Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Jean Richter

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Chris Cooley

I started thinking playoffs the first game of the season, I'll be honest, ... That's the goal, you've got to think about it. We're for sure talking about what we've got to do in our division to get there, what it takes to get there. I don't think we're afraid to mention it. That's what we want to do.

Jim Yatzek

We're physical ourselves, and we're not afraid to play physical. They might be slight in stature, but the girls can dish it out.

Dave Schroeder

We tell the players that if you are thinking something, go ahead and say it... that fans want to know what they are thinking. We tell them not to be afraid to think out loud.

Tad Williams

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Angelina Jolie

You hear so much just about the danger and the fear and then you come here and you meet just an amazing people. Given just a little chance, and given a little help, this is going to be a great country.

Sarah Rafferty

I have an amazing spouse; we're a team. He works, and I work, and we sort of do this dance with each other so that we can be present to our kids. But I think the whole 'balance' thing is an illusion; we just embrace the imbalance.

Jason Mraz

I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there. My e-mail in-box exploded, and I don't have that kind of time. My mom and sister have their whole life on Facebook, and I'm not there.

Jonathan Keltz

I have an amazing and supportive family. I'm fortunate to have a close relationship with everyone.

Melissa Marr

I have amazing kids, an amazing husband, a fabulous career, wonderful parents. If I had to go through some rough spots to get to this amazing place, so be it.

Atharva Veda

I have become a worshipper of the One Name; the Guru has shown me this amazing wonder.

Doug Aitken

I have a weak spot for late '60s-early '70s yippie paperbacks and protest manifestos. I find them at flea markets or online. One of my favorites is 'Right On,' a compendium of student protests made into this 95-cent paperback with the most amazing graphics.

Jeff Mangum

I have a very limited knowledge of recording, but the miracle of being able to capture sounds on magnetic tape and the miracle of electricity, and these little magnetic particles, is amazing to me.

Mike Vogel

I have many friends in Special Forces, and the amazing thing about these guys is how quickly they can read someone.

Scott Simons

It's becoming a smaller world, and everyone is so much more educated about food in general. I think a lot of the growth is due to the public's interest about what they put into their bodies.

Eduardo Gamarra

It's becoming a one-party state and that's problematic.

David Watters

Its becoming an extraordinarily diverse and multicultural area,

David Cole

It's becoming a lot bigger than it could have been. I think the union's intention was to get this over.

Gary Thayer

It's still a good reading overall, but not quite as robust as we've seen in the last several months. The encouraging thing is that the employment component increased again. We are beginning to see businesses becoming a little more willing to hire.

Michael Morchower

They could have put the mother on a probationary period for about 18 months ... she didn't want that. The mother was becoming more distraught with each day of the drama.

Quintilian

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

Philip Pullman

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

Bruce Leichtman

Absolutely, the market is becoming more fragmented; eyeballs are all over the place. But consumers take a long time to evolve,

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Anil Kapoor

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

Alla Nazimova

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

Alison Lohman

I like to take a character and develop it

Alison Elliott

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

Alison Pill

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.

Ann Brashares

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

Ann Brashares

Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Ann Brashares

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Bob Horn

In the end, the evidence that was presented really convinced the jury to the standard that we were set to.

Dave Piepenbrink

Pitchers want to play for him (Reed). He's got a lot of experience and he's done a good job with the staff.

Carl Howe

People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial.

Deirdre Lovejoy

I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.

Philip Howard

In the rich cities, an Internet user who spends $1 actually gets more out of their experience and finds more Web sites in their language.

Mohammad Khan

In the past decades, all the time our people have had the experience of fighting,

Mark Gertler

In terms of his stature and experience, Kohn would be a natural person to turn to for the vice chairman's job.

Ned Yost

In terms of experience and guys getting better, we've taken that step. We've made the strides that we set out to make this year as far as big-picture stuff.

John Sullivan

If you're interested, please show your support for this proposal. No experience is necessary.

Miguel

If you're interested in any artist, go see them live. I always say that you should go see an artist live. That's an experience that only you and the people in the room can say that they have.

Rabindranath Tagore

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

Ai Weiwei

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

Marcel Proust

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Princess Diana

I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.

Joseph Stalin

Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.

Laurence J. Peter

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm a political conservative.