Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Robert Lundgren

An old friend of his, Dan Stone, came to us with the idea. He talked to Coach Knight, and from Day 1 he was interested in the concept, and then I talked to ESPN about it.

John Le

The spy who came in from the cold.

Thomas Hales

After a year they came back to me and said that they were 99% sure that the proof was correct.

David Perno

The most we gained from it is seeing Kennedy. Not the physical part, but the myth part. It was a challenge for us. It's rare to go out and win a game like that, especially the first game. They came back and took the next two games from us.

Kevin Garnett

A.C. was unbelievable with energy. He came in and kicked it off. When A.C. came in, the tempo just picked up immediately.

Greg Biffle

A couple of young guys came in and did really well, so then everybody thought, /x27/OK, it's all these young guys now as the new thing,

Herbie Hancock

A couple of years ago, I came up with the idea for a film that I thought could be interesting, and I took it to a couple of people - nobody professional or anything - but I thought it was kind of cool.

Renee Montgomery

ACS is very pleased with Judge Stephens' decision. Our prediction came true.

Kurt Ebenhoch

We're constantly assessing competitive landscape to make sure our product is priced competitively.

David Hallberg

Because of the way I'm built, I constantly have to strengthen. This is sort of a ritual: I put on my tights first, and right when I'm about to put on my costume, I get down on the floor, and I plank.

S. Walker

We are constantly growing. Our growth will be steady and we will grow as fast as we can get good, qualified people on board.

Koy Detmer

Donovan was constantly saying, 'I'll do it,' ... You don't want to see a guy putting himself out there in a harmful way. Obviously, I could tell he was in some pain. He had just taken a big shot. He was getting up kind of slow.

Karen Grant

Consumers refuse to age. Most women want to look as young as possible, and they are constantly searching for any solution that promises that miracle. Consumers are willing to pay a premium to get it.

Ludwig Bemelmans

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

Grover Cleveland

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

Jake Gyllenhaal

For me, it was hard in a different way than with Heath. Because I think Heath was kind of constantly being pushed back by Ang, pushed back into his skin, and he wanted to come out. I had heard all these stories from actors who had warned me that after the first day of work, Ang said, 'You'll get better.' So I was waiting for that. And the first day of work he walked out to me and said, 'Great job.' And I was like, 'Uh-oh, that's not good.

Casey Affleck

There were many incidents that influenced me over the course of my life. I mean, how does one first learn about human rights? It's constantly evolving, and if there was some big-bang-like event, I can't remember what it was.

Michael Quinn

I share the frustrations of everyone who was laid off. It was the last thing we wanted to do, but the money isn't there yet.

Bible Bible

And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.

Jeff Roberts

We've got a master trail system that has ? laid down on a map ? hundreds of miles of what will someday be trails.

Rumi

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

Steve Harvey

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

Tertullian

Patience is God's nature.

John Major

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

David Duchovny

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

William Shakespeare

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

Haruki Murakami

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

Bryan Adams

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal.

Cleveland Amory

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Jack Wilson

We've been through some very rough times. But we survived. Now we're on the rebound.

D. James

Today was a rough one for me but we got through it. I started off bad. We got the victory though, so I did enough to win.

Clive James

The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.

James Franco

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

Christopher Hitchens

The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or care or family or society or solidarity is necessary - these are immoral teachings that have done and continue to inflict untold moral and physical harm on our species. And until we outgrow this nonsense, we have no chance of emancipating ourselves.

Kathleen Hanna

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me.

Oswald Chambers

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Natalie Cole

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

Nikki Giovanni

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

Marian Seldes

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

Lillian Hellman

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

Nikki Reed

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Nelson Goodman

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.