Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marco Brambilla

Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting it - can be a very interesting exercise. When it doesn't work is when an artist just connects with a brand, and they try to take advantage of each other.

Sam Veda

Man has been exploiting the energy of fire to his advantage since time immemorial. Had it not been for this natural source of energy, all the progress mankind has witnessed would never have been possible. Not a single factory could run without it.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.So plain the advantages of machination It constitutes a moral obligation, And honest wolves who think upon't with loathing Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive clothing. So prospers still the diplomatic art, And Satan bows, with hand upon his heart. --R.S.K.

Adrian Raine

Lying is cognitively complex. It is not easy to lie. It is certainly more difficult than telling the truth. Some people have a biological advantage in lying. It gives them a slight edge.

Adrian Raine

Lying is cognitively complex, ... It is not easy to lie. It is certainly more difficult than telling the truth. Some people have a biological advantage in lying. It gives them a slight edge.

Checky Herrington

Making public the conditions of special contracts that utilities are allowed to enter into when recruiting industry would give other states and their utilities an unfair advantage and jeopardize Mississippi's economic future.

Janet Disbennett

Madison and Natalie played (Pickerington Central's girls twice during the regular season in singles. They won both, so we had a mental advantage over them. UA was the bigger match. I wasn't even worried about the finals. The UA match is the one we wanted because anytime you can beat UA, it's big.

D.J. Owens

Lots of teams in the Big East have been giving us wide open 3s and taking away the backdoor. They did the opposite, and we really took advantage of our cutters.

St. Teresa

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

Italo Calvino

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Maiara Walsh

My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.

Linda Wallace

Like any vibrant economy, the house prices have gone up. But more than that, we're facing a bit of a housing crunch.

Chris Vance

Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?

I. Stone

Life is too short to be really bitter about anything for so long. Sometimes, you have to turn the page. After all, he found a great career in Houston, and he made the Hall of Fame. He should get on with his life.

Jennifer Saunders

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.

William Walker

Light and life were extinguished. It was wrong. It was only the most dramatic recent example of why levels of tension, bitterness and frustration are so high,

Stephen Ames

Life is a bit easier not worrying about the future of where the family is going to be or what is happening in the future.

Kevin Kodama

Luckily, the north side got a bit of a break last night.

Robert Rainy

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Koko Taylor

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Steven Brill

We're not dealing with kidnappers here. When you see the way they continued to raise him and take care of him, you're dealing with parents that love their kid and would do anything they could to keep him.

George H. W. Bush

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,

Joan Lingard

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Brenda Valdes

Life is ... you work, you support yourself, take care of yourself, but you also have to take care of your community.

Jason Varitek

Like I always say, we handle things in here. In no way, shape or form are we going to play a media game with our teammates. I think that people look to pick on things on Manny because he's Manny Ramirez. We'll take care of things and we take care of things in here.

Lou Lamoriello

Let's be careful how far we go with that.

Mitch Lockwood

Make sure that the inside spread of the buck's rack is wider than the tips of the ears. To be safe, look for some daylight between the inside of the main beams and the tips of his ears.

Rod Coleman

Fred looked pretty good tonight. He wasn't hesitating, he saw daylight and just took off for it. He looked like the Taylor of old I thought.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

John Eldridge

The population drives the other services in the jail. It just overtaxes the whole system. It overtaxes the medical services. It overtaxes things as simple as getting people out to see the daylight a time or two the week.

Karyn Hopkins

I was embarrassed. I was humiliated. I would do my grocery shopping at 3 in the morning. I would not go out during the daylight because I felt people were laughing at me, staring at me.

Tim Stowers

We looked at the history of Rhode Island football. In 107 years there have been 31 winning seasons. It seems like when we get past the homecoming game and daylight savings time our season kind of turns into the dark.

Frank Williams

He is never going to pass ahead. All he sees is daylight and he is going for what he knows.

Adrian Peterson

I run to daylight when I see an opening,

Freddy Adu

I was facing sideways and I saw the defender out of the side of my eye and just lifted it over, ... I saw daylight and went right at them.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.

Noah Hawley

Making 'Fargo' for FX has been the highlight of my career. A writer can search his or her whole career for a network partner who truly understands and encourages their vision. For me, the search is over.

Steven Hall

Let's try to find incentives for the development to encourage reclamation and also for the development to encourage minimum surface disturbance. Let's try to structure a plan that encourages industry to be innovative.

Craig Martin

Many trail users around town are doing a little trail maintenance on the trails in their neighborhood. This workshop is to encourage volunteers and to make sure they do the job right.

Johnnie Burton

MMS must have a leasing plan in place if Virginia seeks to end the moratorium and encourage offshore oil and gas development.

Peter Frost

One might expect that this female surplus would encourage more men to take second wives, but having two families simultaneously is difficult.

Jill Carroll

One night she slipped a note in my hotel mailbox. It was a small essay of encouragement and praise from out of the blue.

Jon Kyl

One way that we might encourage others to come forth with potential savings is to demonstrate that we ourselves are willing to forgo this COLA, ... It's a gesture that members of the Senate ought to make.

C. K. Williams

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Sean Taylor

Like any rivalry, there will be some great games. Fans will enjoy how hard these two teams will play.

Nancy Hague

Life is not supposed to be forever, so we gotta enjoy it while we're here. If you don't have fun in life, it's passing you by.

Leon Trotsky

life is beautiful, enjoy it to the fullest.

Corey Brewer

Let me enjoy this. Right now, I really don't care. I know we've got the national championship.

Ricky Carmichael

Loretta Lynn?s is a really special place for me and my family, and we go back to the race every year just to enjoy ourselves, ... Having them sponsor Team USA means a lot to me and my teammates.

Alan Curbishley

Let's enjoy it, especially to win it here. Winning as well made it a fantastic day.

Michael Barrett

Let's be truthful: The way the game has gone, it hasn't helped him. You can say what you want, but the guy has put up some incredible numbers, and he did a lot for this organization, and I enjoyed playing with him. That '98 season is a year that will never be forgotten, regardless of how you want to look at it.

Earl Nightingale

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Dont wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether its at work or with your family.

Rebecca Johnson

Many of them told us that they didn't necessarily walk in the study because they knew it was good for their health; they enjoyed walking because they knew it was good for the animals.

Jennifer Garraway

To look around and realize that other people are grieving, it helps them cope. They learn how to network and fellowship with each other, and that helps them heal.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

Edmund Burke

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

Thomas Edward Brown

It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

James Browning

just liked it. I think we should do one of Fellowship of the Rings.

Sophie Hannah

I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.

David Simon

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

Albert Camus

I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

Chris Smith

We do this is in the spirit of Easter. There's a need for fellowship especially at a time like this.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.