Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Alice Waters

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going to see the larger destabilization of the Middle East, the rise of extremism, and we're going to wonder... Why didn't we at least try to force a political solution - at an acceptable cost to us, because no one is saying we should send in ground troops - and if we did it would be worse than doing nothing... If we do not act, we are going to look back and wonder why we didn't.

Anne M. Mulcahy

One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.

E. M. Forster

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

Douglas Conant

If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.

Duke Ellington

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

Doris Day

Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.

Angelina Jolie

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers. I had the privilege recently to work with Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari and his wife on the film Difret. They are that unique balance of very thoughtful conscious filmmakers who are also brilliant, original artists.

Doris Lessing

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

Andreas Gursky

A word is worth a thousand images.

If thou canst not see the bottom, wade not

Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Edward Abbey

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Sufjan Stevens

So I'm a little worried about that though I know I don't have to worry about these things in the way, I don't know, that Cher has to worry about it.

William Shakespeare

She was a vixen when she went to school:And though she be but little, she is fierce.

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

Bob Ehrlich

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

David J. C. MacKay

We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Lord Byron

Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.

Tony Scott

We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.

Roz Chast

I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.

It's not as though we have something to announce, because we don't.

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.