Famous Quotes & Sayings

Idina Menzel

The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.

Idina Menzel

I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.

Idina Menzel

With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.

William Quigley

People go into a gallery, and they're afraid to express their opinions about art. No one's afraid to say, 'Keanu Reeves was bad in that movie.' We see so many films that we can tell who's faking it. But with art, we can't always tell.

Wendelin Van Draanen

If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.

Charles Moskos

The political leaders are afraid to ask the public for any real sacrifice, which doesn't speak too highly of the citizenry.

Larry Foote

The people are similar, and they're both hard-nosed cities. People are not afraid to tell you what time it is, voicing their opinion. If you're driving and you cut somebody off on the highway, just like in Pittsburgh, they'll let you know.

Brian Skerry

Sharks don't particularly have a great interest in divers. It seemed that in a normal dive, I would jump in the water, and one or two gray reef sharks would swim in and kind of check me out - and then they would keep their distance. So they weren't particularly threatening or anything to be afraid of.

Christo

Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

There are a lot of aspects of filmmaking that I love, but one of my favorites is in post, finding the right song for the right moment.

Zadie Smith

Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.

William Bolcom

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

Jane Marshall

The points that I do correspond to organ systems that help physically with detoxification and strengthening of the body as well as the mental aspects of will power and letting go.

Brian Wildsmith

A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.

Dev Hynes

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

Randy Neugebauer

Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

Nathaniel Branden

Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

Alden Ehrenreich

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

Gavyn Davies

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

Jarrod Agen

The overall strategy over the next five years is to gain control of the border.

David Ulevitch

I like the idea of separation of services. ISPs provide a pipe. Other vendors provide security. Other vendors provide email. When one party controls all the services, it's a 'synergy' for the company, but rarely for the consumer.

Barack Obama

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

Gordon B. Hinckley

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.

Joost Hiltermann

The Americans are seen as an occupying power with long term goals to control oil.

Scott Smith

That was a very workmanlike performance. He never let up. It was really solid technique. He controlled the pace of the match and all positions.

Atharva Veda

That, which has been already restrained should not be further suppressed( it's not of much use), but one should try to control that which remains to be restrained!

Doc Rivers

That was a great win for us. We had control of it at times, but you know New Jersey is going to fight back because they are so talented. I thought it was nice that when they did fight back, and took the lead, we kept our composure. We kept fighting, and good things happen when you do that.

Yolanda Adams

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

Tina Turner

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Tim Tebow

Before a game, you know, I can take off my helmet, run over there and spend a few moments with someone who is dealing with so much more than I've ever had to deal with and to love on them and care about them and in front of thousands and thousands of people, you know, let them know that they're more important than all of this.

Gilbert Hernandez

I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.

Gil Gerard

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

Donald Trump

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

William Kent Krueger

Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.

Vivek Wadhwa

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

Yehuda Berg

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

Evan G. Galbraith

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Judie Brown

The police department was handed this on a silver platter and did nothing. That's how I feel.

Nicolas Roeg

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

Lisa Ray

We have talked to the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and they said supplies are not a problem in Georgia at this time,

Allen Benson

We have a letter from the director of the U.S. Geological Survey to the Energy Department supporting the site recommendation. It supports going ahead.

Mayor Rockingham

We have a fine police department but manpower is not up to full complement.

Nancy Chambers

We have been working with the Mississippi Department of Transportation on this and they are the ones who are actually doing it,

Phil Padgett

We're working on it, a lot of DNA testing in that department too, I'll be honest with you. It's not gonna be as strong as it has been in the past, but it can still be respectable and that's our goal: to make sure it never hurts us.

H. Hart

Usually the Public Works Department does one, the parks department and water resources does theirs. It's a value that (county supervisors) will see it all in one place.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Carl Rogers

The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.

Carl Rogers

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

Matt Kelmon

The 30 percent revenue growth days, I think we might have just have seen them top out. Now they have to take what they've got and see how they can leverage it.

Ronald Dollens

The acquisition of CTS, its innovative products and strong pipeline, will provide a platform for Guidant's growth in cardiac surgery.

Mike Edwards

We have also experienced steady growth in intellectual property and patent activities.

Stewart Davis

The police can't do anything unless they (catch them in the act).

John Blair

The police are trying to make or rewrite the law.

Rene Lavigne

That was a thankful sight, when we saw the police helicopter.

Ann Robertson

That was where we could be safe. Police could see us and we could see them.

John Hamm

That was the way it was presented to me and to my (police) chief,

Paul Michael Glaser

Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato.

Nancy Bray

We got tired of watching him, and we called police.

Kathy Valentine

I think if they don't have enough police, they need to get some from other places. They need some radical cops.

Bob Harris

We rely on police to keep their prisoners secure.

Gail Carriger

It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

Cecelia Ahern

Seeming and being are not one and the same.

Quinton Ross

That was incredible. It seemed like he made every shot tonight. Every time he got the ball, he made a shot.

Mark Tacchi

That was the first time, other than the medley (relay) that we've put Libby (O'Brien) on anchor. Starting her just wasn't working. When Krissy (Brown) starts, that seems to spark her. We get more out of it all the way around with Krissy starting and Libby on anchor.

Mary Leakey

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

Steven Lee

It didn't seem to have its usual vibrancy.

Carmelo Anthony

It didn't seem like he had 40 points.

R. Robinson

I think just watching (tape of) the team we're going to play there seems to be more urgency, there's more awareness, more attitude.

Robin Wright

I think just by watching him, like, 'Let's get on with it. Let's just shoot the scene, and we're done,' which seems logical.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Rocky Smith

If they put together some type of a waiting list, my service would not be needed.

Sebastian Thrun

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

Gerry Waldron

I did keep a local-only service for just that reason.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

David Turangal

We've survived 50 years because of our service.

Pat Brown

You get so tickled when you find something you really want.

Charlie Smith

I'm tickled to get a win. It's been awhile.

Ronda Rousey

I'm unbelievably ticklish. When I was a little kid, my sisters would hold me down and tickle me until I peed my pants.

H. Hunt

I'd like to see them do more of this so we don't have to go to Cocoa Village all the time.

Brian Johnson

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Diane Abbott

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Adolph Green

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Matt Groening

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

Marshall McLuhan

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

Jim Butcher

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

Cecil Beaton

What is elegance? Soap and water!

Bethany Hamilton

I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.

Benjamin Rush

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

Bill Burr

I never wanted to spend a month away from my life. One time I was out on the road for three weeks in a row and I when I came back someone had broken into my apartment and the water had evaporated from the toilet.

William Shakespeare

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.

William Shakespeare

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

William Shakespeare

A little water clears us of this deed.

William Shakespeare

How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.