Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Bradley

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

Tacitus

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

Leonard Mlodinow

Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.

James Stephens

To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.

Neel Mukherjee

To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.

Barry Manilow

'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.

Rami Malek

'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.

Brooke Elliott

Ty Burrell could be one of the funniest people on the planet. I'd love to meet him.

Ed Rendell

Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

Donald Judd

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

Bill Walton

Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.

Zayn Malik

We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.

Franz Liszt

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

Dennis Crowley

We've got over 1 million merchants who have claimed their businesses on Foursquare, running specials and doing other things. What we want to do is take these tools used by the 50-100 national retailers and make them accessible to our 1 million merchants. Then you've got something really powerful.

Gerhard Schroder

We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.

Frank A. Clark

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

Rebecca Solnit

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

Tre Cool

We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that.

Baba Kalyani

We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.

Richard Le Gallienne

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

Ann Macbeth

We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.

Gloria Estefan

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Iris Murdoch

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Louise Slaughter

We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.

Frances Wright

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

Robert Lanza

We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information.

Alice Waters

We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.

Roger Daltrey

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

Caroline Corr

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

Michael Burgess

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

Evander Holyfield

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

Emile M. Cioran

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Robert Reich

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

Ulrich Beck

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

Ron Wyden

Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.

Azar Nafisi

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.

E. M. Forster

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Roger Moore

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

Mark Helprin

To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists speak when they strain to be counterintuitive. It is similar to saying that cheap imports do not hold down prices.

Jesse Eisenberg

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

Marshall McLuhan

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

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.

Thomas Friedman

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

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.

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.

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.

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.