Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bret Ellis

Mailer is a genius. He's the one I most connect with in terms of fiction his range is so wide. That's the sort of boldness I aspire to.

kim booher

Make sure the leader you aspire to follow has the high goal of God's perfect will for each and every transaction.

Shah Rukh Khan

Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon,about being a couch potato,stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for.

Bill Sambrookes

Seneca's a great team. They're quick and they put on constant pressure. That's an example of what I want our team to aspire to. I'm glad I got it on tape because I want to use it as a training video.

Yajur Veda

One should always aspire for increment of strength, food and long life because each of them is dependent on other.

Ben Bernanke

One may aspire to succeed Chairman Greenspan but it will not be possible to replace him,

Alan Greenspan

One may aspire to succeed Chairman Greenspan, but it will not be possible to replace him.

Geoff Pemble

My dream is to play Wolf Trap someday. We're Northern Virginia guys, so we aspire to that.

Bobby Gonzalez

My father was a big boxing fan, and he used to say the best fighters are the ones who come through the ranks and pay their dues. I'm here today because I came up through the ranks. My dream was always to be a head coach in the Big East. That's all I ever aspired to do.

Giraldus Cambrensis

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

Ninon Lenclos

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Bible Bible

Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

David Vitter

I welcome the boldness of his vision. ... Clearly the tough work remains to be done, and everybody, including Congress, needs to roll up their sleeves and get that work done.

Boris Pasternak

You fall into my arms. / You are the good gift of destruction's path, / When life sickens more than disease / And boldness is the root of beauty- / Which draws us together.

H. Bohn

Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.

Thomas Fuller

Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Stephen Kinzer

Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in sweeping away traditions accumulated over centuries, today's Turkey would not exist, and the world would be much poorer.

Marco Brambilla

Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology.

Fred Delk

We're not connecting the dots. That's unfortunate, and I don't think there is any money left to do it.

Martha Stewart

Lesson number one, rule number one: You have to connect with your customer, ... If you're writing a children's book, you have to connect with the reader. Do you connect? Are you able to make an immediate connection with that publication that is going to be lasting, memorable, effective, teach a lesson or a moral? If you don't connect, you are not going to be successful.

Linda Chandler

Learn fast, fail fast, correct fast, and connect fast

Sandra Jordan

Many of them had a connection through church, family or knew someone here, ... Others just started driving, and they ended up in Murray.

Tim Russert

Mr. Kilgore you day you support widening I-66 inside the beltway and another crossing over the Potomac River. Tell us why you think those projects are so important, how you're going to pay for them, and how you're going to connect 66 with the bridges.

Kim Smith

Mothers have an emotional connection that is a little more nurturing than that.

Julian Castro

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.

Danny Yatom

No one eye in the world saw the whole picture. Most of it is not camouflaged, but it is not possible to connect A to B to C to D to E to F to G.

Gregory Benford

My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do.

Mark Billingham

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!

Elizabeth Bowen

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Elizabeth Bowen

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

Elizabeth Bowen

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

Sarah Dessen

I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time.

Elizabeth McCracken

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.

Dick Vitale

Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

Edgar Allan Poe

The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

Deepak Chopra

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

Abdul Kalam

A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.

Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

Lao Tzu

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Fred Schneider

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

Maude Adams

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Abigail Adams

These are the times when a genius wants to live.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

Michael Pietsch

She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.

Fletcher Smith

We still have a ways to go but I'm optimistic. We'll have to wait and see, but I think we all know where the range is.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Tom Hodgkinson

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

Brian Johnson

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

Ayn Rand

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Desmond Soon

Let's see what sort of spreads it comes out at.

Chris Evert

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

Keith David

Of course, I was sort of a TV junkie too.

Pat Gillick

more of a staying-in-touch, passing-through sort of thing.

Edmund White

My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

Andrew Niccol

I can't go into a film if I don't think it has some sort of timelessness to it,

John Eldredge

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

Richard Matheson

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.