Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daphne Gottlieb

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.

Marshall McLuhan

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds

Jim Lushine

It will go to the Swahili alphabet or something else,

Mitch Hedberg

...and then at the end of the letter I like to write P.S. - this is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.

Paul Williams

The Russians and the Chinese will use their veto to make sure that there is an alphabet soup of organizations running Kosovo.

Michael Hayden

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'

Roy H. Williams

Each letter of the alphabet represents a phoneme, a tiny sound that joins with other tiny sounds to make the more complex sounds we call words.

Adora Svitak

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

Stan Getz

It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Gregory Craig

I would urge the relatives in Miami, if they truly want to get back together with Juan Miguel and his family, that they give me a call and let's talk about timing. Let's discuss this in a civilized way, rather than having national press conferences where demands are made.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Brian Finnerty

I would still call it a trading-range market. It's nice for today and the short term, but I doubt it's sustainable.

Sarah MacLean

Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, and thank goodness for that. Modern romance heroes are more complex than ever.

Chris Sisko

It comes down to the complex interplay of these larger-scale systems.

Larry Ellison

I think the applications space will be diverse and complex five years from now,

Paul Singer

Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.

Gil Shwed

It had become a very long and complex process and we thought it was better to withdraw so we could focus on our customers.

W. Eugene Smith

My pictures are complex and so am I.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

David Marra

I love that they have such a grand vision but they can't underestimate the complexity of growing in the U.S. market.

Suriya

I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.

Carrie Cunningham

He said he would get a letter out to students seven weeks ago and we have not received it yet.

Abdel Atwan

I think the letter is genuine. We can't verify it because we don't know where he is, he is on the run. I have seen his signature before and it looks like it. I think it is authentic.

Chuck Wright

I think whoever wrote the letter is trying to do the right thing, and I'm thankful,

Cynthia Jeanguenat

I have done those for people who have received those letters and they find out they have a refund.

Greg Strobel

I am going to miss each one of them for special reasons. Zinck, for his maturity and the forwardness in the way he practices; Coop in terms of the way he wrestles, he's just phenomenal in the practice room; Letters with his talent; and Frick with his hard-nosed attitude.

Joanne Cortese

He'd write letters to people he'd feel should be donors.

Virginia Woolf

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

Virginia Woolf

I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.

Salman Rushdie

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

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.

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.

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Martin Freeman

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

Robert Blake

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

Stephen Rea

I never watch TV. I know I'm missing so much, aren't I? I'm probably not. I can't stand popular TV. I've got too much to do to watch it. I know that sounds pretentious and pompous, but there you are.

Susan Howatch

If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a duty; it's a kind of joy.

Alex Winston

I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic.

Dexter Holland

I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up there.

Jeff Mangum

I made a record of montage sounds in '99 under the name Korena Pang, but it was never put out because it didn't do it for me.

Martin Clunes

The idea of being a young 50 sounds like you're trying to kid yourself, like a Harley-Davidson or something. I've bought a dressage horse instead.

Linda Tripp

You know, I was never really angry. I know that sounds crazy. I was very upset for my children.

Wislawa Szymborska

Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!

Wislawa Szymborska

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Louis Tomlinson

Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it?

Greg Boyle

God can get tiny, if we're not careful.

Darren Shan

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Bill Watterson

My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.

Alain de Botton

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Edwidge Danticat

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Roz Chast

There's something about most phobias where there's a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.