Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Yann Martel

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

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.

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ian Mckellen

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Gad Elmaleh

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Thomas Friedman

There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

Irwin M. Jacobs

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

Gail Carson Levine

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

Giraldus Cambrensis

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.

Yuri Milner

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

Vanessa Hudgens

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

Vanessa Hudgens

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Billy Graham

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Billy Graham

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Matt Lucas

We were friends for four years before we started writing together, so that is the foundation on which our partnership is built.

Adam Ereli

We've made significant progress in funding projects throughout the region. We will be using MEPI money to fund our contribution ... to these two funds, the Foundation for the Future and the Fund for the Future.

Adam Ereli

We've made significant progress in funding projects throughout the region, ... We will be using MEPI money to fund our contribution ... to these two funds, the Foundation for the Future and the Fund for the Future.

Erskine Bowles

will lay a strong foundation for further action.

Azzedine Alaia

The foundation of beauty is the body.

Rocky Hager

We have a very good offensive line returning. That will be the foundation for how things are constructed offensively.

Steve Koonin

We have not been able to leverage our foundation at TBS,

Alonzo Church

I was generally interested in things of a fundamental nature. As an undergraduate I even published a minor paper about the Lorentz transformation, the foundation of (special) relativity theory.

English 17th Century Proverbs

Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Howard Bloom

Nearly every tribe and nearly every human being has gods. Belief in gods is all over the place. It's universal. It squeaks and squoozes from every pore of humanity.

Mark McNulty

Golf is a very humbling game. I just hope the golf gods will be good to me again.

Terri Swaney

For some reason the soccer gods were not with us today.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.

Benny Hinn

When I taught the little gods doctrine, I was using Scriptures that didn't fit.

Carl Jung

Summoned or not, the god will come.

Carl Jung

Explore daily the will of God.

Bruce Babbitt

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

John Blair

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.

David Mitchell

There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

Charles Dickens

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

Charles Darwin

The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature.

Arthur Conan Doyle

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

Jane Hamilton

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Edward Young

Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Edward Snowden

Something we have to remember is that everything about the internet is interconnected. All of our systems are not just common to us because of the network links between them, but because of the software packages, because of the hardware devices that comprise it. The same router that's deployed in the United States is deployed in China.

Eben Alexander

Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.

Edmund Hillary

I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.

D. H. Lawrence

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

Aristotle

Every realm of nature is marvelous.

David Eckstein

It's just a whole different realm of a leadoff man. You've got to be patient.

Christine Gregoire

It's completely within the realm of possibility that what they need is hospitalization,

David Frank

Nothing's out of the realm of possibility right now.

David Bowie

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity...

Hanna Rosin

Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.

Neil Harris

It's different, but within the realm of the sitcom still,

Chip Conley

In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.

Beatrice Dalle

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

Martin Freeman

Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.

William Shakespeare

Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

C. L. R. James

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

Jane Addams

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

James Wolcott

Robert Pattinson is rebel cool incarnated -- the James Dean of the undead.

Brenda Lee

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

Brad Katsuyama

I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.

Bob Beasley

We do take this seriously. It's like stealing taxpayer dollars.

Aaron Sorkin

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Janice Dickinson

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Barbara Corcoran

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

Brad Meltzer

All writers steal from their own lives.

Anton Chekhov

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Creed Bratton

Honestly, I love stealing things.

Igor Stravinsky

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

Janet Fitch

You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.

Tommy Mottola

I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera.

Steve-O

The idea is to improve somebody's day. That's how I've always viewed my job. I'm a distraction therapist. I make people's problems go away for just a little bit.

Robert Reischauer

This has to be viewed with some skepticism,