Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wes Anderson

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different.

Virginia Postrel

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.

Colin Angle

In the smart home of the future, there should be a robot designed to talk to you. With enough display technology, connectivity, and voice recognition, this human-interface robot or head-of-household robot will serve as a portal to the digital domain. It becomes your interface to your robot-enabled home.

Eve Ensler

Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like other cells and the body invites it in.

Bob Verdi

When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.

Bel Powley

When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.

Brandi Carlile

When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump in my throat when I sing that song. And also 'Before It Breaks.' So I'm just a different songwriter now. And the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to deliver those songs casually.

Brad Goreski

With glitzy add-ons, the bright, girly dress you bought for daywear becomes fancy enough for evening.

David Ulevitch

With DNS, it's possible to control key components of Internet navigation. Google already controls search, they are quickly gaining market share to control the browser, and when you put in DNS, it becomes the trifecta of complete navigational control.

Warren Farrell

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Walead Beshty

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Walter Crane

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

Warren Stephens

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

William Kirby

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

Vikram Seth

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

Zubin Mehta

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

Ellen Key

Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

Irving Stone

The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.

Des Browne

With the enhancements to the security of the passport document itself that biometric technology will bring, it is time to make equivalent enhancements to the process of establishing identity before issuing passports.

Robbie Robinson

We're waiting on a few final documents before it's ready.

Peter Sis

My father documented on film for the last time what Tibet looked like before the world got there.

Scott McCormack

Most of the documents are going to be false." ()

Juan Fernandez

We have an obligation to submit all the documents requested by the authorities.

Johnny Davis

We don't fabricate anything. We only document what they give us.

James Dalessandro

You actually think you're watching a document of the 1906 earthquake, which would be impossible,

Richard Butler

We'll need to do the whole spectrum of our work. Documents are part of that, ... We also need to do our inspections, and they're off and running again. It will be a little while yet before we have the whole spectrum of our work done.

Paul Fleischman

Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.

Bob Hartley

We have a great group of players, but this is embarrassing. There's no other way to explain the way we've played. It's embarrassing.

Michael Defensor

We have to look at all the options and then explain to the public why we are doing this and why we are not doing this.

Jonathan Todd

Microsoft will have the opportunity to explain how this technical support is relevant to the March 2004 decision.

Chris Hoffman

We need to properly explain to people they're only going to see a 7-mil increase,

Rocky Steagall

We judge off those criteria. It's not like we sit there with an open mind. We use those tools to judge so we can explain why one rider was better than the other.

Richard Aboulafia

You can explain this. But people see what they want to see.

Andy Reid

You just have a feel. I just don't know how to explain it.

Oscar Hammerstein

Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons; Wise men never try

Giles Foden

At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet girls in town. I wasn't good enough at physics to take it much further than fun, but I suppose there was a need to communicate.

Eve Ensler

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

Emmett Brown

The all-tackle world record will not be overturned. In many ways, it's further validated.

Naveen Andrews

We know that there's going to be some new people joining and that's great because you do wonder how much further they can take it before running out of ideas, ... How can it possibly sustain itself?

Martin Schulz

We will see a further improvement in the small- and mid-sized companies.

Ernie Accorsi

Waiting for 25 can be frustrating at times, but you are there for the right reason. You just hope you are even further down every year.

Shahab Jalinoos

We have a long way to go in terms of pricing in further Japanese rate hikes. That's the point, which we think the yen will really start to rally.

Marla Shavin

White is going to be huge for spring. The further we get into warmer weather, we will see it more and more.

Mark Wilson

We can't get down to much further so this is a big game for us. Plus, we'd like to keep the momentum going after last week's win.

Joel Holliday

Why would I need to sue? The lawyers are saying we're in a bind. We didn't lose money.

Linus Torvalds

I was going to start with a lawyer joke, but I'm told it was already done yesterday,

Gorden Blain

I have never been once approached by a lawyer on it.

Joseph Tate

We told her lawyers it was not coerced. We are surprised to learn we had anything to do with her incarceration.

Mark Lanier

From Merck's victories, I've leaned that you must tie their lawyers to the truth. They specialize in mudslinging.

David Shapiro

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

Charles Stross

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

William Shakespeare

Let us kill all lawyers

Jonathan Todd

Whether or not the new transaction will have to be re-notified will be something that the parties and the lawyers of the parties will have to study very carefully. If, for example, it is a different type of transaction it might have to be re-notified.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

C. S. Lewis

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Cecelia Ahern

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Bill Bryson

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

Bertrand Russell

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Francis J. Grimke

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Bill Vaughan

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

Jena Malone

If they made 'Pride & Prejudice 2,' Lydia would become more of a tragic figure,

Cher

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.

Charlotte Lennox

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

Charles Lamb

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

Jane Austen

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

Jane Austen

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]

Jane Austen

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

Emma Bunton

We've kind of been out of the public eye, even though we haven't stopped working.

Pete Rodda

We are not putting anything out that is not public record.

Kathy Nelson

Those are the things that reporters do for the public on a regular basis.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

Doug McBride

We have to have rules in place before we can do it.

Alan Dooley

We need to put the rules together very, very soon.

Grant Teaff

What will come out of this is there will be uniform rules set.

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Mayor Baker

My rules are simple. Treat everyone fairly. Treat everyone with respect.

Ron Krumer

There are no rules to how long it could take to go away. It could take one day, it could take two days, it could take two weeks.

Carlos Castillo

We're simply saying we need to stick to the rules that we've all outlined.

Jay Zygmunt

Sit around and wait. At least it's the same rules for everybody.

Twyla Tharp

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

Bill Vaughan

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

Bill Bruford

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

Carolyn Gray

We've got one right now that we need for someone from the south side of the county,

Charles Long

We're working on getting the sidewalk buttoned up.

Missy Elliott

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

Deborah Moggach

You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.

Dick DeVos

Who better. I know what it's like to sit on that side of the table.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Maggots squirming in your eyeholes...and your other orifices, might be carrying things a bit too far." "This is why I keep you around, Rixon. Always seeing things from the bright side.

Mary Lambert

I have a big thing with eye contact, because I think as soon as you make eye contact with somebody, you see them, and they become valued and worthy.

Cindy Sheehan

We have to stop it as soon as possible.

Bob Coleman

We don't store it on the property. So, as soon as it comes out of the pipe, it's burned. So, if we have an interruption on the other end of the system, very soon we could have a shortage.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Dorothy Johnson

It can't come soon enough, ... It is going to be thrilling.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon us do what we do,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon not watch them any more, they look pretty good.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

Ashton Kutcher

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

Art Bell

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

Bill Vaughan

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.

Kyle Brown

Typically speaking, we're probably talking about around $100,000 for everything.