Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reza Aslan

In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.

Tim Jackson

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.

Slobodan Milosevic

As a pretext for military engagement, genocide carried out by Serbs will be made up... by making it appear a genocide was carried out, an anathema will be placed on the heads of Serbs and measures will be carried out,

David Mixner

Sam Nunn might bring us Georgia and maybe even another Southern state but, in my opinion, at an unacceptable cost to our principles and to the concept of change that has stirred millions to rise and work for Barack Obama. Sam Nunn would be a disaster as a running mate and a total anathema to millions of Americans.

George W. Bush

As these milestones approach, we can expect there to be increasing violence from the terrorists, ... They can't stand elections. The thought of people voting is anathema to them.

Peggy Noonan

What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It's a scandal if he actually thinks it - that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state.

Zadie Smith

I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

Jack Abramoff

I don't want to bother you guys with a meeting request, so I was hoping you could pass on to Karl that Interior is about to approve a gaming compact and land in trust for a tribe which is an anathema to all our supporters down there.

Martin Amis

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

Kathleen Hanna

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.

Mark Turgeon

I was just asking our guys to get it close and put the pressure on them.

Roger Tamraz

I was introduced to the president, ... He asked me what I did in life, and I explained my project.

Diego Della Valle

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society

Jackie Borsanyi

Jacquie likes to take natural fibers and have them form a very contained universe. She uses a lot of materials that seem wild and unruly and she asks them to cooperate.

Scott Baird

Kate ran her best time, you couldn't ask for anything more than that. She was really disappointed she didn't go lower than that, but she ran well.

Tom Foley

Joe is a guy who is extremely prepared and extremely positive. He's a guy about relationships and about the team. If a player comes and asks him to sit down and have a few pops, he'll say, 'Let's do it.' He's a teacher who is prepared when he teaches and wants us to be prepared and get it right.

Ermias Belay

Is what is happening in Idaho an anomaly, a statistical fluke? That is possible. But once it exceeds 1.5 or 2 per million, you start asking questions. If they are all confirmed, it could be odd.

Kenneth Chenault

I say this all the time: Everyone can make a conscious choice to be a leader.

Eddie Smith

It is a concern, it's one of the reasons why we've really heightened up the level of consciousness with our managers, our servers, to make sure they are not over-serving.

Eldon Hoy

I thought we defended him pretty well, but he hit everything he shot ? 2-pointers, 3-pointers, and he was 10-for-10 from the free throw line. I thought our kids did a good job on him in the fourth, but we were more conscious of him and not giving him any shots because he was making them all.

Richard Rowe

It had not perhaps been raised to our consciousness by the reports we had received.

Micky Adams

He has now regained consciousness. He's being assessed at the hospital. He's got a gash on his head but I haven't been told that anything is broken.

Andre Holland

In '42,' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing.

James Patterson

I'm very conscious that I'm an entertainer. Something like 73 percent of my readers are college graduates, so you can't condescend to people. You've got to tell them a story that they will be willing to pay money to read.

Michelle Williams

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

Ilene Chaiken

I made a conscious decision to go back to what we did in the first season, which I think worked better. We went for more naturalistic drama, and we went for the humor which we missed the second year.

Kelly Jones

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

Richard Ayoade

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.

Pat Pownall

You can talk about the call, but the magic word is 'you'. Now they're directing that toward me. You can question my integrity, and that's a technical.

David Schwimmer

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.

Misha Collins

For me, to be perfectly honest, the part of my brain that was stimulated by directing was much more exciting than a typical day of acting.

Sean Penn

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

Walter Gossett

There I was, for several hours, directing traffic with a parrot on my shoulder. It was a blast!

Vikram Rohit Shetty

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

David Fincher

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

Romola Garai

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

William Gibson

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

Robert Reed

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Sarah Zettel

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Warren Ellis

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Virginia Woolf

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Virginia Woolf

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

Walker Percy

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

Carl Forti

Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.

Friedrich Muller

His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has obtained freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Thomas Vinje

What Microsoft is talking about is freedom for them to innovate, not others.

John Oates

We've done that over the years, each of us releasing solos. I think that's why we're still together. That freedom doesn't keep us too restricted.

Lyndsey Medders

He's given me that freedom since I was a freshman to make those calls. We have a lot of trust in each other. It's neat we're on the same page like that.

William J. Brennan

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

Viola Spolin

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

William James

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

Ron Artest

The only thing on my mind is getting in shape. I've got an injury. So the only thing on my mind is getting over my injury and getting in shape.

Marty Hurney

He obviously is very disappointed because he wants to get out and play and we would have liked to have seen that as well. It was something that he didn't realize he did when the injury occurred.

Brian Billick

He's been told that there's a possibility of surgery since the injury happened. There was always that possibility. I don't know if it's any more viable now than it was before.

Dino Novak

It could even be setting you up for injury if you have muscle imbalances.

Mickey Matthews

I think that's what everyone's getting right now. Like Astroturf, you don't have to water it and mow it, so the maintenance is very low on it. And it doesn't have nearly the injury problems that Astroturf has.

Lawrence Dallaglio

Before Fraser's injury problems I thought he was one of the outstanding players in the Premiership,

Peter Thorne

I haven't played that much and then I got an injury at the worst possible time,

Bill Cowher

Tommy had the MRI and right now it looks like he has a non-surgical injury to his elbow. He will not be able to throw for six weeks and then at that point he will be able to start throwing and we will see where he is.

Bobby Johnson

It's been kind of a normal injury pattern,

M. Wolfe

I would think he's worth it. They might not.

Jim Edmonds

I think it might be why I struggled in the World Series,

Ozzie Guillen

He did it all today. He might be in the lineup tomorrow.

Bryan Smolinski

(Hasek) was the reason we won. It was really tough taking those penalties in the first seven minutes, but then we got one at the end and that might have taken the wind out of their sails.

Stephanie Mills

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

Alphonso Jackson

have come to realize they might not go back to New Orleans.

Andy Reust

It could be a possibility he might run it. At this point, I don't know where I'm going to go with it.

Scott Arneson

I think the proof is in the pudding. The Valley produces state championship contenders every year. Some people might not think that the Valley is that tough, but no one has proven otherwise.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Robert Rodriguez

The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

Madeline Albright

These people have to go back, otherwise there are no people in Kosovo,

Heikki Kovalainen

Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

Pete Sepp

No spending reduction is easy, otherwise they would have been done a long time ago.

Caroline Corr

Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!

Reed Hundt

Isn't it only appropriate that, in return for the free use of the public spectrum, broadcasters provide something substantial, something that wouldn't otherwise be provided by marketplace competition?

Mahmud Abbas

My convictions are important, as well as the work. If I can do something then I will continue, otherwise I won't.

John Banville

I always think that if you know somebody's name then there's something slightly fraudulent about that person. Otherwise we wouldn't have heard of him or her.

Patricia Clarkson

She's all right, otherwise I wouldn't be here,

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

George Williams

He's got serious speed. He still has a lot of development to work on. I think he can get down in the 46's.

Robert Hall

He's a threat to society, he's a menace. We have a very serious situation here.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Cal Cochran

If you're serious about it, you have to put in your time. Do more than just show up for the all-star game.

Roberta Baskin

If you want to be serious about it, there has to be some enforcement mechanism.

Brian Billick

I'm told that it's not serious and it's typical.