Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?

Richard P. Feynman

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone - both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

Atharva Veda

Man is but the Image of God. Even Nature is but an appearance of God; the reality is He alone.

Benjamin Franklin

Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Samuel Johnson

Let no man rashly determine, that his unwillingness to be pleased is a proof of understanding, unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit, it is

Nelson Mandela

Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and to say somebody has died because of HIV/AIDS, ... And people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

Nelson Mandela

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

David Schwartz

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's ''good luck.'' You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Adrian Raine

Lying takes a lot of effort. You have to be able to understand the mindset of the other person. You also have to suppress your emotions or regulate them because you don't want to appear nervous. There's quite a lot to do there. You've got to suppress the truth.

Rohit Shetty

People in the metros are busy making ends meet, but through my films, I like to give the reality of life a skip, and choose concepts which will give audiences a stress-free two-and-a-half hours.

Ryan Seacrest

Madonna's fans have anxiously awaited the release of this album. I am excited to bring her closer to radio audiences around the world live!

Anne Archer

So from that standpoint, it didn't seem weird to me at all. I think it's interesting and obviously audiences do, too ... I think there is a sort of emptiness in our look at life in general lately, and think this is a way to explore that.

Steve Osburn

me, and I believe everyone in the audience, could not conceive of a sane person doing these things.

Marc Berman

Nobody expected them to do 45 million again. To lose about half the audience, that's big. That's dangerous. That's very dangerous.

Charlie Ward

Of course, there's one more hurdle to jump. We still have to have an audience. Will they come? We don't know, but we're going to give it a good try.

Paul Haggis

Of course I feel guilty about manipulating the audience, playing on their preconceptions in that way, ... But that's my job.

Bob Hope

Of audiences: they were really tough - they used to tie their tomatoes on the end of a yo-yo, so they could hit you twice

Gary Pruitt

Newspapers are holding on to their national audiences better (than other media), but the negative side is we're more difficult to buy. The industry is aware of it.

Dale Groutage

Sen. (Craig) Thomas has had at least 17 years to promote that technology.

Charles Pickering

Mississippi, in trying to promote racial harmony, is on the right track at the right station doing the right thing.

Todd Rundgren

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

Patricia Edwards

If they promote this correctly, it could be huge.

Neil Kinnock

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

Lydia Lenker

Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.

Karine Vanasse

When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.

Casper Dien

When I do a film I go out and promote it.

Bob Ray

I went out and really promoted it (the tournament) this year. It's our third year and we got everything together in our heads.

Brian Hill

If anything, this shows we're not throwing in the towel on the season.

Pete Carroll

If anything, it shows that we can finish.

Earl Nightingale

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Casey Wilson

So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

Paul Pierce

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

Bruce Cockburn

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'

Terry Wogan

Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.

Constance Wu

Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning. Let's talk about winning first before we talk about anything else,

Jack Ford

mediated. We still talk about her every day, but she's doing better.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Felipe Alou

No, no, no, I don't want to talk about Bonds. I'll see you later.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

Kenneth Rice

No, I didn't want to talk about that.

Eddie Perez

No, you don't talk enough to be boring.

Chris Cornell

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.