Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Kasparov

Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.

Gabrielle Reece

To truly be feminine means being soft, receptive, and - look out, here it comes - submissive,

Frankie Avalon

I think todays music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

Frank Gaffney

Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack.

Frank B. Kellogg

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

Frank Capra

Automatic simply means that you can?t repair it yourself.

Frank Chodorov

[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

George Combe

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.

George Duke

I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.

George Cukor

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

George Clooney

I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.

George Clooney

I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.

George Clooney

I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being unemployed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.

George Clooney

I've been in relationships where I've felt terribly alone. Just because you're with someone, it doesn't mean you're happy.

Gayle King

I know that Oprah and I mean a lot to each other... I know at all times I have somebody that I can count on always.

Geena Davis

I'm not somebody who takes stuff home with them, that if I shoot a scene and I'm personally impacted for days or something. I mean it certainly is affecting and everything, but it doesn't penetrate to some deeper layer. I'm in it when I'm in it.

Geena Davis

~There are moments when I feel like I have a looong road ahead of me, with college and dating and driving and all of that. But then I realize it just means that I have so much time left to enjoy my kids. And it really does go by so quickly.~

Gayle Forman

Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

Lord Acton

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

Lord Acton

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition...The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Malcolm Gladwell

Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.

Malcolm D. Lee

Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.

Gaby Hoffmann

I come from a very naked family, so that's just something that's not a big deal for me. I don't think it means anything other than that.

Haruki Murakami

Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.

Joe Manganiello

I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.

Jimmy Carter

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

James Patterson

Love means never having to be apart

Emeril Lagasse

I mean, if you love what you do-whether you're an auto mechanic or you sew clothes or you cook-it's all about personal passion and love that really makes the thrust to the level that you want to get it to.

A minute or two doesn't mean much in the scheme of things unless it's your minute or two.

Eckhart Tolle

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.