Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yvonne Martinez

I just think any mother openly displaying marijuana on the counter, with guns and knives on display, is disgraceful.

Ehud Barak

In fact, we have finished displaying our positions. We displayed our readiness to examine ideas and we are waiting,

Paola Antonelli

Each object had to transcend the outcome of the equation of its form and function by displaying meaning -- to an individual, to a community, to the world at large -- and last but not least, ingenious beauty.

Kevin Lynch

When you're displaying content, any technology will use more power to display, versus not displaying content.

Leila Janah

FlipBoard is the 'W Magazine' of the iPad-app world. The sleek interface makes content from your friends' Facebook and Twitter feeds much easier on the eyes by displaying them in a magazine format.

Edith Mayo

She was following in the tradition of the first lady displaying this kind of elegance as a statement about the power of the presidency.

Saxby Chambliss

I have a hard time understanding why someone who is so opposed to displaying our most sacred symbol of patriotism would want to join one of our government's most patriotic institutions.

Vikram Seth

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Charlie Otero

Knowing the last moments, the last thoughts, the last words was pretty hard to take,

Author unknown

Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Joe Jones

Joe has really been positive throughout this whole thing. He's worked hard to get back to being the player that he once was. We're hoping he's going to be able to do that.

Jerry Snyder

I talked to the coach; he said that'd be great. He's actually one of the reasons I'm pushing so hard is because he was so enthusiastic about it. I think if I do get to play I'm going to love that coach.

David Beckham

I think it is better for the team to have a regular penalty-taker rather than me who hardly ever takes them for Real,

Ron Polk

He used to be a power pitcher, but after shoulder surgery he's had some hard luck.

Anita Elberse

What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in.

Jacques Villeneuve

He should give up motorbikes and join us.

Willie Nelson

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

Willie Nelson

I'm an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.

Ellery Hanley

I'm pleased for the joint venture because I was obviously a part of the organisation,

Sean Connery

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.

Trip Hawkins

You'd be surprised at how many women are joining those leagues.

Greg Steinhoff

We are joining with other Midwest states to get over the fly-over syndrome that we suffer from. We are making it known that there are tremendous biotech resources in the region.

Mo Rocca

While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Courtney Barnett

I'm self-deprecating - I spend a lot of time telling myself that things are OK, as opposed to having to tell myself to get over things.

Dan Rice

I'm not opposed to it. I just don't know that much about it.

Jim Arthaud

(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.

Chris Burke

The style of play will be to our advantage. They'll have to make the adjustments to us, as opposed to vice versa these two games.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Don Otto

Well, if they weren't opposed to this, I'd be worried.

Paul Watson

There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

Harlan Watson

The United States is opposed to any such discussions.

Steve Graham

He was one of the most patriotic people I've ever met.

William J. Clinton

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

William J. Clinton

The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.

William J. Clinton

To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.

Richard M. Nixon

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Pat Buchanan

Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

Mark Twain

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Nathanael Greene

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.

Leon Trotsky

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

Voltaire

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Marshall McLuhan

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

Patrick Henry

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

John Avlon

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Todd Gitlin

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Michael Ignatieff

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Henry Louis Gates

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

William Robertson Smith

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

P. G. Wodehouse

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

Terry Tempest Williams

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

Madeleine L'Engle

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Shailene Woodley

I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.

Sherman Alexie

Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.

Mark Russell

The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.

Paul Tagliabue

He was mythic. He symbolizes football, and, more importantly, he symbolizes leadership.

W. H. Auden

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.

Paul Emsley

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

Philippe Starck

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

Shirin Neshat

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

Haruki Murakami

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

Edward Albee

I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All things are symbols.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woody Allen

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.