Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Childs

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

Lily Cole

Kate Moss has had such a phenomenal career and I wouldn't even like to compare myself to her. It's amazing that people are going to put my name close to hers.

John Planamenta

Just winning two state titles in anything, any year is an amazing feat. So to have it done in the same sport by the same school is truly an impressive feat. I think it really speaks to the level of talent in the area.

Larry Walker

I think it'll get talked about a lot more if we win two more games. Obviously that's an amazing feat, but two more wins is going to make it even better.

Jimmy Tillette

He leads us in scoring. He leads us in rebounding. Most amazing to me is that everyone is guarding him and for the year he's shooting 52 percent in the league. To me Merritt is amazing.

Taylor Branch

He (Johnson) had an amazing spiritual quality about him,

Grant Achatz

Here's the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it goes back hundreds of years. And I also like really innovative food as well.

Grace Gealey

I find that when I put too much makeup on, or I use a certain brand, my skin will break out. I tend to gravitate towards water-based foundations because my skin absorbs them a little better and it doesn't break out as much. I use Hourglass Mineral Veil. It's so amazing.

Sam Worthington

Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.

Margo Jonker

I think we got a little frustrated and didn't relax and just hit. We just didn't get the key hits when we needed them.

Teddy Dyess

I think Terry handled it very well. He's a very mature young man, and he never got frustrated with it. Some players let it get to them.

Clifford Garnto

I didn't get much of a look, because I was so frustrated at what was going on over here.

Marianne Bretschneider

In the past I've always gotten frustrated because I've seen other teams step up during the season. I knew yesterday this wasn't the same team that played Battlefield at the start of the season. They had played much better than they have in the past.

Nick Russo

All I've seen is negative campaigning. I can see why people get frustrated with that. You get tired of hearing this. It just turns you off.

Eric Hoffer

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

Eric Bana

I really enjoy behind the camera stuff and I'm a frustrated photographer myself and just love the camera. I love that side of it and that part of the [filmmaking] world and I enjoy developing things. It's an area that I'll continue to be more active in as time goes by.

Mike Knuble

It's not about wins or losses right now. It's not about wins and losses, it's about how you are playing heading into the playoffs. I think we all want to do better. I think we all feel frustrated when we don't play our best. Everyone leaves the rink disappointed.

Sidney Crosby

It's always tough to lose when you're that close. We played two pretty good hockey games. But hanging our heads and getting frustrated over it is not going to help us in the next game or the long run.

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

Bill Frist

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Emile M. Cioran

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Edgar Degas

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Alex Winter

The talent, the technical facilities, and the intelligence of the people - I just love London.

David Skuse

Teenagers really do get 'dumber' in their social intelligence around the time of puberty,

John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Michael Howard

did not tell the truth about the intelligence he received.

Stephen Hadley

We all looked at the same intelligence, and most people -- on the intelligence -- reached the same conclusion.

Ronald Schmelzer

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

Richelle Mead

I can understand bitchiness in any language.

William Zinsser

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

William Whewell

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

Samuel P. Huntington

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.

Samuel P. Huntington

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

Samuel P. Huntington

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

Richard M. Nixon

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Pat Hill

He said, 'I think you can learn from others,'

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Ernie Grunfeld

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He'll learn from it.

Shawn Olsen

I didn't come out pitching like I should have. I wasn't really myself. We'll learn a lot from these losses.

Crystal Merillat

He had to go sign up. There was no stopping him then.

Theo Holtwijk

In concept, I'm willing to sign off on it.

Adam Fritz

Their absences are excused with a signed form.

James Joyce

Signatures of all things I am here to read.

Eric Alterman

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

Joe Hurwitz

There was a sign that said, 'Church for sale' and some of the parishioners were upset.

Grant Thomas

Once he's signed off he's able to play and I take that as if he's able to play anywhere.

Margot Asquith

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Kazimir Malevich

To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.

Ricky Fante

I wrote the song in tribute ... at the time she was murdered,

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Robert Cray

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Rob Sheffield

The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.

Rob Sheffield

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

Rob Sheffield

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

Rob Sheffield

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

Rob Sheffield

If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be. But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy. At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.

Rob Zombie

A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.

Stephen Hess

Besides, he's already spoken extensively about the hurricanes.

Horace

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Yoshihiko Noda

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Zen Saying

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.