Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Stewart

The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage.

Nancy Anderson

This dinner is so nice. The competition (at the auction) is always tough, especially with the home in Mexico that has been donated the last four years by Anne and Jack Kennedy and all the other things. It's really about great people having a great time for a great cause.

Paul Allaire

This leadership transition is consistent with the Board's plans developed last year when I returned as CEO and Anne was named president and COO. The plan called for a gradual transition of leadership with Anne becoming CEO when the Board was confident of the effective execution of Xerox's turnaround. Clearly, this requirement has been met.

Linda Foy

The bulk of the damage was due to tree limbs coming down on wires, and Anne Arundel was simply where we had more tree limbs come down.

Edmund White

'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

Sue Bird

This is a women's league. It's important to have coaches like Anne trailblazing away. ... Women are in the minority for head coaching positions. Anne is kind of the one carrying the load.

James Edmondson

You see the characters capable of wonderful and shabby behavior. Anne is more complex. She?s the one you see make the journey. She gives her inner thoughts. She?s very harsh on her mother. I think the characters are richer.

Robert Aventajado

We want them to make collective decisions. Otherwise, how can we hold negotiations at all? ... Without them putting their demands in writing, we'll just be confused.

Margaret Chan

New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity.

Randy Huth

We write what we know about. It's easy to write songs about things you're familiar with. We're all collective writers.

Carl Jung

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

Henry Hyde

would be to look the other way instead of confronting our collective responsibility under the Constitution.

Eric Anderson

We're looking for collective wisdom on what we can do to help.

Dennis Miller

America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an I-max shot of Dennis Franz's naked hairy cop ass. Hence, anything enjoyable is automatically forbidden and bad and in our panic to avoid it at all cost we become obsessed with it... like dressing up in a pink teddy and a pair of ugboots and repeatedly screaming the word 'VERBOTEN!' into a conk shell balanced on the back on a miniature pony... Oh, I see.. That would just be me.

Adam Haluska

It's kind of a collective decision. It's something we see as protecting home and it's not out of reach.

Jeff Kinney

It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

Charles Caleb Colton

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Charles Dickens

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Charles Spurgeon

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Alan Watts

To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!

Alan Watts

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.

Alan Parker

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Alan Ball

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

David Raskin

These similarities can't be dismissed as mere coincidence. He was in the middle of it, just like he told you from the witness stand.

Peter Guralnick

I think Elvis was dismissed because of his popularity,

Gary Link

I won't surmise from that that we've been 100 percent dismissed from the committee, because as soon as I would surmise that, I would misinterpret what someone had said to me. But that's accurate. We will not be involved in any of the meetings.

Steve Smith

He actually dismissed the whole team and he showed us he wasn't playing. We haven't had a problem since.

Morris Gleitzman

Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.

Raul Garcia

I did not know. If I would have known, I would have dismissed him immediately.

Chuck Palahniuk

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

Eddie Fierek

It's done. He was dismissed from the team on Monday. We're going to move forward.

John Silvia

You could have dismissed it six months ago as a one-time hit,

Aidan Turner

When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.

Kenny Ortega

Whenever you went into any place where there was Michael Jackson footage at Sony, it was like going through Homeland Security.

Dan Abrams

This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters.

Robert Latham

as of now, landfall would be west of the Mississippi-Alabama state line in Jackson County.

Robert Litan

Even if they slap Jackson down on the tying issue, there still will be the rest of the verdict.

Frankie Muniz

Dewey is so old, Michael Jackson stopped watching.

Victor LaValle

It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

Johnnie Cochran

But that's who Michael Jackson is, he's a very, very naive person in many respects, and there's no question about that. Yeah, he does wear a bull's eye,

Tracy Rocker

Since that first day, he's been the Keith Jackson we've been waiting on. He's doing what he's supposed to do.

Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Kate Thompson

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.

Corin Tucker

Twenty years later, twenty years after I joined the women's movement, we're still talking about the same issues. We're still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we're still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that's just frustrating.

Jane Leavy

By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.

Darin Strauss

My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.

Abdullah Abdullah

Terrorists from all over the world have joined them.

Rick Harper

It doesn't make sense to think of them as two counties. They are joined at the hip.

Irving Berlin

We joined the Navy to see the world, / And what did we see? We saw the sea.

Michael Dunne

You can have 10, 15 or 100 rooms joined together. You also can have people log into the meeting as a participant through their laptops with an IP address.

Sean Faris

Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

Tim Ruskell

Pressure him and make him throw. And when he runs, you must punish him. He has to feel it. Michael can only take so much of that, like anyone.

Bobby Bowden

You remember Michael Vick up there, don't you?

Joshua Malina

You can never entirely rest comfortably with Michael Black or Michael Paynes.

Don Nelson

We wanted to say Michael was a superstar, but he really wasn't,

Marc Wallice

Tom Byron is my friend. JJ Michaels is my friend. I haven't heard from him. I don't know what he believes. A couple of other have called but I haven't called them back.

Phil Lesh

Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.

Sarah Hall

Various books revolutionised what I think about novels and showed me that they're not strict, formulaic things. 'Coming Through Slaughter' by Michael Ondaatje was one of them.

Rick Parry

There's probably been too much speculation already. We will see next week. There has never been a split between us and Rafa over Michael Owen or any other player.

Steve Lacy

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Cecilia Bartoli

Performing this music here, where he was born, in a way you feel 'Oh, this is what Mozart saw, this is what Mozart was breathing; the air, the atmosphere'.

Robert Morris

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Donald Rupe

It was originally more like a concert. We've turned it into a theatrical production.

Julie Regan

We were originally scheduled to present it, but we need more time. We're still writing it.

John Romano

One will get more than what they originally bargained for, I guess.

Cheech Marin

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

Andy Weir

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Michael Heffernan

With Tokyo down and the Dow futures down there was plenty of reason to sell.

Adam Timmerman

There's been plenty of weird things going on this year.

Tim Howard

I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.

Ryan Giggs

No. We have plenty of inspiration of our own.

Ben Ryan

There will be plenty of prawns and oysters, and plenty of refreshments to wash it all down with.

Jim Lett

I've never seen so many left-handers. There's plenty of talent, I'll tell you that.

Rosamund Pike

I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.

Ken Dunham

There are plenty of ways to get around all of those things.

Brian Ditto

There are plenty of rumors going round. But that's it.

Bob Gaudio

But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.

Cameron Bennerman

This is 2006. We're just trying to keep this thing rolling while we're here.

Scott Benedict

I wanted to give someone else an inning or two, but he was just rolling along.

Martin Reynolds

This is going to keep us rolling for several more years before they have to do something different.

Alex O'Loughlin

I've always loved, as an Aussie, comedy is part of my life. My friends and I are always ribbing each other and that's how we get through the days. When it comes to cameras rolling and getting that timing right, the only way to do it and do it well is to throw yourself into it.

Annie Leibovitz

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

Sammy Hagar

Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.

Frank Molinaro

That was a tough loss. But no excuses. Now we just have to take this win and try to keep rolling through the Shore Conference.

Ed Steadham

We're not speculating. We've got a contingency plan. We're rolling up our sleeves.

Craig Miller

A lot of the departments down there have been wiped out, ... There's no 911 for us.

John Boitano

I thought we were going to get wiped when we were down 14-0.

Rick Najera

New York was the place where everyone got wiped out.