Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clifford Jordan

We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.

Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Louis Navellier

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

Louis Sachar

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Jim Myers

The other team played better than us today. That's basically what it came down to.

Michelle Wie

The positive energy I received from the crowd was awesome. I felt like I basically knew half of the people in the gallery.

Tom Coughlin

The personality of the quarterback, he has a large plate and he is going to lead by example and by his play. That's basically where our football team is. Our players do rally around Eli and his play and that's the position he has taken and that's the way it should be.

Dan Scott

We've actually got a mail-order pharmacy looking at us. They've basically told us, if we stay at 2 -to-1, they're not coming.

Robert Killebrew

There are some days we play excellent, basically like a steel curtain. But we still have a lot of work to do.

Alan Rickman

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

Bryan Singer

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.

McKayla Maroney

You're in the gym eight hours a day; you're not preparing for cameras and running around and doing tour stops and making acting appearances.

David Hockney

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.

David Hockney

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

Audrina Patridge

I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.

Edwin Land

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Charles M. Schulz

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

M. Night Shyamalan

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

W. S. Gilbert

We found historic letters showing that Lord Stanley directed his aid-de-camp to travel to England to purchase the Cup. That was an interesting historical find.

Bob Stein

We know he has done a very retail-oriented campaign, going right to individual voters and surgically finding those who will vote and vote for him. His message is directed at reminding voters what he has done for them.

James Chessen

She is so smart, it's scary. She's very much a theoretician, but it's always directed toward what's practical and possible.

Catherine Hardwicke

The fact that men and women are nominated this year in films that women have directed is good for women filmmakers generally,

Jacques Chirac

The real blackmail is what Chirac has done. I am very disappointed that Chirac has influenced and directed the meeting.

Brian Cox

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm being photographed, worrying about my hair - and yet here I am, I've directed a feature film, why do I care about the way I look? Who cares? Does Tim Burton care? Does Joel Coen?

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside.

Lorraine Toussaint

I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.

Lorraine Toussaint

'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.

George Thorogood

The only reason I did it is because I needed a signature piece.

Earl Butz

I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.

Karl Dorrell

Whenever we needed a play made, he stepped up and made a play.

Cheryl Strayed

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

Jim Gaylor

Whether that sparked our hitting, I don't know, but we needed a spark.

Chip Cook

We've been able to make adjustments needed to recover from breakdowns. This year we are much more deep.

Karin Slaughter

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Beverly Sills

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Edith Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Elizabeth Olsen

I've always loved being a student.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Bob Inglis

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Kelly Shackelford

What they're trying to do is treat them like they're not a student club. They are a student club.

Steve Gray

Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44.

Tom Callos

When the student is ready, the teacher appears. Likewise, when the teacher is ready, the students appear.

Jane Jacobs

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.