Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

Ian Watson

The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.

Gillian Armstrong

I put on 'Starstruck' for my kids, and they started getting bored. I was so upset, I took it off. They preferred 'Home Alone.'

William Shatner

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

Warren Bennis

How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

William Whitehead

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

Zubin Mehta

My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

Colin Morgan

If I had auditioned for 'Merlin' on magic alone, I don't think I'd have got it. Like any kid, I probably had a magic kit, but it's not something I ever pursued. I've never watched a magic show like David Copperfield or used him to base my character on, but I really like David Blaine and Darren Brown. They are doing wonders.

Christo

The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back.

Cecelia Ahern

Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

Carrie Preston

I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.

Carrie Fisher

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

Carrie Underwood

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.

Sandy Johnston

That will be super. That will be a big bundle of rooms. Right now, we have only five of 12 hotels open. It's not only the beach that's short of rooms, it's everyone else in town.

Marcelo Castillo

That was a great goal. Joey has been doing that for us all year. He is probably one of the top three sophomores in Palm Beach County.

Valentino Rossi

Today was a strange day because we all came back from the holidays and it felt like everybody was still in the beach rhythm!

John Corcoran

Miami-Dade fared a lot better than Broward and Palm Beach specifically because of the preponderance of mast arms.

Brian Corey

That was great that year, ... That was the most fun I've ever had. We had a great crew and it was a great season. Nothing beats that, when the team just keeps winning.

Jacques Chirac

Today the heart of every French man and every French woman beats in unison with those of their brothers and sisters in Martinique,

Mark Levin

A French Republican is a Republican who beats up on conservatives and is constantly praising the Democrats and contributing to the massive spending in this country while they go home and pretend otherwise.

Tom Martino

Most customers frequent a business because of price, availability or convenience. If another company becomes more convenient or beats your price, a customer will change like this, in a snap.

Charles McDonald

We just want to play basketball. We can play whatever game you want to play. I would love to see a shot clock. Fans come to see teams play. It makes it a little bit more exciting. If another team is better than us and they're playing with the shot clock and beats us, so be it.

Matthew Lillard

You just realize that at the beginning of 'Scooby' you're just going to start at level ten and stay at ten the entire time. It's hard. It physically beats you up. It's definitely one of the hardest movies you can do.

Jason Tuggle

You just have to play and know that winning beats the alternative. I expect to be in the mix every year, but I think the freshmen have stepped up and done good things.

Zoe Sugg

As cheesy as it sounds, nothing beats a smile and a bit of confidence! As long as you feel good on the inside, you can still look beautiful without any makeup at all.

Chris Bennett

I was very scared when I first started playing with Elaine and Bryce. I was used to four-four time signatures my whole life, and they switch up their beats and timing every other measure.

Tyra Banks

As I look into the future, I see radical changes in both how people 'attain beauty,' and how the world perceives beauty. In general, I believe traditional beauty will be less valuable - and more uniqueness will be heralded.

Irwin Thomas

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

William Allen Butler

And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.

Virginia Postrel

We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.

Amisha Patel

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

Christo

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

Wole Soyinka

I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

Nancy Friday

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

F. Sionil Jose

For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.

Imelda May

I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.

Yoko Ono

Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

Chuck Palahniuk

When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.

Chelsea Clinton

We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea.

Ben Harper

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

S. E. Hinton

'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

Beeban Kidron

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

Bonnie Tyler

I remember when the Atkins diet arrived; I lost 16 lb in the first month, but when I stopped, it all went back on again.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.

Gilles Villeneuve

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Zach Johnson

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.

William McDonough

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Herminio Lucci

The outside influence in the form of Argentine auction, which matched expectations, helped the market. And tomorrow's futures expiry weighed slightly, as usual.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

William Gibson

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

Walter Kirn

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

Donald Trump

Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.

Mark Twain

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

Sam Zell

We made fortunes off of leverage (before going public), and you're not going to make fortunes in the public market off of leverage.

Michael Hutchison

is tying your fortune to the fortune of the housing market.

Pat Quillen

We don't want to make a fortune. We just want to make a living.

Lucan

Pompey lives after his battles, but his fortune has perished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.

Kazeronnie Mak

Only the misfortune understands what fortune is.And knows how to treasure it.

William Shakespeare

Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel

Nicola Sturgeon

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.

Astrid Lindgren

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

Lucy Powell

We in the Labour party owe it to the people we represent to make sure that we offer a choice at the next election between our Labour values and those of the Conservatives.

Nicola Sturgeon

The fact is Scottish Labour has lost its way.

Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

Karl Radek

Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

Bible Bible

Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

Johann Lamont

The Scottish Labour Party and its renewal are more important than me.

George Herbert

Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?

Ken Stevenson

I'm so used to having them there. It's a pleasure.

Andre Agassi

I tell you what I do take pleasure in is accomplishing things that I question myself,

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious.

Jan Eliasson

I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.

Horace

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Mark Constant

Merrill Lynch is still quite profitable in a very tough year.

David Brady

It has revenues and profits and a very strong pipeline,

Keerti Melkote

We recently turned in our first profitable quarter.

D. H. Lawrence

If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.

Dhirubhai Ambani

You do not require an invitation to make profits.

Alan Ladd

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Frederic Bastiat

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Michael Kilpatrick

We're making a profit every year, but the thing is, we keep putting that profit back into the business.

Jim Cavanaugh

The profits there are going to be huge.

Walter Brower

The PD is over now. We've got a new season to play now, and we need to go 3-0 to get to where we want to be.

Carl Sagan

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas ...

Antoine Rivarol

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

Bill Vaughan

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

David Dellucci

That was the worst part of the season that stands out.

Daunte Culpepper

We can still do what we set out to do. We have a lot of season left.

Rohit Sharma

Every first-class season is important; every game is crucial, irrespective of whether you are in the Indian team or not.

Willie Randolph

We'll probably be going back-and-forth all season with these guys.

Sam Madison

Usually this time of the season takes a nosedive.

William Williams

My surface is myself.Under whichto witness, youth isburied. Roots?Everybody has roots.

Sean Badding

We're just scratching the surface in Turin. The television will become more obsolete.

Hal Joseph

We are just scratching the surface right now.

Tom Kleckner

There's three types of mines, and what we have in Texas is surface mining.

David Lynch

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

Gary Hume

The surface is all you get of me.

Ivan Pavlov

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

Bill Cowher

It may have been more that we're working out on a different surface than what we usually work on in Pittsburgh.

Nikki Sixx

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Derrick Brooks

I would give up one thousand yards to get a win.

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Edward Fitzgerald

To-morrow? - Why, To-morrow I may be / Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.

Elie Wiesel

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Eddie Compass

thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Andreas Gursky

A word is worth a thousand images.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Ben Elliot

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

David Hewson

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.