Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.

Foster is wrong. There's nothing morally complex about what Riefenstahl did as Hitler's favorite filmmaker. The only thing complex is Foster's confusion on this issue.

Saxby Chambliss

We started this for the right reasons, ... We're on the right track. It is a very, very difficult and complex track. But in order to get there, it is going to require the presence of Americans for probably a long time to come. You'll see us downsize, I hope, immediately. But it is still going require us to be there for a while to come.

Clearly-drawn front lines have become a thing of the past due to complex locations with ubiquitous enemy threats.

When you take those three complexes alone, you're talking about hundreds of units.

Guy Gavriel Kay

It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on a life. Life as it's lived has a far more complex shape.

Daniel Pauly

There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.

Amado Guevara

Whether they had the new players or not, they're still a team we're not familiar with. They're a complex team and even though they haven't won many games this year they still have some good qualities, especially with the new players they've added.

What this document gives us is rare insight into the imponderable process of decision-making by which this most complex of quartet movements is made over into a work for piano four-hands.

Bill Gates

Don't let complexity stop you.

What's really complex about it is you're going to have to do allocations you've never had to do before.

Working with celebrities has become, over the last decade, a lot more complex with so many more nonprofits engaging with celebrities.

Jason Silva

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

Elliott Abrams

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

Jim Yong Kim

Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.

Laura Wasser

I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.

We did most things in one take. We never play a song the same way. We're trying to take our music in a more complex direction without taking ourselves too seriously and not having fun.

This product is very complex and very sophisticated. It takes a lot of training.

Craig Smith

There are very deep concerns in the oil complex that the terrorists will now reset their targets on the oil complex, thus disrupting the flow of oil to the free world. That has probably cost oil a $15 premium right there.

Jim Haslett

We've been in four complexes in four weeks, I've been in three hotels, now an apartment. But that (performance) had nothing to do with where we live or what we do. We sucked on that field today.

Tony Tan

How could I remain a spectator while Singapore faces such complex challenges? How could I not step forward when I know I have more to contribute to the country we all worked to build?

Barbara Kingsolver

Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.

Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet.

Andrei Codrescu

Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.

Arlen Specter

was the complexity of a Supreme Court nomination hearing because of there are a lot of complicated issues.

We recognize this is a complex negotiation, and we are still optimistic. We're still very supportive of the compromise package, and we'll continue to work with individual Senate and House members as well as their leadership team.

We're doing less teaching and more complex stuff this year.

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

Greg Boyle

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.

Tom Wolfe

Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face.

Walter Kirn

On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.

Ben Carson

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.