Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clayton Christensen

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

Jason Chaffetz

Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.

Natasha Trethewey

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seem hardest to say.

Nic Pizzolatto

When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.

Anne Donovan

It's one of the few times in my life ... when you try to articulate what's going on inside and I don't think it's possible. This is up there for me.

Ed Black

They're better able to articulate their strategy than in the past, and the new management talent has contributed to that capability. But there are still some real competitive issues, especially in the computer systems division, where they're facing declining market share. Sun has always been competitive, but we're also seeing a revitalized IBM in the server space. But as long as HP can get its strategy right, then we should see a recovery as things progress.

Richard Phillips

I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.

Nathan Fielder

I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

Margaret Mead

A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t

Charles Caleb Colton

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

Edith Wharton

She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

William Shakespeare

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

Bill Mumy

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

Carolyn Murphy

I can't remember the last time I was bored.

Carolyn Murphy

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

Charles Dickens

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

Charlaine Harris

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Alain Prost

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

Alain Prost

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.

Linda Gray

We want them to have exposure to females who have a career and a family. We want to let them know that you don't have to choose one or the other.

Hiltrud Breyer

We want to show the red card to forced prostitution. It has nothing to do with fair play, it's a crime.

Chris Bennett

Everything you do has to drive content, and the rest takes care of itself.

Chris Bangle

A car designer is really a sculptor.

Chris Bangle

Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives

Charlaine Harris

[Eric:] "I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll grow on you." [Sookie:] "Like a fungus?

Charlaine Harris

Sookie: Is Eric around?" Pam: "He is enthralling the vermin,

Charlaine Harris

Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric.

Pinball Clemons

We are all excited to see Eric Crouch and watch him compete, but that's a position he's going to have to earn.

Paul Hostetter

Working with Eric is terrific because not only is he a great director, but he's also a great actor.

Greg Johnson

We're exploring an opportunity for Eric to play for the Texans. If all sides can see eye-to-eye, we'll make it happen. But everyone has to see eye-to-eye.

Lee Evans

They tried to man us up. We felt right out of the gates they were going to try to press me and Eric (Moulds) on the outside. We knew we were going to have to make a play to get them to back out. On that pass play that's what we did. I was able to get open, and we gashed them.

John Manion

We practiced well all week and played well the past week. They really keyed on Eric and that opened things up for Doug.

B. B. King

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

Roger Williams

We have no idea what could have happened. The hardest part of all of this is that there is no reason for it.

Nate Skaar

We're still in it, and we feel like we still can win it. We need to have a better day (today). It is a one-day season right now, and the team which comes out and wrestles the hardest wins.

Adam Davis

A lot of people have a lot of ideas. But a lot of people never do anything. That's frustrating. The hardest part is just getting into it and stepping up and doing it.

Milt Heflin

They make this look awfully easy. This is probably some of hardest work we've done in the human space program. I marvel at it.

Thomas Bjorn

This 63 is not about records. It's about championships. And that's all it means to me, that I got myself into position where I can play from here. And I'm going to try my hardest tomorrow again, and then we'll see.

Jordan Tata

They say the hardest part is staying in the big leagues.

Caitlyn Jenner

It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.

Michael Strahan

It's not easy to do morning TV. A lot of people think you just show up and be yourself, but one of the hardest things to do is be yourself when the camera comes on.

Bobby Cox

It's about the hardest thing there is to do.

Henry Thomas

We struggled from the perimeter, we struggled inside we struggled on the boards. We struggled every place tonight.

Atharva Veda

WHEN you scatter seeds on the surface of the soil, they do not germinate; you have to keep them inside the soil.

Natassia Malthe

I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.

Lamar Butler

They were kind of going through the motions during warm-ups. It just seemed like they were arrogant. We noticed it. When teams are arrogant, it does something to you inside you can't describe.

Anthony Clement

For him to say that, really means something. He's the best. Not that big, but with power and speed (who can) stop on a dime, turn and come back inside on you.

Mary Pierce

There was just kind of like this little voice inside of me that just said, 'You know, you're not done,'

Brett Smith

There was no degradation to performance for users inside the Sun Grid.

Mark Davis

There will be no rides, but we want people to come on down and take a look. They can kick the tires, step aboard the train and look inside the cab.

John Barton

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

James Welch

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Mary Tavenner

She was a peacemaker. Her poems are always uplifting.

Tyler Johnson

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

Mary Tavenner

We don't compare. It's not my poem is better than yours. We're like a chorus. Some sing alto, some sing baritone, some sing bass.

Octavio Paz

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Roger McGuinn

Once in a while and really the exception, will be when I have an idea, then I'll write a poem first and then write a tune to the poem.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The first poem I ever wrote was terrible,

Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Natasha Trethewey

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Camille Paglia

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

C. K. Williams

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ...

Comte de Lautreamont

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

Norman MacCaig

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

Jonathan Galassi

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

Caitriona Balfe

The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Andrew Mitchell

There don't seem to be any surprises in here.

Ken Koelbl

As I watched, it didn't seem like they missed.

Maureen McClay

As we look at it now, it doesn't seem to work for us.

Mark Hatton

It's just didn't seem like that. We got the shots off.

Janet Anderson

It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation.

Scott Gomez

It seems like it's early. But it isn't. We need these points.

Jeffrey Cohen

It seems like a wonderful thing to do.

Jim Smith

It seems like a simple business. But it's as complicated as it can get.