Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Harvey

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

William Manchester

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

Yehuda Berg

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Ellen G. White

Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.

Ellen Key

It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

Doc Hastings

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

Bella Abzug

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

Mark Cuban

The policies and actions of Senator Hatch are very concerning to me from what I read and from my personal interactions with him,

Timothy Noah

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.

Imelda May

I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

Ian Mckellen

Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

Igor Ivanov

Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security.

Zac Goldsmith

Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.

Wentworth Miller

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.

William Kirby

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

Wendy Kopp

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

Vivek Wadhwa

If anyone tells you that you're too old to be an entrepreneur or that you have the wrong background, don't listen to them. Go with your gut instincts and pursue your passions.

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Giles Foden

In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.

Mark Wagner

The outrage here is over defaming the Prophet which is a specific crime in Islamic law.

Luo Gan

We need to launch a crackdown on organized crimes and evil forces, and enhance anti-corruption measures to prevent them from undermining China's stability.

Jason Fleming

We have the third highest youth crime rate in the state of Kentucky. We're trying to find ways to give them alternatives to better themselves and the community.

Steve Tullis

We're working on some leads right now. I can't say the leads at this time, but we have spoken to several witnesses in the area. The crime did happen.

William Shakespeare

As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

Chris Henderson

White-collar crime isn't something that just takes place in Erie County. There shouldn't be any restrictions when it comes to solving white-collar crimes. The criminals are organized. I think the investigators should be just as organized.

Arlen Specter

White-collar crime convictions are deterrents, I've seen a lot of that. Imprisoning heads of state is a deterrent, too. It doesn't happen very often.

Paul Patton

I think it will definitely make it safer. It's a crime waiting to happen when you don't have this type of security.

Vikas Swarup

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

David Walton

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.

Carl Rogers

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

Ken Conway

We have always raised our levels of preparedness when hosting teams with elements of disappointing spectators, but in the Bulldogs case, history proves the problems are Sydney based.

Bill Porter

Usually the soft elements rank higher than the cost. They may not pick the cheapest. We've seen this in many cases.

Brian Cook

It is close, there are only one or two elements we need to iron out.

Bob Elsner

I'm here to help the organization get some of these elements done that have long tails.

Chancellor Schüssel

We are not threatening, but we want to get more positive elements in the framework.

Marie Osmond

Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that.

Irving Ravetch

You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

Imani Hakim

I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

Zayn Malik

It's nice to look out and see your family supporting you.

Walter Brennan

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

Wendy Cope

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

Billy Graham

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

Zubin Mehta

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

Gerry Beckley

When people say, 'Your music was the music of the Seventies,' I say, 'So was discoteque.' The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

William Fichtner

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

Paul Park

Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing.

Peter Jackson

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

Oscar Isaac

'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.

Mark Waters

My brother is a screenwriter. He likes to say, 'I like to take on a genre when it's dying, because then people are ready for you to shake it up a little bit.'

Satya Bhabha

'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who popularised it. 'Midnight's Children' was incredibly important in this canon.

George Romero

I think people that love the genre giggle at it. I don't get grossed out, I giggle.

Meghan Trainor

My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.

Rosemary Mahoney

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

Danial Shapiro

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

Stephen Malkmus

I like visual imagery in my head.

Steven Bochco

Imagery is like music.

Dave Ramsey

I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.

Ashok Kumar

The picture doesn't look pretty. It looks like all the territories disappointed.

Dan Veru

The outlook looks better as the market looks to the next six, nine months.

Carl Safina

If you look right, you can see the whole world from wherever you happen to be.

Carl Sagan

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

Bill Bryson

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

Ashley Tisdale

Hey, it isn't bad that I look young.

Ashley Tisdale

My look is a very individual look. I love Pink, but I don't really dress like Pink.

Ashton Kutcher

Looks fade, don't get too attached.

Gad Elmaleh

I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.

Zoe Kravitz

One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Bugsy Malone.'

Vanessa Hudgens

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

Emma Roberts

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

Edward Norton

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

David Beckham

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can't lie.

David Chase

I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.

Rebel Wilson

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

David Shields

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

David Shields

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

David Shields

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Alan Moore

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

Carter Burwell

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Ajay Naidu

I hear music as narrative.

Bruce Springsteen

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

A. S. Byatt

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

Gene Ween

You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.

Roy Moore

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

Hugh Johnson

Merck reminds us that this is about earnings.

Jennifer Morrison

For us it's a visible reminder of the season.

Anthony Biondo

For three state titles. It was kind of a reminder for me.

Larry Brown

He reminds me so much of Isiah (Thomas).

Bobby Locke

He reminds me of Tracy McGrady without the flash.

Funkmaster Flex

He reminds me a lot of myself when I was young,

Mark Lawrenson

Cucumber reminds me of my mother making me eat sprouts.

Brandon Flowers

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

David Hewson

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

Chris Crutcher

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

John Torchetti

That was a team win, if I have ever seen one. Everyone from the goalie out tonight just competed. That was the word for tonight, compete.

Paul Thompson

That was ridiculous. In 16 years of coaching, I've never seen anything like that.

Piero Fassino

We have already seen after two days, that this is how it will finish.

Luis Rodriguez

We can't have standardized testing because there is no such thing as standardized child. I have never seen a standardized kid. Have you?

Bob Thompson

We'll probably find more deaths. I don't think we've seen the end of it.

John Scott

We have been travelling to the old battlefields for years and never seen anything like it before.

C. S. Lewis

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

Cecelia Ahern

What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.

Cecelia Ahern

Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.

Carrie Mae Weems

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

Carl Perkins

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

Carl Sagan

There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.

Bernard Beckett

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

Benjamin Rush

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

Benoit Mandelbrot

It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.

Barry O'Farrell

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Pontius Pilate

Whether will the twain will ye that I release unto you?

Dick Hill

You can always find Curtis, whether it's the Jeep or the Big Bird.

Kevin Lowe

Whether I can get it done is another question.

Bill Smith

Whether he didn't see him or doesn't want to say, I don't know.

Martha Stewart

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

Cary Finberg

Whether you win by one-point or 20, it doesn't matter. You still get the title.

Jim Lehrer

Whether you're 9 or 90, you can play this game.

Hugh Shelton

I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.