Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

Gordon W. Allport

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

Naomi Hasegawa

Bond prices got a boost from the fairly good outcome of today's two-year debt auction, while index-trackers actively purchased government debt paper, which supported the market.

Shelley Duvall

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?

Toni Simonetti

We are still actively engaged in discussions about Hughes with multiple interested parties. Those discussions are progressing.

Gary Loveman

We are very actively pursuing that. We think we have a very good chance to win.

Daniel Okrent

We think it's crucially important for us to understand and be actively involved in the digital distribution of content.

Jhumpa Lahiri

There's obviously a message, or a moral, or something. I think that's good - but it's not something I actively think about, to be honest with you.

Steve Ellis

The traditional bait and switch approach to credit card marketing doesn't work online. On the web, consumers are in the driver's seat. They are actively shopping for a card that meets their needs. Sites that make that process easy outperform those that don't.

John Merrifield

Business managers and drivers alike will appreciate the easy entry and egress and roomy cab of the Sterling 360. While the drivers will benefit from a more comfortable and convenient work environment, managers will value the increased productivity and retention from reduced driver fatigue.

Bud Black

No one pitches that alike unless they're brothers. They pitch so much alike you'd have to split them up in the rotation just so hitters didn't get the same look.

Kimberly Baker

My approach to this project is to try and make it very community-friendly so whether you've danced in the past or you've never danced before you will be comfortable and welcomed in any one of the workshops. This is a wonderful opportunity for dancers and non-dancers alike to experience the joy of movement and to also experience how community can be strengthened through movement.

Adam Baker

Men and women alike from around the world are enjoying our Web site. We are receiving photos of the world's most beautiful waitresses submitted from top bars, restaurants, and clubs from all of the U.S. and Canada.

Christine Pelosi

My parents had five children in six years and one week, meaning that my mom was pregnant for most of the '60s and driving carpools for most of the '70s. When we were young, she dressed us alike so she could pick us out in crowds: identical skirts for the four girls with the color-coordinated pants for my brother.

Michael Foley

Manufacturers and users alike recognize that Bluetooth technology is the perfect solution for hands-free systems.

James A. Baldwin

The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

Adam Ross

Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.

Ben Thatcher

I cannot prevent supporters and journalists alike from reaching their own conclusions as to my motives,

Scott Terry

We try to conjure some type of emotional response from the audience.

Michael Ryan

We'll take three themes from the audience, then make up something on the spot. We'll stray a little bit from the flamenco theme, but it's a lot of fun.

E. O. Wilson

I get love from the audiences, I love that love they give me, you know the standing ovations. Makes you feel good, makes you feel good.

Johnny Gimble

I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.

George Stavropoulos

In this show there is no fourth wall whatsoever. This show is completely wink-wink, nudge-nudge with the audience.

Tom Stoppard

the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics and audience.

Francois Cluzet

I think there's a kind of love relationship between an actor and an audience, and this is something I really feel with the audiences in France.

Imelda May

The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.

Bruce Willis

I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.

Connie Chung

are an incredible couple, with an edge. Even when they argue, you just know there's a great emotional tie between them. Sometimes they do it for sport, sometimes just to wind the other person up.

Mark Calcavecchia

I've always been an emotional player, I'm an emotional guy,

Brett Hoebel

If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.

Ben Fountain

A person deprived of beauty and pleasure puts me in mind of the Haitian notion of a zombie - a person disconnected from his or her soul, a person who works for others' profit but never his own, a person who mindlessly does the bidding of the boss and exists in an emotional and mental limbo.

Aunjanue Ellis

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

Arundhati Roy

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

Bill James

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Ben Harper

Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

Jim Jackson

Brill has me portrayed as being uncooperative. He preyed on the emotional and financial vulnerabilities of that community.

Ann Widdecombe

As far as I'm concerned, William has been an excellent leader. He's a staying leader.

Karen Peterson

People think prices are going to go down and the statistics keep telling us they're not. They need to buy. We have an excellent inventory, excellent interest rates. What are they waiting for?

Brian Leonard

People that really know the game know we have an excellent team.

Michael DeBakey

After reviewing all facts, I am pleased to say that the operation is needed, that it shall provide excellent results,

Diane Feinstein

strength, experience, leadership and judgment to be an excellent president.

Travis Paquet

It was an excellent game. It was 8-8 at the end of the first and 18-14 at the half.

Scott Simons

the road to excellent service is paved with gold.

Larry Coker

The protection was excellent and I saw some good things. Things are starting to come around the way we want to see them.

Dick Vermeil

Todd had an excellent practice, ... He's a good football player. He has never been given the opportunity to demonstrate what he could do.

Sean Coste

The seniors are excited about it. Our players are excited about it. We can finish with a win. It would be four in a row.

Mark Slough

Sammy is excited to be back and I think they're excited to have him back.

Torey Lovullo

I've opened up in this stadium and it's been a tough go. We're excited to be going South and we're going as far South as we possibly can.

Acie Law

The way they have been playing, they are a hot team, and we'll have our hands full. But we are excited to be here and look forward to playing well.

