Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Gail Kelly

When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

Ellen G. White

Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.

Veton Surroi

The political negotiations ... should be within a framework in which there is active international facilitation and participation.

John Winters

The overnight rain will be absorbed by the dry ground and lessen the intensity of the active fire, but is not enough to extinguish the fires.

Tim Curley

The Penn State family wants to be actively involved in helping the people of the Gulf Coast. Many people have contacted us and we expect a good response from our loyal fans.

Bob O'Donnell

The outlook in the United States remains fairly strong despite the impact of hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma and rising fuel costs on consumer confidence. Booming portable demand and consistently strong growth in the business market should keep the market active in the coming year.

Ben Macintyre

'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.

David Walton

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

Bill Hicks

I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious...

Rebecca Solnit

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

Suzy Merchant

I thought it was a collective effort, but we did a nice job of getting to that kid.

Carlos Queiroz

Manchester will not take part in speculation to promote individual or collective interests.

Scott Hatteberg

Those are shoes that one guy can't fill, and I know it's not me. I'm thrilled to be over where he played. You can't replace him - it'll be a collective effort.

Sydney Pollack

On the one hand, the businessman in me understands it. But the lover of movies in me wants desperately to hang on to the movie house as a collective experience with the audience.

Craig Venter

If anything, we've learned that we don't think this data's going to be as deterministic as was previously thought, ... There is even more need for this legislation until science catches up with our collective ignorance.

Jalal Talabani

He -- with two vice presidents and with the prime minister and his deputies and with the speaker of the house -- they are forming a collective leadership,

Barry Gebhart

I didn't order awards, because I didn't want tonight to be about awards. I wanted it to be about a collective group of guys that may be together for the last time.

Victoria Osteen

God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

Carl Sagan

The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

Orhan Pamuk

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

Dirk Johnson

You always worry about something like that. You have to feel fortunate everyday that you can walk into a locker room and be a part of a good organization. I'm not saying it's keeping me up at night but it's always in the back of your head.

Pixie Lott

I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.

Aaron Miles

I'm still here, still getting starts, still getting at-bats, so I feel like I'm one of the options. I'm not sure if they've made their mind up over who's going to be the everyday starter or where I fit in the mix, but I feel like I'm at least somewhere in that equation.

Terrika Cross

I'm strong. I'm a survivor, and I thank God now everyday for my life.

Gretchen Rubin

One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you.

Mike McGlone

Those are just some of the ways NASA is related to everyday life.

Beeban Kidron

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.

Nicolas Roeg

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

Chris Gaynor

We played our hearts out. It was just like last year's game with Gonzaga, except this one hurts even worse because we were this much closer.

Raymond Carver

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

Rebecca Solnit

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'

Mark Zuckerberg

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

Patrick Modiano

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

Patrick Chappatte

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

Paul Auster

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

William Shatner

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.

Noam Chomsky

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

Brian De Palma

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

John C. Calhoun

There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is the most powerful that now exists or ever did exist. I refer to Great Britain.

Pete Domenici

that will include the taxes for the president's marginal tax reductions ... and a rebate of the surplus, giving back to the people some of the surplus that exists this year.

Patrick O'Brian

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

Mary Ellen Mark

I realized all of the possibilities that could exist for me with my camera: all of the images that I could capture, all of the lives I could enter, all of the people I could meet and how much I could learn from them.

Carolyn Porco

We have the smoking gun that proves the existence of water.

Sydney Smith

To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence

Nina Easton

Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

Carl Rogers

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

Gregory Jordan

We're still trying to figure that out. We've hired experts to help us.

Amani Toomer

It feels real good. We accomplished a lot. The so-called experts had us finishing last in the division. That goes to show how much they know.

Steve Hutchinson

Going into the playoffs, the so-called experts said that there were 12 teams in the playoffs and out of everyone, we had the worst defense. Well, you can't play any better than that, can you?

Keith Ellison

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.

Tony Russa

He was underrated by the so-called experts. When we got him, people in the American League called me telling what an impact player we had. He isn't underrated by people wearing a uniform.

Lance Armstrong

four or five anti-doping experts around the world that have gone on the record and said this is crazy.

