Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Bulloch

Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do.

Charles C. Mann

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

Scott McCown

The Ruiz litigation transformed our prison from a backwards Southern plantation-style system into a modern penal system." ()

Robert Butler

The state statute bends over backwards to protect the property owner's rights, ... We have to be very careful.

Natalie Pukas

The whole process is taking us backward in attitude. We're looking at special education costs versus operating costs. I wish the state would consider doing something about special education funding in small towns such as ours. It would make a world of difference.

James Woods

This is a total shock, ... This is really a step backwards for us.

Julie Walters

This isn't what we thought would be the outcome today. Today we kind of took a step backwards in our execution. When we create opportunities for good teams, they are going to finish them.

David Shambaugh

The U.S. right now is bending over backwards to engage China on a wide variety of issues.

Zingisa Mkabile

The premier is just shifting chairs. At the Health Department we are only going to go backwards as a province.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

David Watson

Be prepared. The stress and the pressure can make you run in all sorts of directions for any job out there.

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Craig Dunn

I think establishing the new position and the new office is a step in the right direction.

Yale Hirsch

Nasdaq is not just another little place for a few stocks, ... It dominated the market and went in different directions than the Dow.

Jim Kiick

I wish I could speak to him more often. He more or less has gone in his own direction. He has gotten away from football. He enjoys hunting and fishing. He has a new life, and that's what he enjoys.

Steve Bender

I was told that they wanted to head in a different direction, which was pretty funny.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Sandra Sanchez

Though she was always working on her historical thing.

Andrew Sullivan

Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?

Daniel Day-Lewis

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Stefan Zweig

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

Theodor Mommsen

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Maynard James Keenan

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Benito Mussolini

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

Jane Goodall

So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

Calvin Coolidge

Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.

Alain Badiou

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

Charles Darwin

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!

Vandana Shiva

The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a biological issue. People are not increasing in numbers out of stupidity and ignorance. Population growth is an ecological phenomenon linked very intimately to other issues, such as the usurpation of the resources which allow people to live.

Jared Diamond

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Bret Easton Ellis

She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.

Blaise Pascal

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Larry Diamond

How can we communicate effectively if you risk being intercepted by the National Security Agency?

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Jeff Bonde

She's always had a lot of natural speed. We're still trying to rate her.

Ross Lynch

I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob. I've got a lot of brothers, and there's a natural competitiveness between us when it comes to girls. If I said something about being a heartthrob, then they would bring me straight back down to earth!

Michelle Turner

I didn't think homosexuality should be taught as something that is natural or the same as heterosexuality.

Meseret Defar

My speed is natural and I have been training very hard.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Homaro Cantu

Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,