Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Fixx

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Michael Pachter

My guess is they want to sell high- definition discs. You want to get the high-definition monitor owners drooling. It's clever marketing.

Robert Harris

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.

Tina Brown

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

Edsger Dijkstra

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Warren Spector

From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

Elizabeth Bowen

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.

Jenji Kohan

Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.

Pankaj Mishra

Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.

Bryan Cogman

As far as engaging with fans... it's a tricky thing. I enjoy seeing the feedback on Twitter, etc. It's probably the actor in me.

Neil Strauss

The trick, when you're flirting, is figuring how to keep a balance between being engaging enough to retain someone's attention and not seeming overly available. So you tease a person a little.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I'm passionate about. CNN's 'Going Green' series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope.

Malala Yousafzai

Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.

Richard Head

We haven't noted any specific gas stations that may be engaging in gas gouging, in terms of the pricing situation.

Ken Kendrick

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback. He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

Ken Kendrick

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback, ... He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

Judy McNamara

Lunt was trained as a chef. He liked to use fresh food in his cooking.

Daniel Boulud

Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.

Mary Bush

Many households have two working spouses, so there are time pressures that influence food purchases.

Simon Pluess

Many people have lost all their food stocks and stoves in the quake ... and they need ready-to-eat food.

Nancy Cartwright

Mud is not one of the 4 food groups

Rig Veda

May all the food I partake be pure.

Peter Baker

Men still have this tendency to see food as being like fuel. It's there to serve a purpose.

Rebecca Stead

My kids really like food, and they like to cook, so it's a lot of fun to shop with them.

Jason Wu

My favorite thing about Taiwan is the food.

Lesley Nicol

When I heard I had gotten 'Downton Abbey,' I remember I was standing on a freezing cold street in Manchester where we were shooting the Manchester part of 'West is West.'

Greg Morgan

I would be really surprised to see any type of freezing weather.

Randy Lascody

So if it doesn't quite get to freezing on Saturday, it will sure feel like it, even while wearing a jacket.

Vera Wang

I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.

Mark Mathias

There is potential for squeezes and prices to go up. But people won't be left freezing and unable to heat their homes.

Carlos Parreira

This was the coldest match I have ever been involved in with any sort of team at any level. I've never been in a situation like this before. I was freezing on the bench.

Suzi Quatro

I always found the road exciting. I liked stinking hotels and freezing dressing rooms.

Sam Shamburger

We had some freezes, but not the prolonged kind of freezing that would help with mosquito problems this spring.

Bill Cox

I'm sitting here in my office and it's freezing and we've got the heat on full blast.

Howard Dean

Luckily, I'm a governor -- so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Peter Clarke

My first thought was, why would the governor of New York own a piece of junk like this?

Dick DeVos

There are too many people who aren't able to find work. For the governor of this state, that's Job One.

John Jay Hooker

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

Jim Pitts

I'm also working with the governor to stop illegal immigration and improve Medicaid. Working together we will find other sources.

George Pataki

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

William O'Neill

I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.

Tom Savini

Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on 'The Walking Dead'!

Paul Sergeant

May will be a massive month for Cardiff and Wales.

Jose Pena

I was struck by all of the victims and the massive destruction.

Judah Friedlander

I'm a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I've watched all of them over and over again. I'd want to do a movie with him and Van Damme.

Gabriel Macht

Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

Louis Tomlinson

For me, Robbie Williams was a massive influence when I was growing up. But also Cheryl Cole. Being in her presence was intimidating, because she's so hot.

Carl Griffith

We could have a massive inundation of Port Arthur.

Margot Robbie

'Wolf of Wall Street' opened up a lot of doors for me. It was such a massive opportunity, which provided me with only more opportunities.

Zara Phillips

My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.

Ed Sheeran

I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

Joan Chen

There are only so many roles as empresses... but I've had a lot of offers to play vampires.

Wesley Ruggles

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

David Church

The quality of people prepared to come here and enthuse about the opportunities the place offers is fantastic.

Charley Casserly

We're going to get offers for this pick. We've already had discussions with teams. I think there's value in our pick.

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

Chris Cornell

I think the concept of commercials, for example, I have had offers to do songs in different commercials, and it is not what I have liked.

Laura Puchowicz

We already have offers on some of the units.

Makhosini Nkosi

As the NPA we are very pleased with this as it offers us what we wanted all the time - which is enough time to prepare for this case,

Nancy Heaton

I can't really talk as to what they're considering doing because there's too many things on the table right now.

Ted Saskin

I can't see anything worse than what they put on the table today.

Boomer Esiason

I got the title for you, ... Table For One.

Hector Ruiz

In this new world, with smartphones and tablets and cloud computing, things are moving around fast.

Alan Cooper

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

Chris Bauer

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

Caio Fonseca

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

Denis Leary

I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

David Hilbert

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

Jerramy Stevens

No one is going to give us anything. We haven't done anything in the past. But we've been out here taking it (respect) this year, that's for sure.

Slobodan Milosevic

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

David Jacobson

I feel like this is part of something big he is doing, ... Like taking over the world.

Joe Crawford

I feel like I'm getting better every game, more comfortable, just being aggressive, taking my opportunities.

Andrea Mitchell

I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.

Ed Collins

If we do use that for (the ballpark), we are taking away from ourselves, not the state.

Doug Follis

If we're there at the end of the year, that's when it will matter. Right now, we're taking it game-by-game.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Albert Schweitzer

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

Elbert Hubbard

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Eileen Caddy

You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, know Him as the True Guru, who unites all with the Lord.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Alexandra Kosteniuk

Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.