Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Rovenia Brock

The older relatives in your family hold the keys to the information you're looking for, so it's important to be sure you learn as much as you can from them before they're gone. But remember, medical conditions were often a source of shame to older relatives in certain ethnic and racial groups, so it may take some cajoling to get them to open up and share what they see as family secrets.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Once you see it up close and personal, it is pretty rough to take. It just isn't a certain area.

Wendell Say

Once you reach a certain temperature, it feels the same whether you're in Oregon at 32 degrees or North Dakota at 32 below. It's an opportunity to get an education free, a chance to go someplace different.

John Abraham

Once you get to a certain point in your life, a lot of people look at you as more of a meal ticket than a person.

Mitsushige Akino

Now it is certain that the end of the (super-loose) policy is coming at the March meeting (next week).

Bible Bible

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

Maria Semple

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

William Petersen

The name change isn't for those of us here in New England. The name change is for those folks entering the region.

Michael Dell

The third quarter is going great and there is no change in our outlook from what we said at the end of the second quarter,

David Boies

The Supreme Court of the United States has not, at least for 100 years and maybe going back further, ever stepped in to change the results of a national election by substituting its judgment as to how votes ought to be counted for the judgment of local election officials,

Caroline Cross

The support staff is staying in place, ... They have the qualifications to resume work immediately should Iraq have a change of heart.

David Ader

The suggestions provide framework of how to change our culture. We are going through semester plans and are trying to figure out how to use the suggestions.

Robert Hunter

The suddenness of the change made us think they were pressured by the industry to make this change.

John H. Reagan

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

Richard Hatch

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Kim Fields

Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.

Jonathan Winters

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

Marc Guggenheim

Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.

Kurt Busiek

That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.

Issa Rae

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Elizabeth Strout

As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.

Gilbert Newton Lewis

To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties.

Richard Kerr

increases the complexity of their threat to the rule of law.

Jason Silva

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

Nick Mason

There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily contained in other Pink Floyd records, particularly following on from 'Animals,' which was very spare and sparse. Production on it was much more massive, the complexity of the recording was much more intense.

Walter Kirn

On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Ariel Sharon

do what is necessary to protect the people of Israel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

Sterling Ivey

We wanted to take all necessary safety precautions.

Tim Jones

When this occurs we have to start investigating and if necessary start a search.

Bob Poole

If we can get it into the township and get the necessary approvals, we can get it under way as soon as possible.

John Egan

If DSS isn't going to do anything, then it may not be necessary for us to do anything.

Nicolas Sarkozy

If you want to have me say that it would have been better to have not launched into this affair, I rather agree. But once we were there, it was necessary to find a way out of it, quickly and as painless as possible.

Max Baucus

If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.