Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Theroux

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

Ernest Hemingway

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?

David Bowie

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

David Bowie

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

Charles Spurgeon

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

Lois Capps

With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

There are millions of pieces here that we cannot name because we don't have the research anymore. But that's the sad tale of Hollywood. You cannot name a major studio that did not at some time send things to the landfill.

Vicente Fox

There are some things that cannot be tolerated,

There are some sentences you cannot see yourself ever writing. 'I heartily endorse the Conservative Party' would be one. 'I look forward to Justin Bieber's new record' would be another.

Catherine Hardwicke

There are some moments where you're so depressed, you cannot see the way, and you're like, 'Whatever. Bite me.' I think all directors feel that way sometimes.

John Ridley

There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and that's what makes them in some ways good fans.

There are some homes that cannot be repaired, no one disputes that, but those folks still have the right to go to their homes and to remove anything they would like to keep.

The only way to protect children is with education. You cannot depend on filtering. You can't depend on creating a .xxx. That's not going to work. You have to make sure that parents and their children really understand the Internet.

Albert Schweitzer

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and its evolution. What matters in a world-view is to grasp the meaning and purpose of everything, and that we cannot do.

The only predictable thing is that you cannot predict what they will government will do next.

Golshifteh Farahani

Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.

Gerald Edelman

Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.

After he danced his way through TV channels on Saturday dressed up as a woman and gave interviews in which he addressed himself in feminine gender, we cannot ignore the issue any longer.

A culture that pushes God out of its world cannot expect to feel secure as if God were in it.

Strength of character . . . I cannot stress how important it is. She has all the chances. She's a world-class gymnast.

Something this large cannot be handled by one organization,

Some people would say that youngsters with disabilities cannot perform, ... They can.

Speed is something that you cannot coach. They all just work well together.

Speaking at a very loud volume has an impact on those who cannot speak so loudly.

William Butler Yeats

One had a lovely face, and two or three had charm, but charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass cannot keep the form where the mountain hare has lain.

Steve Bruce

We have done everything we can to support him. But we cannot live his life for him.

One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.

David Rudisha

When I am training, I don't want any disturbances. I have to be focused, not losing sight of my targets. I cannot evade the fact that I am now well known and I have made already some money, but you can learn how to deal with it.

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

Ben Lovett

We're incredibly excited to be launching Communion in America, where not only are there literally thousands of excellent musicians that we want to promote, but it's also a country full of passionate music fans that we want to feel part of the Communion experience. It's a massive deal for us to expand, and we cannot wait to get cracking.

We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster.

We do not pretend to know the whole nature and properties of God, but still we can form some clear ideas of him, and can reason from these ideas as justly as from any other. The truth is, that we cannot be said to comprehend any being whatever, not the simplest plant or animal. All have hidden properties. Our knowledge of all is limited.