Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Onfray

I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists.

Monica Lewinsky

I've always really been a romantic at heart, and I have always wanted kids, and I think the idea of sharing your life with the right person is amazing, actually.

Joshua Staley

The post play was amazing tonight. We normally try to play from the inside out and we made a conscious effort to get the ball into the post. That really worked well for us tonight.

Michael Graf

The people who came in told us such amazing stories of their personal journeys, how they got to Madison, that we just threw out the scripts. What these people are talking about in their native tongues are their own personal experiences.

Rosamund Pike

There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.

David Sacks

We're incredibly proud that 'Smoking' is our debut film and we're thrilled to be partners with Fox Searchlight. Jason, the cast and crew did an amazing job bringing the film to the screen and our experience at Toronto has been a dream come true.

Nathan Fillion

I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.

Nina Jacobson

The IMAX cameras are big and heavy. And they're loud. So you have to be mindful of whether or not they're worth it; I'd say the image quality is incredible and the scale is amazing.

Libby Trickett

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Justice Theodore

The potential danger to the continued existence of the union rests with the adjudication of these fines.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The perfect man in Eden therefore was rich, and such riches he might have possessed forever had he continued obedient to his Creator.

Nick Griffin

We are pleased to see continued growth in the Hawaii financial services industry.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to say that we are off to a good start in 2006 with continued strong growth in software and product revenues for the first quarter.

Hoshiyar Zebari

We are at a crucial period now and we need their continued engagement.

Martin Van Buren

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Phil Drosdick

We accomplished our goal this season, which was getting to the state tournament. I'm proud of that. These kids worked really hard this season, and we continued to improve all season.

Al Sharpton

How do you make things fair?

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Frank Poirot

We struck a fair balance. We feel we've been fair with all our customers.

Gunter Grass

When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Liz Boyd

We have seen an increase in prices and inflation. It is about time we give people a fair wage for a fair day's work.

Mark Connor

We want him to keep starting. If he goes 80 pitches and five or six innings, it's fair to say he's now an option for us.

Charlotte Bronte

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Alan Lamb

We're snowbirds. This is a lot better fair than we have back in Michigan.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Alan Greenspan

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

David Rusenko

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

Philip Shaw

The PMI is a big upside surprise ... and is at least hinting that services growth stepped up at the end of last year.

Mel Karmazin

We are pleased with the ongoing growth of radio and outdoor (advertising), the television stations and the network.

Charles Lee

Growth is ignited anytime you put in expressways and interchanges. It's a synergistic effect.

Arthur Rubinstein

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Derek Bok

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

John Maroon

We want to reach out not just to sports fans, but parents who are involved in their kids' lives.

Deborah Levine

We want to raise awareness. For those who find out they are positive, we want to get them into care. For those who are negative, but are involved in high-risk behavior, we want to get them into prevention programs so that they learn to keep themselves safe. Unfortunately, there are too many people out there who don't think they are at risk.

Adam Gilchrist

We have to get our priorities right. It is important that selectors, administrators, players and whoever else needs to be involved sits down and nuts that out.

Paul Hawley

We're going to shoot the video in Spain, and there'll be water involved -- and I'm going to leave it at that.

Greg Brown

We're going to have 13 different departments involved in this deployment

Jamie Carragher

We're involved in six this year and this is the first.

John Tortorella

We're getting ready for playoffs. I'm not going to get too involved in this game. ... We'll be ready to play. We're right where we want to be.

Pete Bodyk

We're getting more and more local law enforcement involved in our mobilizations.

Dana Holgorsen

We're completely comfortable with what our roles are right now. Mike's heavily involved in the offense, but he values my opinion and Sonny's opinion. I'm comfortable with what we're doing.

Bryan Adams

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Kevin Colbert

We are going to spend as much time on the middle and late rounds as we do on the first-round guys. From our standpoint there is really not a lot of difference.

Todd Jacobson

We started getting a sense that things were turning around in late 1998.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Bill Nighy

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

Mark Nation

When he got to the school, they would not let him in and he was later told Christopher had been shot.

Richard Jefferson

We're getting there. Late in the game, when we needed shots and we needed stops, they were there.

Lyle Thomas

We're going to sit down later this year and come up with a list of the (water line problems) we know about that we just haven't done anything on.

George Taylor

What we're seeing right now this late in the year, it's unusual but not unprecedented.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Harrison Ford

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Donald Fagen

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Alan Greenspan

Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.

Mark Cuban

I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

Bram Stoker

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

Elizabeth Edwards

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Janine Benyus

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.

Douglas Adams

But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving

Andrew Weil

Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

Daphne Oz

Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.

David Andrews

a byword for fortitude, resilience and a spirit of community.

Dan Wakefield

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Baltasar Gracian

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Baltasar Gracian

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

George Herbert

He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

Gregg Bishop

(The sequel) would span its own time period. You wouldn't have to see the first one to get it.

Chris Faidley

I know how to say 'faster' and 'defend' in Bosnian, Spanish and Creole.

Lawrence Welk

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

Oscar Wilde

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!