Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Pauley

I hate my picture being taken. A photograph by definition captures one mood. And I have a million facets to my personality; I never use just one. That's why I like TV more.

P. J. Harvey

Versus is a word that perfectly captures the essence of our brand. It is immediate shorthand for competition.

Robert McNamara

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Mike Ryan

Polo captures a unique segment of the sports world and we are always looking to serve sports fans in new and different ways.

Edward Hirsch

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.

John Lasseter

I have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Ratatouille' is their favorite movie and the only movie that truly captures what they do.

Harmony Korine

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

Ratu Gavidi

It captures a unique sense of wisdom and leadership and draws an inspiration that lifts the spirit.

Richard Danzig

It captures a sense of what extraordinary history this has through the old ships, the tall ships. At the same time it emphasizes the extraordinary present-day relevance of naval power. Seventy percent of the globe is water, and we're able to operate from the sea everywhere. The Navy really is everywhere for America.

Kevin Jones

There are creatures from all over the universe, and they're not all going to look like humans.

Arthur Schnitzler

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Chely Wright

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

Michael Leunig

Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive.

John Green

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Mark Twain

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Alice Walker

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

Christopher Koch

I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels you, to some extent. I'm a creature of the British Empire, and of the period of transition from the Empire.

Donte Whitner

We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him.

Lauren Miller

'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

Charles Caleb Colton

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

Alan Moore

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

Buddy Rice

Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here.

Jeffrey Skilling

The only reason I sold the 500,000 shares on Sept. 17, the only reason, was Sept. 11.

William Shakespeare

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

William Shakespeare

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

William Shakespeare

Love reasons without reason.

Nancy Buirski

If they get to a screening and it's sold out, don't get too discouraged.

Hill Harper

Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.

Dianne Saatchi

It used to be gyms. Now it's screening rooms.

Andrew Preston

For the Mackenzie fund, we look at it over more than 15 different screening criteria.

Cynthia Lennon

John was at his most relaxed with Ringo, who had him in stitches with his jokes.

Jim Norton

I've not had one stitch of trouble. It's just not an issue.

Honore de Balzac

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

Stephenie Meyer

But... when I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave it's mark - on both of you. I'm not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own. I can't blame either of you for something I made necessary. I may gain forgiveness, but that doesn't let me escape the consequences.

Alan Moore

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Ed Westwick

'Villain' is such a harsh word.

Alex O'Loughlin

I like playing the villain.

Alfred Molina

I love playing villains.

Ruth Rendell

I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.

Angelina Jolie

I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.

Alexander Pope

The villain's censure is extorted praise.

Johanna Lindsey

Villains are meant to be hated.

Hugh Grant

You know everyone loves to be the villain.