Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses

Rowan Woods

Whenever you go to these things, everyone's modest and say they don't want to be nominated but it's great publicity and attention for the film.

Wallace Wattles

Whenever you find yourself hurrying, stop. Fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want and begin to give thanks that you are getting it.

Alan Brewer

Whenever there's a lot of media focus on Country Music, music supervisors start looking for Country material. Increased media attention creates a greater awareness of Country Music as a genre in Hollywood.

Michael Phelps

We wanted to try something new to get more attention from the average Joe. Hopefully, everyone likes it and it will attract new fans to the sport.

Charles Dickens

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

Charles Stross

I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

Charles Stanley

You always have God's undivided attention.

Stephen Flynn

The fact of the matter is criminals have been operating in seaports a long, long time. The bad guys know how open the system is. The good guys don't seem to have a real command on it here because we haven't paid as much attention to this problem as we need to.

Jared Diamond

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

Kurt Vonnegut

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

Brad Pitt

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

Lyle Petersen

We're still on the upslope of the epidemic curve.

Jack Richardson

We've got an epidemic up here of underage kids getting booze.

Bill Gates

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.

Bill Gates

The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.

Bill Gates

The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

Huseyin Sahin

There is no need for panic. This is not an epidemic spread from human to human.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Stewart Udall

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

Dan Hopkins

The process will take as much time as the process needs. CDOT officials and federal officials will run the process as they see fit.

Joseph Biden

Ultimately, all the federal government does is not going to be able to get the job done without your aid.

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Khaled Suleiman

There are a lot of difficulties, but finally we will succeed.

Mark Adamo

When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera,

Scott Skiles

We know we're not a title-contending team right now, but in the history of teams winning titles they tend to take their lumps for a little while before they finally get there.

Johnny Weir

Now the fact that people are saying, 'Oh my God, he's finally come out' - I was never in.

Louise Slaughter

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Darin Erstad

We're happy that spring training is finally over. It's always fun to get the season under way and to keep score for real.

Julie Futch

We're gonna go all the way. We're finally in sync. We're finally rolling. It's our time.

Stephen Colletti

Working on 'Laguna' was great because just being in production and shooting stuff and having to go back and relive some things, and there were some lines here and there that the producers would want us to say, and just kind of, you're forced to recreate moments, and just working on the show was so much fun.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

I don't like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you're forced into that position, so that's sort of how I got into writing, producing and directing.

Jeremy Stretch

Ultimately, the ECB will lower rates. I don't think they wanted to be forced into doing it.

Jeremy Stretch

Ultimately, the ECB will lower rates, ... I don't think they wanted to be forced into doing it.

Matt Benefiel

We struggled with their size and their length. They forced us to make perimeter shots.

Ryan Diggs

We stopped them from getting offensive boards. We did that, forced some turnovers and played our game.

Joel Sullivan

We started out sluggish, but they responded well and picked up the pressure and forced some turnovers.

Gina Suarez

When I lost the first set I just forced myself to have fun.

Charles Schumer

When the Klan has been forced to unmask, they have been broken.

Scott Hand

We have seen a downturn in nickel prices during the third quarter and into the fourth quarter,

Chris Morris

We have to find out what happened between the first four weeks and the past four weeks. This offense isn't as productive. We have the same people, but we're not clicking.

Bob Cavanagh

We have a solid four to work around.

Ron Ledbetter

We have nine kids who have a solid shot of qualifying. Our other four entries have an outside shot of qualifying.

Daniel Becker

What the president is proposing will only save two weeks of oil over a four year period of time, not very impressive.

Paul DiPietro

When you see a team play together like we did, with four lines, that's how teams win. We have great goaltending and then anything can happen.

Kristy Curry

When you see a team do what they did, win four games in four days, that says a lot about their will to get it done.

Gigi Hadid

When you're two, three, four years old, it's not really modelling. You run around, and they give you toys in a fun place, and they take pictures of you playing.

Graeme Souness

We want more of the same from our back four tomorrow. We know that if we can keep Portsmouth out we have the players who can score goals at the other end,

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Michael Shermer

Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it's just thoughtful inquiry.

John Vane

Most uses of bioassay involving smooth muscle demand high sensitivity and specificity.

Howard Johnson

The prime thing is involving the public in the solution. In my experience, haven't seen as much of that public involvement as there should be.

Estelle

My favorite film involving scarves was little Edie in 'Grey Gardens.' I often wear scarves like that, under hats.

Donna Cavanaugh

I have never encountered a situation like this involving a breeder or someone who shows dogs.

Jennifer Laster

Online shopping, anything involving pictures, downloading music can use up too much of a taxed system.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

Bea Arthur

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

Jeremy Corbyn

There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.

Carlos Fuentes

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Jimmy Johnson

We have to find some speed and turn things around. Thankfully, we had a strong start to the season, so this last month we really didn't have to race our way in. But we've got to find it in a hurry.

Agnetha Faltskog

Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

Joe Minucci

We were at the lowest of lows last year. We couldn't get any lower. This year we are looking to make a playoff push, and trying to win the division.

Alan Rudolph

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Maggie Gallagher

But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Dorothy Hamill

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

Julia Glass

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Andrew Stuart

It never occurred to me that this was a trick. In this industry, you take somebody at their word.

Matthew Alexy

It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.

Dr. Fauci

It is unclear whether the mutation occurred in the person or whether it occurred in the chicken.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.

Trai Byers

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

David McCullough

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

David Graeber

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

David Dewhurst

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

Byron Katie

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

Buddy Guy

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Carlos Slim

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

Lloyd Edgecombe

The planes were very old. I think the plane was overworked.

Kiefer Sutherland

My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.

Lyndon Johnson

One of every 16 planes was shot down,

Kelly Holmes

Without planes I wouldn't be able to do what I do.

Michael Chang

I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.

Claudio Ranieri

In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.

Cillian Murphy

I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

Amanda Lindhout

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

Howard Dean

no safer today than the day the planes struck the World Trade Center.

Shane Meyer

They just seized it and took control. Then we were just flat.