Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Nye

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.

We are looking at a variety of forms in which investment could take place. There are no specific items that I'm in a position to discuss.

Gloria Steinem

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.

Andy Serkis

I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.

George Gaylord Simpson

He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

Tom Brokaw

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

Walter Kirn

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Werner Arber

In the 1950s, the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva was lucky enough to receive each summer for several months the visit of Jean Weigle. He was the former professor of experimental physics at the University of Geneva.

Alexandra Stoddard

Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

I did not like formal meetings, because they took away my freedom. I just liked to spend time with my friends, where I could be myself and did not need to don a mask.

Tobias Wolff

Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.

Rob Reiner

We are more than willing to get involved in forming a new system.

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

There are a variety of ways of assessing kids' skills that aren't necessarily a formal assessment.

Upon receipt of the formal filing, CFIUS will move promptly to initiate the review process and fulfill D.P. World's request for a 45-day investigation.

Kailash Kher

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

Trent Reznor

When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and 'human.'

CeeLo Green

Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?

Kevin Spacey

Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it. Well, some will still steal it, but I think we can take a bite out of piracy.

This would be another step for Boone in biotech and value-added agriculture to push that marketing niche we're forming in our community.

This would be a nice form of entertaining at home.

John Ortberg

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

David Carradine

I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything.

Valerie Simpson

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

Ira Glass

I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

Terry Wogan

I have great fun with the Togs - Terry's Old Geezers and Gals. They're a group that formed around me over the years of my radio shows. They are loyal to me and I'm loyal to them, so I've been to their conventions - Leicester University gives us their campus.

Steve Nash

I've always loved kids, but to have your own little munchkins is unlike anything else. It's the greatest form of love; it's challenging and scary, but so rewarding and exciting.

Lisa Unger

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

Richard Thomas

I think that that is a wonderful format - you know, having individual stories over a period of weeks that are thematically connected in terms of genre - there's not enough of that out there.

A. N. Wilson

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.