitive, but we're also seeing a revitalized IBM in the server space. But as long as HP can get its strategy right, then we should see a recovery as things progress.

Richard Phillips

I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.

Nathan Fielder

I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

Margaret Mead

A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t

Judy Davis

I've avoided a lot of publicity over the years because I find it very hard to be articulate about either myself or work that I've done.

Keith Cox

We always envisioned 'High School Reunion' as a franchise, and we wanted to move quickly into production of the next installment.

Danny Hall

This is what we envisioned when we did it.

John Kasay

It was so far-fetched. But what's happening now is what a lot of people envisioned when they started the franchise.

Daniel Byman

There are a lot of capabilities out there that were not envisioned when the law was passed.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

I never envisioned being number one for five weeks, knocking Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men off the charts. That's the scariest thing and the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

Harold Mofjeld

What's envisioned for the Indian Ocean is a new tsunami warning system,

Greg Wilkinson

We just never envisioned where it has gone now.

Steve Mann

What I envisioned back in the 1970s was this thing you would wear as 'glass' over your right eye, and you could see the world though that glass. The glass then reconfigures the things you see.

Ben Gordon

Right now I'm trying to get to the level I was playing at last season when I should be at a level two times that. This year I'm struggling. So far I haven't been having the success I pretty much envisioned for myself over the summer. But I'm trying to be patient. It's all I can do. It's a long season.

George Foster

It's not horribly contaminated. There's still no freaky or scary stuff out there.

Zach Johnson

That's just freaky good golf. You want to say there's always a chance, but it's hard to say in this situation. you have to keep playing.

Jason Johnson

Freaky things happen, and it seems like it's been happening to us lately,

Adam Aron

How freaky is that? If this isn't an omen, I don't know what is. It did remind me 10 years is a long time.

Frank Beamer

We're not a turnover team. It was just kind of freaky tonight.

Phillip Fulmer

That's one of those freaky things. I don't know how to talk about that. We just take (them) each one at a time. You don't even think about those other than the personnel that's back or the scheme you saw before.

Jim Calhoun

Between Hubie (Brown) and Jim (Boeheim), they told me I had 12 seconds,

P. J. O'Rourke

Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.

Corrine Brown

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

Robert Kiyosaki

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

Tamara Mellon

I went back to the factories that I worked with at Jimmy Choo because they don't work for Jimmy Choo exclusively.

Allan Houston

Let's pray for Jim Dolan. Let's pray for our organization.

Jim Sullivan

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

Johnny Rivers

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

Angel Jr.

Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better. When he won the Jim Dandy, he was doing good. He's doing better now.

David Icke

How much did Jim Morrison know?

Bertolt Brecht

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

Bernard Hopkins

If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.

Chad Pennington

How can you truly know what success is, if you’ve never experienced failure?

Charlotte Bronte

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

Charlie Munger

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

Charles Frazier

You never know when somebody will pull you to them.

Bob Marley

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

Bill Vaughan

The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

David Duchovny

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

Louis C. K.

Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it's different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me.

Casey Abrams

I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.

Billy Sheehan

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

Dido Armstrong

I feel really lucky to have found musical success before I'm 30, to be doing absolutely what I want to do. I would be quite happy if I died tomorrow.

Ed Sheeran

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

Eberhard Weber

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

Charlotte Rampling

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

Joel Murray

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

Slash

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

Imelda May

I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Indy Uhlenhopp

We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.

John Erwin

With the workouts we had, ... I was a little surprised we played as well as we did.

Franklin Gutierrez

Wow, it was a long season. I played in probably 80 games. But it works for me because I come over here in shape. I don't get tired at all. I'm still in shape.

John Tortorella

We're right where we want to be. You want to play the team that is supposed to win it. The result (Tuesday) was not there, but we have played better.

Bill Gardner

We're not going to win the section, but we played this team tough, and if we keep playing like this, we have a shot to make the playoffs.

John Stockton

We've got a pretty young team with a lot of sophomores and some new freshmen, but they've played together a lot,

Jeff Perreault

We're more prepared for it than the first time we played them.

Jason Blake

We're getting our first shots and the goalie was making the save and the second shot was sitting right there for us. I thought we played well. It just didn't go in for us tonight.

Rich Brooks

We're a young team, and we played like it,

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Andrew Mitchell

There don't seem to be any surprises in here.

Ken Koelbl

As I watched, it didn't seem like they missed.

Maureen McClay

As we look at it now, it doesn't seem to work for us.

Mark Hatton

It's just didn't seem like that. We got the shots off.

Janet Anderson

It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation.

Scott Gomez

It seems like it's early. But it isn't. We need these points.

Jeffrey Cohen

It seems like a wonderful thing to do.

Jim Smith

It seems like a simple business. But it's as complicated as it can get.

Charles Caleb Colton

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Charles Caleb Colton

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

Charles Dickens

"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

Charles Dickens

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

Charles Dickens

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

Charles Dickens

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

Charles Dickens

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

Charles Dickens

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.