Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sanjay Dutt

Journalists think twice before striking a conversation with me. I don't know why. I try to make people feel as comfortable as possible.

Howard Rubenstein

He can take you on an intellectual tour of virtually every nation of the world. I had lunch with him and Henry Kissinger last year, and the conversation was back and forth, country by country, taking in politics, government and economics. It was one of the most interesting and extraordinary lunches. If you didn't know his age, you wouldn't think he was 60.

Martin Wright

He just ran out in the middle of the conversation. I thought it was a fight,

Sam Hunt

I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

Teju Cole

We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.

Larry Page

We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

Mike Meyer

Had he not been out here playing, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation at all.

Plaxico Burress

He's been talking a little for the last couple of days. We've been laughing, having some fun. He even got on me the other day for having my stuff in front of his locker. But he's a quiet guy. He really doesn't say much. I pretty much had to initiate the conversation and then all a sudden the guy just starts blabbing. Hey, you'd never know that guy could talk so much.

Holly Johnson

I think it's been the topic of conversation for everyone.... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

Kelvin Sampson

Kevin's in all our drills, ... He's shooting, doing his hook shot, shooting free throws. He's doing everything except contact.

Darrel Hoffman

Katie had a good front nine with the exception of one little glitch.

Larry Kerr

John Hale is an exception to the rule because he's a true freshman who belies his experience. He picks things up well. He's smart, he's strong and physical.

Amy Fisher

I talked my friend into going with me. It was all adults except for us,

Carey Hazell

He didn't say specifically why he played so great, except he was playing well and putting well. That was a real plus, because we fell in some other places.

Jill Johnson

He didn't have anything to gain from that except doing the right thing.

Lee Brumbaugh

He is totally unknown at present, except by historians. He is possibly the greatest unknown photographer.

Tami Harrison

Her performance was nearly perfect except for the beam, but that was her last routine and she got a little conservative.

Gary Scelzi

He's a Jeff Gordon, a Tony Stewart, an exception to the rule, ... What he lacks in experience, he makes up for in focus. He's that one in a million. I hope he snaps out of it pretty soon.

Chris Matthews

Jacob just wasn't himself tonight. He's been sick and so we didn't start him, but I thought he could go in the second half.

John Demming

Jack himself has been working the phone lines and speaking with shareholders this morning. People's money is safe here, there's no question about that.

John Ridley

Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a URL, and he can't tweet, post or hyperlink enough personal information about himself to as many people as possible.

Jeff Holland

Joe has matured. He is playing for the team instead of himself and he has been terrific.

Carolyn Howard

He did everything he could to protect himself and come back safely - it just didn't work out that way.

Tony Benshoof

He did a video of himself wishing me luck. It was pretty cool.

Roger Williams

He can't survive day after day after day without some improvement occurring. He's keeping himself alive.

Terry Wilson

He just tried to wedge himself in where there wasn't room.

Dusty Baker

He knows himself and how much he needs.

Graham Hawkes

I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

Shakira

All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.

Matt Carter

He said it's longer than what they say it is.

Bryan Randall

He seems to be real comfortable with the system. He seems like he's been doing it longer than two years. He seems like he's made strides.

Andrew Kohut

His strong points are no longer his strong points.

Hank Fishkind

I think it's going to be longer than that. In Florida, we're going to see some slowing of population growth, so that will magnify the impact.

Steve Hansen

I think we're getting closer. It takes a little longer than all the parties expected. We're still looking at downtown. Penney's is our first priority.

Steve Hansen

I think we're getting closer, ... It takes a little longer than all the parties expected. We're still looking at downtown. Penney's is our first priority.

Peter Stoffer

I think what should happen, for example, is if for whatever reason I feel like I can no longer be a member of the NDP, then I should step down,

Will Grace

Jack-This makes me feel like a man. Will-Yeah. Jack- No, seriously, I'm going to need a man after we're done.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Kevin Lowe

I would stake my reputation on that man because I know him, and I know he hasn't done anything wrong.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

Mike Gruber

He was a callow young man, not physical. Kind of the opposite of what he is now.

Peter Hobson

He didn't whimper, he didn't cry, he didn't beg. He took it like a man.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Rick Berry

He is the president. We have to respect the office. But I don't respect the man.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Robert Duvall

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

Niall Horan

I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.

Billy Casper

As long as you're not shouting and hollering.

Emily Hughes

A little over a week ago, I wasn't even supposed to be here. I went out there for warm-ups and they were shouting my name. That's the first time that ever happened.

Clarice Lispector

For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting.

Richard Perle

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Rebecca West

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

William Jennings Bryan

The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future

Woodrow Wilson

The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

William James

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

William James

The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.

William Gilmore Simms

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

Robin Green

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robert Schumann

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Bruce Bochy

He wanted me to sign it, ... He took it over to me.

Peter Scobie

There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.

Keary McCarthy

I think it's a sign of desperation for them.

Penny Monahan

I think it's a very upbeat celebration, and it's also the sign of spring in town.

Frostee Rucker

When he stayed back this year it wasn't just to have fun. It was to put his signature on his work.

Rosette Lerias

There are no signs of life, no rooftops, no nothing.

Crystal Merillat

He had to go sign up. There was no stopping him then.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

Wendy Wasserstein

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

Kathy Deepe

There is a part for everyone. And if they don't want a speaking part, they can be on the set crew.

Sara Bareilles

You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm terrible at speaking when I cry. Thank you so much.

Emmeline Pankhurst

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

Moliere

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Sophocles

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Robbie Robertson

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

Michelle Obama

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

Dan Hawkins

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Christopher Gorham

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.

Jimmy Johnson

It didn't have anything to do with him being elected. It wasn't something that he was taught to do. It was something that he had in him.

Terry McBride

He was the one that taught me that women can fight.

Anthony Swofford

He taught me how to read as a writer,

Kobe Bryant

He taught me how to play the game. He's the coach, I'm the player, ... We don't think we're going to have any problems.

Satoru Iwata

The entire Nintendo group will carry on the spirit of Mr. Yamauchi by honoring, in our approach to entertainment, the sense of value he has taught us -- that there is merit in doing what is different -- and at the same time, by changing Nintendo in accordance with changing times

Wallace Stegner

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.