Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daddy Yankee

Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't have artists to look up to before. But the young kids now, they're looking at Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon and Ivy Queen like kids in the American 'hood look up to 50 Cent or 2Pac. I'm representing for my culture and my people. It's their music.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature.

Miriam Nelson

Our research shows that a program of strength training not only improves bone density but reduces falls, improves arthritis symptoms, and increases flexibility and strength.

John Cusack

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

Henry Rollins

Our record is all finished, ... It's mastered, and now I have to come up with artwork and a kiss-ass video for MTV. They never play our stuff anyway, so it's just a gesture. We'll pantomime through some ridiculous situation on film and the record will come out at the end of the year. It's going to be a release that no one will hear.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Stephen Phillips

Part of the problem with the previous art festivals was the weather,

Bob Taft

Passion Works is a studio where persons with mental retardation or other disabilities can create beautiful works of art and products and provide those to the community,

Kent Thompson

part vision, part coaching, part recruitment and fundraising and part conversation and collaboration. My job is to articulate the vision of the theater and to make it happen, and I know the only way I can do that is to have a lot of people joining into that vision. I view it as a serve-and-lead kind of job. The hard part is figuring out when you need to do which.

Tony Woodley

Part of this windfall should be handed back to the public through a one-off tax to help ease the pensions crisis.

Steve Goldman

Some of those pressures on energy will ease in another month or so, hopefully, ... Stocks aren't a commodity. We have longer expectations. We're looking past the 50-cent increase (in gasoline prices), and that's why stocks can withstand it.

Bruce Steinberg

I think they may ease as soon as late January.

Julio Lugo

It gives the retail investor all the ease and convenience of investing overseas.

Mike Moran

I think they will ease policy at that time,

Magic Johnson

I watched the way he handled himself on all those nationally televised interviews that followed, and he seemed to be at ease and having fun with things. It reminded me of me. When I met Jason, I told him that he and I must have known each other from a previous life.

Tim Allen

I think for ease of viewing, the hockey events, the ice-skating events are the best.

Jack Anderson

I think it will ease our minds a little being familiar with the surroundings. For guys like me and Lance and Dom (Henderson) and Kiki (Carter) who have played there before, there will be a level of comfort.

Roberto Heras

I can't figure it out, ... I train for it just as seriously, but I just don't have the same strength. I prepare the same way when the Vuelta approaches, and everything falls together. In Spain I'm at ease and mentally I'm stronger than in other races.

Jean Chretien

I will fulfill my mandate and focus entirely on governing from now until February 2004 -- at which time my work will be done and at which time my successor will be chosen,

Vicki Culver

I think that this is entirely too much to take on for this organization. I feel that the rest of our programs will suffer.

Tom Brady

I'd love to be here for the rest of my career, but it's not entirely my decision.

Michael Hurst

Hannah is playing a lead role in this piece. The story is told entirely through her. That's a huge journey for her.

George Pierce Baker

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

James Tate

I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious.

Charles Clarke

I think it is a shocking state of affairs. The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable.

Gwyn Hacche

It can't be entirely ruled out, but it looks unlikely to me.

Li Zhaoxing

China-Japanese relations are facing difficulties and the responsibility entirely lies with the Japanese side,

Andrew Clements

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Ridley Scott

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

Alice McDermott

Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.

Bharati Mukherjee

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

Karin Slaughter

I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.

Martin Villeneuve

'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it's expensive, it's set in the future, and it's got tons of visual effects, and it's shot on green screen.

Julia Glass

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

David Guterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Shaun Cassidy

I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.

Michael Vaughan

Spin's going to play a big part, but we've come up with a formula to tackle India's slow wickets.

Joseph Jackson

some form of normalcy with all the madness going on.

Tadahito Iguchi

Our pitching staff is not in good form recently, so we need to provide support with good offense and fielding.

Jim Navolio

Our statement is strong on the non-proliferation of gambling. Is this going to make it through the legislature in the form presented? That's highly unlikely.

Bruce Condon

Our formula is simple. We don't have additives.

Kurt Barnard

plays itself out on Main Street U.S.A. in the form of muted retail sales.

Paul Perry

I'm hoping this turns out to be a very strong form race.

Jeff Johnson

We'll also have it set up with all the necessary forms to submit your film online, and generally have the Web page be a better way for people to get information about the festival.

