Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

We've gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a world in which Starbucks establishes the bare minimum. If your establishment can't come up with an original look, customers expect at least some sleek wood fixtures, nicely upholstered chairs, and faux-Murano glass pendant lights.

Chris Bohjalian

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

Evangeline Lilly

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

Benicio Del Toro

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

Brad Goreski

As an Old Navy style attendant, I'm all about upgrading your bare basics and presenting them to your customer as basics you need to have in your wardrobe.

Barack Obama

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

Neil Strauss

Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they're barely able to appreciate their accomplishments.

Nikolai Gogol

Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?

Patrick Modiano

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

Carl Sagan

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

Doug Springer

My calendar here is full. I have two or three things every day. Softball, swimming, tennis, basketball. I go back to Maine in the summers and the only thing I have on my calendar is a couple of doctor's appointments.

Miguel Garcia

We follow the same calendar as the school district.

Dan Brown

Little League started in West Des Moines about 1951. I played Little League at Holiday Park in 1981. But the time had come to move away from Little League. Their calendar was too restrictive.

Leon Powe

It feels good. I had that on my calendar and tried to mark it down for one of my goals, to be playing in March. It's just huge for us, our team and our program.

Donald Macleod

I think in general, all of us are somewhat disappointed in the second half of this calendar year in terms of the semiconductor opportunity.

Sean Berkowitz

You have recollections that differ from your calendar entries. You have recollections that differ from what other people remembered the conversations were.

Chip Dickson

Portfolio performance for a calendar year can often be improved by simply selling the worst performers at the end of January.

Kathy Sullivan

Front-loading the calendar with new caucuses would make the process narrower and less democratic, and it would be a huge setback to Democrats' efforts to carry Iowa and New Hampshire in the future.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Yann Tiersen

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

Timothy Noah

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Timothy Noah

Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.

Irving Stone

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

Inga Cadranel

You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.

Inga Cadranel

It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.

Garry Wills

I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

Gina Bellman

I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

Imelda May

In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

Ivar Giaever

While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

Irving Harper

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.

Ismail Kadare

For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

Wynton Marsalis

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Richard Bellzon

The pen was his voice and the page his tears, when he was done; they called it a classic

Brittany Howard

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

Barry O'Farrell

I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

Ivy Lee

Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Terry Thornton

The policy now is that an offender's race will not be used as a sole determining factor in housing. Our primary goal is to ensure that racial integration is completed in a manner that maximizes institutional security.

Rebel Wilson

I studied law at university and was sort of grooming myself to go into that kind of career. I filmed 'The Wedge' while studying, which was very difficult, but I'm proud I completed my degree.

Houston Nutt

That was good then. I'm glad they cheered. I wish we would have completed it. I would have stood up and cheered if we completed it.

Pico Iyer

I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - on Islam and its quarrel with the West - that I'd promised, six months earlier, to deliver to my editor on September 12, 2001.

Bob Ingalls

We have completed a deal with every major provider of content.

John Lott

Most of the fisheries surveys for 2005 have been completed so these meetings will be good opportunities for the public to learn about the current status of Missouri River fisheries

Chris Coffey

We just completed the orientation process for 40 new hires from other facilities, and we are looking to hire more. Some may return to their home hospitals, but for others there will be no hospital to return to.

Mao Asada

I'm so happy to have completed the two triple axels. I wasn't really thinking about winning this championship too much. I was more concerned with trying to land the two triple axels.

Iyad Allawi

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

George Allen

We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.

Yo-Yo Ma

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

Billy Graham

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Don Rickles

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

Graham Swift

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

Ben Elliot

I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.

Becky G

There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.

David Kay

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

Kerry Wood

With the time frame it's going to take, I'm glad we did it when we did it. So we should be ready for spring training, and ready to go.

Laura Stromberg

We are disappointed with the time frame and we are losing valuable time.

Tang Jiaxuan

We hope for a political solution within in the framework of the U.N. Security Council.

Russ Feingold

Without any sort of a time frame in place, we'll never even get to that point, ... Meet the Press.

Randy Edsall

We'll have a better idea of the time frame after (the doctor) goes in. It could be two weeks, it could be three weeks. I don't know.

Anthony Mix

I have a big frame but I'm leaner now. I'm faster.

Alan Vest

I don't think Simon is in the right frame of mind to play this weekend so he is not in the squad for the game at Newcastle.

Bernie Williams

I already have the frame for it all ready at home.

Jon Garland

He wanted me to get out of there with a good start and in a good frame of mind.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

Keith Brooking

The outsiders might second-guess this, but we didn't quit. Until the very end, we gave it all out there. Give the Panthers credit. They played well. We didn't, but it wasn't lack of effort.

Beeban Kidron

I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.

Bill Hader

I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

David Crosby

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.

Rick Warren

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

Mary Pipa

That was a tough one. (Montoursville) just took over the net. When they won the second set (7-5) I think it gave them a boost.

Johnny Podres

That was the key of the game. It gave us a big lift.

Terry Wilczek

That was a key play. That gave us a big lift and some momentum going into halftime. We needed to keep them out of the end zone.

Kurt Barnard

July sales numbers are not going to be very good, maybe a tad better than they would have been without the checks,

Amy Teegarden

Here we are approaching the end of July and already resources are thin.

David Amram

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

Carl Sagan

The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st

John Potter

The Postal Service last raised rates in July 2002,

Neil Abbott

What he does come July 1 is wide open at this point.

Niambi Rowland

We'll be going back on the show July 12.

Lee Schlesinger

Yes, absolutely. That's the way the officer will measure it starting July 1.

Chelsea Handler

A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the Bahamas in July. What happened to the good old days when a guy would just saw you in half?

Kathleen Blanco

We have to restore the state and its people. This is important work you're about.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Fred Jacobs

We need to take steps to restore credibility to the administration and accountability to the university, and we have to do it tangibly.

Abu Bakr

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Karen Woodall

You have to restore the outreach and you have to be in the community.

Isabella Rossellini

disappeared or haven't been restored or rights haven't cleared.

Tom Vilsack

He steals second, and I hereby restore his voting rights.

Bo Ryan

This is all about trying to restore confidence.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.