Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

Trisha Goddard

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

William Jennings Bryan

In our election manifesto is: we keep the right to create money and to bring in circulation, for the cause of the government ... Those who do not share this view, reply us to the issue of paper money is for the banks, the government should stay out of the banking business. I agree with Jefferson's opinion ... and just like him I say again: the issue of money is a matter for the government and the banks should stay out of government activity.

Virginia Woolf

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Viola Spolin

It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.

Richard DeVos

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

Samuel Johnson

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Warren Buffett

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

Sandra Bullock

False expectations take away joy.

Rosemary Clooney

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

Kevin Smith

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

I have always been able to rise above the expectations.

Robin Gibb

It's hard for me to put on weight.

Harvey Keitel

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

Eric Bana

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

Joely Richardson

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Ashlee Simpson

Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under?

Teresa Heinz

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.

John Knox

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

Cathy Guisewite

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.