Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Charles Dickens

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

Edith Wharton

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Arnold Newman

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

Bill Moyers

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

Charlaine Harris

Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.

Charles Horton Cooley

In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.

Bill McCartney

I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

Byron Katie

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

J. J. Abrams

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

Ashton Kutcher

In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.

Kandyse McClure

Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.

Warren Miller

Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.

R. Robinson

We're going to see him take some leaps here.

Remica Gray

It's a leap of faith. It seems like the right time in my life and the life of the community.

Marc Benioff

It's a big leap for us. We think it will show the world the next step for on-demand computing, just as we showed the world the first step.

Will Whitehorn

Putting it in ITAR termsthis is one small step for ITAR, one big leap for Virgin Galactic.

Shea Hillenbrand

It was tough at first. It was tough to go out there and trust what I was working on because it takes a leap of faith.

Elizabeth Bowen

to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

Dick Cook

This was a three-way leap of faith, frankly.

Guy Kawasaki

Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.

J. J. Abrams

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.