Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan McGinley

I have absolutely no interest in creating depressing images.

Woody Allen

The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical content, which is often very depressing.

Saul Bellow

In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.

Wendell Berry

Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.

Wyndham Lewis

The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage.

Robert Milton

Our logic was: there's nothing more depressing than taking a whacking great pay cut. I'd increase pay to get the productivity stuff because the productivity piece gnaws at you day in and day out.

Peter Kovacs

I'm trying not to let a depressing thought get into my head.

Joanne Woodward

I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.

Neal Boortz

There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.

Daniel Kahneman

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

Susan Mitchell

Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

Francis Bacon

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life...

Iris Johansen

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

Claude M. Bristol

We usually get what we anticipate.

Bob Kinniebrew

I would say that every person who is successful in the mortgage and title business, Mel had an influence on.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Saul Bellow

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Vladimir Putin

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Charles Dean

I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.

Frank Galati

I'm sad to sense that she may be evaporating into obscurity, because she's enormously important as a writer and as an influence on other writers and other artists.

Chris Cornell

I'm sure I could start a band tomorrow that would have different influences and would want to do something completely different than anything I've done.