Famous Quotes & Sayings

Octavia E. Butler

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

John Lynch

Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own.

Patrick Stewart

You have to realize that Brian has practiced with us, maybe three times, but he's played 20 shows. But he adds rock 'n' roll attitude.

Dana Williams

When this first came up I thought, 'You've got to be kidding. Why would you want to play with us?' ... We are very fortunate. He adds a very big sound to the bottom line.

Sarah Pinborough

I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you a perspective on the world and people that adds flavour to your writing.

W. S. Gilbert

I'm all for a change. There's a lot of coaching that goes on now. I'm not sure I want the coach on the court the whole match, but why not let the player talk to the coach between sets? It gives TV people something to talk about, and it adds to the experience for fans and viewers.

Antony Starr

No one in 'Banshee' has small opinions. They have strong beliefs, and they will defend them ferociously. Having that element in the show just adds another level. It's another avenue for story, and it enriches the world.

Kenneth Hildebrand

Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

Rory Bruer

Monster House is the perfect film for REAL D's innovative technology. It literally adds another dimension to the filmgoing experience and enhances the film's entertainment value.

Tom Hyland

The weaker players will have difficulty. The stronger players will garner more and more of the audience. That concentration will continue.

Gerald Celente

Nobody has ever dealt with these numbers before. When (disaster) hits, it hits in such a massive way because of the concentration of people.

Francesca Schiavone

I had to think about my match and my games and my concentration because it's not easy to stay there every point. She is good -- (but) she missed a lot today.

Jake Peavy

I couldn't make a pitch and we couldn't make a play. I let my focus and concentration get away from me. I was upset with the triple.

Mickey Mala

Other than a couple of concentration lapses at the end of each quarter, it was a really nice game for us defensively. This was a good win for us.

Glen Davis

I had a high level of concentration out there today. That's how I approached it. I made sure I was ready to play. I just wanted to win.

Ivan Rodriguez

I need to be a little more patient, have a little more concentration, and I'll be OK.

Andy Reid

We utilized him in training camp. We have to make sure that most of his concentration is on the tight end spot. But he is a guy we could use to get us through a game at fullback.

Jeff Houston

But our execution still needs a lot of work. We still have too many drops in our concentration level.

Bob Poznanovich

Addicts don't deny that they're using. They deny that it's hurting others.

Marcus Aurelius

You say, Senca, that you were violated by robbers, but the robbers deny it

Ryan Toohey

The real insult to New Yorkers is denying that serious problems exist.

Sue Gamble

We could potentially deliberately deny students education, and I find that very, very troubling.

Andrea Anderson

To deny it or to shake your finger at it is a limited and very paternal... point of view in a sense.

Dave Bliss

We just tried to stand straight up, but he kept getting to the free throw line. We just could not deny him the basketball.

Roger Stone

Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.

V. S. Naipaul

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.

John Shelby Spong

God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.

Chris Linder

We were drifting kind of frozen in the ice for a week. There are some parts of the world where you really can't do everything you want. We're really not in charge.

E. O. Wilson

The housing group will be fairly stable the next six months, then later will react to opportunities after various regional markets find stable levels. It's looking like the Federal Reserve may be done with raising interest rates in the spring and rates will have peaked, removing the fear that they were going to keep drifting further up.

Rhys Ifans

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Laurey Stryker

It wouldn't be good to have an empty building, would it?

John Furlong

Everything around the Games is not as positive if there are empty seats in the building.

Henning Mankell

There is always a sacred hour in the theatre - after rehearsals and before performances, in the afternoon, between three and five o'clock. Normally the theatre is empty then, and this is a wonderful hour.

George W. Bush

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

Veronica Roth

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

Rumi

When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.

Shiv Khera

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

Max Lucado

When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

Ricky Williams

realizes that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

William Wordsworth

A day it was when I could bearTo think, and think, and think again;With so much happiness to spare,I could not feel a pain.

