Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugh Johnson

When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's very good news for investors. A lack of ambiguity from the Federal Reserve is always a little bit of a shocker.

Mahesh Rangarajan

Ambiguity is Vajpayee's strength. His roots are in poetry and literature, and I think that's a big advantage.

Mahesh Rangarajan

Ambiguity is Vajpayee's strength, ... His roots are in poetry and literature, and I think that's a big advantage.

Robert Webb

Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.

Susie Wiles

It's not designed to change anything necessarily, but rather to clarify so that in the future we don't have any ambiguity in the code.

Molly O'Keefe

Reality television paints a simple black-and-white world of good characters and bad characters; people we want to root for and people we want to see ruined. There is none of the gray ambiguity that colors real life. I no longer watch a lot of reality television, but sometimes I can't look away from 'Honey Boo Boo.' I just can't.

Charles Sciarra

The statute says 'public hearing,' and if there's any ambiguity it errs on the side of the employee's wishes, which are clear.

Sen. Cappiello

We are talking about people who prey on young children. There isn't any way we can be too strict on these sick people. There should be no ambiguity in our laws. I would even want to look at something as extreme as castration for these people.

Godfrey Reggio

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

M. Night Shyamalan

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

Jim Murray

The only bad thing about Spokane is that there's nothing to do after 10 in the morning

Lorraine Bracco

The only bad thing is that I've been smoking cigarettes. I smoke in the play, so I've limited myself to smoking only in the theater.

David Land

The potential for going through $70 a barrel is certainly there, it wouldn't take a lot of bad news. You've got the U.S. hurricane season in the not too distant future, as well as the driving season.

Ron Aldy

The postseason depends on who's playing better that night and you don't have to have but one bad night.

Jeff Gundy

The positive is they found something they can fix. It's been a string of bad fortune for him injury-wise, but we're happy the doctor has been able to locate something we can do something about.

Ashley Josephson

We are pretty disappointed we didn't come out right away and play our 'A' game. We had a pretty bad first half, not intense enough. ... The first half is what killed us.

Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

Charles Caleb Colton

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

Charles Caleb Colton

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

Charles Caleb Colton

That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

Chris Goutman

We are probably the only show in daytime that has kept characters on. We've had a number of veterans who have been on the show for over 40 years, and how they relate these veterans to their grandchildren is something I think is very real.

Max Sydow

There are characters which you spend a lot of time with, and you get to know, and you feel that -- suddenly it's a friend somewhere. And they are nice to return to.

Jim Rash

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

Connie Willis

When you've written your characters into a corner, you just hand the manuscript over to your partner and make her fix it.

Li Bingbing

I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is.

Lee Bermejo

Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate.

Mark Billingham

When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about.

Hayden Schlossberg

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.

Sherwood Schwartz

When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.

Annette Brightwell

We let the mayor pick out the (paint) colors and the carpet.

Evan Steinberg

There were a few kinks to work out in the beginning. Like our first orders showing up on our doorstep with wild colors that were totally unintended.

Chris Nasr

It's all kinds of shapes, colors and sexes. I've gotten every story there is.

Vicki Fazzini

People are tired of seeing white walls. If people don't know what they're doing, their paint colors can easily take $20,000 off the price of a $300,000 house.

Matt Thompson

People can pull away ideas on how to personalize rooms with trim or colors of paint, ... With the Home Depots and Lowe's of the world, people can take on those projects a lot easier now.

Renee Shepherd

Oftentimes, despite the fact that you don't think two colors go together - when they sow themselves, they look fabulous.

Donna Favors

A Picture of many colors proclaims images of many Thoughts.

Gary Stevens

The single greatest thrill was crossing under the twin spires right here on Winning Colors in 1988, ... I've got a lot of fond memories here. Those will never go away.

Craig Smith

I've met him, and I think he's a pretty cool guy. But I just like the colors -- the colors are cool. He's an overall player. If I had the opportunity, I would.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

David Gray

And the film, This Year's Love (which Gray scored), supplied some of the money for it. Things just happened just when we needed them.

