Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Rachel Cusk

There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

Michael Eisner

We have a great new CEO. I've known him a decade and he understands broadcasting. He understands the creation of product.

Michael Eisner

We have a great new CEO, ... I've known him a decade and he understands broadcasting. He understands the creation of product.

Robert Winston

We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using the tools of creation to try and improve human life, human existence. I don't think that that's a huge problem.

Rig Veda

Who knows truly? Who here will declare whence it arose, whence this creation? The gods are subsequent to the creation of this. Who, then, knows whence it has come into being?

Sorin Cerin

Who knows how many tears have flown in the Word of God from the creation of the world?

Greg Graffin

I was never raised with the traditional story of creation in religion, and because of that I think I had a lot of questions. And evolution, the evolutionary narrative, helped provide some of that for me.

Claire Buchan

The president always indicates he's still not satisfied, that job creation is not yet where it needs to be.

Farrell Quinlan

We know it will be an uphill battle. Establishing a state minimum wage higher than the federal wage will actually hurt job creation and the very people it's supposed to help, the entry-level workers.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Richard Daley

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

F. Sionil Jose

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

Joe Hogan

We can see what's going on with greater specificity. The need for biopsies will be reduced.

Marlon Wayans

People don't understand how much time and work it takes to make somebody laugh, and how hard it is to write a script, to put together the story, the characters. When everyone laughs simultaneously, there's no greater feeling.

Terry Kerr

We've done a number of other searches, not specifically related to this, but because of a greater student awareness.

Ken Kendrick

Just because Randy wants something doesn't mean it's going to happen. We want to respect his interests, but our greater responsibility is not to him but to our team.

Hermann Oberth

I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.

Yochai Benkler

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

Will Chase

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Donald Johanson

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Ricky Martin

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Nina Easton

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Bat for Lashes

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Raymond Kelly

You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.

William Shakespeare

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Nolberto Solano

We have to play with intelligence and try to stop them getting the ball,

Brad Smith

We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table.

Richard Durbin

For the president to suggest he had the same intelligence we had is just plain wrong,

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

James Woolsey

had to do with coordination of intelligence in the United States.

Charles Simmons

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

Rick Smolan

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

Mark McKinnon

Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Najib Razak

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

Evan Spiegel

What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they're largely ephemeral. We may try to write down and save the really special moments, but by and large, we just try to let everything go. We remember it, but we don't try to save it.

Michael Griffin

We are largely deferring utilization (of the station) and we are paring logistics (flights) to the bone.

Bruce Schneier

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.

Myles Munroe

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Samuel P. Huntington

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Carlton Reed

That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning.

Nick Umholtz

That was sweet. I've never been in a playoff before. Now I'm going to have to back it up for next year.

Jon Copper

That we have a teammate who may not be with us next year. I'm still not sure what's going on or how it's going to end up.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. There is no next year.

Rob Morosi

We have work going on practically everywhere. It is a worry. It?s a worry for the motorists. It?s a worry for the workers. It?s a worry for their families. Every day they step out the door, and you just don?t know what going to occur out here.

Sabas Pretelt

We can't wait until it occurs before taking action,

Henry Bonilla

It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.

Michelle Paver

I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had.

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Lina Wertmuller

When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to get married and have babies.

James E. Faust

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

Mike Meador

Thirty years is a long time to do anything.

Theophilus London

Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.

Marcia Angell

A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.

Stephen Colbert

Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.

Ridley Scott

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.