Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lupita Nyong'o

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

Lee Raymond

History teaches us that punitive measures, hastily crafted in reaction to short-term market fluctuations, will likely have unintended negative consequences.

Maya MacGuineas

To craft a full package of offsets, everything should be on the table.

John Scalzi

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.

Saul Bellow

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

Michael Lewis

If you like crafty stuff they are going to open the market for crafty people. When Jaime Moyer of the Seattle Mariners pitches, I love watching him. In a way it is a much more interesting game than watching Randy Johnson pitch. You are not only watching a game you are watching a thought process.

Phil Klay

It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doing. I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad. But I live near really smart, thoughtful people who take writing very seriously, and I can meet them for breakfast and talk books.

Carolyn Kizer

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

Pierre Beaumarchais

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

Archibald Hill

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

Samuel Johnson

To make dictionaries is dull work.

Libby Ludlow

I really have no idea why they are all crashing. There are just lots of rolls. There's never a dull moment, which makes it more challenging.

William Shakespeare

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Mike Fontenot

We plan on networking at these shows as much as possible. People can't hear our music if we're not out there playing it. Plus, we'd like to think we have surprises waiting... never a dull moment with us.

Byron Katie

If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!

Davy Cowie

This project has just grown and grown. First the land and then the house. There's never a dull moment, we're always learning something new.

Charles Spurgeon

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Erik Ainge

There's never a dull moment. If you walk on your last two steps before you get to the next drill, he's in your ear screaming. It's new, but I think it's going to be good for us.

Zach Braff

It was pretty much the last person we found - an independent financier who paid for the whole thing out of his pocket.

Gottfried Leibniz

And as every state of a simple substance is a natural consequence of its preceding state, so that the present state of it is big with the future.

Leo Strauss

I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Tom Grzymala

You want to maintain a balanced, diversified portfolio.

Grant Thrall

It's important that communities maintain their sense of place identity, so that they are not just one more blob of suburban sprawl, that they are something special ... People do like themes.

Cheryl Cook

It's a lot of work for the owner ? maintain it, keep it in pristine condition.

Bill Cline

It may just simply not be cost-effective to maintain the physical trading floor.

Jay Weatherill

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Robert E. Lee

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Robert Neelly Bellah

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

Warren Buffett

I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.

Wayne Dyer

Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.

Wayne Dyer

Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

Samuel Butler

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Sally Ride

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

W. H. Auden

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Wolfgang Puck

One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.

John Rollins

I just putted better today than I did all week,

Kalin Lucas

I think about him every day. Today I woke up and I didn't even feel like going to school. It was rough.

Steve Collins

I putted a lot better today and I think it made a difference.

Eugene Levy

I'll tell you why you're going to do what you're going to do today is because you're my bitch.

Lee Nelson

I'm 63 today but I feel like I'm 18.

Brad Faxon

The first thing Dory did today was look up at me and say, ?We?re going to Kapulua,?