Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Rainy

A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.

Rohit Shetty

My audience loves seeing me pump large amounts of money into action and sets. And it works. I'm not saying that films made within a budget are wrong. But when audiences come to see my film with their families, I guess they are spending at least 10 per cent of their monthly income. I don't want to cheat them.

Phil Bloomer

Manifesto commitments mean nothing unless they are followed by action to deliver them. Despite progress at the EU and the Commonwealth last year, the UK is failing to use its influence at the UN to push for tighter controls on the international arms trade. The UK started out as one of the leaders behind the idea of the treaty but has since failed to show leadership at the UN to make it a reality.

Havelock Ellis

Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos

Atharva Veda

Life without goodness, good thoughts, good actions and good words is like the sky in the night without the moon or stars. It is like a wheel without a hub or spokes! No one can push a boulder away while standing on it; you cannot be free from anxiety while all the entrances through which it sneaks in are open.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Robert Nardelli

makes it necessary to take actions to ensure our continued worldwide leadership.

Brian McClung

Major League Baseball wants to see a resolution to the stadium situation. They didn't discuss specific actions they might take. They're interested in seeing the ball move forward on a ballpark." ()

Sathya Baba

Make the mind, the voice and the actions agree in harmony. That is the right way of life.

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Issa Rae

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

Albert Schweitzer

When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Curtis Sanford

Like Dougie (Weight) says, it's learning to win again. It's doing the little things that it takes to win, tonight was a prime example of that. The last two games were good examples of a lot of the leadership and a lot of the character in the room.

Michael Shea

Make no mistake about it ? I wanted the characters to know what we're doing,

Rocky Gibson

Luke's number will be called in situations like that. He showed a lot of character to drive the length of the floor and score.

George Lois

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.'

Phil Jackson

Looks like that's the character of what we have right now.

Stephnie Weir

Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark.

Guy Ritchie

So It's really about characters and sub cultures again. About gypsies and things that I couldn't squeeze in the last one, I stuck in on this one.

Christie Hefner

Magazines have not been distributing digital subscriptions for very long. The traction for digital magazines has come in the last year and a half.

Christie Hefner

Magazines have not been distributing digital subscriptions for very long, ... The traction for digital magazines has come in the last year and a half.

Tuna Amobi

Media operators that do not have a well- articulated digital strategy do so at their own peril.

Eric Scheirer

Neither digital security nor lawsuits will stop Internet theft of content.

David Card

On one hand they're suspicious of them because of how big their market share is and the fact that they have that uniform pricing. On the other hand, they legitimized the digital music business.

Padmasree Warrior

I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.

Don Scardino

Studios are so used to digital now, and there is a mythology that it's cheaper. But it's really not cheaper. For instance, digital is great for night exteriors; everybody knows it's a video tap, so it's very responsive to light. So you can go out at night, shoot with digital, and it's gorgeous, beautiful to look at.

Robert Campbell

This work has to do with the measurement of time. Everything in the digital world is measured down to a 30th of a second.

Jason Gould

The proliferation of alternative news outlets has made the competitive landscape more intense for local broadcasters. Digital strategies must now be integrated into everyday operations or news organizations will be quickly outpaced.

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Barry Alvarez

Many times it's the teams that stay the most focused that win the games. There's a lot of potential to be distracted.

J. Lewis

Scott is a great leader and teammate. He is focused and hard-working, but also genuinely nice and fun to be around.

Ronnie Peacock

Several schools are calling. They're just now getting around it. They're still focused on next week. After that, they'll jump on the juniors.

John Breeding

So, it's back to practice for us on Monday. The thing I like is that we have three weeks to get things sorted out before sectional. We saw what we need to work on. Now, we just have to focus on it.

Brian Seymore

Momentum is very important heading into the playoffs, and I'm just so proud of our guys right now. I think we get better each and every week, and now we can focus on improving our seeding.

Scott Luster

Moving Lindsay outside forces defenses to honor the left side and that means they can't focus on our middle or the right. Lindsay on the outside gives us the outlet we needed.

Bill Cowher

Maybe we focus better. Maybe there's a sense of urgency. We've been the underdogs and our guys relished that.

Todd Hultquist

Meal times are such a focus for Hispanic families.

Michael Stipe

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

Ian Mckellen

If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.

William Kircher

The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.

Billy Joel

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

George Stephanopoulos

years and years of practice trying to keep up with Peter Jennings.

Andrew Adamson

I actually talked with Peter when I was scouting locations. We stayed up until 2 in the morning.

Nick Licata

Whatever Peter wants, I am with him. He understands the complexities and subtleties of planning.

Ken Hitchcock

Whatever Peter decides, he'll have our support. He's not going to play if he's not 100 percent.

Bible Bible

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. (1 Peter 4:7)

Mildred Ellison

Now teachers and principals at our schools can go up there for the training because it's just amazing.

Roger Fox

It's sad, because she's an outstanding teacher and he was a very strong principal as well.

Kenneth Trump

I don't think the principal is doing anything radical.

Lewis Carroll

Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?

Peter Jackson

Down in New Zealand now, there will be a lot of celebrating,