Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanis Varoufakis

The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.

Steve Alexander

We have the interests of the state and the interest of the medical community and they are clashing here.

James Phillips

U.S. forces must walk a tightrope. They must restrain the violence while letting the Iraqi government forces take the lead, yet on the other hand they don't want to clash with any of the (legitimate) factions.

Paul Simonon

There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.

Pixie Lott

I don't really follow any fashions. I just wear what I want to wear each day. I don't care if they clash or not.

Ken Auletta

The press was doing its job, and in doing its job, they saw this clash between what they were witnessing with their own eyes and what officials were telling them,

Atharva Veda

Unity can only come when there is better co-ordination and mutual understanding in the society; when there is no friction of thoughts and clash of ideologies. We should therefore follow the ideals established by the scholars and engage ourselves in virtuous deeds.

Krista Tippett

One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the same about mystery and intellect. They are somehow mysteriously akin to each other.

John Fitzgerald

We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: ""smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation.""Compromise need not mean cowardice. ...

Al Martin

That was some violent, violent weather. We're sitting in the clubhouse watching on TV and wondering, 'What in the world is happening? Is this really a tornado? It was like, 'Wow.

Lyle Overbay

You kind of get nervous when you come in and see everyone around a new team and you're not sure what kind of clubhouse it is. I knew it was going to be a good clubhouse, but I didn't know it was going to be this good.

Ryan Langerhans

We don't have to go out and set the world on fire. We've got good veterans in this clubhouse who will work with us.

John Russell

He?s a good kid, works hard and has a good work ethic. You look in our clubhouse and he fits in very well.

Nick Swisher

I think it's going to be awesome. I don't think there's any other way to put it. Emotions will be running high. All the guys in this clubhouse know what we have, and other people are starting to pay attention, so we'll just have to go out and prove it.

Ozzie Guillen

Today I was in the clubhouse and we were watching the highlights. You do get goose bumps. But in the meanwhile, you've got to be careful. No matter what you do today, just prepare yourself for tomorrow. Don't get too cocky.

Johnny Pesky

He was in the clubhouse before the game. He was really easy to speak to. He dressed well. He was a peach of a guy.

Stan Cliburn

He wanted to prove something to us. He was saying 'You might have given up on us once but I'm going to show you.' We're glad to have him back, and he's going to be a big part of our team. He's an inspiration to our clubhouse chemistry, and I'm big on that.

Vladimir Guerrero

He comes into the clubhouse and says hello but doesn't put any pressure on you, ... It makes you feel good and inspires you to keep working.

Yael Grobglas

Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

Yanni

I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.

Tim Burton

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

Imelda May

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

Idina Menzel

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

Ian Mckellen

Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

will.i.am

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

Chris Bohjalian

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

Anthony White

The police officer said, 'Drop the gun!' He said it four times. The guy just turned around and pointed the gun right at the cops.

Bruce Coville

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Big Sean

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

Bill Hader

I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.

Christine Keeler

I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.

Denise Morrison

I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.

Natalia Vodianova

I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

Carl Sagan

I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him

Bill Bryson

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Source Unknown

There are hundreds of languages in the world but a smile speaks them all.

Elif Safak

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

Pankaj Mishra

Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

Rabih Alameddine

All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Louis Zamperini

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.

Van Cleve

We had only three weeks to make a totally life-changing decision,

Mark Erickson

We were still with them through three (quarters), though.

Peter Smith

Most of them did sell. I think only two or three are left.

Jim Tressel

Where we are at this moment, ... is not where you'd like to be after three games.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Brian Kerr

We got the three points. That's all you can say. ... We have to do much better on Wednesday.

William Shakespeare

Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I was the class clown type of guy.

Taye Diggs

You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.

Morris Gleitzman

Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.

Beck

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Barry Lopez

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

B. J. Novak

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

Mark McNulty

Those are the type of tap-ins you like to have.

Ryan Robertson

We're not used to that type of athleticism in our league. They get in your mind.

David Morse

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.

Rick DiPietro

Like slow-motion, off the shin pads, ... Another weird bounce.

Johnny Depp

I wouldn't say I'm a heart-throb. I just have a weird job.

Aaron Eckhart

We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.

Joe Simpson

It's not surprising. But it's going to be weird not working all of those games.

Stanton Barrett

It's something with the transmission, ... We had a weird vibration, just couldn't get it up to speed.

Niall Horan

Changing is for weirdos.

Jim Butcher

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.

A.J. Pierzynski

It was weird for me because I don't want to show up the other team.

Mike Mills

The whole set was very intense, ... Lou and Kelli have some weird thing with each other.