Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leslie Cockburn

After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure.

Todd Howard

We wanted to work with voice talent that really captured the emotion and drama of the game's story. Quite honestly, we wrote the parts with these individual actors in mind. It's an honor to have them lend their talents to the project.

Kughalo Mulatonu

They had also captured three of our leaders in a raid last month. We do not know if they are dead or alive.

Richard Browne

This child has captured the hearts of all New Yorkers,

Dale Jarrett

You can't lie about anything. Everything here is captured on film and tape.

Greg Moore

It's a tough environment to come into. It's kind of like having an extra guy on the ice. They captured the momentum well and fed off the crowd well.

Harry Waters

No soap opera has so engrossingly captured the wondrous banality of the human condition.

Ken Bacon

These men should be freed. They should not have been captured in the first place. And to the extent they're still there, that's regrettable.

Russell Jones

The stage opening alone, with an increase in height from 12 feet to 28 feet, allows us to pursue productions that require two-story settings. Even though the size has increased, we've captured the intimacy of the actor-audience relationship that was appreciated in the smaller Experimental Theater.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Alan Bennett

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

Ed Begley, Jr.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

Dean Acheson

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Audre Lorde

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

Cat Deeley

I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet.

C. S. Lewis

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

Alan Shepard

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

Agnes Repplier

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

Calvin Harris

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

Edwin Louis Cole

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

Edward Gorey

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

Frank Bright

It's tantamount to trying to measure the surface of the earth, from Mount Everest...all the way down to the height of a raisin, and be able to see it all in detail.

Callum Henderson

A third positive number in a row heightens expectations for the BOJ to raise policy next week. That will underpin the yen.

Frank Tolbert

It was our height vs. their quickness, and they're quick leapers. This was a win we had to have.

Caitlin Flanagan

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

Nathan Lump

Queens is a part of New York that a lot of people don't go to and really should. Walking down the streets in Jackson Heights is in many ways like taking a world tour.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Rep. Heaton

What we're offering is a three?year program to increase the funding.

Jeff Rubin

What we're looking at this year is an exponential increase in interest in alternative spring breaks.

Carol Evans

We're seeing a big increase in these benefits. Flexibility is the number one program parents are looking for in the workplace.

David Gray

We are already seeing an increase in milk consumption.

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Tracey Mills

What's on the increase is kids getting on mailing lists.

Chris Williamson

As we saw last month, there were signs of increased overseas spending on UK services.

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Beth Moore

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

Amy Bloom

All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.

Mark Rothko

Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.

James Altucher

Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.

Brian Grazer

I don't think he wants that level of intimacy or sees the value in it, ... He's just the worker. He's always been the worker. Now he's the worker and the CEO.

George Saunders

If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.

Jack Nicholson

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Moliere

Deference and intimacy live far apart.

Steve James

I think when people go into something for the right reasons, you're going to get a better film; you're going to get more intimacy and a stronger foundation of trust.

Bill Richardson

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

Bill Vickroy

We're just selling tickets for the opening sessions for all these games.

Dave Wannstedt

With us, everything is sort of new, from a personnel standpoint. Simonitis is really the only one that was in the lineup on Opening Day a year ago.

Beth Macmillan

They said not only would they like to sponsor it, but they would like to have it on site as part of their opening ceremonies.

Ted Shaw

Things went as I expected. I think Roberts's opening statement was eloquent. I've seen him in court. But the question for me is who is he.

Jane Hirshfield

There are openings in our lives of which we know nothing.

Al Gore

...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

Bridget Riley

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place.' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space... so that there was a layered, shallow depth.

David Rakoff

I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

Jerry Yang

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

Viggo Mortensen

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Sun Tzu

When he pretends to flee, do not pursue.

Bakul Dholakia

If we wish to rub shoulders with them, then we have to pursue a similar strategy.

George Washington

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

Dan Stephens

We'll aggressively pursue ... (the lawsuit) as was planned.

Akio Morita

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

Cheryl Tiegs

I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.

Chelsea Peretti

If you text 'I love you' and the person writes back an emoji - no matter what that emoji is, they don't love you back.

Chely Wright

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Charlize Theron

I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.

Charlize Theron

When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

Charlaine Harris

It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.

Charles Handy

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

Bill Maher

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

Charles Stanley

Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.

Bill Toomey

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

Tim Anderson

They have a more complicated structure and require more complicated processing. Our role is to better understand the and transfer the technology to industry.

Winston Churchill

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required

Leo Kipfstuhl

It required us to put on more workers.

Max Gillespie

It's a challenge, especially with with soccer in the fall. That's two sports that require numbers.

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

David Rakoff

The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.

Bob Bennett

We are still going to require that students still take the SAT with the writing section, as well as the ACT.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's.

Jane Goodall

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

Charles R. Swindoll

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

Delta Burke

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

James Hogan

At our size it makes sense to be one fleet.

Guy Lajeunesse

At one of the mosques, two rocks, about the size of two baseballs, were tossed through a window which was shattered.

Donald Miller

Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.

Don Nickles

[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

Angelina Jolie

I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie.

Gopal Ahluwalia

It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle.

Russ Swartz

It's nothing that we're not used to all year. We're one of the smaller teams in the league.

Michael Shaw

It's a little smaller but it utilizes space much better.

David Hallberg

Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small.

Marc Galanter

The smaller the jury, the more variance you get just from the play of the numbers.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Daniel Craig

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

Ron Taylor

You're crowding a smaller and smaller stock into a smaller and smaller habitat.

Billy Beane

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

Celia Cruz

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

Ednita Nazario

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

E. Hicks

They're not at that stage yet. ... The time will come.

Paul Campbell

And there are some of them that we don't have. We have made stride, but as I said, 'getting to the stage where we want to, we have to add', and we are adding.

Dan Stessel

No way. At this stage in the game, it's like asking, 'Why not a sky-tram?' It's not in a let's-dream-about-it phase. This is not a theoretical exercise. The Tunnel is actually going to happen.

Richie Furay

Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage - I'm having fun.

Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.

Bridgit Mendler

I definitely get stage fright.

Alan Greene

There is nothing at this stage to suggest there is anything within the premises.

Bob Rae

I hear [my Twitter followers] say, you know, 'Bob Rae, you're an asshole'. [...] I'm working my way and trying to represent the people and speaking in Question Period and here we have vox populi, the thoughtful man on the street, 'you are an asshole!'. Thank you very much. I read it on my Twitter and I get up and ask a question.

Lionel Blue

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

Carl Jung

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Jung

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Brad Bird

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

Source Unknown

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Thomas Watson

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.