Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Westfeldt

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

Pat Gillick

People seemed more interested in their martinis than me,

Edward Pullen

The more I read, the more interested I got.

Source Unknown

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

Guenter Hujara

The teams are interested when it comes time to win medals.

Wendy Cukier

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Douglas Alexander

I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Sigmar Polke

I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.

George Robertson

These airstrikes have one purpose alone, and that is to stop the genocide.

James Van Allen

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

James Van Allen

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

Brandi Carlile

The purpose of it all is love.

Bruce Jenner

For all intents and purposes, I am a woman

Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

Aristotle

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

Deepak Chopra

Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.

William Benet

You are to me what the bowstring is to the shaft,Speeding my purpose aloft and aflame and afar.

Pete Hughes

Seeing him get the victory at 103 made me want it just as much.

Tony Soprano

I was seeing a therapist myself about a year ago, ... I had some issues.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing us on TV. We're on TV so much, it's ridiculous.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing it on TV. I'm sure they are.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Kevin Sheridan

Remember, this has only been operational for 90 days. What you're seeing is version 1.1.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.

Carl Anderson

I keep seeing them go up, up, up.

Booker T. Washington

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

Blaise Pascal

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

Blaise Pascal

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

Donna Tartt

…still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life…

Colin Powell

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

e. e. cummings

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Andrea Bocelli

The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

Andrea Bocelli

Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

Alfred North Whitehead

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

Granth Sahib

The soul does not die; it does not drown, and it does not swim across.

Aretha Franklin

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

Ben Nicholson

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Baha'u'llah

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

Baha'u'llah

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

Juvenal

For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.

C. S. Lewis

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

Alan Keyes

There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

bell hooks

To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.