Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Nancy Parrott

The popularity has really developed on word of mouth, and it lives up to it. It also has that universal appeal.

Mitch Kapor

Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.

Aleksey Igudesman

We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway. It's actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid.

S. Walker

We developed it to give 20 times faster throughout on IDS/IPS and AV.

Patric Verrone

We developed a new piece of stationary that never existed before.

Gunter Thielen

We are prepared for an IPO. Bertelsmann has developed strongly in the last years and increased its profits considerably.

Gerhard Schroeder

Where it is necessary, programs will be further developed with public discussion,

Jim Hall

Where I get frustrated is when we use government tax dollars to identify problems, we have developed a solution with our government tax dollars, but we have a reluctance to step in and mandate the solutions. What we lack sometimes is the political will to eliminate some of the risks that are still out there.

Helen Sharman

On Mir, the lights kept going out because it had developed so many electrical problems.

Friso Abbing

We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this then we have to see if it is confirmed.

John Cunliffe

We have to find out exactly what's going on with the slide. Geologists say it's still moving slowly.

Friso Abbing

We have to find out exactly what is happening.

Bob Sullivan

We have a stove in there. It's exactly like the school she describes in her book. We twist hay to put in the stove like Laura did.

Francesco Buranelli

We have nearly 8km of exhibitions but even I can't tell you exactly how many pieces we have because even a small archway or a minor fresco is art.

Laura Merritt

When you say it's a federal excise tax, you know, most of the time, oh it's the federal excise tax. And that's just understood that it's a tax you pay. Where exactly those funds go is something that's a mystery to all of us.

Charlie Cook

And what exactly is nature walking? It's any and every kind of walking you can do in the natural world. The activity encompasses strolling, striding, sauntering, stepping, treading, tramping, traipsing, traversing, rambling, roving, roaming, racewalking, hiking, meandering, wandering, wending, pacing, peregrinating, perambulating ... in natural surroundings.

Dr. Wood

The reality is we know exactly how to do that in mice and no idea how to do that in people.

Marcello Canuto

The panel exactly mirrors the style, size, subject matter and historical chronology of the Site Q texts.

C. S. Lewis

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

C. S. Lewis

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

Charlotte Bronte

It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.

Charles Dickens

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

Charles Stross

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Carina Perelli

The process has gone smoothly and well from a technical point of view.

Stanley A. McChrystal

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

Booth Tarkington

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

Dianne Feinstein

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

Kent Beck

One of the advantages of having to live with JUnit for 8 years is now we can look back and see which decisions we made worked nicely and which we would have done differently.

Tony Esposito

She threw nicely today and she threw strikes. She's showing that she can keep us in games. She's been getting better with each game.

Sandy Berger

I am sure the room will be nicely chilled.

Michael Jarvis

He went nicely and we were very pleased with him,

Gavin MacLeod

I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.

Ian Williams

There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.

Tom Fields

The team played very well. They played very nicely defensively and we got timely hitting.

John Wolkonowicz

They're very nicely executed vehicles and they're paying off for GM.

Chad Hitchen

Things started off nicely tonight with Anthony getting that pin.

Linda Blair

I had planned to retire when I was 13, ... I had wanted to be a veterinarian.

Sarah Allen

I had planned to adopt. I was single.

Jeffrey Immelt

We've planned for tough this year and we weren't disappointed,

Robert Black

The only way we have been able to do this is because Texas has planned and has drilled for years.

Stacie Temple

We had not planned to grandstand on the issue. We simply planned to do the responsible thing with taxpayers' money.

Chris Soule

It hasn't been the planned season, but it is what it is.

Chuck Wagner

We have a lot of things planned for the evening,

Melaney Arnold

We want to make sure that everything we have planned is in place. This is something we've been working on for a very long time.

Patsy Christie

This is not an open-ended rezoning. It's like a planned unit development for commercial. What's shown on the site plan is all that can go there.