Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susanna Moore

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.

Strobe Talbott

Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority.A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- 'citizen of the world' -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st.All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

Susanne Bier

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

There is no artificial cutoff on signing long-term deals.

Joe Cocker

I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.

The consumer version will be the entire web. We have billions of documents in our index and all of the tools made available for news and business will be made available for Web search, enabling artificial intelligence in the search of the entire Internet.

The field turf product in the Dome is only a month old, and what makes it different is that it's the closest thing to natural grass that you can get in an artificial surface. And it's the preferred surface of the NFL.

Oscar Wilde

The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.

The growing complexity of our customers' environments has imposed an artificial ceiling on their growth potential,

You ... would be able to distinguish natural from artificial radiation.

The Earth has a very low tolerance for this greedy egotistical corporate robotic human behavior. The Earth senses its artificial ingredients and will use its immune system to combat it.

The course out there has artificial snow and is stiff, which may prove to be of my advantage.

Rachel Smith

I want to see the artificial intelligence lab, too, but just seeing anything of the things that have been invented there would be great.

It's not a big problem, but people do it. We've even seen artificial trees, like we wouldn't know the difference.

Chris Dodd

designed intentionally to erect artificial barriers to minorities, the elderly and poor, the disabled and language minorities.

Tristan Tzara

Dada covers things with an artificial tenderness. It is snowing butterflies that have escaped from a prophet's head.

They want to come to Brazil after tour agents. They were after material for production of matches, furniture, leather and plastic shoes, iron bars, machinery for the textile industry, electronic products, artificial sweetener, machinery for preparation and preservation of food for hotels and restaurants.

It looks like a shortbread, but it smells and tastes like artificial vanilla.

Robert Zubrin

It's an important science study that has not been done by a NASA center. Before we can send people on a mission with artificial gravity, it's important to find out the effects,

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

Sathya Baba

Service without ideal of self . . . trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography, and to realize that the human community is one and indivisible.

Shana Alexander

An artificial style of dance confected for 18th-century kings evolved into a popular American art form. an astonishing development for what until recently had been considered manna for aesthetes only, the quiche of the performing arts.

John Cornyn

an artificial landmark. Of course we grieve over each one of those losses, but it's an artificial number that some are using to try to undermine support for our effort there. These are people without any constructive alternative; is cutting and running what we're supposed to do?

Andy Dick

An artificial field would be a godsend to some schools.

As much as Wall Street and Madison Avenue and Capitol Hill try to pigeonhole women into categories, women are erasing those artificial boundaries.

A couple of days before we were due to shoot the snow scenes using a combination of artificial snow and CGI in the background, the crew woke up to several feet of the real stuff. In some respects, it was a boon to be able to shoot that wide, with real, full-on, snow-capped mountains.

This bill would create an unfair artificial market and a potential environmental problem.

They were gritty. They were chalky, artificial flavor, stale, low chocolate intensity.

John Cornwell

There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 document Humanae Vitae - which outlawed artificial birth control - as the word of God.

Armin Zoggeler

I took to the luge when I was very young, but I never imagined that it would become my passion. At 14, I was already competing on artificial tracks.

Tom Chatfield

Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.

Gunter Grass

A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.

Mark Skousen

Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.