Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Davis

When I was a kid, my family moved around a lot, and I lived and grew up in a lot of wild places. I lived in boom towns and oil fields and the like.

Captain Beefheart

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

Captain Beefheart

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

Captain Beefheart

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

Captain Beefheart

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

Captain Beefheart

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

Captain Beefheart

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

Captain Beefheart

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

Captain Beefheart

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

Carlos Ghosn

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Carlos Fuentes

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

Carlos Fuentes

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.

Carlos Castaneda

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

Carl Barks

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Carl Bernstein

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.

C. S. Lewis

Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

C. S. Lewis

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

Norman Finkelstein

Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.

Sleepless Seattle

I don't even know him...I'm harvesting all these fantasies about some man I've never even met...who lives in Seattle.

Ayelet Waldman

The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own parents couldn't do for me when I was a girl. I am so ready to be that little girl's mother.

Carolyn See

Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.

Mandy Moore

As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.

Debbie Ford

By relinquishing your obsession with the past and your fantasies about the future, you can tap into the power of the present and feel the force of love that resides inside of you.

M. Hopper

because the reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

Jan Eustis

They may have fantasies about moving to Florida that are not fulfilled.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

Gian Carlo Menotti

The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed.

Queen Latifah

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

Jason Kubel

When I'm in the game I don't even notice it. Of course, there is the usual ache that has come from the injury, but nothing different from how it has felt all along.

Matthew Caws

When it was released, it felt like rebirth. What was fun was that no one was paying attention. It made it like recording the first record.

Justin Peelle

When it was over I felt he could have come to me. When I saw film, he had pressure in his face. He had to get rid of the ball.

Bob Curran

When it was 25-20 and they scored, it felt like miles away to get seven points made up.

Sue Monk Kidd

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

Abby Wambach

I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

Tom Robinson

We have never operated outside permit levels at the plant.

Gordon Ramsay

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Steve Belardi

We used to send all footwear? men's, women's and kid's?all together on a pallet. It was a big hassle at the store level because a lot of it would go to the back room. They were touching every carton. It was crazy.

Ian Hamilton

The process sets wage levels for the country.

Andrew Jones

We're just trying to get people back on a professional level of things.

Garry South

We know how much we're going to have to spend. This is a (spending) level we think we can sustain.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Dexter Scott King

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

Carol Roth

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Leifer

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

Carol Vorderman

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

Carlos Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Carlos Castaneda

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Carlos Castaneda

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Carlos Castaneda

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

Carlos Castaneda

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles Spurgeon

Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.

Donald DeMayo

Where (those charges) stem from is a mystery to me.

Edmund Burke

Where mystery begins religion ends.

Ben Sherwood

There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

Austin O'Malley

Most mysteries are soluble in time.

Bryan Magee

It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

Demetri Martin

I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.