Bronson Arroyo

Tell you what, if they keep doing that all year, I'll be super happy.

Tyler Cowen

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

Antisthenes

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

Augusten Burroughs

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

Ayn Rand

Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers-show me yours-show me that it is possible-show me your achievement-and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine. Mallory (the young artist) to Roark in "The Fountainhead"

Bryant H. McGill

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

Alain de Botton

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Godfrey Reggio

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Rod Schwarz

It's real disappointing. I think it shows a lack of preparation and a lack of concentration. We just weren't ready to play.

Gerhard Schroeder

It's cold, it lacks solidarity and it's inhuman,

Kevin Logan

It's a very thin market. People don't want to take any risk because of the lack of liquidity.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Eric Butterworth

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Emma McLaughlin

Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.

Ben Nicholas

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Baruch Spinoza

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arthur Adamov

Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.

Pat Robertson

Ashok means without sorrow, and he lives up to his name.

English 14th Century Proverbs

A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.

Ronda Storms

This is a real victory for people in the community. And for moms and dads, and for people who are just trying to live their lives and have a neighborhood that's safe and that they can be proud of.

William Blake

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

Carol Nelson

There is no such thing as closure. My son lives in my heart. I see him in my other children.

Kathleen Blanco

We know that many lives have been lost.

Tamsin Greig

There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

Mark Udall

We are, in sum, much safer than we were, and I say that as someone who lives just three miles from the site.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Carlos Delgado

This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games.

Brett Ratner

I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It's all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it's going from cool to uncool. That's what crossover is.

Archibald Cox

What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

Augustus

At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order...

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The word infrastructure means nothing to the majority of people of America. We have to come up with a sexier word than infrastructure. So the key thing is that you have to go out and promote and market this the right way like with everything in policy.

Ayn Rand

The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

Ayn Rand

The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

Richard Roby

A win is a win. When you can scratch and claw and pull out a win like that in an ugly game, it's a plus.

Ricky Skaggs

This was sweet to his ears. This was what pulled me away from my toys.

Carl Weathers

When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.

Stubby Clapp

There's nothing like pulling the red and white over your head.

Brad Taylor

The tires just went sideways and pulled me into the ditch.

Rob Lowe

Before you could actually have face-lifts, they would pull your skin around the back of your head with rubber bands, where they would tape it. And then you'd have to wear a wig over it to hide the rubber bands. It was not the most comfortable.

Simon Payne

Lloyds is rising on speculation that BBVA will make a bid. There's been talk of a tie up between the two for ages. BBVA pulling out of BNL is going to reinforce that rumor.

Siretha Woods

We need to pull together focus. And, you know, come together, and let's turn in these guns.

Jamon Gordon

We thought we were going to pull it out. That?s how the season has been this year.

James Van Allen

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

James Van Allen

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

Douglas Adams

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is to be happy.

Simon Mainwaring

The future of profit is purpose.

Thomas Merton

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.

Saadi

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

Thomas Watson

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

Reggie McNeal

You were created on purpose for a purpose.

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

John Ruskin

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

Marcia Gay Harden

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

George Steiner

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

Christoph Waltz

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

Jeff Bridges

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

Alex Pareene

Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

Grover Cleveland

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

Austin Farrer

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

Confucius

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

Anne Frank

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Miguel de Cervantes

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

Matthew Henry

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

Mignon McLaughlin

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

Master P

I want to get rich and die old.

Mason Cooley

The rich are happier than we are, and should be.

Erno Rubik

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

Rhys Ifans

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

Freddie Roach

I thought it was something I could go to the sideline and shake it off.

Howie Mandel

I know intellectually that if I shake somebody's hand that I'm not going to get sick and die.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Michael Dean

I have not talked with Terri in weeks. We were simply brainstorming.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Howard Hawks

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.

Wayne Primeau

He was just a steady guy. Never flashy, but he was a big part of their championship teams.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.