Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Alexandra Fuller

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

Alexandra Fuller

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

Cory Doctorow

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

Malorie Blackman

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

Malorie Blackman

What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.

Oprah Winfrey

Like Dr. King I have a dream of my own, too, that the powerful message of this little book would be engraved on every human heart and will never be forgotten again. That you who read this book will feel as I do that these 120 pages ... should be required reading for all humanity.

Johann Kaspar

Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man

Eytan Rockaway

Life is a book and you are the author. But the ending someone else writes so makes every page count.

Jean Bruyere

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

Alexandra Adornetto

Molly: So how do you think of Bryce Hamilton crowd so far? Boys hot enough for you? Bethany: I wouldn't say hot. Most of them seem to have a normal body temperature.

Rick Perlstein

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).

Malorie Blackman

I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'

Mark Hummel

Man, I didn't want to see it when we're up 21-nothing. But, we got something done when it counted. We've obviously got to correct a lot of mistakes, but the boys feel good about winning right now.

Doug Pederson

Man, I always felt like high school football was where I needed to be. Having three boys helps that decision. Here at Calvary, I know I can have them in school with me and coach them when they're older. It's one of the reasons I came to Calvary. Stan is the same way. He's got daughters there.

Nick Swisher

Let's get those left-field bleacher boys ready to go. I had a great time in right last year, but left field is where it's always been.

Gerry Fleming

Second place is on the line here, boys!

Kathleen Blanco

Send Bush here and we'll make him a po' boy and tell him to leave us alone,

Abdul Aziz

Security forces opened unprovoked fire on boys who were playing cricket in a field.

Alice Meynell

Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

John Caudwell

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

Ed Pien

My interest in the potency of fear comes from my Taiwanese childhood in which fear of ghosts was used to shape my values.

Jennifer Mullin

Obviously, we want to see more dollars put to early childhood education and . . . teacher salaries. He looks forward to working the differences out.

Dennis Potter

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Denis Johnson

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

The Years

Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.

Bernard Berenson

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Dave Pelzer

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Steve Koehler

Losing Emily hurt because she creates shots for other people. I probably should have called a timeout to get her out of there.

Toba Beta

Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons.

Richard Wagner

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

Chris Davies

When their competitors have a good story to tell about how they're managing greenhouse gas emissions, I think it creates pressure to have a good story themselves.

Tom Shadyac

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

Timothy Noah

On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.

Lorry Lokey

Full information removes doubt and removes suspicion and creates authenticity and credibility.

John Nance

Because of the physiology of this airplane, there is nothing essentially dangerous about this gear door flapping in the breeze, other than the fact that it is a distraction and creates a need for an immediate return.

Alexandra Paul

My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them.

Isabella Rossellini

I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you can look in your backyard, and you can do your own safari.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

Mary Kom

Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.

Wayne Barlow

Makes you feel like Elwood out of the movies. Just a dream come true to be able to have this thing, and be able to drive it around and watch people enjoy it.

Christine Anderson

Life ain't more than gameboard spaceWith hoops to jump and dreams to chaseAnd one day fate'll put us all in our placeGoing going goneAnd one day God might come on backWith a summer tan and a CadillacTime, he'll laugh, why I just lost trackWhat else could he really say?

James Blake

Last year, watching this on TV, this is kind of what I was dreaming of, playing a night match at the Open again,

Scott Clark

Many of these volunteers have come on their day off and on their free time to help make these kids dream come true in a day.

Caleb Dolan

So far we have kept the promise. But the dream isn't fully realized until the first group in 2009 heads off to college.

Carl Guardino

Many of those founders were not only engineers but immigrants.

Jim Olson

None of us have enough engineers to do what we need to do. You get scale on the engineering level by doing alliances and you get scale on the costs.

Oliver E. Williamson

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

Edsger Dijkstra

The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.

Martin Winterkorn

I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.

Ranbir Kapoor

Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.

Eric Betzig

There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.

Leah Busque

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

Chris Bangle

Style is engineering that gives you freedom.

David J. Anderson

Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.

Dick Thornburgh

Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

Susan Isaacs

Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there's no reason why Long Island can't have a universality to it.

Frederic William Farrar

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

Jeff Greene

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

Lita Ford

We didn't play particularly well because Rhode Island got after us. They made things tough on us. Every single shot we made was tough.

Narciso Rodriguez

Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.

Charles Sturt

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

Dave Barry

You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly.

Spanish Proverb

Like a parakeet, that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says

Sam Wyche

Lucky enough that Mike Mularkey was in a position to make a pity hire, and I think everyone knows that's what it is, and he put me back in here.

Blaise Pascal

Love has its reasons that Reason knows not

Howard Davidowitz

Sears is a shaken-up company, and who knows when it will recover, ... are wonderful.

Saeb Erekat

Mr. Gilad knows very well that the whole thing was unilateral. We had to pick up the pieces after they left without them even telling us when they were going to leave.

Saeb Erekat

Mr. Gilad knows very well that the whole thing was unilateral, ... We had to pick up the pieces after they left without them even telling us when they were going to leave.

Darren Dopp

Mr. Weld knows less about solving strikes than he does about running trade schools.

Gerhard Kocher

Medicine knows no limits, expecially not its own.

Tim Carroll

One of the things I realized about doing this show with Keith is he knows as much about music as I do.

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.

Riley Wallace

The plane to Boise had some kind of mechanical problem; we were actually on the plane before they sent us back. And then we just sat and waited and there was no other way to get us to Boise, so they sent us to Seattle and put us up for the night.

Philipp Meyer

I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket.

Mark Frauenfelder

My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly.

Christian Silk

It was a tough day for us because of mechanical problems.

Ben Quiles

She's amazing. She locates well, and her mechanics are unbelievable. She's a smart pitcher.

Mark Prior

I don't know what adjustments I could make. My mechanics to me are about as simple as you could get.

Mike Lieberthal

He's going to be a little wild anyway, because he had such movement on his fastball, but today his mechanics were off, so it was really flying.

Jason Isringhausen

I think I have my mechanics back in order. Things are going in the right direction. It doesn't look like it totally, but to me, they are.

Alan Furst

Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.

Bryan Price

We want him completely healthy, and we want his mechanics sound. Until that happens, he won't pitch.

Brad Hennessey

A win is always satisfying, and my mechanics were better in L.A., but I made pitches when I had to -- and I just wish I had one pitch back. What are you going to do?

Chris Bootcheck

I'm at the point now where I'm pitching in sequences; I'm pitching in sequences of two and sequences of three. It is not about my mechanics and it is not about my stuff. It is about competing.

Scott Carson

they are also some of the best-paid mechanics in the world.

Marianne Williamson

Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.

Carl Jung

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

Bill Nye

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

Diana Vreeland

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

Demetri Martin

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

Bill Hybels

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

Ayn Rand

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

C. S. Lewis

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious,

Quentin Blake

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

Eliphas Levi

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

David Epstein

When we started studying it in 1998, frankly, it worked much better than we ever anticipated.

Maria Mitchell

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Prince

I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.

Charles Spurgeon

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Howard Schnellenberger

We'll be getting the tape tonight and be studying them.

Bill Johnson

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

Joe Pannunzio

We're going to have a two-a-day, but it's going to be academic. We're going to study two times today.

Madeleine Albright

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.