Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Irving Ravetch

Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

Gary Bauer

The polls mean virtually nothing, ... We're not tottering on the edge. Each week we're picking up momentum.

John Anastos

The patients are happier, and we can serve more patients. More patients mean more revenues.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Martin Bouygues

My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Gilles Villeneuve

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Zach Johnson

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.

William McDonough

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Herminio Lucci

The outside influence in the form of Argentine auction, which matched expectations, helped the market. And tomorrow's futures expiry weighed slightly, as usual.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

William Gibson

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

Walter Kirn

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.