Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wes Anderson

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different.

Virginia Postrel

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.

Colin Angle

In the smart home of the future, there should be a robot designed to talk to you. With enough display technology, connectivity, and voice recognition, this human-interface robot or head-of-household robot will serve as a portal to the digital domain. It becomes your interface to your robot-enabled home.

Eve Ensler

Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like other cells and the body invites it in.

Bob Verdi

When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.

Bel Powley

When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.

Brandi Carlile

When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump in my throat when I sing that song. And also 'Before It Breaks.' So I'm just a different songwriter now. And the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to deliver those songs casually.

Brad Goreski

With glitzy add-ons, the bright, girly dress you bought for daywear becomes fancy enough for evening.

David Ulevitch

With DNS, it's possible to control key components of Internet navigation. Google already controls search, they are quickly gaining market share to control the browser, and when you put in DNS, it becomes the trifecta of complete navigational control.

Bobby Rush

The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.

Randy Bly

We were somewhat taken aback. Normally, what we see after a very busy holiday travel season is demand dropping off. Unfortunately, this year, we're seeing just the opposite.

Harville Hendrix

We were so busy teaching and promoting Imago, that we didn't give ourselves enough time.

Debbie Martinez

Typically, the morning of Christmas Eve is busy and it will taper off by around three in the afternoon, that's with the exception of Santa who has long lines all day. By that time people are going home to finish last minute wrapping. The day after Christmas is very, very busy.

Paul Hill

Today was a busy day inside Discovery and the station. Everyone was involved in one form of transfer or another.

Debbie Carter

We have a group of women who volunteer who don't have to do this. They're all busy but they give their time and money to this. They have the same vision and same goals and want to make a difference in the community. It's a few people doing a lot of work.

Don Wylie

With the exchange rates the way they are, a lot of imports are coming over. It's a very busy, busy year. And everybody is nervous.

Pauline Frederick

Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night.

Jeff Lemire

I would love to learn archery. Unfortunately I'm too busy writing and drawing ten thousand comics a month. Maybe one day!

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Gabriel Mann

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

Zaha Hadid

Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.

Zach Braff

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Zubin Mehta

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

Alan Watts

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

Alan Watts

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

Chogyam Trungpa

You are actually doing something. You are getting into this process without making sure that what you're doing is okay. Things are actually taking place, almost of their own accord, very simply and directly. That is meditation.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

Chogyam Trungpa

That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.

William Shakespeare

In maiden meditation, fancy free.

Carol P. Christ

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Russell Smith

Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain.

Susan Rice

We have come a very long way in a very short period of time,

F. Stone

We need to play three periods tomorrow like we played the first one tonight.

John Clare

We're all in this together for some period of time,

Mahela Jayawardene

We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.

Jessica Brown Findlay

You don't automatically assume everyone will fall for a period drama.

Jessica Szohr

You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.

Holliday Grainger

When I was younger, I was always being told I had a period face, but 'Bel Ami' was my first shot at it.

Cecil Taylor

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

Carrie Fisher

As we all know, there is no underwear in space.

Carl Sagan

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

Bernard Berenson

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.

Antoni Tapies

A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.

Rusty Schweickart

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’re impinging on my private space,” I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn’t the SAT, Nora.

Barry McGuire

You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.

Kathy Campbell

We don't take a percentage. They get the space.

Richard Crashaw

Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.

David Hampton

He was walking with no problem. I was very surprised,

Charles Lamb

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

Brene Brown

You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.

Denise Levertov

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Craig David

I'm walking away from the Troubles in my Life...

Larry Starkey

We don't know why she was walking or where she was going.

Souza

We don't know who's walking around out there with Barrett's that we need to watch,

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.