Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adrienne Rich

In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

Adrienne Clarkson

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

Adriana Trigiani

Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don't feed the source, it dissipates entirely.Same is true of liking a boy. If you cut off the thoughts, if you stop pinning, you're free to find a boy who is attainable.

Adam Shankman

There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth. I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.

Adam Rapp

I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.

Abraham Cowley

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

Abraham Lincoln

If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.

Jim Thompson

We are cutting back on gas consumption and mileage, ... We are anticipating it will get worse and we may have to cut back even more.

David Dreier

We are not cutting Medicaid for those truly in need.

Triggers vary from person to person, so there is really no point in cutting out a food unless you know it is a problem for you personally.

While we're cutting funding for the positions, we're not actually cutting people.

Howard Carter

As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock.

Mats Sundin

I think they're on top of the game, they're on the cutting edge of technology in terms of our fitness.

Tony Lewis

I saw him cutting on the field, in the weight room doing squats. There was no question in my mind he was going to be able to come back and do what he did this year.

I thought we played hard, but I thought we had too many mental breakdowns. We weren't making very many reads, we weren't cutting hard to the ball.

I thought Ryan and Lewis (Jackson) played hard. (Friday) we were diving on the floor, going after every loose ball, cutting off passes. Tonight we didn't do any of that. I don't know why. It's stunning.

Kenny Perry

I watch in the locker room, ... they're great. They're cutting up with each other. I don't see any problem between those two. Maybe there is, but I can't read 'em by just watching what they're doing. Maybe they're hiding something.

Paul Amos died years ago, but he took a liking to me back then and started cutting molds for me until we got one we liked.

Richard Williams

IBM still has to grow the top line. They have been cutting costs, but they have to do something more.

John Deane

CCTV will make a real difference, but the human touch remains essential in cutting crime.

This was on par with a space launch today. This was on par with someone going to the moon. It was the cutting edge of technology. The fact that it was done here, in the backwaters of (what was then) Virginia, is really interesting.

Alice Hoffman

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

Alice Englert

I'm a big fan of being able to hold those long shots and use space. I don't know, I think everything's so quick cut these days, as if films are too afraid that the audience is going to get bored instead of relaxing and trusting their work.

Alice Cooper

I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice, I wanna be elected.

Alice Cooper

I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.

Anne M. Mulcahy

There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

Albert Bandura

People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts

Albert Brooks

Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.

Albert Camus

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Albert Camus

how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

Albert Camus

Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!

Amelia Earhart

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.