Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Rebecca Taylor

One scene with David Carradine required seven old men as extras, ... So, I rounded up these guys, and they ended up having a great time on the set. The scene was delayed, so they got to hang out with Carradine for a few hours, and he had lunch with them.

Ernie Els

One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter.

Victoria Beckham

My family is my first priority but I don't think that means I should have to give up work. I am lucky that David is very supportive.

Ty Law

Maybe the next game they will try me more. It's up to myself and David to show them that, hey, you have to go to the other side.

Richard Farnsworth

No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.

Andrei Pavel

I did not have anything to offer in the final and to be honest David was just too good.

Adam Young

I did my first round of chemotherapy on Monday. David knows about all of the tests going on.

Robert Gottlieb

I can't remember how many years it's been since I last saw a David Parsons program or what I saw whenever it was, but that isn't surprising, since I can't really remember the first half of a David Parsons program while I'm watching the second half.

M. Wolfe

We needed a big play. I threw it up, David go under it touchdown!

Twis Lizasuain

(Moeller) spent the evening late last night and into the early morning hours with our detectives and has been cooperating with us so far.

Jimmie Lee

One of our detectives was investigating the possibility that he was violating the restraining order. After talking to him and other witnesses, he was arrested.

Ed McBain

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

Ruth Rendell

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

A. S. Byatt

Literary critics make natural detectives.

Decio Hopffer

We know now he was shot once and our gang unit detectives were called to this incident.

Charley Pride

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

Carolyn Wells

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

Lee Grant

I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.

E. M. Forster

Live in fragments no longer. Only connect...

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I am a writer of fragments.

Kurt Schwitters

New things had to be made out of fragments.

Virginia Woolf

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

John Betjeman

Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn,/ Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun.

Eddie Izzard

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

Darren Shan

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

Joe Kasper

Hunter has for a long time been a proponent of the need to improve our submarine capabilities. Hunter saw the value in the Groton sub base.

Andy Rooney

Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.

Christopher Moore

Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!

Dennis Jones

This was just too much for the hunters and the guides.

Ben Kingsley

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

Joshua Foer

We're visual creatures. Probably, when we were hunter gatherers... that was the kind of thing that mattered. And remembering, say, phone numbers was, like, not that important when you're hunting down a mastodon or whatever.

Dick Bennett

I don't even look at those things. There were so many streaks that I inherited here, and Wisconsin. When I was at Wisconsin, there were so many streaks there, I kind of let them go in one ear, and out the other.

B. F. Skinner

I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

Martin O'Malley

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

Stephen Sondheim

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

Allison Williams

My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.

Jon Adler

We seem to have inherited our own Loch Ness monster in terms of being able to find this monitoring.

Pastor Maldonado

Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.

Tony Robichaux

We were able to get some big outs. Brandt got a big out for us, and Farquhar inherited a tough situation because you never know when your big inning will be.

Robert Hass

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.

Robert Hass

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

Tao Lin

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

Charles Olson

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Edgar Allan Poe

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Johnny Pesky

If I was a poet laureate, I couldn't find the words.

Janine Turner

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

Kelly Golob

Scoring points has never been a priority. It's always been the team's success.

Ken Goldstein

One of the things this points out is that we're on the road to recovery, but the road is going to be bumpy -- it always is.

Mark Dyer

Obviously, we're getting closer. At some point in the calendar, we have to have negotiations with the one it comes down to.

Jeff Shaffer

No one point is more important than another.

Mike Heimerdinger

No. I don't have a point of reference.

Heather Bowie

No, I don't feel like I have a point to prove. I don't think there is anything to prove.

Julie Robertson

No point in going out of here too early. We'll take all the time we can get.

Dennis Ritchie

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

Mike Graham

(Girard) has pushed him to the point where his serve is much better.

Daryl Sabara

I don't know why there hasn't been a 'Spy Kids' cartoon. You have to bring that up to Robert Rodriguez and see what he has to say. That would be an interesting thing to do with this series.

Chin Han

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

Megan Fox

I want to be as pretty as Robert Pattinson.

Katherine Harris

You know, I think it's so important that Roberts is confirmed. And so we've insisted, we've promoted, we've cajoled, advocated for his confirmation.

Harland Braun

We want the LAPD to investigate Robert Blake. The more they investigate, the more they'll find out he didn't do it.

Russell Tovey

I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro!

Kerry Collins

Robert Gallery, ... makes us a better team, that's for sure.

Anupam Kher

There are many brilliant actors, including our own Dilip Kumar, but Robert de Niro is something else.

David Edwards

I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

David Appel

did not have his own sources of funding.

Bruce Russell

They need to find new sources of revenue.

Kim Edwards

The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.

Mark Philippoussis

Obviously, I'll do whatever it takes to get back,

Reggie Williams

I feel free. It just takes time sometimes.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Ben Crenshaw

I don't know where this week is going to lead, but I've had so much fun. I'm just going to kind of see where it takes me.

Jack Toney

Timing matters. It typically takes a week or so, but after the sessions begin, it could take longer.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

Evan G. Galbraith

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Robert Wilson

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

Malcolm McDowell

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Jorge Cruz

We're not doing anything bad. We just need the work.

Adoniram Judson

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

Kathryn Minshew

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Kathryn Bigelow

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.