Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Carlson

Typically you issue those releases when you get partial payment. We were bending over backward, issuing them even when we were not getting partial payment. We stopped doing that when they filed bankruptcy.

Xiao Qiang

Who is not bending the rules, Chinese companies or otherwise? Everyone is doing it.

Tamsin Greig

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

Ernest Jones

Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.

Lloyd Roberts

For this to happen between brothers that's just bending the limits of probability. It's a true tragedy.

Christie Brinkley

When I am brushing my teeth, I'm bending my leg behind me, or I'm lifting my leg up and holding it in that position so I'm squeezing my butt in. I can do that while I'm washing or slicing vegetables, too. Or I go up and down on my toes, working my calves a little bit.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.

Nanette White

We're doing the best we can. There's a lot of bending that must be done, but it's being done as quickly and efficiently as it can be.

Albert Camus

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

Zaha Hadid

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

Ezra Taft Benson

Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters.

Neon Hitch

I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that was my dream. We just traveled the whole world, me and my mom and my little brothers and sisters. It was an adventure.

Rebecca Ferguson

We have two older brothers and two younger sisters; Sam and I are in the middle, and I've always felt protective and closest to him.

Patricia MacLachlan

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

Marc Morial

You are demonstrating here in Houston that you are willing to be your brothers and sisters' keepers in a time of need,

Jalal Talabani

You and your (Kurdish) brothers are the heroes of liberating Iraq,

Ryan Stiles

I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

Lee Evans

My brothers were staying at my house, so I hired them on to help me, ... You have to help people when you can.

Idris Elba

Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

Ian Mckellen

Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

Yo-Yo Ma

My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.

Chris Carter

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Chino Moreno

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

Lyle Gramley

That wouldn't happen with just any Joe Blow.

Vincent Creel

That would be the worst thing that could happen to us, to be all casinos, and we've known that since Day One. We don't want to be the Las Vegas of the South.

Jake Bacon

That will not happen again. We've improved, and we're much better than that now.

Kevin Garnett

That was so unfortunate. It could have happened to any of us. I kept telling him, 'You'll be OK. We're right there with you.

Arnold Rothstein

There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.

Bill Bowerman

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

Michael Phelps

Nobody is going to put a limit on what I'm doing.

Bob Thomason

He's a role player on our team, but I think sometimes he limits his role more than he should.

Jim Silver

His return is a big positive for the industry. It will spur everyone on, especially in terms of pushing the limits of technology,

David D. Burns

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Charles Stanley

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

David Ricardo

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Anthony Fauci

We have to see if it is true and if we can do anything about it,

Diane von Furstenberg

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.