Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

I just wanted to have fun for myself-I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.

Julius Schwartz

All I know is, when I did it in the Justice League, the summer issues, they sold many percentage points higher than any other issues of the year.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

Norman Cousins

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Thomas Griffith

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

William White

Consistency is only a paste jewel that cheap men cherish.

Julius Schwartz

Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh?

Rich Lowry

If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego.

Richard Cohen

I suspect the fraudster obviously had my name, my date of birth and maybe my mother's maiden name. People do not actually think about what they throw into the rubbish.

Richard Roberts

It causes an increased risk of birth defects and mental retardation.

Alan Henderson

Her memory is about two years behind, ... She doesn't remember giving birth to Alania.

Charles E. Wilson

It is futile to talk too much about the past . . . like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Swami Vivekananda

IT is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for loves sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward - love unselfishly for loves sake.

Marie Osmond

I think a lot of women do hide it out of shame. It is supposed to be the happiest time in your life after giving birth to a child, you know.

C. S. Lewis

It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Darryl Littlejohn

When they (police) first approached me at The Falls, I provided them with my real name, my real address, social security number, birth date, so on and so forth.

Carl Jung

Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.

Gen Musharraf

He does not know about making the bomb, he does not know about the trigger mechanism, he does not know about the delivery system,

Chuck White

Our patents are around the delivery of services,

Wietse Venema

Internally, Postfix does use multi-threading, for example, for its scheduler program that hands the mail queue requests to the mail delivery agents.

Doug Rockel

If you order a paperback book, slower delivery time via the mail or UPS is fine. But if you've ordered a fur coat, then FedEx is more of an option.

Florence Mumba

In the United States an American is top priority, service delivery is top priority and this is the true democracy we want.

Bill Ferguson

They had a look in the delivery truck and there was no sign of him.

Giovanni Carrara

On the first or second pitch of the inning, I landed on my (left) heel instead of my toes in the delivery and my knee locked.

Robert McFarlane

Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.

Bryan Augenstein

My delivery got out of hand a little. It's frustrating but I won't let it get to me.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting, ... Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.

Johnathon Schaech

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.

Linda Ford

I'm treated very much like a normal person in Germany. They don't look at me as notorious, or famous in any way.

Mitch Gillam

If people quit after 25 percent of anything, there would be some serious inventions or famous people that wouldn't have been discovered. So we're not going to quit after 25 percent. We still have 75 percent of the season to play, so we're just going to keep grinding. Even if we don't find it until the last game, we will have gotten there.

James Graham

I'll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword.

Tom Izzo

I'm only embarrassed that in front of our two most famous alums, we didn't play with that same kind of tenacity.

Dan Wheldon

I'm very proud of this team. They worked so hard all night long. There are some famous names that have won this race, and to now be on that list is very, very special.

Saul Rubinek

In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Dani Shapiro

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

Lindsey Graham

What would you like history to say about you when it is all said and done,

Alec Reid

history will prove that this is the end of the IRA.

Alison Weir

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

Leonard Teitelbaum

History indicates that less than 10 percent of the meat recalled over a time period such as this is actually returned,

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

History has in different questions laid out some tremendous turnabouts and curves.

Joe Monahan

He could influence the outcome of the race. If he does have any ideas he wants to see advanced, this is the time to do it.

Jon Hurst

There are still a ton of mom-and-pops out there that come up with new ideas and new niches.

Carl Jung

You and I are meant to be. It's the only thing I'm absolutely sure of. And while I have no idea what to expect, I promise I'll do whatever it takes to find my way back.

Monica Procar

We make a lot of what is in here ourselves. We make the wreaths and the swags and whatever ideas that we can come up with.

Newt Gingrich

Ideas precede reform. If you can't think it, you can't say it and you can't do it.

Isadora Duncan

ideas and words that do not make any sense.

Robert Collier

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Rob Reiner

Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a movie called Roadie and we thought, "Oh, we can't do that now." So we kind of discarded the idea.

Rob Reiner

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

Walter Mosley

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

John Green

You live for pretentious metaphors.

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.

Seth Lloyd

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Gaston Bachelard

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

Florence King

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Gerald Edelman

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

Jim Boeheim

His side of the room was always neat,

Bob Geldof

We've got to go up to the room now.

Rosie Jones

Laura's never been in our team room so I don't know how she can say that.

Tyler Cowen

Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.

Zig Ziglar

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.

Nancy Pelosi

The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.

Jackson Rathbone

It’s not exactly that I can’t stay in one place. It’s that if I’m in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room!

Harvey Mackay

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

James Fenton

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.