Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

John Fletcher

Man is his own star; and the soul that can/ Render an honest and a perfect man/ Commands all light, all influence, all fate./Nothing to him falls early, or too late./Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,/ Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

King Abdullah

Madness and evil. It is the work of the devil, ... Such acts cannot be perpetrated by any individual who has a sense of decency or humanity or justice or faith.

Susan Hill

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

Nicole Hastings

Love is not the big acts of confirmation we make, but the continuous little tasks we do for someone else. True love is where you don't have to be reminded of the promises or commitments you make to a person, but where loving them becomes a piece of you.

Judy Gold

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

Bill Stokes

Millie desperately wants to be president but never wins the election. Ginger Breadhouse who is Miss Perfect beats her out every time, ... On the outside Millie acts very secure, but on the inside she is a mess - she has an alcohol problem and cant understand why they wont allow alcohol on the (library) premises.

Kate Winslet

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

Italo Calvino

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Maiara Walsh

My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.

Linda Wallace

Like any vibrant economy, the house prices have gone up. But more than that, we're facing a bit of a housing crunch.

Chris Vance

Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?

I. Stone

Life is too short to be really bitter about anything for so long. Sometimes, you have to turn the page. After all, he found a great career in Houston, and he made the Hall of Fame. He should get on with his life.

Jennifer Saunders

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.

William Walker

Light and life were extinguished. It was wrong. It was only the most dramatic recent example of why levels of tension, bitterness and frustration are so high,

Stephen Ames

Life is a bit easier not worrying about the future of where the family is going to be or what is happening in the future.

Kevin Kodama

Luckily, the north side got a bit of a break last night.

Robert Walpole

But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.

Robert Walpole

I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.

Robert Walpole

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

Kurt Student

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.

Derek Harold Richard Barton

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.

Jason Statham

So I used to put money in my pocket while working on the street corners, selling perfume and jewelry, and other goods that were supposedly expensive.

Jonathan Coe

So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in one's life rather than that period in history or in British culture or whatever.

Bernard Cornwell

Mind you, even in places where I'm much better known, I walk in anonymity, mainly because folks know authors' names, but not their faces.

Daisy Donovan

Me and my married friends catch ourselves going, 'Oh, thank God we haven't been left on the shelf for ever,' because that is now the ultimate fear.

Good Vietnam

Lt. Steven Hauk: Sir, in my heart, I know I'm funny.

Susan Danly

Magnum photographers can take a very somber picture but they can also take a very funny picture. I do hope people come away with a sense of humor about this.

Aaron Williams

Liam is real cool. He's a funny guy. He's real smart, and he shows real good leadership on and off the court.

Ed Reed

Let it play. It's funny. I'm glad I got that highlight if they are going to keep playing it and put me on TV like that.

Yoda

Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing

Michael Keaton

My first manager, he had left Germany when he was five, but he would joke about the Nazis. And I'd laugh, but I'd look at him, and he was the first one who told me, 'You know, funny is a powerful thing; it's a wonderful weapon.'

Gerard Way

One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny.

John Krasinski

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

Jane Elliot

I love playing smart and tough and having funny lines.

A.J. Feeley

Last year, things were a little different than they are now, ... I guess if you're going to look for reasons, look for excuses, I guess you could say those.

Joe Hart

Modern technology ... I guess it does do some good.

Ferdi Heyneke

Monday was a very big day but the market is volatile and I guess there was some profit taking but industrials and some insurers are stable.

Joe Torre

My guess would be that this would be it.

Bob Mann

My guess is you can see this over and done within perhaps no more than a year.

R. Inge

My guess is that we'll see a strong opening here on the back of our strong resource market. We are a nation of rocks and trees.

Phil Dow

My guess is that value will have its day,

Dawn Willey

My guess is that's going to be an $8- to $10-million building.

Yossi Sheffi

My guess is that nobody is talking about this. I don't see a real level of preparedness within companies. In many ways, I don't think they even know what to do.

Richard P. Feynman

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Tom Waits

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Dennis Potter

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

Dennis Haysbert

Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.

Denis Diderot

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

Edgar Allan Poe

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Elinor Wylie

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

David Lindsay

Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.

August Wilson

I have a robust imagination and I have imagined for myself many things,

Darren Benitez

Lesson for me: no leave things in the car, trust nobody.

