Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madame de Stael

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Haruki Murakami

Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.

Karl Lagerfeld

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

Yael Naim

In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

Wole Soyinka

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Yukio Mishima

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

Samuel Johnson

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

Vinessa Shaw

I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.

Willa Cather

The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

Warren Buffett

Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

Vivienne Westwood

Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.

Wayne Dyer

When we really want to master anything, we must enter into the spirit of it. And when we enter into the spirit of something, what we're really doing is reproducing in ourselves the same qualities that whoever created it had.

Virginia Woolf

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

Werner Erhard

At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.

William Glasser

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

William Matthews

It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.

William McDonough

We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.

Woody Allen

The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films.... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes.

William Shatner

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

William James

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

Sarah Silverman

We deserve quality lives with equality.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

Wesley Snipes

There's a lot of great stuff on television and that's very appealing to actors who want to work, who do good quality and high quality work. But you're always concerned that the time demands on television will interrupt or interfere with your film work.

Wayne Dyer

If you enter into the spirit of Life, you are really reproducing in yourself the qualities of the Creator of that which allows something to be manifested and created in the first place.

Wayne Dyer

If you Don't have Love, Harmony & Peace within you, then you Can't Contribute these Qualities

Walt Whitman

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

Roger Bannister

I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.

Roger Ebert

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

Rod Serling

An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.

Robert Wyatt

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

Satoru Iwata

Consumers will purchase high quality products even if they are expensive, or in other words, even if there are slightly reasonable discount offers, consumers will not purchase products unless they truly understand and are satisfied with the quality. Also, product appeal must be properly communicated to consumers, but advertisements that are pushed on consumers are gradually losing their effect, and we have to take the approach that encourages consumers to retrieve information at their own will.

William Hazlitt

We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

William Dean Howells

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.