German Gref

The size of the gray market should be reduced at least down to 15% by the end of this year.

John Stack

That's why we get prematurely gray and have gastrointestinal problems. There have been a lot of big, glitzy stories, but if you play the odds, maybe the rest of year is quiet.

Marge Gibson

You should start seeing little heads at about three weeks, little gray heads and then they turn white. You'll probably hear them before you'll see them, because they're very squawky.

Gabriel Sanchez

You're not going to see any of that in Gray Davis' ads.

Carol Riley

Up until 10 years ago, the reason people went to their reunions was to find out what happened to everybody. You can do that without ever having to leave your home or show your gray hair.

Andy Gray

You don't buy them; they don't come in package.

Dan Brown

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Steven Pinker

According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Chuck D.

It's no longer 'run to the park' on your own. Parents want to feel secure where they are and what they'll be doing.

John Jordan

It's no longer in our faces. The lynching is still being done, it's just being done covertly.

David Cardwell

It's no longer being done to be better than the other guy, but to keep up with the other guy.

Tom Stehn

It's now in its second year; it's no longer a juvenile. But this one particular whooping crane doesn't know where Aransas is. Its parents never showed it.

Diane Arbus

They are the proof of something was there and no longer is.Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they'll still be there looking at you.

Tom Stehn

You don't find them, but they're no longer with their parents.

Jim Barnett

This man is proven to be an ineffective extremist. We're no longer talking about one out of 435. We're talking about a very powerful position, as one of 100 in the United States Senate.

Stephanie Ferlita

I tried to tell them they accomplished a lot. Their season went on longer than a lot of other teams. And they made it through some tough times that a lot of other teams didn't have to face.

Allen Staggers

It's a little tougher because you're spanning such a distance. It takes a little longer to do.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Robert Winston

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

Robert Towne

Colin, Salma, me - none of us took salaries in order to make this movie, in order to get it on film. So it was a movie made on spec.

Thomas Lee

I visited with every student here at one point or another and none of them have said they feel unsafe here.

Mike Hargrove

Somebody's got to separate themselves from the pack, and none of them has done it so far. But we've still got time.

J. J. Johnson

This is something none of us could've predicted.

Wayne Fields

The West was very disorienting - vast, big, rough, dislocating. None of that represented home.

Ed Smith

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

Thomas Blood

I'll answer to none but the King himself.

Dave Arnold

Everything's been expanded from paints to plumbing to electrical.

David Gates

If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?

Brian Robertson

The paints don't have any formaldehyde in them.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Alan Watts

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Alan Watts

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

Alan Watts

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality...

Alan Watts

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

Alan Rosenberg

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

Alan Moore

The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

Alan Moore

The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality.

Alan Moore

It's pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don't actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what's going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings.

Alan Moore

Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.

Carl Jung

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Edgar Mitchell

I've been very involved in this quantum holographic formalism and helping to explore it as explanatory of the very root of our perceptual capabilities. It is postulated, for example, that this very basic entanglement, at the quantum level, at the level of subatomic matter, is really a part of quantum mechanics.

Benjamin Franklin

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

Ben Affleck

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.

Tony Skinn

Well, being from our conference, I know they're rooting for us, anyway.

Charles Blake

It strengthens me to be rooted in the word of God.

Dick Reed

They are part of the root of what we are as a country, as a nation,

Jamie Silverstein

It was fun. I think for us this is really about the experience, and we're here to root on the other Americans.

David Graeber

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

Alain Resnais

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Aaron Sorkin

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

Aaron Sorkin

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

Charlize Theron

I don't really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television.

Bryant Gumbel

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

Callie Khouri

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.

Earl Blumenauer

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.

Elizabeth Montgomery

Television is such a mediocre medium.

Charlotte Rae

Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.

Alan Rickman

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Benh Zeitlin

I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.

Audrey Hepburn

I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

Arthur Rimbaud

Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of us - in ecstasy!

Aaron Tveit

I watch a lot of television. I always have.

Charlie Daniels

You'd better watch where you go, and remember where you've been

Chetan Bhagat

Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.

Chaim Potok

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

Billy West

I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.