Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

Mr. Pompey may have told (another inmate) some of the same things he told me, to collaborate with some of the things I have already conveyed to you,

Tracy Letts

The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.

Carmine Giovinazzo

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

John Dahl

Matt and I talked about that when we first started. He said, 'How do we convey the emotion in this story if i've got to be poker-faced?' I think really, if you think about being poker-faced, it's being a good actor.

We were lucky to get Terry to help us with this project. He is not just an expert angler but also a gifted teacher. Terry puts on dozens of fishing seminars throughout the year, so he knows how to convey his knowledge to anglers in an understandable and entertaining way.

Dominic Purcell

There are a lot of people on death row, and I'm trying to convey that sense of a man knowing his due date,

The administration relies on Senate to convey the students' wishes.

It's important we can convey our message through the media and to the fans. I think for a long time, the fans and the media perhaps felt that hasn't always been the case.

Neill Blomkamp

I'm not particularly interested in working with movie stars. It depends on where you come from, I suppose. Why are you making films? The reason I want make films is because they convey ideas. I think some directors make films because they want to hang out with movie stars and be part of Hollywood. They want to be a star themselves.

They will convey more or less the same message -- that the economy is looking better, but nothing that would convey the notion that they're going to be moving rates any time soon.

The play is about taking those pieces and putting them back together, ... The actors don't have much opportunity to convey that to the audience. I'm trying to get the secondary plot in line with the events that Macbeth instigates.

Colin Powell

There are a number of individuals in countries around the world who have been conveying the message to the Iraqi regime that it is now inevitable that there will be a change,

Gia Coppola

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.

We will convey Pakistan's wish to become a full member of the SCO to every member country.

We will convey at IDF that we're on track to ship Dempsey in the first quarter of 2006, and Woodcrest is on track for the second half of 2006.

I wanted to develop a way that they could visualize and see how a message could be conveyed using four different colors.

Sometimes less is more - less information, but highlighting it in a better way, sometimes better conveys important risk information.

Lisa Randall

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.

The Secretary-General conveys his deepest sympathy to the families of the victims.

This is a ruse to convey to the public that they somehow are doing something.

Dennis Ross

This is a process that has been going on for a long time. The ideas were originally conveyed in the middle of January. At some point it has to come to a conclusion.

Conveying land in and out of federal ownership is not a new thing. Land sales are a sensitive proposition and they have to be done carefully.

As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.

Even standing still, Fusion conveys a strong sense of direction.

Kenneth Cole

Every season I take the opportunity to convey a much larger message than just hemlines and trends,

Maajid Nawaz

To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.

Jessye Norman

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.

Dan Millman

There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

Michael Jones

We convey to them the dangers by being very frank about the job of being a lieutenant, probably being in harm's way with what's going on in the world.

Richard Greenberg

I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us.

It's hard to describe or convey what you find down there. The vastness of the devastation and the work that still needs to be done, not just the clean-up, but all of the rebuilding left to do.