Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert Mead

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Cameron Johnson

He sees investment in education as being directly linked to the future of Oregon's economy.

John McCarthy

We're not working with American on this issue. We have proffered the offer directly to the shipping company.

Charles Polk

It is potentially an interesting alternative to Gallup polls or to specialists reporting from the region. It's a way of going directly to individuals in the region or outside who have knowledge or interest in the political and economic events in the area.

Stanlyn Placencia

I think we're progressing. I don't think we're directly on target, but there is progression.

Tommy Turner

Hopefully we'll be able to get him released directly into a (drug) treatment program.

P. J. Harvey

There are several parents who feel that it is time their students become part of the mainstream and go directly to Gene Witt Elementary. And there are a few that still feel they should remain in a small environment.

Jonathan Ames

I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.

Eric Greene

He talked directly about the Fed's forecasts, which Greenspan never did, and it is emblematic of his view that we have to make interest rate policies as easy to forecast as possible.

John Chaney

Kids will say whatever sounds good, and you guys print it or whatever. They've gotten together on things before, and it hasn't made a difference.

Steve Pilcher

Just when you think the world has gotten as weird as it can get, something like this comes along.

Greg Olson

Joey's been through a number of different coordinators now when you look at it. Has he ever really gotten into a system where he's been able to get in and get comfortable?

Jeret Peterson

I think I should've gotten more points for landing on one ski that's so much harder than two skis.

Tony Robichaux

What we haven't been doing is scoring early. We've gotten better at that. It helps when we can put up runs every other inning, but any team plays better when they trust the pitchers.

Rick Hendricks

Had it been Europeans, the Inquisition might have gotten involved from Mexico.

Sen Freedman

Having power outages in our state is nothing new, and Northeast Utilities' response time has gotten worse, not better.

Jeff Williams

He's been real durable, ... I think he's gotten better ever week.

Willie Randolph

He's gotten some big hits for us. I like his swing. I like his energy.

Anita Diament

I'm not a literary writer. I didn't go to whatever school it is or have the mentor you need to get reviewed in the New York Times.

Joanne Kelly

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

Henry Rollins

It's hard to judge literary merit.

Nancy Pearcey

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

Ken Follett

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Pope Francis

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Terry Eagleton

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Terry Eagleton

What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .

Terry Eagleton

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Joseph Castelo

It should not strengthen the position of those with a preconceived notion about terrorists.

Greg Stein

The notion of packaged products is really going to go away.

Ray Allen

It seems the referees take these preconceived notions about what he's going to do. It's ridiculous some of the calls.

David Fish

This is the notion of personalization at the intermediary level.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

John Doe

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Dolly Wells

Essentially, we wanted to be in one of Azazel's films, so the notion was we'd simply write an Azazel Jacobs movie ourselves, and then give it to him and be like, 'Right, here's you next film, now direct us. Go.'

Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

Robert McAfee Brown

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

Winston Churchill

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

Ray Burrows

I'm bored, even though I've got a lot to do, ... I'm tired. I'm frustrated.