Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy Pearce

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.

Frank Grillo

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

Garry Trudeau

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

Ehud Olmert

We're under pressure because we haven't reached the point where we can form a stable government yet.

James Thomson

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others

John Irving

I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.

Brian O'Driscoll

I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards.

Cornel West

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

We urge commuters to use other forms of transport.

Amy Bloom

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter.

Andrew Stanton

I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

Burt Lancaster

My former wife is a truly wonderful person.

Alberto Fujimori

We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists. While during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't.

David Gergen

This series is an opportunity to listen to stories and strategies of the global greats of social entrepreneurship -- a powerful new form of public leadership.

The play is called Silenced because too many young innocent voices have been silenced through some form of violence.

When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there.

When you look at Venus and the Earth, they formed at about the same place in the solar system. They're made of about the same materials; they're about the same size.

Noam Chomsky

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

There has been some dialogue. But nothing has been formal or in depth.

Robin Cook

We said last time we would not be giving formal warnings to Saddam Hussein, ... I'm not now going to give him any warning of what we might do.

We just have to stay with what we've been doing. We need to keep working hard. We've found the formula and we just want to stick with it.

Thomas Doll

We don't want to go overboard - we should give him enough time to find his form again.

When Peter and I formed CAUC, some people said we were too idealistic. Work within the system, they said. They wanted us to temper our drive, our passion for change.

We would go to the coffeehouse on campus, and there wasn't much of a tea selection. When we went to the tea houses, we found them to be mostly formal and food-focused.

To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.

Natsuki Takaya

Simply put, I'm glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding.

Shunryu Suzuki

You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.

Peter Kropotkin

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?

Repetition is a form of change