Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clayton Christensen

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

Jason Chaffetz

Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.

Nic Pizzolatto

When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.

Anne Donovan

It's one of the few times in my life ... when you try to articulate what's going on inside and I don't think it's possible. This is up there for me.

Ed Black

They're better able to articulate their strategy than in the past, and the new management talent has contributed to that capability. But there are still some real competitive issues, especially in the computer systems division, where they're facing declining market share. Sun has always been competitive, but we're also seeing a revitalized IBM in the server space. But as long as HP can get its strategy right, then we should see a recovery as things progress.

Richard Phillips

I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.

Nathan Fielder

I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

Margaret Mead

A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t

Judy Davis

I've avoided a lot of publicity over the years because I find it very hard to be articulate about either myself or work that I've done.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

Charles Caleb Colton

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Charles Dickens

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Charles Spurgeon

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Alan Watts

To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!

Alan Parker

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Alan Ball

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

Al Pacino

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

Charlie Munger

We have a history when things are really horrible of wading in when no one else will.

Tim Read

What a horrible way to go. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

Sean Bergenheim

We were horrible in the first two periods. We played a little better in the third. I know I had a horrible game.

Marcel Shipp

The red zone has just been horrible for us. It's been terrible. It's unacceptable as an offense because we have too many weapons and we're too talented not to get in the end zone.

Dwight Landry

It's just been horrible. It's been a horrible, horrible time.

Fran Clader

It's just a tragic, horrible set of circumstances. In each of these incidents the officers were doing their job and laid down their life as a result.

Mike Farrell

They had a horrible season. Horrible ... But I thought they did very well, keeping a lot of kids at home, but they went into a lot of different states, including Maryland. For the record they had, they did very well.

Corbin Bernsen

It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush. A horrible gut wrenching thing, but it's exciting.

Bob Woolmer

It's one of those horrible things that can flare up at any time and we have to try and manage it now.

Edith Piaf

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Denis Waitley

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

Newt Gingrich

When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'

Lauren Worsham

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Norman Mineta

We're not going to lose sight of safety,

Oscar Michelen

You don't lose all your rights in prison.

Alberto Fujimori

With this peace, there is no loser but (only) winners,

S. Walker

We're still at a point where we don't want to be. Obviously, we've got to come out and really lose a lot of the penalties.

Carson Palmer

We're going to lose a lot if we don't have him,

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Abdullah Abdullah

We stopped because we didn't want to move into Kabul,

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

Chris Bell

When you're trying to move away from a system that is overburdened with loopholes, you don't replace it with a system with still more loopholes.

Alexander McCall Smith

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

Michael Novak

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

Harry Shum, Jr.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Albert Murray

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

Russell Tovey

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

Errol Morris

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Gregory Petsko

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Rob Hartman

It's been several years since we've had this widespread of flooding, and we're not done.

Bryan Clifton

This has been going on now for several months. It has been going on for a while.

Ron Parks

They still have several things in their name.

Russ Cooper

This is a very sophisticated worm with several new twists

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Joe Gibbs

I should have said, 'Hey, we've got several things we're going to turn in and want to look at with them,' ... 'We see it one way, and we'll see how they see it.' That should have been my comments, but I went specifically . . . I went over some things there that you can't.

Karen Traviss

I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.

Charles Dickens

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

Alan Perlis

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Bear Grylls

How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.

August Strindberg

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Irish Sayings

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

Aaron Swartz

Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.

Chanakya

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Chaka Khan

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

William Shakespeare

Good words are better than bad strokes.

Julia Ward Howe

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

George Herbert

Great strokes make not sweete musick.

George Herbert

One stroke fells not an oke.

Novak Djokovic

My strokes just weren't there.

Arnold Palmer

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Lewis Black

I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.

William Faulkner

Some things you must always be unable to bear.

Mary Daubert

When the first rescuers arrived, he was still conscious. But then he went unconscious and they were unable to revive him.

Bob Wagner

That one (cell) was particularly vigorous and long-lasting.

Geoff Mulgan

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

Bob Enos

Mike's been in a wheelchair for 30 years, and had seizures for 35.

Elizabeth Taylor

There's still so much more to do. I can't sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around.