Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Vachss

A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.

Howard Rheingold

Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how to manage information streams and control the ways they deploy their attention.

Ada Yonath

At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

Katrina Kaif

At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter.

Michelle Paver

At university - when I was supposed to be studying biochemistry - I had tried to write a children's book about a boy and a wolf cub, and there was a paragraph in that which was from the wolf's point of view.

Kevin Spacey

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.

Julie Burchill

A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.

Adam Richman

Back in the day, I used to watch 'The Cajun Chef' with Justin Wilson. His mixing would go one way, and his stomach would go the other.

Pete Townshend

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

Donald Judd

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

Terrence Howard

And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.

Will Smith

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

Jimmy Buffett

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

Margaret Atwood

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Kate Atkinson

A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.

Henry Paulson

Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones.

Dan Gilroy

A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.

Scott Rudin

Anybody who understands how a movie gets made understands that a deep-pockets player is not going to make a movie that has anything defamatory in it without protections.

Catherine Tate

Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried away is: 'Mmm, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.'

Anthony Bourdain

Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'

Feisal Abdul Rauf

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

Phil Donahue

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

Maurice Sendak

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.

Socrates

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Pele

All my life I thank God. My family was very religious.

Buzz Osborne

All teens are in trouble in one form or another.

Graham Moore

A lot of biopics to me feel very much like someone is standing in front of the camera and is reading a Wikipedia page to you, like someone is reciting event. Did you know this happened? Did you know that happened? But Alan Turing's life deserved a sort of passionate film, and an exciting film.

Virginia Postrel

A lot of consumers actively enjoy advertising, especially fashion print ads and clever TV commercials. The nostalgic cable channel TVLand features not only vintage shows but also vintage commercials.

Sundar Pichai

A lot of credit goes to Google TV for helping that process get started and helping to build something like Chromecast.

Ansel Elgort

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

Anthony Browne

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

Paul Pierce

A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back when we were exchanging each other's clothes, staying at each other's houses. That was before I had anything.

Johnny Knoxville

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

Daymond John

A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I can then put it together with a face, such as an artist. And then I can go into my databank of retailers and people that I've been working with through the years of retail, and then also manufacturing.

Oscar Isaac

A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.

Paracelsus

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Katharine Graham

Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. For years, whatever directive I may have issued ended with the phrase, 'If it's all right with you.' If I thought I'd done anything to make someone unhappy, I'd agonize.

Theodore Bikel

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

Henning Mankell

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.

Franz Grillparzer

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Sam Raimi

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

Luke Bryan

Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.

Ivan Krastev

Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.

Leona Lewis

A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.

Elizabeth Warren

A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.

Phillips Brooks

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Russell Pearce

Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had inherent authority to enforce immigration laws when the federal government has failed or refused to do so.

Conor Oberst

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music.

Henry A. Kissinger

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Ewan McGregor

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.