Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susanna Moore

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.

Strobe Talbott

Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority.A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- 'citizen of the world' -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st.All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

Susanne Bier

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

Paul Dolan

There is no artificial cutoff on signing long-term deals.

Joe Cocker

I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.

Steven Schwartz

The consumer version will be the entire web. We have billions of documents in our index and all of the tools made available for news and business will be made available for Web search, enabling artificial intelligence in the search of the entire Internet.

Pat Campbell

The field turf product in the Dome is only a month old, and what makes it different is that it's the closest thing to natural grass that you can get in an artificial surface. And it's the preferred surface of the NFL.

Oscar Wilde

The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.

Joe Tucci

The growing complexity of our customers' environments has imposed an artificial ceiling on their growth potential,

Dave Roberts

He wants to make the tax cuts permanent that reduces income to the government while we're in war which increases expenses.. I don't know how you can have your cake and eat it to.

Kevin Rogers

Last year, I think it was the icing on the cake just to get to NTN. This year the expectations are higher.

Richard Paul Evans

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

Ron Ben-Israel

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

Ron Ben-Israel

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!

Ray Brown

I had to have two cakes because I had so many candles. That really hit hard.

Louis Auchincloss

The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath.

Luke Clausen

This is like winning a grand slam. It's cool, like icing on top of the cake to win the Classic and winning those records.

Russell Smith

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.

Jeff White

Knowing what we know now, we would have designed it differently.

Gary Bardini

I think it's a known fact these stages are designed to get up this high and this is the way the flood system operates.

Phillip Bloch

I think it's moving forward, I love to see designers mature and I think they did a great job. We know that they can do denim, so it was nice to see them do something else.

Beth Young

I always do landscape design with the functional needs of the homeowners foremost in my mind.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.

Lois Huff

He didn't follow someone's design. He designed what he wanted. That's an extreme reversal of where trends and styles come from.

Maya Elhalal

GUI (Graphical User Interface) is always intuitive to those who design it.

Townes Van Zandt

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

Matt Grow

Just like everyone, we are growing. And we are growing extremely fast.

Stan Ross

Kaiser does a great job with communicating to his defense, really showing experience. Kyle sees the outside shot extremely well and has come in from day one and competed for time.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Georgi Parvanov

I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.

Chris Gratton

It can be extremely frustrating. It's tough to start out like that.

Rich Phillips

He was a fine young man. I'm extremely proud to say I'm his uncle.

Jacques Rogge

He is sleeping extremely well and I am sleeping extremely well.

Ned Yost

He knows what he's doing and knows what he wants. He grew up in this game and knows the game extremely well. I think he still has to work on his defense, but he will play every day.

J. Hoover

I thought we started extremely well. Even after jumping out big, I thought we had some pretty good at-bats in the later innings. We swung it pretty well.

Sergei Ivanov

there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Randy Sharp

He's just there for everything I need. He never forces himself on me, which is very sweet. He waits for me to come to him.

Claude Bolton

We take every opportunity we can to get other forces, particularly land forces like the Marines, involved in what we're doing.

Pranab Mukherjee

It is not withdrawal but redeployment of forces from Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast as the violence level has come down.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

Jonathan Turley

In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.

Jalal Talabani

In my opinion, Iraqi forces, the popular forces and government forces, are now ready to end the insurgency and this terrorism.

Donald Rumsfeld

It has to have forces which are not paper forces,

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Walter Robb

I would say it was about a month ago and I had an offer in my pocket and I was ready to sell. If I had not been able to find a good parent team, I would have sold. Then we had a meeting with Carolina.

Rob Enderle

The physics chip adds a level of reality in games we just haven't been able to get.

Rob Conway

Motorola has led the mobile phone industry in turning our vision of low- cost, yet quality, handsets for the developing world into a reality. In so doing, Motorola has played a major role in transforming the mobile phone from a luxury item for the few into an affordable tool for the many.

Richard P. Feynman

The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.

Richard Whately

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

Richelle Mead

It’s easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations—then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what’s ugly.

Russell Hoban

If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.

Russell Banks

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

Ronda Rousey

I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going on all the time.

William S. Burroughs

The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.