Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.

Noel Riley Fitch

Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject.

Joseph Campbell

Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd.

Richard Holmes

A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.

Richard Barber

They don't pile up too much oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrate or phosphate. Those are kept under some kind of biological control. That's how the past has been. The big issue is, will the future work that way?

Virginia Pearce

It wasn't until (Dew) wrote the biography that we really found out a lot about what he had been doing. We just never felt that what he was doing was particularly difficult or meaningful. We were just normal.

Tad Devine

The support for Gore comes much more quickly and much more easily once voters get a sense of who he is. Until they understand something about his motivation and his biography and his background, it is difficult for voters to get a handle on him outside of the image of a vice president.

Elvis Costello

The songs will tell a story that I have imagined existing between the lines of Andersen's biography and some of his most famous tales, ... They speak of a misfit's love for an unattainable woman and a struggle between a huckster and someone who composes music in secret.

Jill Lepore

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.

Ruben Patterson

We are a little fatigued. It's been a difficult road trip.

Bernard Baruch

It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.

Hal Stratton

We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.

Brenda Frese

We wanted to try to turn them into a jump-shooting team as much as possible. And we also wanted them to have to take difficult shots.

Charlie Hunnam

It's always difficult to really sum up exactly why a relationship works.

Charles M. Schulz

It is difficult to talk about what I do, because I do it so I don't have to talk about it.

William Shakespeare

God grant us patience!

Rob Blake

Until we know exactly what took place ... that's why there's an investigation. Until you know the total facts, it's kind of difficult to talk about.

Jim Grant

Until we can get some really good rain to keep the fuels moist, it is really difficult to fight a fire.

Tony Vis

We're mentally tough and we were not going to go away. We got down 10 and could have easily folded the tent on the big stage. The kids just kept fighting and plugging away and got us back into that thing. They put us in a great position at halftime.

Atharva Veda

A man beaming with enthusiasm naturally accomplishes his works easily and quickly.

Linda Holden

They tend to get discouraged pretty easily and a lot of them leave. Adults have a lot going on.

Jarome Iginla

It's not just the saves he makes, it's the timing of them too. He is easily the No. 1 reason why we're fighting for the top of the division.

Scott Gordon

It so easily could have been Houston or Galveston.

Marla Shavin

This pivotal piece easily makes the transition from day to evening.

Jordan Ritter

It's a good law for people who want to follow it, but the real fundamental problem is the practice itself and the fact that people aren't easily tracked down.

David Pickard

I told our guys we had to play through the fouls. We could have easily folded and gotten frustrated, so that's one thing I'm most proud of.

Christopher Brand

It probably will be spread by one that isn't killed very easily by it.

Cybill Shepherd

Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.

Gore Vidal

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

Jeffrey Toobin

There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept,

Teller

If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.

John Wilkins

The possibility of jail for that long; I don't think he could handle that, ... I'm sure it was drugs, mixed somewhat (with) coming-off effects, withdrawal. That would be tough on me ? to do something, then all of a sudden realize what I had done.

Allen Pritchett

We have to handle the road and crowd.

Nia Long

I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority.

Kristen Perezluha

We're going to handle this investigation with the utmost integrity, as we would with any investigation.

Mary Curtis

We're doing everything we can to handle the increasing numbers.

J. Horton

They have a really skilled team. They can shoot, handle and pass. If you're able to do that, you're able to set yourself up for success.

Angela Fraser

They were just being kids. I remember doing that. I remember being 16 and thinking I could handle that.

Bob Doyle

This investigation is in its infancy. It is being processed and handled as a homicide, ... That does not rule out a homicide-suicide.

Dan Wheldon

They teach you not only at the track but away from the track: how to handle yourself, how to handle yourself in a situation like I'm in now, with a big lead. There's a lot that you can learn from these guys.

Rod Sterling

The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them

Nicolas Maduro

The United States are ruled by a financial, media-centered, military-industrial apparatus. Behind Obama's grin, he orders bombings. He just displays a different image than Bush. That's how he expands U.S. global domination.

Natalie Massenet

You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.

Frederick Great

They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.

Ed Davis

They didn't want to have the image of seeing him in their mind.

Ricci Rios

It was called a struck image or a likeness. It wasn't called a picture back then.

Randa Haines

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

Elle Macpherson

offer an individual interpretation of the story inherent in the image they are writing.

Bob Shimp

The mystique of the American West is what runs this place. That image of the West still strikes people, people from all over the world.

Charles Spurgeon

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon

Trials teach us what we are.

Alan Watts

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

Alan Watts

The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.

Alan Watts

If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or nonhuman, we must first come to terms with the minority wand the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the 'external' world - especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.

Alan Watts

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts

Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

Alain Prost

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

Alan Alda

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Al Pacino

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

Chloe Sevigny

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

Antony Sher

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

Buddy Trask

We were at the rim, and didn't have to rely on outside shooting and we made the big plays when we had to make them. We always want to make it interesting though.

Chris Boyd

We were trying to live outside regular society three months.

Charles de Lint

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Sheila McKinney

We're still recruiting new physicians to go in there...and physicians from outside the area.

Tom Chakurda

We're seeing about 25 to 35 of our patients having to seek transplantation somewhere else, be it UPMC or some other place outside the city.

Murray Sperber

They don't trust people from outside their world.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

David Ayer

Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.

Richard Martin

The thing we had a lot of requests for is American flags. Everyone wants those. We're out of them now but we're trying to get more as quickly as possible.

Marjorie Brody

Don't tiptoe. Everyone sees you. Just get set up quickly and quietly and get ready to be part of the meeting.

Thomas p Kempis

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Jon Gruden

We had to do this the right way and get well quickly in the draft,

Ozzie Guillen

We're going to use him as quickly as we can.

Nicole Draper

The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Dan Murphy

We want to support the PGA and its members.

Chris Copeland

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...

Chris Colfer

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

Edward James Olmos

I don't support violence, period.

Eddie Izzard

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

David Hyde Pierce

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

Carolyn Roberts

We've already established our credibility. The Legislature is very supportive of the university system and comfortable with our role.

Martin Freeman

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

Mark Cuban

The Higher Education Industry is very analogous to the Newspaper industry. By the time they realize they need to change the costs to support their legacy infrastructure and costs will keep them from getting there.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Audrey Tautou

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charlotte Lamb

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

Charles Baudelaire

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Charlie Kaufman

Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Dennis Wharton

Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting.

Tommy Lapid

until the disengagement ends. It is about to end soon.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Michael Mussa

They don't need to do it tomorrow, but they can't wait until the end of the year,

Liz Shimek

It's not over until it's over. We're fighters.

National League

It's not over until it's over, until they put an 'X' by our name.

Charles Caleb Colton

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

David Hume

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

William Shakespeare

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

Larry King

Some day, you're going to be vice president.

Juvenal

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Diane Arbus

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

Abraham Lincoln

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

Alexander Pope

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Dean Martin

I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Rush Limbaugh

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.

Seth Rogen

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Jesse Jackson

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

Jeb Bush

Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.

Jeb Bush

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.