Famous Quotes & Sayings

Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...

Trudi Canavan

The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

Richard Rohr

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

Valerie Cruz

I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.

Walter Russell

Cooling bodies gravitate and heat as they gravitate-heating bodies radiate, and cool as they radiate.

Ralph Goodale

Reducing the tax individuals pay on dividends will encourage savings and investment and will help establish a better balance between the tax treatment of large corporations and that of income trusts.

Christine Varney

participation would help promote a balance of viewpoints.

Linda Malec

Our members may not be able to do a balance sheet, but they understand the fundamentals. They are proud of our credit union and they want the best benefits and services to continue that they've enjoyed for 56 years.

Rajeev Sharma

In the time to come Japan and India are going to move closer to counter balance the rapidly increasing influence of China in global politics.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Roger McDowell

Obviously the success Leo had here was pretty much second to none. Hopefully we will continue that success.

Tim Knight

Right now I'm pretty happy. I'm looking forward to this semester. Hopefully I can just continue on how I finished last semester, play strong in these last three tournaments, and go from there.

Jason Hall

I always work hard on my game. I want to continue to improve each and every season.

James Rubin

But we have made clear, while we recognize the territorial integrity of Iraq, that we think it's important and appropriate for us to meet with ... Kurdish officials in northern Iraq, and we will continue to do so as we see fit.

Yasser Elguindi

But they don't want to send the wrong signal to the market. They want to continue a loose supply policy, meaning that if there's a crude problem, which there isn't now, they can supply it.

Pat Burns

But it's going to remain an open facility for any hospice program in the region. The hospice team from St. Luke's can continue to follow a patient and provide care.

David Gallop

But the survey shows they must continue to work on this issue.

Terence McElroy

I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the matter is many people have lost their property and homes and someone has to pay for that. Under the law, someone is liable for it.

Stevie Smith

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Stacy London

You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.

Sue Monk Kidd

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Mary Ellen Mark

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

Lisa Kleypas

I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.

Paulo Coelho

Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need.

Marissa Mayer

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

Marjane Satrapi

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

Nick Vujicic

Sometimes we need to get over ourselves and actually realize that sometimes, God has a better plan. God's ways are higher than ours.

Rick Baker

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

Reggie Bush

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

Tom Hodgkinson

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

Toni Morrison

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.

Tom Verlaine

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

Scott Adkins

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will

Fannie Lou Hamer

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Jack Nicholson

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.