Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

Ian Watson

The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.

Gillian Armstrong

I put on 'Starstruck' for my kids, and they started getting bored. I was so upset, I took it off. They preferred 'Home Alone.'

William Shatner

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

Warren Bennis

How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

William Whitehead

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

Zubin Mehta

My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

Colin Morgan

If I had auditioned for 'Merlin' on magic alone, I don't think I'd have got it. Like any kid, I probably had a magic kit, but it's not something I ever pursued. I've never watched a magic show like David Copperfield or used him to base my character on, but I really like David Blaine and Darren Brown. They are doing wonders.

Yael Naim

Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.

Ariel Sharon

The past year was complex and difficult, ... I hope that next year will be a year of uniting the ranks.

Daniel Kahneman

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

Patrick Fischler

I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

Marco Rubio

While Ebola's deadly reach has proven to be a complex and unique international challenge, the many uncertainties surrounding this virus continue to threaten U.S. national security.

Remy de Gourmont

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Dan Walters

We have the most complex society to ever exist in human history. We are the true melting pot of America.

Peter Jackson

It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.

Luigi Speranza

Whoever the successor is, he will inherit a complex situation and serious credibility problem.

Ashton Kutcher

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

Chris Young

We have a huge immigration problem here and the government is completely failing in protecting us on the borders.

Jim Crace

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Terri Johnson

He just wouldn't study. Then he'd get these failing grades, and that would further hurt his self-esteem.

David Mitchell

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

Charlie Munger

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Eddie Izzard

Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.

Mark Cuban

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.

Calamity Jane

Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

Yann Martel

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Victoria Osteen

God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

Rick Pitino

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Bill Vaughan

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Pete Harpolis

That was in 2002, and to date, we haven't had any failures since we proof tested this cable.

Zhang Yadong

We could learn more lessons from the losses than from the victory. We had enough failures in the past,

Rick Perry

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Richard Russo

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

Maude Adams

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Rassie Erasmus

We have to win to regain momentum. Winning is all we are interested in.

Reese Witherspoon

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

Mary Ellen Mark

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

Jeff Fisher

We have to look at lot of things. We are interested in doing it, but whether we pull it off remains to be seen.

Bill Vaughan

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Bertrand Russell

Almost all education has a political motive.

Bertrand Russell

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

Fatos Nano

We will rebuild Albania without Berisha as a political factor.

David Sanchez

Wilson was right when he called us a relentless political machine, and we will be in the Prop. 75 fight.

Asa Hutchinson

I think (Oklahoma) has made it a political issue.

Rudi Giuliani

I think I'll return to politics. I have some political visions. I don't know what they are yet, they're a little foggy.

Keith McKenzie

Without a political solution things will get worse. The situation is deteriorating in the remote areas.

Zharmakhan Tuyakbai

We know it is the result of the political system in our country, because our society is sliding more and more into illegality.

Leroy Hood

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Rod Page

He's probably the smallest individual, other than the consumer.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Sarah Kay

Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, 'Oh, that's what this is all about,' and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.

John Short

I thought, 'I'm the expert, I've got to have some answers,' ... 'How am I going to solve this?'

Jim Crace

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

Buzz Hargrove

We have to solve that or it's a showstopper for sure.

Hubert Burda

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

James Rosenquist

If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.

Michael Gove

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

Nestor Kirchner

We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country.

MacGyver MacGyver

Using violence isn't the only way to solve a problem.

Cathy Moriarty

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

Cecelia Ahern

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

Carrie Brownstein

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn't expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.

Arsene Wenger

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

Anton Corbijn

I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

Dominic Modise

We have a lot of young girls, and they need to understand how to work together as a team.

William Shakespeare

They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.

Gaston Gaudio

I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't been able to put it together for a whole match.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.