Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Edge

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

F. Sionil Jose

My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.

Cary Fukunaga

When I see an image in my head that compels me, where there's this mystery about what's going to happen next or could happen next, I'll be intrigued. There are so many scripts that you read, and you know exactly what's going to happen, and there aren't too many where you can't tell within the first 20 pages where it's going.

Ira Sachs

I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.

Kurt Czarnowski

There's nothing that compels you to give them your number, however, there is equally nothing in the law that requires them to provide you the service if you don't present your (Social Security) number.

Bruce Cain

In Sacramento, the sense of urgency is what often compels them to do anything and the sense of urgency is now gone.

Walter Miller

We want them to see exactly the way we do it in Nashville ? there's no reason to change.

Dr. Currier

We want to stay exactly as long as they need and not one day more.

James Woods

We know exactly what our plant is going to cost,

Rob Sumner

We know exactly what happened and what we need to do. If you throw enough shots at the net, one will go in. You don't win many games with only 18 shots on net.

James Harrington

We know exactly what had to be done and we executed it well,

Dave Barry

What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo

Bob Poole

The other pieces I'm not exactly sure of.

Carter Jordan

The positives are we got four underclassmen out here to see exactly what we were talking about.

Gretchen Rubin

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

Matt Hasselbeck

We know what needs to happen to get it done. We'll see you in September.

Anthony Wright

We know we have to come out ready for a brawl. As long as we come out with that mentality, anything can happen and we can pull this thing out.

James Gray

Wait, this could really happen to me. There's no one watching out for us.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Dorothy Allison

Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language.

Julien Dray

When youths take to the street, you don't know what can happen ....

Mariel Hemingway

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Delos Smith

When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.

Al Goldman

The possessed kid in 'The Exorcist,' whose head spins around.

Nicholas Byrne

The positive news in our view is the dividend... however, the headline net profit looks light.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Jack Nichols

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Tracy Egeland

We're in a playoff race. There's no time to put your head down and pout. We've got to get ready to get back at it (today).

Michael Franti

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

Nick Woodman

I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys.

Hayley Orrantia

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

Michael Turner

We have to get our heads and telescopes around that.

Glenn Miller

We want the image to be recognizable, that's our goal.

Rod Sterling

The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them

Nicolas Maduro

The United States are ruled by a financial, media-centered, military-industrial apparatus. Behind Obama's grin, he orders bombings. He just displays a different image than Bush. That's how he expands U.S. global domination.

Natalie Massenet

You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.

David Johnson

She needs to overcome the negative image planted in everyone's mind during the 2000 election.

Lisa Randall

When you're reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter.

Lorrie Brown

I was just horrified. Images flashed before me of going to jail and being handcuffed and being put in a police car.

Gary Payton

I think (Stern) is just trying to get our image back.

Derek Brewer

I don't think people want the image of an unfair playing surface. I think that is the administration's issue. We all want to be at home, we want to be at our house, but if this keeps everyone happy, then we're happy.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles Spurgeon

Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.

Donald DeMayo

Where (those charges) stem from is a mystery to me.

Bill Johnson

The ability to embrace mystery is what attracts revelation.

Bill Johnson

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

Demetri Martin

I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.

Carlos Castaneda

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

Cam Gigandet

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Al Ries

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

Akon

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Mike Butters

We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.

Chris Cooper

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

John Smedley

We know what we're doing now and we're going to take it to the next level.

Djuna Barnes

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Dhani Jones

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Alan Ball

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

C. Wright Mills

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

Bo Derek

I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.

Edward Snowden

I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address. It was the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced. This website even told me what internet browser I was using, and what day it was. Computers can do anything.

Eazy-E

Another murder I committed made the front page.

Benjamin Disraeli

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

Brad Pitt

The [scouts] could lend an authenticity that's even beyond what we had on the page.

Bradley Cooper

I was on Facebook. I'm not anymore, but my sister always sends pictures to a page. I'm sure you can find a Bradley Cooper there.

Barbara Cartland

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

Al Pacino

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

Chloe Grace Moretz

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

David Puttnam

I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made

Lauren Miller

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

Bob Newhart

I don't have a stack of scripts.

David Twohy

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

David Duchovny

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

Audrey Tautou

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

Denzel Washington

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.