Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas P.M. Barnett

China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.

Mike Royer

We know from the Redmond game that we can't overlook any team. It's nice to play Bend after Pendleton does, but we need to take care of business on our home floor (against Crook County).

Lin Stadler

We did exactly what we wanted to do defensively bend but don't break.

Brene Brown

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

So I urge the U.N. not to bend to U.S. pressure,

Scott Stewart

We bend to the degree that we can bend, but he still must get his work done.

Art Pulaski

Wealthy companies set new records in political contributions to buy this veto. Schwarzenegger bends whichever the way the corporate winds blow. Just a few weeks ago, the Restaurant Association, a major opponent of the bill, hosted a fund-raiser for Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Tammy Bruce

Manipulating pop culture is the Left Elite's sure-fire way of forcing society to bend to their depraved view of themselves and this country.

Brady Quinn

Like he?s been saying all week, we?re here for a business trip. We want to win this game, so the biggest thing is we need to put emphasis on the fact that we?re prepared and rested and taking on things the way we would be if we were playing in South Bend right now.

Lawrence Powell

We've solved our crime problem in a brutally Darwinian way.

Denise Outen

When I meet a new guy, straight away I'm questioning whether he's The One. You have to be brutal at my age, if it doesn't feel right, you have to move on.

David Krumholtz

I would do prosthetics again, but not on a schedule like that [in Gigi Does It]. It was grueling and brutal and it almost killed me. That show almost killed me.

Cal Thomas

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

Carl Jung

The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.

David Ayer

World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.

Charlie Munger

Capitalism is a pretty brutal place.

George H. W. Bush

(The referendum) was a very hopeful day for peace, an exciting day for a country that only a few short years ago was ruled by a brutal tyrant. And I'm pleased at the progress being made,

Nigel Roberts

She will have to persuade her caucus to be quite brutal but that's the price they will have to pay to stay in power.

Claudia Tremaine

We want to reach certain people that need certain items. A lot of people are having a hard time and need some assistance.

John Brady

We want to play well, but certainly not at the expense of playing players that aren't healthy. Our goal is for our team to be healthy for the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Jeff Bowden

We have seen a lot of good linebackers with Miami and some of the teams we play, like N.C. State. He certainly ranks up there with them. I've always kind of had the feeling that when you get in the group with the top-five, it doesn't matter. You are so good at that point, you're good. He can change the game I know that.

Saddam Hussein

We have said with certainty that the embargo will not be lifted by a Security Council resolution but will corrode by itself,

Matthew Brown

We have to get the job done. We've got a certain time we've got to get LaSalle Street open, and we've got to hit that date.

Alex Rodriguez

We have to get better. We're a better team. We know what our potential is. Certainly I need to do a lot more offensively. I can only speak for myself. I've got to step up to the plate and do my job.

Rich Bowen

We have to find that out. We'll see. I'm not sure. The way they've been working we'll certainly be more competitive than last year. Whether we can compete with the larger schools and the co-op schools, this season will tell.

John Asher

We have no idea how those tickets got out there, but we certainly have no suspicion of any kind of internal source.

Bob Hill

We have no depth to play him, so we're just going to try to give him different looks. He's just so big, there are only certain things you can do.

Kevin Keating

We want to provoke heat and debate and a closer look at the man and leader in full, not just the leader who has been raised to secular sainthood.

George Glynos

We have seen a recovery in the gold price and commodity currencies have consolidated slightly off their lows, which bodes well for rand resilience. The rand could trade closer to 6.20/22/US$.

Phil Long

When your goals seem too difficult to reach..... move the posts closer

Karel Bruckner

We know he has started the season in excellent form with Hearts and we would like to take a closer look at Rudi in the international set-up.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.

Andy Ritchie

We want to have a closer look at them. We'll try to get them involved in another game.

Scott Warren

The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.

Bob Grove

We value the partnership we've had with them over the years. They do a great job. We're interested in negotiating something a little closer to market value.

Jamal Qureshi

We're in a world that faces serious problems with political stability in several key regions. People want to hold more supplies closer to home, and that's going to keep demand high for purchasing imported barrels.

Gabrielle Zevin

I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

Elizabeth Peyton

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.

Tom Waits

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.

Les Claypool

I have a very difficult time describing my music.

Eleanor Catton

My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'

Mark Elliott

Cautiously optimistic, that's how I'm describing this year's teams. I'm happy with the talent we have.

Mary Matalin

I have been describing him as Cheney's Cheney. He does for the vice president what the vice president does for the president.

Jeffery Deaver

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Inga Muscio

Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

Charles Clarke

We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.

Thomas Mallon

I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of the fiction and nonfiction I've written.

Sharon Stone

I don't really want to be fat, so I stop before I am. I'm not a vegetarian, but I might go through a phase when I'm not interested in eating protein for a week or so, and then I might go through a phase when I eat nothing but steak.

Kathryn Harrison

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

Kristin Armstrong

The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

John Parsons

We are at capacity. We are interested in getting new equipment.

Valerie Miller

We're interested in using it if the waivers are in place and it's a safe alternative, ... This is not a quick fix. It could be a multi-year process.

Judy Woodruff

We're interested in knowing, ... how much each one of you uses the Internet. How much time do you spend on it?

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Barbara Park

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Kurt Vonnegut

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

Charles Dickens

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

Shanley Caswell

I try not to think about any of the production side of things. If you do, you tend to get unfocused and distracted. I just try to think about the character and the scene and what I'm doing.

Bret Easton Ellis

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

Luke Pasqualino

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

Eva Mendes

Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv.

Claire Forlani

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

Mark Spragg

When I look at the film, unlike when you see it, I'll be thinking of the scenes that were cut,

Debra Winger

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

Jeff Garlin

She makes every scene she's in better, ... I'm sorry if that's boring, but she's a rock. She's just that fantastic.

Charlie Chaplin

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Edward R. Murrow

To be credible we must be truthful.

Brenda Ueland

Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.

Camille Pissarro

Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.

Randy Mayes

I can get a feel for whether the person is truthful or not.

Thomas Jefferson

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Sen. Gallegos

I think I can, but to be truthful with you, I don't know until I come to that point. There's going to be times when it's going to be difficult.

Roseanne Barr

Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

Charlotte Bronte

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.