Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fitzgerald

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Russell Banks

I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs.

John Sladek

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

Rudolf Hiferding

We thus see that the Marxist law of value is not canceled by the data of the third volume, but is merely modified in a definite way.

Rudolf Hiferding

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

Daniel Goleman

I think that it's an extraordinary opportunity for science for the first time to learn about the positive potential of these traditions.

James Patterson

Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.

Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Alison Bechdel

I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.

Jhonen Vasquez

I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life.

Jhonen Vasquez

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

Alison Bechdel

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

Matt Groening

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

Dan DeCarlo

Archie was in the fold of all the other publishers that I was working for, and I was probably averaging one story a week from them.

Alison Bechdel

And the idea that a story is true, that it actually happened, is endlessly compelling, I think, not just to me but to people in general.

Walt Disney

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Joseph Barbera

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

Troy Williamson

I wouldn't say frustrating. I would say more of a learning experience. I learned a lot of stuff.

Jody Conradt

Just when you think you've seen everything, you haven't. I've learned that during this season.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Malcolm Deans

I think the lessons we learned this weekend were great, even though we didn't win.

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Angela Ruggiero

Cammi is USA Hockey, really. Every single player on our roster has learned something from Cammi Granato and she'll leave that legacy whether she's here or not.

Glenn Tilton

If there's anything I learned in 32 years in the oil business, it's not to speculate on oil prices.

Anthony Warrens

It is only in recent years that many of the potential immunological problems, such as transplant rejection, have been solved, meaning the process of transplanting organs from one species into another could soon be a reality,

Devon Williams

The pageant has meaning in the community. I also get to showcase my talent, and spread the word on who I am and what I do.

Richard Jenkins

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

Richelle Mead

Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.

Umberto Eco

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Reza Aslan

The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.

William S. Burroughs

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

William Kristol

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

Woody Allen

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

Shayne Ward

I have been to see a specialist and they have told me that singers often suffer from this problem, but that it's nothing to worry about and that I need to rest my voice for a week or so.

Wasim Akram

First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.

Doctor Who

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Alain Vigneault

Rest is as important as anything else right now.

Dennis Erlich

I like those scores -- everything in the 30s. Those are the types of scores we're going to need the rest of the season.

Richard Sanchez

I just talked the whole time and didn't let them rest,

Charles Meyers

can't just sit back and rest on our laurels.

Cynthia Davis

I'm a restaurant person, so I want the variety (of bistro row).

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.

Trey Smith

Just the way they work together was really unique. A lot of other teams don't have that.

Dave Orlandini

He can penetrate. He can take it to the hole. Other teams have to worry about him.

James Spithill

Going to the gym on my own I struggle with, but when I'm in there with a teammate or a group of guys, it's the ultimate environment.

Alejandro Canizares

He's a valuable player. He's one of the top three on the team, so we had a much weaker team this week.

Sergei Samsonov

He's a terrific player. He's tricky. He makes a lot of plays. He makes that team a lot better. Him being out of their lineup works to our advantage.

Matt Wichorek

I was down on myself. Our team was all over the place.

Willie Williams

We just have to go there and finish. This is a different team from 1995 and, hopefully, we will have a different result.

Stephen Cervantez

We treat every team the same. We just try to play our game.

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.

David Williams

They are truly the ones that do all the real work.

Jillian Messenger

I truly have a lot of all-stars on this team, I really do.

Julie Foudy

It wasn't just that we were together; we were truly a family. There was always laughter.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Jaime Contreras

Some days, work is truly a four-letter word.

Shaukat Aziz

This truly encapsulates China's world view in this century,

Jonathan Todd

We think he will be a truly independent adviser.