Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Hodgson

When they're put back into popular culture and the media in ways that don't seem consistent with their sacredness, their holiness, that's where blasphemy occurs. The test of blasphemy is often not whether we as the consumers feel a T-shirt of an icon or a statue is misplaced or misused. The real test is what do members of that community of faith think?

Kamila Hyat

There was no religious component to the violence. All the violence was influenced by small groups of boys who were not moved by the blasphemy issue.

Joseph McGrath

points out that, for Genet, blasphemy is a sign of respect.

Andrew Walsh

Truth No. 1 is that blasphemy is in the eye of the beholder. One person's honest critique is another's blasphemy.

Sandra Smith

He was a leader, he wasn't a follower. The boys are really having a hard time. Every last one of the kids is having a hard time because they really looked up to Jeffrey.

Frankie Dettori

He could win it and go on why not? He's done nothing wrong. He just lacks experience. He's got to tackle the big boys sooner or later, so Saturday should be a good test for him.

Simon Fuller

S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.

Larry King

I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit.

Joe Ehrmann

What would happen in Sacramento if we raised a whole generation of boys to love and be loved, to connect? There is the potential to spark life into these kids. The potential to change all of Sacramento by teaching kids to become part of a team and a community.

Maura O'Connor

Hockey has always been a big deal here with the boys program. But people are starting to realize what we're doing. That's good, because we really do have a good team.

Dan Hoffa

I thought we really stepped up in the fourth quarter on defense, otherwise we struggled the other three quarters. Offensively I was very pleased with what the boys did. They just seem to step up when they need to and that is something we've been doing all season. This was a good team win and I'm proud of them.

Scott Touchette

I thought everyone, boys and girls, did very well. We set a lot of P.R.'s (personal records) today.

Ted Hettinga

I think the boys, in the second half of the season, have made an effort to look for each other. One of the things we try to do is make the extra pass. ... They're finding their teammates and knocking down shots.

Jim Melcher

I think it's a combination of the oil prices and GM today. There's been a heightened focus on inflation recently, and energy prices are a major component in inflation.

Mary Taylor

The purpose of the forums is to stimulate thinking and discussion about how communities can incorporate innovation and technology as components of their economic growth strategies.

Craig Ellis

In terms of fiber-optic components and being the leader in that space, hands down, it's a wonderful company.

Merle Gilmore

In addition, we ended up paying, in some cases, some fairly significant premiums in order to be able to secure components on what was effectively a spot market in some components.

Brian Freeland

But you can't do the piece without that component of fanaticism, and there is no better visual example of that than the head-shaving.

Gary Davis

The issue of high tech is a big one with many components and we really want to get it into the open and onto the agenda. These politicians do seem to grasp that there is an issue here, at least related to the people side, because I tend to split it into two ? the people side and the industry side.

Thitinan Pongsudhirak

The concept of legitimacy in Thailand is not just about elections. It has a moral and ethical component to it.

Gary Thayer

The employment component was just a tad lower than what we saw in November so it's still a healthy number.

Anthony Chan

The headline number is encouraging, but if you strip out the volatile components and look at core growth, it's telling you we're turning the corner, but we're not running around the corner.

Kevin Breslin

I think that the groups do get things done around here.

David Sedaris

Underneath my window, there were huge groups of people running in the streets. They tried to overturn a car. So the woman opened her window and tried to throw water on them. So then they threw rocks up and tried to smash her windows. It was very exciting.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Anne Bacon

I'm not for obesity, I'm not for single parenthood, and I'm not for poverty. But I realize those groups are more likely to be targeted than others.

Neale Donald Walsch

If you cannot find a group whose consciousness matches your own, be the source of one. Others of like consciousness will be drawn to you.

George Andrew Olah

I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute.

Hasan Askari

The influential Jewish groups will now be sensitive to Pakistan's problems particularly with India,

Friedrich August von Hayek

In the Small group the individual can know the effects of his actions on his several fellows, and the rules may effectively forbid him to harm them in any manner and even require him to assist them in specific ways. In the Great Society many of the effects of a person's actions on various fellows must be unknown to him. It can, therefore, not be the specific effects in the particular case, but only rules which define kinds of actions prohibited or required, which must serve as guides to the individual.

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Pat Metheny

The chorused thing, I would have to say I was the first to use extensively in jazz, and that seemed to have influenced a lot of other guys.

Liv Warfield

Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.

Joan Maloney

They didn't want to be influenced in any way; the work has to stand alone.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

Marcelo Porto

The movement was influenced by the rise of the dollar.

Josh Trank

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

Bryan Robson

I don't think it influenced the game, but the referee should have started the match without them.

Marty Barnes

I also haven't moved anything on my desk. Nothing has been touched.

Stone Gossard

I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.

Sean Kelly

We thought we had moved away from this kind of thing.

Fidel Castro

I think that it has moved the world. It's something extraordinary, something historic.

Eddie Davis

I was very upset. They pulled it Saturday. I thought I was going to USF. But they said that since I moved on they were moving on.

Patti Smith

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.

Jean Reno

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.

Tom Ridge

I think they moved as quickly as they could,

Lars Trier

I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film.

Rob Sheffield

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Richard Paul Evans

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Richard Paul Evans

Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

Richard P. Feynman

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.

Richard Dawkins

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Richard Dawkins

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.

Richard Dawkins

If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.

Richard Dawkins

I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

Sgt. Reynolds

His statement was that it was a very small amount.

Darryl Frank

There is a strong (talent) pool, but a very small pool.

Ian Fleming

To come and see them live at a small track has appeal.

Kevin Jones

He doesn't play as small as he is.

Sander Levin

What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.

Vincent Van Gogh

I'll start with small things.

Tory Burch

Never underestimate the impact of a small act.

William Butler Yeats

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

William H. Macy

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

Wendell Berry

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

Yoko Ono

All I'm saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

Morgan Saylor

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

Mahatma Gandhi

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

Mahatma Gandhi

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

Mahatma Gandhi

The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

Mahatma Gandhi

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.