Famous Quotes & Sayings

Idina Menzel

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.

Isabel Sanford

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.

Ellen G. White

By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.

David S. Rose

Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.

Albert Claude

We know that the cell has possessed these attributes and biological devices and has continued to use them for billions of cell generations and years.

Olivia Munn

Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

Marilynne Robinson

My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.

Stanley Burrell

We just came out with a lack of energy. We didn't have that pop that we usually do on the defensive end and on the offensive end. I don't know what to attribute it to. We can't come out flat like that. We have to come out with that fire from the get-go.

Craig Harris

We get sick, by and large we know we get sick -- but we don't know if it's food-borne illness. We can see that Americans tend not to attribute as many of our illnesses to food as we should.

George Woodcock

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.

George Woodcock

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.

George Woodcock

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

George Woodcock

My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

George Woodcock

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

George Woodcock

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

George Woodcock

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

George Woodcock

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.

Douglas Coupland

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Joe Carroll

I don't know who took me, ... I'm fine. I was treated reasonably well.

Antonin Scalia

I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.

B. F. Skinner

You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.