Wen Jiabao

We respect not only professors and experts but also technologists who have their own inventions,

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because there's black folks in there.' I want them to go because it's a good movie.

Chuck Palahniuk

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Paul Johnston

We have a mandate to return the hurricane protection system to pre-Katrina levels by June 1. The folks out there are really working like crazy. We've got folks pounding steel 24 hours a day.

Roger McGuinn

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

Roger McGuinn

I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I used to go to Pete Seeger concerts, and he would do songs like 'Ruben Ranzo' and talk about how the sailors sang songs to do their work - to raise the anchors, pull up the sails and that sort of thing.

Mark Zuckerberg

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

Patty Loveless

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

Phoebe Snow

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

Robert Bennett

Most of the information we're getting is self-reported. If it turns out these self-reported statements are accurate, the folks won't feel much in the way of Y2K.

David Dye

We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatality, one mining injury, one occupational illness is one too many, and you know we still have work to do.

Ed Looney

I think it's a devastating illness, it's an illness that if it's not treated, it will end up that the person's whole lifestyle will be affected.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...

Anton Chekhov

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Thomas Mann

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Paul Larsen

People like to think mental illness means insane, when thats just not true. There has to be a social conscious-wakening around it.

Pete Earley

People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

David D. Burns

Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.

Marianne Williamson

People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

C. S. Lewis

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Cecelia Ahern

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Bill Bryson

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

Bertrand Russell

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Bud Black

That was the nerves of his first major-league start. Everything speeded up on him. The next time, he realized, 'That's not me. That's not who I am.' It was a whole different mentality from the minute he got to the ballpark. He warmed up better, he was focused, he was concentrated.

Mariano Rivera

We can't just go there and play around. We have to go there with the mentality that we have to win.

John Brady

We just didn't think he was mentally as sharp as we needed him to be.

Mark Mowers

We wanted to make sure mentally we were ready and weren't still thinking about the Phoenix sun.

Olli Jokinen

We have to mentally ready to play every night, and tonight we weren't.

Peter Thomson

The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one.

Buck Showalter

You don't do what he has done over a long period of time and not have some mental toughness.

Adewale Ogunleye

You just don't want to go into that bye week having to use it to get healthy. You want to use it to get better and mentally prepared.

Mewelde Moore

You just can't do that. We just can't have those mental mistakes.

Doug Brien

Not too good. I've had this before, and it's persistent for quite a while. Now it's just kind of wait and see.

Dennis McBride

But the most persistent situation is the mold,

Ken Thompson

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

Jackie Jackson

One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.

Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

Gail Carriger

It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

Mark Tacchi

That was the first time, other than the medley (relay) that we've put Libby (O'Brien) on anchor. Starting her just wasn't working. When Krissy (Brown) starts, that seems to spark her. We get more out of it all the way around with Krissy starting and Libby on anchor.

R. Robinson

I think just watching (tape of) the team we're going to play there seems to be more urgency, there's more awareness, more attitude.

Robin Wright

I think just by watching him, like, 'Let's get on with it. Let's just shoot the scene, and we're done,' which seems logical.

Randy Ready

(Johnston) has been hot. Anything he touches right now seems to work out for him.

Jimmy Baron

I was very concerned, but he seems to be fine.

Jim Smith

I tell them it's the future. It seems to be where truck tires are heading.

Travis Tucker

Yeah, it seems like that. But that's the way we like it.

Mike Sherman

He seems to understand that this is a big year for him. And I think he wants to do something about that.

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Alice Stewart

They called the Hogs. They shared stories about their time there.

John Lovelock

We don't think it was being shared for profit.

Jennette McCurdy

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

Anais Nin

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Jennifer Lopez

She is so smart. But she is trapped in her body.

Harold Schaitberger

There's a breakdown. We've got firefighters still trapped in New Orleans.

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Rick Wakeman

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

David Blunkett

My sense is that there is a new understanding, yes.

Gene Orza

My understanding is that Pedro, very frankly, is doubtful.

Crystal Chappell

My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.

Ray Nelson

My understanding is that he didn't have a weapon when he was arrested,

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.