Famous Quotes & Sayings

Goodman Ace

TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.

Dixie Carter

I will not do humor that is derived from private parts or going to the bathroom. I won't do anything that involves making fun of people.

Tino Sehgal

A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point.

Tino Sehgal

We package everything as a product so we can derive income from it. Then we can occupy ourselves with higher-order psychological lifestyle things. This is a very new issue. Money still matters, but other factors have joined the status game - like how interesting, how meaningful your work is.

John Luther

What we're having a problem with is, where was the three-foot figure derived from?

Michael Steinhardt

Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.

Nicholas Kristof

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.

Robert Hendrickson

The saying may derive from a 12th-century Latin expression referring to the Apostles: 'As it were that one would crucify Paul in order to redeem Peter.' The words usually mean to take money for one thing and use it for another, especially in paying off debts,

Toshihiko Fukui

They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Indonesians must understand that there is no Islamic state without the enforcement of Islamic laws. Otherwise it is just talk and nothing else.

Paul Ricoeur

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

Albert Camus

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

Charles de Secondat

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Charles de Secondat

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Charles de Secondat

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Charles de Secondat

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Charles de Secondat

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Charles de Secondat

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Lauren Conrad

I was like, 'Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson's here!

David Piercy

I was like, gosh, because knowing my luck this would happen. I guess God works in mysterious ways, and we'll see where he takes me.

Tomas Kaberle

I talked to Jeff right away between periods. Thank God it got his helmet first.

Terry Gilliam

He didn't do anything to become president!, ... Well, thank God for Karl and Dick.

Gary Sheffield

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

Yiddish Proverbs

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Samir Geagea

God willing we may be done with this issue before the (March 14) deadline.

Prince Abdullah

God willing, after that, this group will not be able to stand up again,

Tom Ardizone

God was there. He had his hands all over this and he was able to protect -- to protect my family, to protect my boys, to protect me.

Joaquin Phoenix

I was an actor because the work was rewarding. I never imagined that it would all lead to this moment.

Karen Knight

This was not something that was expected. We never imagined we'd be working with this population.

Romesh Gunesekera

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

Aaron Small

I never could have imagined having a night like this in my career.

Scott Rodes

I had never run more than three miles in a day and I never imagined I could run a marathon.

Luis Suarez

I never imagined playing in El Clasico. I used to watch the games and look at photos, and I used to say how incredible to play in it was.

Michelle Langsford

I never imagined it would be this bad.

E. B. White

I never imagined a phone would have such an impact on my business.

S. Hughes

The microbes are challenging us in ways we wouldn't have imagined 10 years ago and for which we're not prepared.

E. O. Wilson

It had her performing stripping, touching herself, things of that nature.

Richard P. Feynman

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Reinhold Messner

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....

William Wordsworth

"One impulse from a vernal wood

William Wordsworth

. . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.

William Wordsworth

Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.

William Wordsworth

Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.

Jon Lovitz

There are some actors who say, 'What do you want me to do? I'll do whatever you want,' and that's all they do, ... I kind of go to the other extreme. I say, 'I have an idea. Can I try something?'

Kiki Vandeweghe

He's a very, very important part of whatever we do. We want Melo with us for a long time.

Katharine Liell

It didn't matter. Whatever he said, he was going to be arrested, wasn't that true?

Long Qiming

I was doing my job. I'm a Chinese, and I had to do whatever was needed.

Orlando Dominguez

Whatever we can do to better our responses, we'll do.

Richard Lies

Whatever they want to do has yet to be worked out.

Chico Lynch

Whatever they did there, it has worked out well.

Robert Broadfoot

Whatever they achieve, the word that's going to be used will be cooperation, coordination.

Andre Cohen

Whatever she went through, I went through. We never separate.