Skip Prosser

That's for you guys to talk about. We're excited about who we have back.

Cynthia Rowley

You see guys on the street, and they're obviously kind of experimenting and excited about new things,

Scott Gaffney

You're excited for the first two weeks then after a while it gets old.

Scoville Jenkins

This is big. I'm excited but I can't be too excited because I have another match to go tomorrow.

David Perno

We've taken a tough road. We were swept at home, but rebounded to take 2-of-3 at Mississippi State. We are excited about this team.

Tom Hooper

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

Rico Love

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

Gavin Bryars

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Susan Hampshire

Television has been very kind to me, I will never knock any opportunities they give me. I've had some wonderful parts and can never be grateful enough. I've always loved doing theatre, I find it tremendously exciting. I haven't done many films but those I have done, I have loved.

Rob Bibler

I've wanted to do a series on great directors, and I think the idea was, in part, to show films that have this status of great craftsmanship.

Ben Schwartz

I did a lot of short films online, so I come from that background where a lot of people see your stuff.

Timothy Spall

You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, what's the point?

Park Chan-wook

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

Cheryl Ladd

T.V. is the place to do the kind of films that were done in the 40s and 50s: the little guy against the system. There are so many opportunities in T.V. to do more character pieces. Everything is so hard-edged in features.

Frank Normile

We show great films at very reasonable prices.

John Curran

Like a lot of films at the end of 2008, they hit a wall with financing, which is why I moved back onto 'Stone.' In doing so, I had to let go of 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' to at least give them an opportunity to move forward with somebody else.

Ian Mckellen

If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.

Kelsey Grabiak

No, she was happy for us. She was really excited.

Gary Cole

We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time.

Jud Honaker

We're happy to be able to help, and we wish them the best.

Randy Nelson

We're happy they're willing to sponsor us since we couldn't get sponsorship here.

James Kelleher

There are a lot of reasons why (Wall Street) just isn't happy about this restructuring.

Dennis Prager

An unhappy life is a life not lived.

African Proverb

To be happy in one's home is better than to be a chief. Yoruba, Nigeria

Kenny Miller

We are very happy with the start to our home campaign, but we have a lot of work to do and get better as a team.

Bill Chambers

What they did in the rain, on a wet track today was phenomenal. I'm really happy with the team and how well we've done at a premier meet.

Gareth Edwards

After JPR Williams was involved in a road traffic accident: 'Bloody typical, isn't it? The car's a write-off. The tanker's a write-off. But JPR comes out of it all in one piece

Dan Henning

There's going to be a lot of temptation on people around the league this year on (wide receiver) Terrell Owens. I can tell you right now, we won't be involved in that temptation. That's part of the plan.

Ray Arvidson

Water was involved in practically every one we have seen so far.

Jason Goldberg

When things like this come up, there is a part of me that really wants to get involved and do something again,

Zach Pollakoff

Music is one of my passions. If I'm not making music, I want to be involved in it in some way.

Ferdinand Marcos

Frankly, if there's money to be made the province would have involved itself.

Nina Banister

If it launches or explodes, it's illegal. There is a risk involved with fireworks, period. Everything is at risk, your pets, your shrubs, your house, your car, your neighbor's house, your neighbor's car. Because something that launches or explodes can be unpredictable.

Kevin Doll

She mentioned to someone that she was involved in a similar incident, and that person read about it in the paper and notified a detective.

Dick Pound

But when you get lawyers involved that takes time. We are looking at ways to shorten that.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Nick Vujicic

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Sandy Greenberg

We're looking at palm trees now to replace the shade trees.

Allen Iverson

We're looking at our own sizes, we're looking at our friends' sizes,

Jared Bernstein

We're looking at a recession/jobless recovery that's two years old to the day.

Bobby Shelton

I'm a little set back. I had no idea they were looking at retirement. I thought it would stay around for many, many years kind of like the old B-52s did.

Chris Rudge

One would rightfully say that you shouldn't just be looking at the quantity of medals, you should also be looking at the quality of medals.

Kate Jackson

She was looking for something that she really wanted to do. Something that made her happy. And this did,

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Roebalin Bustamante

You see the standing water, this is the number one hole.

Ashley Scott

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

Jane Addams

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Joe Wurzelbacher

The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America.

Edward Snowden

There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

Dirk Benedict

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

Tom Slade

We are as vulnerable as we have been in a number of years. It is not a pretty picture.

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Dodie Smith

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

David Christian

I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".

Ambrose Bierce

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Alfred Brendel

If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

Alfred de Vigny

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Anatoly Karpov

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

Thom Browne

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Gordon Fischer

I think he does sort of have this patina of independence. But I don't think he is all that independent from the White House.

MacGyver MacGyver

Desperation tends to make one sort of flexible.

Andrew Harrington

This is the time of year when stockpiles should be rising. We're in that sort of in-between period. Winter is sort of over and summer hasn't really started.

Candace Parker

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Alan Greenspan

I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.

Kerry Washington

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.