Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Greenblatt

I think it would be the equivalent of an X rating. And rather than try to figure out how to cut it and make it work for us, we decided it's probably better not to butcher Takashi's vision.

Garrett VeneKlasen

He is very reverent of the property and wants to make sure that whoever gets it will take care of it and not butcher it. He is very conscientious about stewardship of the property, and I respect that.

Leigh Steinberg

Ultimately, it will get done. If you peer into the apocalypse, there?s too much pain and chaos and consternation not to do a new (agreement). This sport is about to move into the greatest era of peace and prosperity of any entertainment form in America. Who wants to be the butcher that kills this?

Brendan Coyle

My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.

Waris Ahluwalia

I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.

Tony Fasulo

Morton's has been dealing with the same butchers for 25 years. All of the steaks are hand-cut so we can offer a consistent quality product. If you go somewhere else, you can look at six filets and they are different shapes and sizes. Not ours. Our filets and New York Strip are only center cut so you won't get a tail end. And they are the highest grade of prime. Morton's has never compromised quality.

Leigh Steinberg

No one wants to be the butcher that kills the golden goose; it's simply too irrational not to solve this.

Cyril Connolly

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers

Robert Bruno

The neighborhood butcher wouldn't have sold meat to you. You would be shunned at church.

Wole Soyinka

In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.

Walter Cronkite

It is difficult to think of our craft without him.

Sara Zarr

I'm so focused on trying to craft the story that I'm in my own little world with it and that process. The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

Mariska Hargitay

Meisner technique was different than anything I'd ever experienced. It's a really great way to be accountable to your craft and to yourself, but also it takes that kind of focus and dedication to learn anything.

Damon Coupe

We know San Jose State is going to come out and play hard. They have some talented players that are crafty and tough to play. For us, we are taking each match with our full focus looking to get back on the winning track. It's always nice to get a win for the Rivalry Series. This year, we are not thinking as much about that as just playing hard and smart to get the victory.

Ryan Reynolds

I worked as a busboy in real life. I have some calluses that are not just from snacking at the actors' craft service table,

E. O. Wilson

When it is done, it looks the most professional of any craft I'd ever done.

Sanath Karunaratne

One of the damaged craft had to be towed to port. Seven sailors were wounded.

Elizabeth Warren

Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent.

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

Charles Gargano

That was why we privatized the World Trade Center, by means of a 99-year net lease.

Marcus Samuelsson

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Esther Rolle

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.

Karla Comfort

That was the only reason. You wake up every day and find a reason to go on. My reason is I have kids.

Paul DePodesta

We just couldn't get on the same page. That's really the only reason why.

Frank Floyd

I think it will work out. If for some reason it doesn't, we'll have to go back in and re-evaluate it. But it's better than what we have right now.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Jon Jovi

We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be.

Todd Clark

The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.

Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

Peter Brimelow

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

Isak Dinesen

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

Jay Baruchel

I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

John Ford

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

William Banting

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

Waris Ahluwalia

I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.