Famous Quotes & Sayings

Young Jeezy

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

Yolanda Adams

You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

Yanis Varoufakis

My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

Tina Turner

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

Thich Nhat Hanh

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Imelda May

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

Isabella Bird

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

Gin Wigmore

I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious.

Young Jeezy

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

Tony Fernandes

The pilots cannot get over the fact that I have a cup of coffee with the guys who carry the bags. My secretary will (even) go out and help clean the planes if we are running into a delay.

John Kyriakopoulos

The outlook for the Fed policy is clearly data dependent. I cannot see much downward correction to the U.S. dollar over the near term being driven by the data.

Beeban Kidron

Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.

David Hewson

The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.

Donald Norman

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Don Young

You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.

Alice Walker

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

Alice Walker

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Barack Obama

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Judy Hayles

I think she's got him hidden out someplace. She knows where he is, that you can rest assured. He left that place with no shoes, no jacket. He didn't even take his money with him. He told his roommate somebody was picking him up.

Judy Hayles

I think she's got him hidden out someplace.

Tom Shales

You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.

Steve Greene

We're not scary and we don't have a hidden agenda,

Rep. Gannon

For too long, it's been a hidden issue in Florida. It's a testament to our state that we're going to try to stop this.

Simonides Simonides

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Don Hewitt

He had a knack for getting things out of people that others never got out of them niches and hidden moments that they never shared with anyone. But they did with Mike.

Mo Ibrahim

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

Ralph W. Sockman

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Bernard Beckett

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Bertrand Russell

Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bertrand Russell

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Bertrand Russell

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.

Bertrand Russell

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Andrew Carnegie

the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.

David Turangal

We have the knowledge and want to help. As soon as you walk in the door, we'll get to know you.

Henry David Thoreau

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Ismail Kadare

It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors.

Vincent Bugliosi

No matter what I do, I'll be forever known as the Manson prosecutor.

Zubin Mehta

I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.

Nayvadius Cash

My day one fans - my fans from my mix tape days - know my life now. They know where I've been. You don't want to have a disconnection with those fans. You have to give them all of you because they feel like they've known you.

Cecelia Ahern

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

Roman Jakobson

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

Dorothy Day

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Juergen Trittin

We've long known the waste would have to be taken back.

Rodney Moore

We've known about this idea for some time, but it has yet to be developed.

Lisa Dey

When something like that happens, you've got to make the right moves and do the right things, and we did.

Phil Garner

We'll make the moves we always make. We'll pinch-hit, we'll double-switch, we'll defensively make moves.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Terry Greene

I think it just moves us up to the next level.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

Barry Alvarez

He can move. He's very athletic. I don't even know what he weighs. I don't care. ... If he moves well enough, he can weigh 400. He is a giant, though. He makes Kemp look like a little guy.

Mike Rudd

He has something we can't coach; he has size and he actually moves pretty well for his size.

Craig Patrick

He made some nice moves on that play. That was great.

Steve Evans

If this moves forward, you'll see a reigniting of the water wars like you wouldn't believe.

Bobby Lee

It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse.

Andrew Vachss

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

Ellen Davis

Small retailers don't have that kind of a luxury. That said, smaller retailers usually have a better pulse on their stores.

Dante Alighieri

For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

Igor Stravinsky

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

Paul Newman

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

Shawn Wayans

We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.

Marilyn Hacker

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.