Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meredith Monk

I think I still have some confusion about the critical mind. But it seems that there's a difference between the critical mind, which is a kind of judgment, and has a harshness built in, cutting off impulses before they can develop, and discriminating intelligence, which can differentiate between what is authentic or genuine and what is contrived or forced.

Todd McFarlane

I have to believe that a soldier doesn't do everything by the book when bullets are whizzing by their heads in battle, ... That's when survival and preservation instincts kick in and it's at that moment where you will find the best, authentic pose.

Craig Detweiler

The bigger-is-better form of evangelism may have past. The emerging generation has been so advertised, media-tised and oversold that the smaller, quieter and more authentic is the growing edge of their experience.

Tipu Sultan

Creating authentic recipes, served with traditional accompaniments and styles are the most important criterion in the presentation,

Reese Witherspoon

They had authentic country roots. But I think they believe they were put on this earth to be together.

Roger Sessions

The more one studies these scores, the more indisputable one finds their evidences of authentic genius, and the more captivated one remains.

Thomas Friedman

I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world.

Todd Duncan

Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness.

Tavis Smiley

He was an authentic American hero whose work will be respected and dissected for years to come. This media empire is still number one and still 100 percent black-owned.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Richard Byyny

Knowing these individuals as I do, I believe them,

Chad Vollmecke

Knoxville brought a tough team to town last night and we wrestled the best we could under the circumstances. There were some very high points for us and we made some big strides in a few weight classes. A few of our boys still need to learn better position and mat sense, but that comes with time. Time is running short for this year, but I believe we are seeing things at this stage of the season that were not here last year.

Robert Browning

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up ...

Mike Jarvis

Kids believe practice makes perfect. It doesn't. It makes permanent.

Tom Shaheen

I wouldn't say it's scientifically an absolute, but I believe it personally from my experience in the lottery.

Gisele Bundchen

I wouldn't say I'm going to quit modeling and become an actress, especially because I can't do that because I have contracts, but I definitely enjoyed it. I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity... I believe in taking chances and living your life.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Marshal Cohen

Kids are not interested in taking their summer vacation to start thinking about back-to-school wardrobes, supplies and book bags.

William Rehnquist

I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Lord Byron

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

Steve Malchow

I actually wrote it down when Jamie said that. I'm going to use it in my book someday ? if I ever write a book.

Bob Feller

He kept harping about 'What rules don't they know?' And I said, 'The entire rule book is something that they just don't know, that they should know.' He got a little testy about it and he said, 'If you don't like it, hang up' -- which I did.

Marcus Camby

I was able to spend like two hours at the hospital (with Hodge, who could be released from Swedish Medical Center as soon as today). I would never think that a guy that took as many bullets as he (did) would be in the (good) spirits he was. Hopefully, he'll make a fully recovery like they said he would.

Sarah MacLean

And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.

Veronica Roth

I don't have a bullet in my head, do I? So I'm fine.

Jason Woodman

It's very evident that he was intent on engaging these officers in gunfire, and that he was not concerned with the bullets that were going to be flying in his direction.

Dianne Wiest

When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.

Benjamin Harrison

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

Titus Welliver

As an actor, I can still play a cop, but the bullets are fake, I don't have to get injured, and I'm not faced with the day-in-day-out of what cops have to deal with, which is tragic and dangerous.

Matt Maldre

Dove chocolate Easter eggs make good bullets for my chocolate cannon.

Tony Roberts

Another door opened, I did the Washington Bullets and the U.S. Naval Academy. I've been very fortunate in my career.

Paul Franklin

Keep your heads up, boys. This is your job. Don't let these (suicide bombers) intimidate you. We're here for the right reasons.

Charles Stross

I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.

Rashad Mitchell

It helped a ton. We never put our heads down and thought because we were down that we were going to lose. We just kept pushing and pushing.

Michael Lehmann

I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.

Jamie Ullman

They kept their heads about them and that's the important. It was pretty much everything I expected. (I thought) it was going to come down to the last possession or the last minute and sure enough, it did.

Steven Rogers

It may have been a rough road, but by and large the system works. As long as we keep our heads level about us, we can see progress.

Jim Crace

Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.

Joey Harrington

A lot of people wanted to make it out as a butting heads of a battle, and it's been nothing of the sort. He's been incredible and more helpful than I would have thought. I feel terrible for him.

Joe Nelson

They get the idea in their heads that there are other kinds of art.

Chris Samuels

It has to be instincts because he's been around a long time.

Courteney Cox

In this movie, I feel like I didn't notice Monica in it at all, ... Your instincts would probably be to think about Monica, but I have to make sure you don't.

Robert Stallard

We think a down-cycle is likely to kick in at some point toward the end of the decade.

Bill Belichick

He's played safety. He's played in (the Dolphins') sub defense. He's played down in a linebacker type of role. He has some flexibility and has played in the kicking game.

Kevin Connolly

I live in L.A. and love L.A., and you couldn't drag me out of there kicking and screaming.

Mike Holmgren

I'm kicking it to our medical staff. If they say, 'No, he can't be there,' he's not there.

Ryan Dunn

I'm Ryan Dunn, and I'm about to get the sh*t kicked out of me by a girl.

Gavin Henson

I knew I was going to kick it - I've been kicking them all week

Elaine Youngs

I kicked myself about that afterward. I just eased up and didn't go for it like I usually do.

Roger Clemens

I'm going to kick back and watch some baseball. I'm not ready to commit.

Jason Giambi

I'm getting my pitches and I'm not missing them. This was a big win for us. We had to kick and scratch for everything.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Robert M. Pirsig

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

Yuri Milner

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

Rick Warren

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

Sam Altman

So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.

Ella Wilcox

If you work with zeal and ardor till the night,You can only make the wasted moments right.

Dee Brown

I just threw it up and prayed for it to go in. It was just big momentum for us before halftime.

Craig Kelly

I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son, ... All I want is to be reunited with my son.

Kim Clijsters

If you don't do that, if you don't go for your shots, they're just too good. You have to try from the moment you get a second serve or a weaker first serve, just go for it.

Oliver Cromwell

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

Mark Kimmitt

That soldier said: 'There are some things going on here that I can't live with'.

Tammara Rosenleaf

It will not be whether it's wrong or right to be there. There's no politicking at this table. If our soldiers are over there in harm's way, they should have the very best.

Ozzy Osbourne

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

Murray Rothbard

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

Mark Twain

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Pablo Picasso

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

Richard Dawkins

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Salman Rushdie

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Vinton Cerf

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

Yvon Chouinard

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

Martin Filler

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

Leonardo DiCaprio

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

Bear Grylls

I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.

Catherine Fisher

Freedom is a small price to pay for survival.

Neil Abercrombie

We are talking about the survival of this country.