Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leon Kass

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Bill Cosby

Is the glass half full, or half empty?It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

Christopher Fowler

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

Monk Frost

Only puppets react to the string drawn by the wealthy.

Iveta Benesova

She made me feel so uncomfortable because she's very clever, very smart player. She knows exactly where to put the ball. It's like I had no rhythm.

Jack Handey

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Anderson Cooper

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

Mike Dowd

It's exactly how I would have drawn it up.

Dave Lieberman

They were like, great, now look, ... I was always drawn to the kitchen.

Robert Hartwig

It's the price of paradise, ... People are drawn to landscapes.

Keith Wyness

They are probably the toughest of the sides we could have drawn but you have to take what you are given,

Kim Rupert

It's a done deal. We're looking for a fairly long, drawn out Senate trial.

Bryan Larrison

(Athens) played us well, and everyone else average. (Athens) tied Newark (1-all Dec. 10) and Pickerington (3-all Nov. 11). For some reason, we've drawn them on a Friday and they've struggled the rest of the weekend.

Michael Vick

It wasn't how it was drawn up. I had to make some extra moves. ... Tried to make some magic.

Nikola Tesla

Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Alan Watts

You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe.

Alan Moore

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

Madeleine Albright

Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.

Bob Balaban

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

Brian Henson

And then after the success at Melbourne Comedy Festival, then we regrouped back in LA and we went back into workshopping and decided to develop a proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up."

Brian Henson

We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three shows, and in Aspen, there was a producer from the Edinborough Fringe Festival, who said, "Please come to Edinborough."

Stanley Milgram

And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

Nina Conti

Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.

Nina Conti

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

David Katz

You don't know who's going to win until they actually win and by the time stocks react to that, it's too late.

Al Goldman

What has been going on is a very sharp reaction to a slowing economy.

David Davis

They say you react seriously as you do practice, ... so this is one thing that we do with the exercise.

Steve Miller

There was much more reaction than we expected.

Matt Fletcher

It's all or nothing. You just have to react and go for it. You have no time to think, you just react. In the 300 you have to react and know what you're doing.

Sergei Markov

They react to the music. The artistry, the inspiration of the musicianship comes first.

Matt Doherty

The big thing is how we react to this. This was our first real setback.

Michael Aspel

People's reactions can be surprising but, if you have overwhelming news, I suppose the only thing you can do is just look, because you're stunned.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.

Aldous Huxley

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Jacqueline Bisset

I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.

Eddie Van Halen

I boil the strings so they stretch.

Tim Berners-Lee

I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.

Gary Zukav

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

Cat Stevens

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Janelle Monae

I've cried over string arrangements.

Frank Herbert

Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.

Hugh Kingsmill

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.