Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanni

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

Tim Roth

There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

Isobelle Carmody

I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.

Gil Gerard

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

Zadie Smith

Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.

Will Shetterly

There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not a matter of chronological age. It's a matter of understanding that you can accept a future that has been defined by the previous generation, or you can reject it and make something new.

Billy Graham

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Ezra Taft Benson

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

Chen Shui-bian

The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.

Tony Fernandes

The pilots cannot get over the fact that I have a cup of coffee with the guys who carry the bags. My secretary will (even) go out and help clean the planes if we are running into a delay.

John Kyriakopoulos

The outlook for the Fed policy is clearly data dependent. I cannot see much downward correction to the U.S. dollar over the near term being driven by the data.

Beeban Kidron

Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.

David Hewson

The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.

Donald Norman

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Don Young

You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.

Alice Walker

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

Alice Walker

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Barack Obama

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Timothy Noah

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

Ice Cube

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

Zubin Mehta

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

Christo

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

Bill Cosby

Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes. Give me party stories and party language.'

Noah Feldman

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

Chris Nelson

The 1980s was the last decade of large suburban expansion. The '90s were a re-sorting era, with the central city gaining population after decades of decline. Now we're in a decade trending toward a fairly large-scale re-sorting of the housing market away from the far reaches of suburbia.

Stephanie Dietz

That was a good redemption game for us. The girls knew that they played poorly the night before and wanted to show Central what we are really made of.

Mark Shand

In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors.

Glen Hansard

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.

Cecelia Ahern

Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.

Carrie Chapman Catt

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

Carrie Underwood

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

Arnold Schoenberg

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Bill Vaughan

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

Charles R. Swindoll

Lead with action and let the feelings follow.

Sheryl Krmpotich

That was huge. At one point we were up by 20 (63-43 with 2:42 to play). You know, this team has done a lot of great things this year. We've had our ups and our downs, but it's just a great feeling to be number one.

Tim Berners-Lee

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

Webb Simpson

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

Valerie June

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

Chuck Palahniuk

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Constance Marie

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

Evangeline Lilly

It's so important for women to say to other women, 'I like myself how I am.' But it's hard because in your heart of hearts you are thinking, 'I don't really.' But you have to learn to say it. Imagine what a world it would be if people felt good about themselves the whole time.

Ellie Goulding

Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!

Edward Snowden

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Dave Jones

The points target at the start of the season was 52 points because that we felt was the safety mark.

Daniel Radcliffe

I was fortunate enough to meet Sophie Dahl. And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.

Reese Witherspoon

I think, like every working parent, I sometimes feel that there are not enough hours in the day. But overall, I'm very fortunate that my job has a lot of flexibility. I spend a lot of time with the kids, just around the house.

Dan Boyd

That was indicative of the trust he had in his principals. I was really fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with him.

Mike Rutter

That was a very physical game. Amarillo is a very good team, and we're fortunate to get way with a victory.

Skip Harlicka

That was a special time in our lives in a number of ways. I was very fortunate to be in that group and to have played for Frank McGuire.

Dave Bristow

That was a good bust. We were very fortunate that someone saw this.

Danielle Renfrew

We were so fortunate to shoot in Columbia. We were just overwhelmed by the support offered by the community.

George Crooks

We have a good group of hard-working kids. Hopefully when the time comes, their weight will be scattered out like it was this year. With only 17 kids, we were very fortunate to be able to spread them out to make a team.

David McGinnis

Usually this time of the year, the weather is real hit or miss. We've been real fortunate most of the time, getting all the games in, and it looks good this week.

Tony Blair

I think it is important we end the isolation of northern Cyprus,

Thomas Tsang

We have placed the three into an isolation ward as a precautionary measure.

Abdel Rahman

I think it's only a maneuver as a result of the Israeli isolation in the world arena,

Annie Lennox

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

Desmond Tutu

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

Carlos Fuentes

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

Glenn Gould

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

Toni Morrison

The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.

Toni Morrison

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

C. S. Lewis

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

Timothy Brown

We can't go without water. We have to be prepared for anything.

Pearl Cleage

When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer - to get to the truth.

Marc Shapiro

I wish I could tell you, ... We're cooperating with all investigations, and we're prepared to do that as long as it takes.

Billy Corgan

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

William Williams

Thus having prepared their budsagainst a sure winterthe wise treesstand sleeping in the cold.

Carlos Gonzalez

Only when the ETA killers served out their sentences will we be prepared to talk.

Fernando Gonzalez

I was prepared for a tough match. In the second set, he started to serve much better. He started to come on and he had me under pressure.

Juan Montoya

I feel well prepared for the long season ahead. But as always there is a lot of work still to be done.

Bill Bryson

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

Chris Corrigan

Well, Richard always is a colourful sort of sideshow, isn't he.

Mike Fratello

We don't have the rich tradition that some other teams have.

Craig Roberts

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

Elliott Sadler

I feel like going to Richmond there's only one thing we can do and that's go to try and win the race,

Josh Billings

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Robert Kiyosaki

Getting rich is about fun. It's a game, and you have to treat it that way.

David Brooks

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

Donald Trump

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

Robert Kiyosaki

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Mauricio Botelho

We have a long-term plan, and we won't let the strength of the real take us away from that.

Mike Phelan

Winchester is always strong at doubles. They don't really have any superstars, but they have strength up and down the lineup.

Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use

William Shakespeare

The king's name is a tower of strength.

Nelson Gonzalez

We know our strengths and know our weaknesses and one of our weaknesses has been supply chain.

William Shakespeare

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

Thomas Grandi

I would have to say a combination of the two. We've got strength and we've got stamina.

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Miriam Santiago

Times have changed. It has already worn out its value,

Julius Baer

(It is) an acquisition which we would value as 'not really expensive.

Ray Adams

I think it's a waste of more time.

Frank Hippel

If they get the high-level waste back, what do they gain?

Dexter Scott King

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

Chaim Potok

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

Betty White

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Barbara de Angelis

when your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn't date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?

Brad Lidge

It doesn't make a whole of sense to me to waste pitches.

Benjamin Franklin

The only time not wasted is wasted time.