Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Aussaresses

As for torture, it was tolerated if not actively encouraged, ... He (the emissary) knew exactly what went on during the night.

Jodhi May

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

Eric Brewer

The site that we had been looking at did not work out. We never got to the point of moving forward on an actual approval process. We are still actively looking for sites in Citrus County but do not have any specific plans at this time.

Steve Zeller

These are the sort of films we are actively and passionately looking for. They have excited audiences and jurors alike at a number of film festivals because they are stunning and emotional pieces of work, and we are happy to be involved with such excellent movies.

Ian Telfer

We're looking to fill that gap as our production starts to go down six or seven years from now. And these mines, as everyone is learning, take longer and longer to drill out and to permit and build, so we're actively looking now.

Robert Creeley

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

Gordon W. Allport

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

Naomi Hasegawa

Bond prices got a boost from the fairly good outcome of today's two-year debt auction, while index-trackers actively purchased government debt paper, which supported the market.

Shelley Duvall

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?

Doug Marrs

Special teams really hurt us, but we didn't play like we're capable of playing and they played very well. They're a good football team, and they did a great job.

Kirsten Nelson

I am capable of directing, and I am good at that. In order to have longevity as actors, you have to keep changing it up a bit; you have to bring other talents to the table. I want this to be another feather in my cap instead of replacing what I already have.

Aaron Snyder

We're a real good defensive team but we didn't show it. We know if we play the way we're capable of playing that we can win this tournament. I think we'll play a lot better than this.

Dave Woodruff

We did over 100,000 pounds of crab, but it isn't enough. My plant is capable of running 1.5 million pounds of crab.

Ben Wallace

Before Larry got here, we knew what kind of team we had. With him gone, we still know we capable of getting it done.

Bruno Latour

The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.

Tony DiTucci

We got strong play from a few individuals, but we didn't get a collective effort from the whole team. We're not going to win with individual effort. We're going to win when we play together as a team the way we're capable of playing.

Craig Bohl

We certainly are excited about entrusting our defense to two capable men. This last year we've really shown great strides in our defense so we felt it was really important we stay within the same system.

Milton Bradley

We're very capable of winning the division. . . . We're going to win it.

Douglas Jerrold

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

Mary C. Jones

He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.

Dennis Hutchinson

He doesn't seem to be very fond of them.

Martina Hingis

I have fond memories of Doha and I hope the public here will support me like they did in 2001.

Mike Perry

I'm sure the town of Carver has fond memories of him. You lose something when you lose someone like that, but he's left his mark.

James Corden

Fondue is not a good date food. You end up with cheese dripping down your face.

Source Unknown

The very first steps towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Oprah Winfrey

You said, 'I'm going to be on your show,' and I was more interested in the car. People say that to me all the time - they say, 'Hey Oprah, I just wrote a book,' or 'I'm a singer,' but you're the first person who ever made that true.

Benjamin Booker

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

Ron Mosby

Yes, we are interested in a store there. We are pulling all the proper permits and things before moving forward.

Lisa Hoffman

As soon as we were married (in 2000), we knew we were interested in adoption.

Jeff Golc

At this point, we are not interested in any of it. But that could change. It is a fast-paced world now. Remember Standard Foods? It was big in the 1960s, and now you can't find them.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

John Ernst

We want to find places that are interested in music.

Sienna Miller

Women are interested in men, men are interested in women - Casanovas or not Casanovas,

Gareth Edwards

After JPR Williams was involved in a road traffic accident: 'Bloody typical, isn't it? The car's a write-off. The tanker's a write-off. But JPR comes out of it all in one piece

Dave Christie

It was well involved ... The whole thing was gutted in the end.

William Taylor

This is an important case. We are going to stay involved in Connecticut.

Dan Henning

There's going to be a lot of temptation on people around the league this year on (wide receiver) Terrell Owens. I can tell you right now, we won't be involved in that temptation. That's part of the plan.

Henry Ian Cusick

I like romantic comedies, as it is a fun and light thing to get involved with.

Ray Arvidson

Water was involved in practically every one we have seen so far.

Dave Rose

Less than one-half of one percent of our students are involved in assaults.

Brian Wilson

So I called him up! ... I was surprised that he said he didn't think I was involved because I really was. So I called him up.

Jason Goldberg

When things like this come up, there is a part of me that really wants to get involved and do something again,

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Jane Goodall

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Samora Machel

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

Stone Gossard

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

Sonia Choquette

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Lindsey Kildow

As long as I can physically do it, I can suck it up for a minute, 55 seconds.

Daniel Davis

This is a touchy-feely case. This is not an egregious kind of physical contact.

John Bromley

We really haven't physically merged the railroads at all,

Kofi Annan

and vulnerable to psychological as well as physical insecurities.

Jerry Hayes

We just shut down as a team, ... They got more physical and we shut down.

Richard P. Feynman

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Mark McHale

That wasn't physically getting beat. It was a miscommunication deal.

Larry Coker

He put a lot of pressure on, was very physical and I thought he did an outstanding job.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Marilyn Manson

I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.

Jacqueline Carey

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

Antoine Rivarol

In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.

Gary Barnett

Everyone kind of pities us. But I don't want a pity party. I want to play football.

Arthur Helps

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

Charles Dickens

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

Alphonse Lamartine

Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet

Wilfred Owen

All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful.

Edward Young

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Anna Jameson

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

E. B. White

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Allen Tate

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Alexander Pope

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

Christopher Morley

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Francis Bacon

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

James Brown

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Never answer a question from a farmer.

J. William Fulbright

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Dan Brown

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Henry Miller

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Barry Watson

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

Doris Lessing

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.