Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Ellen Key

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.

Noam Chomsky

As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

Henry Eyring

The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.

Lien Chan

If we continue to live in the past and explain the past and present with a pessimistic conception of history, populism will spread and hinder the development of the entire nation and the society.

Max Weber

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The Republicans have long had a platform of being pro-life. And I'm someone that believes life begins at conception and should be protected.

Hayley Hasselhoff

People have this conception of plus size models as girls who aren't fit or don't work out or don't really take care of their bodies.

Justin Rose

When I first turned pro, I didn't really have any conception of how long it would take me,

Paolo Bacigalupi

My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

Wynton Marsalis

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

Laurie Pirtle

The overtime was an emotional issue. Our kids were shell-shocked that we were in that situation.

Ben Bass

The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.

Carl Rogers

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.

Carl Rogers

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

Carl Sagan

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...

Carl Sagan

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Anthony Storr

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

Bill Hicks

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

Socrates

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Diogenes

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Epictetus

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Mel Gibson

I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

Graffiti Graffiti

Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.

Brian Goldberg

Junior has no illusions that he's 25, but he'll go at it and work hard. If everything is working out, he'll play.

B. F. Skinner

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Ben Wagner

I don't have any illusions that I'll become rich off this project.

Alan Watts

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

Elie Wiesel

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

Aprilynne Pike

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

Ashley Olsen

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

Theodore Bikel

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

Patrick O'Brian

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

Charles M. Schwab

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

C. S. Lewis

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Adolf Hitler

All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff.

Alma Gluck

One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

bell hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Lara Rhame

It erodes the relative interest-rate support for the dollar.

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

E. Hurley

On having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.

Jordana Spiro

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.

John Schultz

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'

Jon Favreau

I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'Spider-Man' did having Tobey Maguire, who was a relative unknown at the time.

Joy Harjo

When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

Charles Caleb

Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more

Kevin Huck

We have a relatively young team with Keith Overton (160-pounder) the only senior starter.

Bill Hader

I don't like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.

Saddam Hussein

The arguments were sound then, and they are sound now,'' said Fox.

Tyler, The Creator

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

Octavio Paz

The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

Thomas Beecham

Most of them sound like they live on seaweed.

Jill Scott

Who Is Jill Scott? Words & Sounds Vol. 1,

B. J. Novak

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

Jack Johnson

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

Marsha Thomason

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Sathya Baba

Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.

Jacob Whitesides

I appreciate a lot of singer-songwriters that the normal person doesn't, but I feel like everyone thoroughly enjoys an Ed Sheeran show.

John Ortberg

I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.

Caitlin Thomas

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

Barbara Stanwyck

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Arthur Miller

... vulgarity has no nation.

E. M. Forster

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Mark Badgley

So it's just not about, you know, vulgar nudity,

Diane Kruger

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

Cyril Connolly

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Mark Twain

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Oscar Wilde

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.