Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Siegel

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

Judge M. Lane

Laws are changed all the time, but the legislature primarily makes the law.

Stanley Crouch

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Roger Ebert

Well, you know, a lot of modern directors and their movies are influenced by the flat lighting and textbook cutting style of television.

Gene Siskel

Roger and I are now in our 20th year and I think people tune in because they know that for better or for worse, these are our opinions.

Judge M. Lane

If you run - if you give the gavel to a lawyer, they'll take it.

Richard Roeper

If you're starting to think of that one guy at the table as your archrival because he's beaten you three times in the last hour, remember: you're not Spider-Man, and he's not the Green Goblin.

Joel Siegel

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.

Robert McChesney

If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.

Ken Hill

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

Ken Hill

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

Eric Schlosser

I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic Monthly.'

David Smith

I was interested in the nuts and bolts of its chemistry, the thermodynamics. I learned to blow glass in an artistic vacuum.

Wolfgang Joop

I was inspired for this collection by New Objectivity, an art movement of the mid-twenties.

Saudi Arabia

King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has chosen Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz as Crown prince in accordance with Article 5 of the basic system of government,

Lewis Sharp

Kent and Vicki Logan have ensured a strong future for modern and contemporary art at the Denver Art Museum.

Jason James

Knowing that my wish list was pretty lofty and already busy working on other projects, I wrote Johnny Repeat in distinct chapters so high-caliber artists could contribute without having to make a 100-page commitment. I'm calling it 'cosmic noir.' I can't wait for everyone to see it!

Corin Tucker

Kill Rock Stars has a willingness to really work with the artist and to be flexible with what they're doing... part of being an independent artists means having your hands in the business all the time, so they bring in a lot of ideas about it.

David Smith

I was interested in the nuts and bolts of its chemistry, the thermodynamics. I learned to blow glass in an artistic vacuum.

Jason James

Knowing that my wish list was pretty lofty and already busy working on other projects, I wrote Johnny Repeat in distinct chapters so high-caliber artists could contribute without having to make a 100-page commitment. I'm calling it 'cosmic noir.' I can't wait for everyone to see it!

Corin Tucker

Kill Rock Stars has a willingness to really work with the artist and to be flexible with what they're doing... part of being an independent artists means having your hands in the business all the time, so they bring in a lot of ideas about it.

Eric Kandel

I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them to talk to one another to, perhaps, give rise to specific ideas that may or may not be carried out together.

The Bride

I would sooner destroy a stained glass window as an artist like yourself. However, since I can't have you following me either.

Roger Bart

I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because they were an easy A. I loved being in plays and musicals too, but you didn't really get credit for those.

Raymone Bain

He didn't need as many artists as he originally had planned for.

John McConnell

He knows the music. He knows the songs. He knows the people. He knows the life. But especially, he knows the stories ? and the artists and fans just seem to take him places they wouldn't most other people." ()

Rose Rosetree

Gwen has a very complicated, artistic temperament. It's intense, but she's OK with it. She's learned to let it fuel her artistic life.

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Rabindranath Tagore

Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire - all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its so

Muhammad Yunus

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Will Durant

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Rebecca West

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Rose Macaulay

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

Tryon Edwards

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

Kelly Brook

In this country we're just obsessed with making people celebrities before they've even done anything, which I think is just shocking.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Claire McCaskill

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.

Thomas Fuller

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

Troy Sunderland

Kish is a kid that pushes the tempo, even though he might not be as highly ranked as other guys, but he will be a guy ranked high in the country by the end of the year.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Mark Phillips

Katie has gotten healthy. She is stronger and more fit than she was at any time during last year's cross country season.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Mary Osako

Just like any other global company, Yahoo! must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are based.

Emily White

I was like, I need to go to the bathroom, nudge, nudge. And the girls go with you, but that doesn't work necessarily. The guys follow you to the bathroom, and they follow you to the door.

Josephine Baker

I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

Chris Gibbs

Kids are just louder and participate more in activities. When Duke, our mascot, is out they follow him around and want him to tell them what to do.

Lucan Lucan

Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature

Michael Clayton

Just relax and be him. He's a good enough player he doesn't have to go and do anything special. Just follow the rules and just be him.

John Price

I talk to lots of people who say there's nothing to do in Detroit, ... I tell them, 'You're not looking. Follow me.'

Detective McFadden

I suspect they may have been sold on eBay, and we're following up on that.

John Davidson

I suspect people have started to recalculate their positions going into the jobs report and they don't want to be short -- they want to be fully invested. If the numbers really follow what we've seen for the initial jobless claims, it could be positive for the market.

Ozzie Guillen

He wanted to follow his teammates and be a part of that, too,

Chuck Hillery

Kim was kind of limited with fouls. She hit some big free throws down the stretch.

Bill Bradford

Kim was a free spirit. You never knew where she was going next. She would just come up with an idea and go for it.

Ed Pendt

I yelled at (Scheffer) as she was going by to go to the hoop. She went to the hoop, got fouled and made the free throws.

