Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Farrell

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

Hannah Kent

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

Joe Paterno

I was thinking 'When are we going to get this thing over. I looked at my watch at one point and it was three hours past my bedtime and we were still playing.

Adam Goldstein

Though we think bedtime is the last thing on anyone's mind while on a Royal Caribbean cruise, we do realize that sleeping well is essential to our guest's vacation experience.

Eula Biss

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.

Melanie Payne

This program has been a tremendous help. Dylan has to have his bedtime story every night and it usually ends up being five or six bedtime stories. This has really helped him develop intellectually.

Paul Auster

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

Elton John

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

Dom DeLuise

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

Ian Mckellen

Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.

Will Patton

In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time.

Chris Hedges

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

Neil Kurshan

It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children.

Ray Comfort

All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.

Nicholas A. Christakis

We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means that human beings have evolved to live their lives embedded in social networks.

Granth Sahib

The 8.4 millions species of beings die, and die again, and are born over and over again.They are consigned to reincarnation.

Granth Sahib

The angelic beings and the silent sages long for Him; the True Guru has given me this understanding.

Sean Brady

I hope that everyone who believes that the right to life is fundamental will make their voice heard in a reasonable, but forthright, way to their representatives, reminding them that the right to life is conferred on human beings not by the powerful ones of this world but by the Creator.

Wesley Clark

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Chris Harris

That was huge. That helped us out a lot .

Matt Mitchell

That was probably the one mistake I made, but my team picked me up and helped me through it.

Joanne Boyle

We could have helped ourselves. Now, it's a wait-and-see.

Randall Kennedy

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

Will Chase

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Donald Johanson

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Ricky Martin

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Nina Easton

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Iyad Allawi

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

Jane Lindskold

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

Niger Innis

We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people.

Christopher Koch

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.

Louis C. K.

Maybe God is an asshole...of course not, he's not an asshole, he's imaginary.

Joseph Brodsky

All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.

Anne Miller

AN IMAGINARY AXIS OF EVIL: IRAN FROM THE INSIDE,

Nicholas Eberstadt

To talk of 'a peaceful North Korean nuclear industry' is to talk of an imaginary animal, like a unicorn,

Rickie Lee Jones

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

David Shields

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

David Shields

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

David Shields

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Alan Moore

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

Carter Burwell

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Ajay Naidu

I hear music as narrative.

Bruce Springsteen

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

A. S. Byatt

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

Whitey Ford

The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

Sylvia Hatchell

We know that we can't let down in any way, shape or form. You've got that big zero on you.

William Shakespeare

so full of shapes is fancy

Richard Valdez

Most of them aren't in shape at all at the beginning.

Clint Hurdle

Mesa's shape is not an issue, never has been.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

Patrick Fitzgerald

whether I thought Mr. Libby had tried to shape my testimony.