Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.

Tom Stoppard

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

Dennis Smith

saw some people in distress across the river near the Mexican bank, and that was reported up through Border Patrol channels and relayed to Mexican officials.

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.

Dennis Andrulis

Public hospitals may become an endangered species. Not only are public hospitals disappearing from inner cities across the country, they are disappearing from the suburbs as well.

Larry Freed

Quite frankly, we did not expect to see such consistent drops almost across the board for all the biggest online retailers. These are the guys that are supposed to be doing it right.

Richard Hayne

Quite frankly, the Urban brand organization became too siloed, with too little communication across functional areas. The great creativity that has been the hallmark of our success became stifled.

John Chambers

Q1 was a solid quarter for Cisco, with balanced execution across most of our geographies, market segments and product categories,

Morris Gleitzman

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Nancy Peterson

It became increasingly evident that we needed to do something in terms of a financial turnaround plan, or the place wasn't going to be a viable organization anymore.

Joan Smith

It became a bigger project than what we anticipated.

David Phillips

It became a $400-million hit. Most of that came from insurance losses, but also losses of infrastructure. And sadly, it cost four people their lives.

Max von Sydow

I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed 'The Virgin Spring.' I walked into that theater as one person, and I walked out as another.

Josh Helman

I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on 'Mad Max' in Africa, so we became really fast friends.

Chris Massoglia

I actually had a dream that one of my friends became president, and I was trying to help out with the campaign. It was pretty good.

Sean Allen

He wanted us to question why a coke headed, alcoholic who's had all of his jobs have failed but one, and whose daddy bought him into office became the President of the United States.

Bobby Cox

He could probably pitch a couple of innings before he became fatigued.

Mark Donovan

Every major consumer brand and media property is embracing mobile.

Michelle Perry

We're disappointed that the Check Point thing fell apart. They had worldwide sales and distribution in place. They also had a name brand and established customers.

John Dewey

The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community. If, however, they were all cognizant of the common end and all interested in it so that they regulated their specific activity in view of it, then they would form a community. But this would involve communication. Each would have to know what the other was about and would have to have some way of keeping the other informed as to his own purpose and progress.

John Dewey

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

John Dewey

An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.

John Dewey

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.

John Dewey

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

John Dewey

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

John Dewey

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

John Dewey

Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.

John Dewey

Consensus demands communication.

Lorne Michaels

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

Steve Vai

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

Veronica Roth

Ingenuity requires creativity.

Sadie Jones

Ive always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where youre writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.

Yoko Ono

Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

Yoko Ono

It's better to dance than to march through life.

Wynn Bullock

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

Ken Robinson

If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original

Albert Miller

I just like everything about this industry. There's a lot of creativity in what we do.

Joanne Pratt

The Web is a great place to shop and spend money, but it's pretty great for making money too.

Beth Combs

That's why they are Purdue and we're not. They were able to sustain that run and make a great run when it counted.

Stuart Allard

That's why I prefer independent movies. It proves you don't need big stars to make a great movie.

Vinny Castilla

That's why he's here. He's a great player, and that's why he's with us and the National team.

Micky Sullivan

That's why he's going to Oklahoma. He can go and get it. It's great to have a guy that where all you need to do is get it close.

Emilie Ravin

That's what's great about it. Everyone is so different. Different ages. Different nationalities,

Will Rogers

That's what makes us a great nation. We take the little things serious, and the big ones as a joke.

Derek Dennis

That's what makes Peekskill so special. We have a great bench, so we can make runs on teams that aren't as deep.

Marcus Thames

That's what I work for every year. It'll be a great feeling.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Sarah Caldwell

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

Sarah Burton

Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.

Sara Blakely

When I was growing up, my dad would encourage my brother and I to fail. We would be sitting at the dinner table and he would ask, 'So what did you guys fail at this week?' If we didn't have something to contribute, he would be disappointed. When I did fail at something, he'd high-five me. What I didn't realize at the time was that he was completely reframing my definition of failure at a young age. To me, failure means not trying; failure isn't the outcome. If I have to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I didn't try that because I was scared,' that is failure.

Samuel Smiles

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Robert Duvall

The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.