Famous Quotes & Sayings

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Missy Taylor

We have a tendency to get helter-skelter when we start our transition game. I think we did a better job of keeping the floor spread in the second half and not committing as many turnovers.

Andrew Morton

Because she was terrorized. I mean she felt like committing suicide within three hours. She was actually considering whether to throw herself out of the 10th floor window into the Pentagon Mall below. She was intimidated.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

GLUTTON, n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

Peter Evans

It can dive to 3,000 meters and stay submerged for an hour. It will only come into such shallow waters if it is ill. But in doing so it is committing suicide.

Pete Liakakis

We've got to put more emphasis on putting resources towards social problems that lead to a lot of the crime. When you have 40 percent of high school dropouts committing crimes, that can lead to a life of crime.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Anne Roberts

We have to get at what's really going on here, what are the underlying causes, why are people committing the crimes?

Nia Long

We haven't even gotten a start date but we'll see what happens with that and that will be fun. I've gotten a couple of other things but I'm not really committing myself to anything yet.

Greg Brooks

We're running down with speed and we have a lot of guys playing with great effort and enthusiasm. It's just guys committing themselves to going out and doing their jobs. We're working hard during the week and then finishing it up on Sundays.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have to obey the laws with respect to security classifications,

Rick Hind

Usually the laws are relatively weak and have been written by lobbyists for the industry.

Jeffrey Schneider

We have not been served with a lawsuit and don't have any comment.

Rig Veda

Only that person is preferred as a leader, who adheres by laws and rules.

Kenneth Langone

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Anacharsis Anacharsis

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In time of war the laws are silent.

Yani Tseng

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bernard Arnault

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Ashton Kutcher

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Woody Johnson

We all recognize that there are similarities here. We will be searching out the possibility that we have a serial bomber.

Domhnall Gleeson

I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

Larina Kase

To become successful is to recognize every tiny step towards successand then take more of them.

Tariq Aziz

We don't have any relationship with the Taliban, ... We didn't recognize the Taliban.

Bobby Gonzalez

I don't know what it was with Jason. I didn't really recognize him today.

Gail Goestenkors

We've watched enough tapes of them to recognize they are scrappy.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Rex Wilmouth

If they are making that much profit, they should reduce rates.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Alicia Keys

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

Edgar Allan Poe

Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.

Ben Horowitz

There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

Rich Beem

The thing is a rocket. It's a silver bullet.

J. K. Rowling

There's the silver lining I'm looking for.

Rick Pitino

This is the most disappointing preseason I've experienced in a long time. We'll look for the silver lining, and when I can find it, I'll let everyone know.

Jerry Garcia

Every silver lining has a touch of grey.

Teemu Selanne

The silver medal, it's going to taste better a little later. But right now, it's very disappointing.

Michael Guido

There's a lot of inflow into silver in anticipation of the ETF.