Jennifer Armentrout

I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom in that - no expectations or anything like that. It was also my first contemporary novel I'd written and sold, which was to Disney/Hyperion in January of 2012.

Jon Markman

Just to show you how perverse the markets can be, the No. 1 investment over the past 15 months was a product that is given away for free at virtually every restaurant in the world.

Jerod Uldall

I think it helped us. We're a running team. We needed a little breather. It was like a free time out.

Jacque Rolfes

I also liked your 'What Cupid Does In His Free Time' story.

Gary Mills

He didn't shoot a great percentage this year, but he always makes his free throws when the game's on the line.

James Blake

He didn't get many free points on his serve and I was getting some on mine,

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

George Fleming

Keep your references up to speed on your job search and its results. By communicating what's going on with you and your job search, you're using your references to the fullest capacity.

Ian McGeechan

Josh has been in full training for the last two weeks, and everything has gone very well,

Jennifer Chrisler

I think it really tugs at the heartstrings of most parents. All we want is to participate fully with all of the same rights and privileges as other parents.

Kenneth Mattox

I think it'll be the end of the week before we're back to normal, ... All the hospitals are pretty full and marginal right now.

Paul Krell

It assures the retirees will be fully notified and have a right to participate in the process.

Ryan Hollweg

I take full responsibility. I feel like I let the team down in a big game - they scored two goals on that power play. The type of player I am, I've got to make sure those things don't happen.

Tim Rattay

I take full responsibility for this loss. This is really tough.

Shawn Belle

I take full responsibility for this game. They scored when I was in the box. I took too many penalties.

Stephen Campbell

Kentucky has a rich history, and we want to do our small part to preserve it for future generations.

Carl Hiaasen

Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

Jake Johnson

I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.

Christopher Shays

Katrina taught us the hard lesson that, as we prepare for future emergencies, it's important we include in our plans ways to protect our pet owners and their pets.

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Douglas Coupland

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

Charles Gargano

He is the governor and he thinks it's important for the future, whether he's here or not,

George P. Shultz

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Randy Johnson

I think you see not a sense of urgency, but a little more importance on every game. I suspect it will be that way the rest of the year.

Ronald Coase

What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production.

Rusty Wallace

We've got to put a major importance on handling,

Daniel Gibson

I think we understood the importance of the game. I think we understood that every night we come out to play, we come out to win. We knew that wasn't one of our better halves, so we took that as motivation.

Oliver Ivanovic

It is of utmost importance for Kosovo institutions to preserve peace in the province.

Gail Parsons

I really want to stress the importance of membership. Last year membership about doubled the membership of the previous year.

Sen. Newman

I'm going to need support of all our members and people throughout the state that understand the importance of boating.

Napoleon Hill

You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

Terry Francona

The idea of the importance of winning today is there; it's been there,

Alice Childress

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

Richard Dawkins

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

Richard Dawkins

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Romeo Santos

I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

Umberto Eco

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

Rick James

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

Willie Dixon

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

Willie Dixon

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

Willie Dixon

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

Virginia Woolf

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

Samuel West

I really do think the things that make our society what it is are under threat. It should be about everyone having the potential to be what they're going to be.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Richard Dawkins

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

Roland Barthes

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Voltaire

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

William Randolph Hearst

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

Samuel Johnson

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

It is our first duty to serve society.

Patrick Foley

It can get complicated. It takes time, and there are a lot of legal-document translations.

Jenny Lewis

I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.

Phil Simms

Whatever it takes to make yourself a little angry.

Jorge Posada

Whatever it takes to get a 'W,' we have to keep on winning,

James Boyle

What you see can be nauseating, but you kind of get used to it. Without complications, it takes an hour-and-a-half, usually.

Michael Richards

I think we had that sense that everyone was going to do whatever it takes to win.

David Baker

I will do what it takes to get through this year,

Ben Crenshaw

I don't know where this week is going to lead, but I've had so much fun. I'm just going to kind of see where it takes me.

Bobby Jones

He has that grown-man game. He's strong, he rebounds. He just takes that team to another level.

Robert Creeley

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

Robert Crais

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Ryan O'Marra

I've never done it before. Sometimes it's tough. I don't have any peripheral vision.

Umberto Eco

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief

Rick Danko

When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.

Reid Hoffman

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Reid Hoffman

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

Viola Spolin

My vision is a world of accessible intuition.

William James

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

Frank DeSalvo

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

Tenzin Gyatso

There is an old Tibetan saying: wherever you feel at home, you are at home. If your surroundings are pleasant, you are at home.

Daunte Culpepper

I'd like to think I'd have made it wherever I went in the draft.

Willie Nelson

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

Zig Ziglar

Wherever you are there you are!

Jeanette Winterson

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Bill Walker

Wherever she was needed, Dee was there to help.

Tyler Ebell

Wherever our game's going to be played, we have to go out there and play. And it's going to be on ESPN, so that's going to be nice.