Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Valenti

We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home.

Michel Onfray

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

Morgan Wootten

It's amazing the things you hear from your players talking to them one on one. I never embarrassed a player, I spoke with him alone.

Cameron Crowe

The powering thing behind the movie was to capture the feeling of being alone and going back to Kentucky and getting walloped by a sense of family I hadn't realized was so much in place,

David Lord

We are pleased to have received such broad support from the employer community. No one payer can implement this program alone and not only employers, but health plans have recognized that this is an important investment to make.

Naveen Andrews

We're in the 9 o'clock slot now. Men and women alone on the island, they have needs. Needs that must be fulfilled.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone.

Margaret Chan

The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countries are in dire situation in terms of having enough doctors. And many of these countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa. You know, that part of the world alone needs one million doctors.

Tim Chapman

We appreciate the help, from the (county jail) inmates and from everybody involved. One outfit alone would not be able to handle a project like this.

Charles Ramsey

We want to take him up on that offer, so we are working with Mr. Condit's attorney in order to arrange dates, times, locations and so forth in order to make that a reality, ... I think it's time that once and for all, we find out where we are with that case.

Ghazi Hamad

We want resistance to be arranged and organized.

Richard Boucher

Until we find out from the Chinese if they've been able to arrange anything, we won't know exactly when that might take place.

David Crane

We're going to split crews up to handle the cargo. Some will go to Chicago and arrange for its export out of the country, and others will go directly to Beijing and wait for its arrival.

Leslie Brolin

We brought this one in because of Katherine Dunham. She was a choreographer and dancer from Joliet. There is some information about her in this exhibit, that's one of the reasons this exhibit was chosen. We try to arrange most of our exhibits so it has a Joliet connection.

Lori Leveen

We bought a small house in Boston and we got it set up and had everything perfectly arranged until we realized we really only had one seat in the house that had sufficient light for reading and every night there was a battle of who could race to this chair faster with a reading book and I was always losing being the smallest. So we really started a quest to look for an ultimate reading light.

Carol Loewith

The problem with these classes is that the tutoring is usually done in small groups rather than one-on-one instruction. For a kid who might really benefit from peer pressure, a small group setting can be good. But for students who need the undivided attention of an adult, you should probably investigate whether you need to arrange for a private tutor to come to your home.

Fred Schneider

When I die, I have arranged to have a microchip in my tombstone, which will be solar- powered. It will play the noise of dozens of people weeping and moaning over me.

Natalie Cole

We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.

Grace Speare

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

Keith Hennig

Leader No. 1 is Courtney. In second, you have Lindsey. She gets fired up in games. She expresses herself and her teammates respond.

Ariel Sharon

shares in the grief of the U.S. administration and expresses its condolences to the American people.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Philip Hilder

Mr. Baxter had the utmost integrity and she respected him immensely. Mrs. Watkins expresses her heartfelt sympathy and prayers to her family.

Jeff Buckley

Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.

George Pataki

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.

Erica Jong

I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.

Charles Walters

I had to work harder. I couldn't do the social thing, and play the game the others were playing. I had to work that much harder and handle the 'evils' by doing good work.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

Chris Cleave

It was hard not to be full of hope

Tyrell Thompson

We know Woodlands is going to be hungry. We have to come out and play harder or this will be it for us.

Derrick Jensen

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

Mo Ibrahim

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Jeff Smith

We're on a limited budget. And I think we've spent every nickel of it.

Larry Davis

He did very well. It was a limited workout, but there was no soreness and pain.

Tim Palmer

We can make better use of very limited resources to prevent outbreaks of these epidemics.

Gordon Brown

OPEC is a cartel, of course, and I think it is under challenge, ... You have got a cartel that has limited production in the past and has been slow to respond to rising demand.

Lindsey Hunter

My range of motion is still limited a little bit, but I working through that.

Robert Hurwitz

It allows for Tony winners and other people with limited availability to take part,

Ann Beattie

That's what I mean; if your writing doesn't transcend the era, then it would really seem to be only of very limited sociological importance.

Alan Moore

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

Daniel Clowes

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

Bill Buff

Surprisingly, one in Providence, Rhode Island, just shows that big-time congestion can come to small and medium size cities. In addition, Tampa, Florida; San Jose, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; San Diego, California; and Cincinnati, Ohio; are all new to the top ranking this year.

Daniel Breaker

I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

Hasan M. Elahi

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

Daniel Suarez

We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple.

Marianne Williamson

Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.

David Alan Basche

Though television is a smaller medium than the stage, you can't be afraid to be big.