Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lydia Lunch

To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first.

John Eldredge

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

Leonardo DiCaprio

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

Andrew Bernstein

To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.

Andre Maurois

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Jesse Eisenberg

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

Nolan Bushnell

Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.

Wendell Phillips

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Marshall McLuhan

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

Oleg Cassini

Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.

James P. Hoffa

Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Leo Ornstein

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.

Darell Hammond

Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.

Johannes Tauler

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

Benjamin Tucker

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

Thomas Friedman

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

Bruce Lipton

We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.

Daniel Keys Moran

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Jami Gertz

We are so lucky Americans are impressive with what they're willing to give. We get bashed too much. And, so many young people in this country give so much. They're not all gang bangers.

Michael Bloomberg

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

Paul Cellucci

We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.

Steven Pinker

We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character.

Adam Richman

To go from hating the way I looked to being a 'Cosmo' centerfold is a profound honor.

Thomas A. Edison

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Peter Abrahams

To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed - but only just - in the middle of the twentieth century.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.

Neneh Cherry

To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end.

Ted Sarandos

To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.

Tom Brady

To me, if you're trying to impress a girl, get a date, they're gonna like that more because you're a confident guy. That's what it comes down to.

Neil Strauss

To me, I think it's awesome to meet your heroes and find out who they are and where they came from and what made them choose to communicate in the form that connected with you.

Sanjay Kumar

To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person.

Clyde Tombaugh

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

Daryl Hall

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

Leonard Slatkin

To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.

Leo Burnett

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.

Albert Camus

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Agatha Christie

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

Fredrik Bajer

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

Chris LeDoux

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.

James L. Brooks

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others

Kurt Busch

This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.

Solomon Ortiz

This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

Gerry Adams

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

Grandmaster Flash

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

Pope Benedict XVI

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

William Arthur Ward

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

Lee H. Hamilton

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.