Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Hirshfield

My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.

Dave Piepenbrink

Pitchers want to play for him (Reed). He's got a lot of experience and he's done a good job with the staff.

Geddy Lee

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

Nancy Foster

Play (acting) experience is not necessary. We want people to show us what they have to offer,

Chris Lehane

Our policy proposals, when they're analyzed, are responsible, reflect experience and show some real thought.

Justin Phinisee

Our past and history has given us experience so we know how to respond.

Henry Spencer

Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.

Jim Anderson

Particularly with low socio-economic status, my experience is, such students never realized that testing was important,

Joel Edgerton

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Louis Zamperini

God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

Lucian

How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.

Francois Hollande

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

Bob Sanders

All of those really big hits I remember. I put one on him. I've given people a lot of those.

Mark Pearson

All the political appointees have been given their marching orders.

Eddi Reader

It's not what you've been given, it's what you do with what you've got.

Thomas McManus

The market's progress since then (Sept. 21) seems excessive, given the challenging environment.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Omar N. Bradley

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

Ken Smith

That's a lot. It was one of the most we've made in my history.

Terry Pratchett

The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.

Terry Pratchett

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Ally Condie

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

Anthony de Mello

You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!

Angela Lansbury

I honestly feel that "Murder, She Wrote" stands alone, as many of the other great shows of the past 35, 40 years do. It stands alone, and it's still on. It's still all over the world, "Murder, She Wrote," Jessica Fletcher and "Murder, She Wrote."

Angela Davis

I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.

Anne Perry

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

Anne Rice

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

Anne Rice

Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own. Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall. Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this." — Lestat de Lioncourt

Anna Freud

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.