Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sanjeev Bhaskar

I'm sure I went through a stage when I resented being Indian because in every other manner, in terms of cultural reference points and vocabulary and all the rest of it, I was way ahead of everybody else - so the one thing that set me back was being Indian. And I couldn't do anything about it.

Winston Churchill

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

Milan Kundera

Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.

Jorge Luis Borges

In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

Louise Gluck

I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen...

Malcolm X

It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

All I know is what I have words for.

Pierre Schaeffer

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.

Pierre Schaeffer

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Cindy Davidsmeyer

I did talk to him (after the angioplasty) and he sounds wonderful.

Jay Siegel

I don't know where that sound comes from,

Robert Crais

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

William Bennett

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

John Glover

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Paula White

It was a moment [when I had found God] that so transformed my life. And I say this is so corny, but it was like the grass was green, the sky was blue. And I can't begin to articulate - as much as they say I'm a wordsmith - what really happened.

John Fowles

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

John Malkovich

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

Taye Diggs

As corny as it sounds, this is really a fantasy come true,

John Doe

Prior to that, it was probably more often thought of as that old fuddy-duddy music, that corny old stuff. What we do is corny, too, but it's fun to do. And just because something is corny doesn't mean it doesn't have meaning or significance.

Katie Couric

After listening to my heart and my gut, two things that have served me pretty well in the past, I've decided I'll be leaving 'Today' at the end of May. ... It may sound kind of corny but I really feel that we've become friends through the years.

Val Kilmer

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.