Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorraine Toussaint

I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

Mariella Frostrup

Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision.

Lev Grossman

Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.

Honore de

To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer

Ujjal Dosanjh

The fact is that there is a huge string attached to all of the money that flows for health to the provinces and that string is the Canada Health Act.

Marcus Hahnemann

Whenever you think you're staying somewhere, you're gone. But I do feel attached to Reading. This is where I made a name for myself, and this is where I want stay.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love gives beauty to everything it touches. Not greed and utility; they produce offices, but not dwelling houses. To be able to love material things, to clothe them with tender grace, and yet not be attached to them, this is a great service. Providen

Chad Miller

Many of the projects we undertake don't have our name attached to them, but it is more important to do things than to let students know we are the ones getting them done.

Keith Morris

We've never done that. The whole purpose is to have it attached to the buildings so the customer can walk directly from the tire bay to the store, do their shopping and then check out on the way to get their car without ever having to leave the building.

Charlie Daniels

I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.

Charles Tupper

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

Charles Tupper

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

Charles Taylor

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

Charles Sumner

There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.

Charles Sumner

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Charles E. Wilson

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

Charles de Gaulle

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles de Gaulle

Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

Kay Hagan

I want to use every tool in the toolbox that's at our disposal to help our economy and put people back to work.

Al Fields

We expect to have as many as 500 pieces of equipment at our disposal including private contractors.

Juan Ramon Lopez Caro

Real Madrid is a great club, and I will have some great players at my disposal who all want to help improve the level of the team.

Wole Soyinka

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.

Nina Easton

We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever at the disposal of an incoming American president.

Paul Matthews

We have a multitude of recourses at our disposal that are not only good weather-orientated.

Pat Hill

We've got all the necessary weapons. And if we have key injuries, I think we've got enough personnel to make any adjustments we need. The knowledge of the game, being able to get in and out of plays, we have so much more at our disposal now.

Joe Hinojosa

It's a good idea to reuse them otherwise, disposal will always be a problem.

Frederic Joliot-Curie

In England and the United States, where physicists have at their disposal equipment of very high voltages, several new elements were prepared using protons and deuterons as projectiles.

Mel Lastman

Where's your garbage chute, Gordo? This one's for Mel.

Joe Borowski

What a garbage way to lose the game.

Billie Joe Armstrong

A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

Peri Gilpin

So I step out of the shower, and I look out the window, and I notice the garbage man looking right in at me. So I say, 'Did you get a good look?' and he says, 'Not completely, turn around.' Then he smiled and he was missing a tooth, and that's when the romance went right out of it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The whole world is our dining room, but be careful: it is also our garbage can

Cliff Bronstad

The only problem we have with this is the people who don't get garbage service that take their garbage and throw it in somebody else's bin.

Daniel Rader

If all schools were green schools, we would recycle a lot more. If we keep on like we're going, the landfill will fill up in 14 years and we'll have to pay more for garbage and it will be bad.

Helen Marshall

I went to the site, ... This is the Fountains of the something or other. It is really now just a big, big pool of stagnant water, with garbage thrown in.

Marvin Emerson

Some people can say Herb had a lot of garbage points today. I say it was good position. It was Herb outworking their big guys.

Alan Moore

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

David Hockney

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Live a life less ordinary.

Beatrice Webb

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Dee Snider

My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

Desiree Rogers

I don’t do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

Dean Koontz

He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

Benjamin Haydon

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Beatrice Lillie

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Edouard Manet

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

Jay Wright

We're going to do it nicely, so he'll do it with me and he'll be in the pictures with his classmates.

Pam Shoemaker

When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do.

David Wimhurst

From that we may be able to start to get a picture of who was involved.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Jake Paltrow

'La Notte' is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, who also shot '8 1/2' for Fellini.

Courtney Green

It is a little nerve-racking when you start to think about the big picture of it. You want it to be perfect.

Harry Conover

We then get a better picture of the situation and are able to look at what we have written in our plan.

Robert Blake

I think we actually went out to see Rosie. I think Bonny even took some pictures and we said we were settling in.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Bo Burnham

I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer

Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Benjamin Franklin

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Belle Boyd

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

Teddy Atlas

Seattle doesn't look like an underdog to me.

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Roger Staubach

I would have sworn that Indianapolis was going to go all the way. Now that Pittsburgh's in there, I think Seattle has got a shot at them.

Nicolas Berggruen

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

O. J. Simpson

We were the Seattle Moroners, ... not the Mariners.

Sarah Susanka

This is what Seattle is doing getting architects, builders, designers, etc., on the same page. This is huge.

Bob Hill

To me, Seattle has always been a cornerstone of the NBA. It would be shame if the team had to leave.

Kenny Mayne

Their whole thing was that every state was going to be as unique as possible. I'm from Seattle and for Washington they did ultimate frisbee,

Lauren Jackson

I love Seattle. I couldn't be anywhere else.

Jerry Costello

Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas.

Bob Baffert

I've always wanted to go in on top of the race, but I've never had the guts. They've already shipped and won.

Brian Esip

I signed up one week and shipped out the next.

Kim Swift

I started working at Airtight Games after I shipped 'Left 4 Dead 2' back in 2009.

Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Michael Hein

I was shocked. I won't say it was crushing, but it was surprising and disappointing.

Carol Windley

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

Philip Schiller

We want things to be beautiful, surprising to see, but they also have to be functional. One without the other doesn't make any sense.

A. S. Byatt

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

Steve Bisley

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

Rodney Brooks

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Mark Zuckerberg

The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.

Marc Benioff

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Phil Harrison

It doesn't put us at a competitive disadvantage at all. Throughout our history, we have never been the first to market.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Mike Shanahan

We've been evaluating throughout training camp, two-a-days, the off-season program, all the way through. We'll be fine.

Alan Alda

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

David Mitchell

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Buddy Rice

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Bryan Ferry

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

Bill Kurtis

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

Ed Begley, Jr.

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Ed Droste

It is definitely much easier to feel that an album is disposable - to dismiss an album or delete the tracks you don't like or to just throw it into shuffle or whatever.

Ed Helms

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

Edwin Moses

The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.

Charles de Lint

You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.

M. Wolfe

We?re not going back into the trash business.

Jeremiah Trotter

We were just trash talking, and it escalated a little bit,

Mary Lou Retton

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

Richard Roeper

Equilibrium is enjoyably classy trash.

Stanislaw Lem

Practically all SF is trash.