Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

William Rehnquist

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

W. Somerset Maugham

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

Yehudi Menuhin

We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

Jacques Lacan

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

Carolyn Heilbrun

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Julian Barnes

we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death

Terry Tempest Williams

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

Lee J. Cobb

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, Id do it.

Chris Bucknam

I think it looks to be an outstanding stadium.

Matt Osborne

He didn't get many looks at the basket. But he picked it up defensively and he had six rebounds and six steals.

Bill Cowher

He can time things up and be very explosive. It looks sometimes like he's walking and not moving, but he can go from Point A to Point B very quickly. He's a very sudden player, and I think that's what makes him unique.

Quvenzhane Wallis

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

Frank Taylor

He's a big, strong, really good-bodied horse, and he looks really fast.

John Farrell

His range has been solid in the field; he's running and moving well. And his at-bats have been very consistent. He looks like he did when we first signed him. He's back on track.

Mark DiCamillo

I think it's a two-step process and it looks like he's successfully getting people over in terms of step one to the undecided column. But there's a segment of voters who are withholding judgment. They know who Schwarzenegger is, but they are not sure.

Mark Billingham

I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.

Shaun Alexander

We've got to wait and see. But it looks pretty good.

A.E. Howard

It can't be that simple. Rarely is constitutional language that open and shut.

Ronald Schmelzer

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Bill Ross

It is a language, and it touches on things oral or written language don't get to. When I first met Antonio, I wondered if he could speak. He was so shy.

Tony DiSanto

Laguna' was sort of told in the visual language of a lush teen drama. The idea here was to be a little grittier, more voyeuristic.

Carol Bruess

I think we're seeing a more relaxed, more offensive, some would say, use of language, the use of swearing.

Veda Upanishads

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

Stephen Sachs

He doesn't know what language is. He has been totally isolated,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.