Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Paterson

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

Sean Brown

I wouldn't say everybody gambles. Probably a large number of the population does. When you are talking about millions of dollars, that's when it becomes a big deal. Fifty bucks here and there is not that bad, but when you have big money and when police get involved, it's serious. The police just don't get involved for nothing, for no reason.

Jim Craig

Katrina was the worst disaster probably in U.S. history. It becomes a question of capacity more than training when you have a disaster of this magnitude.

Mick Ebeling

Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of 'one,' everything becomes that much more attainable.

Malik Peiris

Just the introduction per se (of the virus from wild birds to poultry) is not a major risk but if it becomes endemic, that is the problem,

Mark Wilde

I think it's about an even-money proposition that UPM will come back with another offer. The concern in the market is that either side is going to end up stretching it to $80 per share, and then it becomes a little more difficult to justify.

Hidenao Nakagawa

I think it can be resolved through dialogue whoever becomes the next leader of this country.

Freddy Adu

It becomes very, very, very, very tempting to look ahead, and as a matter of fact I am doing that right now, ... I always have to make the best decision for myself first, and, you know, I'm just looking into things right now, so we'll see what happens at the end of this season and we'll see where my family and myself are headed.

Gary Williams

It becomes very important that you have as many players as possible.

Dave Roberts

Khalil and I talked about it, ... He's just extremely confident that he can hit it out in this ballpark, because no matter where you hit it, it can go out of this ballpark. That's not the case in our park.

Jack Roberts

I wouldn't rule out the possibility of condemnation, but you really would have to make a case for that.

Mark Oaten

Keeping suspects in police detention for three months would be radically out of step with our European and Commonwealth partners. Where other countries hold suspects for long periods there are safeguards in the form of an independent judge who decides if there is a case to answer.

Joe Pistone

John and I go way back. We worked a lot of cover cases together,

Nigel Worthington

Johansson is a player that we have monitored for some time but with all transfers it is a case of waiting for something to happen and it being right for the club and player.

Patrick Guerriero

John Kerry and John Edwards would be smart to make their case for gay and lesbian fairness by not mentioning Mary Cheney.

Douglas Johnson

Judge Casey said his ruling was dictated by a 5 to 4 Supreme Court ruling in 2000, which held that Roe v. Wade protects partial-birth abortion.

Harley Shaiken

I suspect they don't want to strike, but they could be pushed into a corner, and if that's the case they have considerable leverage,

Mike Ford

I suspect that this is another case of a senator hyperventilating on a Sunday talk show.

Robert Shaw

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

Walter Mosley

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Kurt Busiek

The metaphors exist for the stories.

Jacob Bronowski

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry

John Green

You live for pretentious metaphors.

Mike Birbiglia

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

Richard Rodriguez

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Wiz Khalifa

Bestfriends become strangers. That's how it is.

Will Rogers

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Yo-Yo Ma

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

M. Scott Peck

Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

Eric Wise

I was always true to her. I am not a predator.

Richard Holloway

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

Ryan Miller

From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.

Whitney Cummings

A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you.

Sarah Addison Allen

Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.

Richard M. Nixon

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

Richard Pryor

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

Tupac Shakur

The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask.

Tori Amos

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.

Rusty Hardin

Keep the truth from them (the jury) all you want,

Richard Shelby

What we've got to do is find the truth.

Austin O'Malley

The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.

Austin O'Malley

You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.

Susan Levy

I think that there's things that are unknown, and the truth has to come out.

Ted Cruz

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Lord Shaftesbury

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.

Anton LaVey

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

Michelle Gomez

Jack wasn't my type at all. I thought he was too young and too posh, and I told him that. Plus, I couldn't deal with his dodgy bowl-cut. But he wore me down.

Shaquille O'Neal

Whenever I see a celebrity that comes to watch me play, I'm going to do for them the same thing they've done for me - bring them some type of joy.

Nick Cave

I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy.

Kimberley Nixon

Because of the fact I look a lot younger than I really am, I think, I end up getting these girl-next-door roles. I mean, I'm not a Gemma Arterton type as far as I can tell.

Carl Dodd

I don't know what type of person she is.

Daimon Shelton

He'll come back and get better, ... Being around him for so long and being the type of person he is, he'll respond. We'll all respond.

William Shatner

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

William Saroyan

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

Venus Williams

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.