Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

Marcia Muller

We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.

Bernie Mac

Fear is not one of my attributes.

Ken Kercheval

My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.

Duane Sword

It's not just the deep knowledge about the technical specs or functional attributes of IMS people are thirsting for. It's the more pragmatic, pre-planning domain knowledge they want.

James Newman

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behavior, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.

Djimon Hounsou

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

Michael Shermer

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our evolutionary past, those attributes helped individuals to survive and reproduce.

Ridley Scott

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.

Alanis Morissette

When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

Alan Bennett

The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

Al Jarreau

My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.

Akon

I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

Nancy Long

We want them to have moms and dads and normal families.

Chick Corea

My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.

Chief Joseph

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

China Mieville

My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

Eddie Martinez

Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.

Charles Spurgeon

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

Cherry Loney

The people who need to know have been contacted. We did an investigation. It has been determined some people needed to be notified. We identified who they are.

Ann Strother

We want it. In the Stanford game last year, I was horrible, and I think we all played pretty bad. That is something we are determined not to let happen again, and I think we are good enough when we are focused not to let it happen again.

Charles Sanders Peirce

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.

George Eliot

There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life

Maurizio Giuliano

Whether this looming humanitarian disaster will be averted, will ultimately be determined in major world capitals.

Hosni Mubarak

We remain most willing and determined to do all we can,

Michael Redd

We were determined to start off well. Loved it. We need that every night.

Shawn Rojeski

We were determined to get ourselves up, to play well for a medal.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

Chris Cleave

It was hard not to be full of hope

Eddie Marsan

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Ed Bradley

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

Thomas Cummings

(During rainy weather) we tend to stay indoors and do household stuff and not socialize. When people get depressed, they tend to isolate themselves. It's a symptom but also a cause.

Nicholas Broffman

These were not super dogs. They were just ordinary household pets.

Manish Jha

You really own them at the personal level, not the household level.

Beverly Jones

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

David Johnson

As the kids leave the household and you've got that older consumer, there are a lot of needs that we see.

Rutina Wesley

Viola Davis should be a household name. So should Angela Bassett.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

Mamie Gummer

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HOUSELESS, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Chris Colfer

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

Chris Colfer

My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.

David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

John Vane

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

David Heymann

We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Tim McKee

We would rather not maintain the new stadium if we didn't have to.

Dick Cheney

We're going to maintain our optimistic pro-growth pro-entrepreneur pro-jobs strategy in Washington, D.C.,

Katrina Kaif

I'm here to work.. not to like or dislike people. Neither am I here to win a Miss Congeniality competition. I maintain professional relations with my co-stars.

Ross Gittell

It's about relationships with people. That's why you can't just say 'We'll do something else and wait' because you have to maintain the relationships or they'll go to another source. That's not only true domestically but internationally.

Jim Auld

They're getting 184 million a year, and they are only spending about 6 million a year for maintenance. More of that should be spent to maintain the buildings.

Ben Vereen

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

Art Johnson

The point is, the Legislature has not met its constitutional requirements.

Nolan Sotillo

I met Victoria Justice once. She was so nice. I've always been a fan.

Charles de Gaulle

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Bob Brown

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

Raymond Kelly

We're doing a meticulous search at all possible locations,

Andrew Silver

It's a sign that spare metal is around.

Marc Ratner

They met once and I think they're doing things individually.

Bryan Clay

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

Betty Shabazz

Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.

Linda Price

We're going to be with them a lot for at least the first six months, then slowly wean them. We're not just going to throw them into an apartment.

Darren Sharper

It's just not where I want it to be, but I've still got five, six days,

Natalie Gulbis

It's a tough place to spend six hours.

Wayne Gould

It's not like this was a 12-hour a day job, It was more like a six to nine.

John Ferguson

This is the sixth year we've (hosted the memorial).

Todd Hamilton

It was six o'clock, then it turned to 7, then 8,

Younis Khan

It was a tremendous victory especially after we were six down for 39 in the first innings.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.