Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rogers

I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking at it in a new way to see what interesting things can emerge.

Robert Wilson

I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to do a play that would run for days. I don't think time is that important. Nature doesn't hurry the sky, the changing clouds and sunsets.

Larry Young

We're not changing the nutritional value, sugar or calories.

Larry Ellison

We 're not changing our strategy. We have an Internet strategy; we decided that four years ago.

Carl Edwards

We're not changing a thing, ... If we're going to win this championship, we're going to do it by having fun. That way, even if we don't win it, at least we still had fun.

Stephanie Brown

We're not changing any of our plans going into the holiday season.

Dale Lennon

We're not changing any of our goals. I'm hoping for a typical North Dakota team that plays within itself and doesn't make mistakes.

William Winter

Life is arched with changing skies:Rarely are they what they seem:Children we of smiles and sighs --Much we know, but more we dream.

William Winter

Life is arched with changing skies: Rarely are they what they seem: Children we of smiles and sighs -- Much we know, but more we dream.

Jim Parsons

My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

Judith Ivey

She encounters all these different men, ... in the Adirondacks to help her out (or) not to help her, and so on -- and they're all suspicious.

Bill Johnson

We owe the world an encounter with God

Bill Johnson

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

Desiderius Erasmus

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Ayn Rand

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

Ana Castillo

Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

Cynthia Moss

We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

Stephen Parker

No one respected language more than Nabokov, ... it's such a great work is because it has such great depth. ... It's endlessly revealing. And that's what the finest fiction should be.

Jonathan Galassi

I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.

Sylvia Earle

I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.

Susan Minot

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

Monica Crowley

Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man.

Jonathan Galassi

Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.

Mary Szybist

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

Stephen Frears

Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.

Alana Stewart

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

Tony Blair

Libya has declared its intention to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction and to limit the range of Libyan missiles to no greater than 300 kilometers, ... that this process will be transparent and verifiable.

Joan Anderson

Most women I know have, in the service of some greater good, let their very lives wilt on the vine. We've dulled our personal lives while propping up everyone else's, and we're no longer able to even imagine having any sort of adventure, romance, meaning or purpose for ourselves.

Lynsey Addario

My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing.

Paul Giamatti

I can't imagine a greater honor than being acknowledged by my peers.

Samuel Coleridge

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Jim Webb

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

Mark Twain

I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.

George Robertson

I have heard the news and greatly welcome it. I hope it will lead to greater stability for the people of Iraq.

Bob Uecker

Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.

O. Singh

Maybe, the West also knows about our nuclear resources and wants to weaken our capabilities and hence this nuclear deal.

Terry Pratchett

The place looked as though it had been visited by Gengiz Cohen (footnote: hence the term "wholesale destruction")

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

John Pearson

First, learn from hence to meditate upon your own Mortality, and be now assured, by this neer and home example, that your self shall die.

Vaughn Cordle

They don't want to go that deep. Hence the strike threat.

John Cleveland

Strafford who was hurried hence / 'Twixt treason and convenience.

Andrew Marr

Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

O. J. Simpson

So far, we've had a pretty positive reception.

Byron Scott

One positive of having a young team is they don't quit,

Jermaine Dye

No one ever said this was going to be easy. We've got to stay positive and just find a way to get some momentum.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

Allan Houston

Now we are trying to do something positive for them.

Tyra Banks

I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Diane Sawyer

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.