Paul Holmes

It is a style of broadcasting that has been missing from the New Zealand television landscape for a number of years. The longer length interview format will give me the opportunity to find out what makes the guests tick.

Alfredo Alonso

Reggaeton is the first Spanish-language genre that Mexicans like, Caribbeans like it and South Americans like it.

Hilary Rosen

Our list represents many different genres throughout all parts of the 20th century. And our hope is that each song will help tell a very different story,

Mike Dirnt

I think that statement is reflective of where he is in life, and an opinion. I don't think any musical genre will ever be dead, as long as someone has passion about what they're doing in it.

George Romero

I think people that love the genre giggle at it. I don't get grossed out, I giggle.

Noah Taylor

I have been working on this project trying to record a little record a month just at home in a different genre for each one,

Monie Love

I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of what is statistically a music genre and what statistically is not a music genre. Because it wasn't supposed to be here.

Kathy Najimy

It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.

Tom Selleck

I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

Sheila E.

My genre of music is very eclectic. I might play some Latin jazz, or just go into a spontaneous jazz thing. That's the thing about coming to one of my performances. Not every show is the same.

Billy Graham

part poet, part preacher, a singer of the human spirit.

Margot Robbie

People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.

Dan Shechtman

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Bhagavad Gita

Success in work comes quickly in this human world.

Jim Leach

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

Kamila Hyat

Our view is that if surveillance has happened, it is undemocratic. This is a violation of human rights.

Tony Perkins

Rep. Foxx is to be commended for supporting public policy that values human life, protects our religious liberties, and upholds the institutions of marriage and the family.

Jimmy Schaeffler

Piracy has taken a hit, but it's always going to be a problem. It's human nature to find ways around paying.

Bebe Neuwirth

I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn't like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you're] not part of the people in the bar.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Are you keeping anything else from me?” “I’m keeping a lot of things from you.” “Like?” “Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.

Barry McCaffrey

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

B. H. Liddell Hart

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

Larry Martin

We need plans and ideas from outside this committee.

Billy Corgan

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

Bill Shankly

My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

Bill Crawford

When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

Bhagat Singh

It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.

Horace Engdahl

I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Andrea Hirata

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Paul Theroux

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

C. S. Lewis

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Charles Dickens

Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Joseph Farrell

Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235,

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Carl Sandburg

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Carl Sandburg

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

Carl Sandburg

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

Bryant H. McGill

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

George Dzundza

I'm here to serve. I was trained as an actor to see the writer as the ultimate creator... and that primarily what actors do is interpret.

Jared Bernstein

has primarily to do with the compensation the typical worker earns.

David Boies

From our perspective, to say that you are going to wait until after the trial to have the examination of the ballots, is backwards, because here the witnesses are primarily the ballots.

Lee Siegel

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.

Brendan Myers

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

Franz Wright

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

Matthew Quick

I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in a very well-to-do-community in Southern New Jersey.

John Ashcroft

Thousands of persons, primarily women and children, are trafficked into the United States each year,

Velimir Ilic

Our victory is as pure as a diamond,

Joel Bruckenstein

I'd like to see him have more pure value exposure,

Donald Harrison

I suspect what it is is pure stress.

Jeff Corbett

There are no pure, pure climber's stages, no 10-mile, 14-percent brutes. And there are no bone-flat sprinters' stages, either.

Doug Green

We're pretty kid-friendly. With the pure kids' shows, all the songs are up-tempo. We keep it moving.

Bruce Roper

Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.

Russ Rader

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Make Thou my spirit pure and clear/ As are the frosty skies.

Mary Tyler Moore

I can't eat pure sugar. I can't have candy.

Allard Baird

Out of respect to him, I'd rather have him do that.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Simon Leung

I think the timing is going to be more towards the end of this year rather than earlier.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Jon Karkow

I think he was thinking more about the end of the runway approaching rather than the birds.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Craig Berman

He really wants to get back to the work he's been doing for 15 years in search rather than running a company.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

William Bolar

He has all the tools to be great. He'll take them far.

Charles Bass

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

Charles Babbage

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Ayn Rand

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

Carine Roitfeld

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing.

Alain de Botton

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

Hon Ip

There are tools we can use. It is not true that nothing can be done once H5N1 is back into wild birds.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.

Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

Marianne Williamson

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.