William Stafford

Leave sound in an emptyhouse in its own room there. . . .

Deion Branch

Leave it up to him, and he comes through perfect every time.

Granth Sahib

one does not even know how long you will stay here; you have no hint of when you shall leave

Thomas Colasanto

None of these vehicles are abandoned. Many leave them here in the winter and then take them out during the season when they can use them. They pay us to store them here during the winter.

Steve Wilson

No one saw them leave together, but he's gone, and so is she.

Benjamin Franklin

One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Dane Hansen

Montana scares me a little bit. I leave Montana, but it's always with me.

Leon Harris

Next time, I'm not going to leave any witnesses.

Donald Trump

Let's see how Buchanan does and then maybe we'll step in,

Michael Schaffer

Maybe you need to look at your student evaluations.

George H. W. Bush

Maybe you know something I don't know. I've been working,

Larry Brown

Maybe when you play Miami, you need 36 fouls in the middle; I don't know,

Chris Shelton

Maybe when the season is over, I can realize what I did to start the season and that I did something special. Right now, it's about getting some wins.

Evan Needham

Maybe when I'm not playing well I can get sick of golf. But then I get back into it again.

Donald Lowe

Maybe what we'll find is that you really need a combination of two tests, again, because not one test does everything for everybody.

Sam Singer

Maybe we should trade in our supervisor for somebody up in Seattle.

Brian Urlacher

Maybe we shouldn't get a bye week anymore.

Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Albert Schweitzer

Do something good and someone might imitate it.

Gunther Cunningham

Let's not talk about it. I might throw up while I'm talking.

David Carr

Seven weeks might sound like a short time. But I can get a lot done in that span.

Mike Stiller

Seventy-five a week might sound like a lot of fish, but it isn't.

Robert B. Parker

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Carol Thorp

Motorists might see prices stabilize over the next week or two, but that could only be a temporary pause.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Movies might take five-six years, sometimes 10 years to produce. For television, when you have an idea, you put it to a network and within a week or so they have an answer.

Tom Tremont

One owner pays seven times more than another might pay.

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

David Circle

Let them know that you support music programs.

Dan Hill

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

Janice Stockigt

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

Grimes

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

Laura Mvula

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

H. Hart

Music is feeling. Once you start thinking about it then you overdevelop it. It should come from the heart, the soul, and the subconscious. Music is all about the moment, and if you think about it then you're already in the next moment.

Rutina Wesley

Music is definitely influential on how I approach my scenes.

Daron Malakian

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Andrea Walker

When they (the committee) started, I noticed they didn?t have any students on the committee,

Randy Pausch

If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Al Lewis

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.

Doug Bruno

You know, I noticed that she went smaller, but I don't think it made a difference.

Heather Casey

My three-year-old is talking better, and people have noticed my twins communicating better.

Dave Lewis

I wish I had noticed the teammate's number so I could tell you his name. He is a true American hero.

Penelope Mitchell

My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy things.

Rob Fields

I've been wanting to be noticed for so long, just to have this opportunity is great. I'm very blessed.

Joseph Joubert

Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.

Donald Barthelme

I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

Don DeLillo

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Ted Cruz

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

John Milton

Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.

David Ogilvy

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

Horace

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Horace

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Tad Williams

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Trey Gowdy

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.

Cliff Black

We don't know what ignited it, perhaps a leak.

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

James McAvoy

My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.

Greg Myers

No one was quite sure where she landed,

Stephen Ryan

From a branding standpoint, they've done something quite important.

Bob Woods

We've never done anything quite like this before.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Rich Alday

So far, we've had a lot of success pitching, offensively, defensively, and as a team. Hopefully, we'll make that continue.

Susan Hayward

We had a very successful fair. We were thrilled.

Tucker Max

There is no number or level of success that would make me think, 'Wow, I didn't think that was possible.'

Dick Wolf

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

Dick Van Dyke

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Dennis Ritchie

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group

Dennis Green

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Deana Carter

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.

Trent Reznor

Touring in the past, the show was just something you had to do to get to the after-show,

Liam Gallagher

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

Chris Blackwell

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

Daniel Johns

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

Andy Partridge

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

Daniel Johns

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

Cyril Cusack

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

Fred Durst

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.