Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.

Jeremy Hardy

For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.

Lord Chesterfield

The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.

Thomas Overbury

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Hong Feng

When I arrive somewhere, I often ask local residents about their ancestry and tales and legends of the area. Enthusiastic villagers could help find the location and offer to lead the way. That helps a lot.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.

Samuel Butler

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

Gary Lloyd

I got very interested, and I started researching my own ancestors. It's been a passion and a hobby since then.

Jane Austen

. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.

Richard Steele

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech

Jim Allchin

This CTP that we are doing in this quarter will have all the features that we had planned to put in the product.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice.

Don Lemon

There are features that African Americans have that are similar! There are features that white people have that are similar! Features that Hispanic people have that are similar!

Gerald Bell

We've been indicated for several months now that these features would develop, and they have finally arrived.

Ed Warner

We didn't want a trophy home. We wanted people to be invited into the house to see all the wondrous things, features that the public doesn't get to see.

J. Horton

Focus Features is following a nationwide release pattern and playing it in just a handful of theaters. They haven't offered the film to us yet, but it might become more available, especially if it wins Oscars.

Paul DeGroot

Vista is, I hope, the last time that Microsoft labors so long, misses so many ship dates, and revises so many features midstream.

Zahi Hawass

Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Shirley MacLaine

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

Frank Anderson

get the message out that limbs can be saved.

George Eliot

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

Brandon Stokley

Just a lot of rain, some trees and limbs down and the power went out. But other than that, they're fine.

Sappho

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away

Robin Quivers

When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living

Jan Rokita

This marks the end of the post-communist era.

Hank Brown

This marks a new day for the university.

Scott Brooker

This is a place to start. That's the way we look at those meets. We'll take the marks that we set today and start whittling away at those.

Peter Kalikow

today marks a turning point in the relationship of the MTA and its unions.

Maxim Marinin

We just thought about skating, not a medal. We just thought to skate well and we did it, and the marks were OK.

Louis Cataldie

We'll look for things like identifying marks such as tattoos and personal effects. We'll get DNA. We'll do X-rays if they have prostheses and we'll do fingerprints if we can.

Bill Polick

There are no skid marks on the runway.

H. L. Mencken

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

Sylvia Hatchell

You look at the whole picture and there are just a lot of question marks that I think a lot of people have.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

Cass McCombs

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

Bob Phillips

The person who knows everything has the most to learn.

Caitlin Moran

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

Beyonce Knowles

If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.

Brad Feld

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Cesar Chavez

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

Al Goldstein

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Bill Bavasi

This does not signal the end for Michael.

David Gill

They're called signal lights. They are kind of provocative because they are always telling you something.

Rachel Cohn

I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

Joss Whedon

Can't stop the signal

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Bill Murray

I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

Celia Cruz

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Andy Brandt

When we get a lead, we have a tendency to sit back.

Tom Rathbun

Work at that site has just come to a standstill.

Paul Phillips

We've got everything documented, got it all in a book, we're just sitting here waiting.

Bill Gates

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

Mary Bowen

We boarded up the windows and were going to sit and wait out the storm.

Dodie Smith

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

Caitlin Thomas

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

Barbara Stanwyck

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Arthur Miller

... vulgarity has no nation.

Diane Kruger

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

E. M. Forster

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Rudolf Bing

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

Tanith Lee

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

Mason Cooley

Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

Oscar Wilde

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.