Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Sherman

We've seen where young guys are somewhat already damaged goods when they come out of high school. They've had some problems before, but it really doesn't come to the forefront until they get to college.

Leigh Matthews

The poor bugger. It's been 12 months (since he initially damaged his knee).

Barry Gibb

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

Anton Schutz

Mack is not going to sell damaged goods. If he can fix it, he'll get a higher price.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being.

Kevin Barnes

One of their sealing guns exploded and he severely damaged his hand.

Wendy Needham

Obviously they're trying to repair that reputation. But since their reputation has been so damaged in the aftermarket, it's unlikely they are going to fill the lost orders with replacement tire sales.

Melissa Rosenberg

I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic, and I don't find that as interesting as one who's really damaged and flawed and has post-traumatic stress disorder.

Hugh Laurie

I find it preposterous. I can see in some ways I am playing a sexy character. The idea of a damaged genius is an interesting, intriguing character, but it has nothing to do with me . . . I think whoever is playing this role would be in the position I am now.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I'm not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake.

Craig Bruce

It pointed out to me that there was a problem.

Joe Jamail

It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.

Richard Carmona

It should be pointed out that we are a week out, and so far, so good,

Pete Carroll

This is the time of year that we've pointed toward. It's happened, and it's at the Rose Bowl, and it just can't get any better for the USC Trojans.

Daniel Yergin

This has been pointed out ... even in thrillers.

Judy Cornett

She worked backstage, and she was so precious to all of us. This is my first show without Pat.

Arthur Golden

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

David Duval

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

Pema Chodron

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Unless you have a real sense of precious things under threat, there would be nothing sad about time being limited.

John Gotti

I ain't seen her in seven years, but she's a doll, a precious little kid.

Lord of

My Precious - Gollum and the One Ring

Charles de Gaulle

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Andy North

We have had a long-standing relationship with UPS. That's not going to change.

Barry Hyman

The P&G story is a lot more significant than just its relationship to P&G.

Richard G. Scott

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

Tracy McMillan

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Brian Weiss

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Diane von Furstenberg

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

David Sedaris

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

David Thewlis

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?

Greg Evans

There is nothing more satisfying than being able to understand.

Erno Rubik

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

Joe Torre

Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.

Cheryl Stewart

He wanted her to satisfy his sexual gratification.

Dick Bartholdi

That was as satisfying a win as we've ever had here.

Sherry Sturner

That works fine. That would satisfy everything we want.

Fred Solomon

That will go a long way towards satisfying some of our critics.

Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?

John Harrison

Satisfying every vision that fans have is probably impossible.

Carre Otis

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

Carlos Ghosn

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

Carlos Castaneda

There is no way to escape the doing of our world, so what a warrior does is to turn his world into his hunting ground. As a hunter, a warrior knows that the world is made to be used. So he uses every bit of it. A warrior is like a pirate that has no qualms in taking and using anything he wants, except that a warrior doesn't mind or he doesn't feel insulted when he is used and taken himself

C. S. Lewis

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

C. S. Lewis

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

Agnes Repplier

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

Aaron Sorkin

President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.

Charlie Daniels

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

Charles Tupper

It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

Barbara Deming

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

Catherynne M. Valente

It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.

Anne Rice

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

Neil Young

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

Martin Mull

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

Henry Rollins

We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

Jonathan Kozol

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

George MacDonald

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

Leo Tolstoy

Vengeance is mine; I will repay.

Kate Winslet

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?