Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Kuznetsky

Media reports often leave the impression that Windows NT is being adopted by organizations of all sizes for every conceivable mission and that organizations are abandoning their investments in other operating environments. However, when IDC shines the light of empirical research on Windows NT usage, a different view emerges.

Cynthia P. Schneider

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?

Rivers Cuomo

I can't imagine Weezer stopping. We just love doing what we're doing, and I think we'll keep going until we fall down dead. Even if the audience is abandoning us, I can't imagine doing anything else!

Allan Slater

If we left Iraq, we would be abandoning our friends.

Christian Louboutin

I hate the whole concept of comfort! It's like when people say: 'Well we're not really in love but we're in a comfortable relationship.' You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.

Chuck Smith

She writes a lot about the abandoning father. The unfaithful male. I've told her that the next time she does that in a play, she should give it to someone else. I love her and I love what she does, but I've been frank with her. I can't deal with it anymore. Those are not the black men that I know.

William Moffitt

I don't feel like I'm abandoning the ship. ... We worked for two years getting ready for trial, and Dr. Al-Arian was not convicted of anything.

Mehdi Varzi

The question is whether OPEC allows prices to slip to a slightly lower range without formally abandoning its basket price,

Arthur Henderson

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

Joel Fuhrman

Meeting the body's micronutrient needs helps to suppress food cravings, and high-nutrient foods do not produce dangerous, addictive craving.

Steve Rhodes

Money can be as addictive as lots of other things -- drugs, sex, alcohol. There are truly money disorders.

Mary Karr

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

Victoria Jackson

I have a very addictive personality and I'm very childlike, always wanting attention.

Dave Gahan

I have a very addictive personality, so I'm even careful about wanting more of anything than I need - even chocolate.

Trip Adler

Just as it can be addictive to be in a real world bookstore or library, it's the same on the Web.

John Landgraf

We get more e-mails and mail on a daily basis about Nip/Tuck than any of our other series. It's clear that Ryan Murphy's unique vision for a show that is both addictive entertainment and a deeply penetrating critique of America's obsession with surface beauty has tapped into something very powerful.

Robert Scoble

Highlight just hasn't proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it.

John Benjamin Hickey

Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.

Sathya Baba

Man falsely imagines I am doing this , I am planning this . It is the supreme, all pervasive consciousness that motivates, unfolds the skills and operates the intellect.

Roger Penrose

So I think that the issue of how consciousness relates to the physical world is all tied up with morality but we have a lot to learn on that one.

Leo Veness

From agriculture to industry, from industry to information processing, and finally from information processing to the mind or consciousness awareness.

Deepak Chopra

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.

Deepak Chopra

What you seek, you already are.

Jay Vavricek

I have been traveling all over the state for the past six months. I would like to elevate the consciousness of voters about the congressional race and give them an opportunity to know me.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.

Robert Irwin

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.

Edmund Husserl

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.

Souza

like a ghost town. Nothing open, nobody around.

Colleen Cooke

New Orleans is a ghost town. The surface has not even been scratched.

Talulah Riley

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

Marc Berman

Ghost Whisperer. It's doing better than I thought it would be doing.

Carlos Santana

I would have had to have a ghost writer because I don't have that gift, ... She has the gift to sit down with a pen, and, as the reader, you can smell the house, taste the food, feel the lips when you get a kiss. I salute her. I always knew she could do it, and I am glad that she is in it now.

Joseph Butler

Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing

Colin Greenwood

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.

Alexander Smith

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

Susan Hill

Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.

Ronnie Reyes

We're still making mistakes that are haunting us. What do you do?

Ann Brashares

The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're all of us haunted and haunting.

Franz Kafka

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

Night Shyamalan

Some stories just resonate with you as a storyteller and never leave you. This is a story that just kept haunting me.

Lisa Kleypas

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.

Nigel Kneale

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

Walter de La Mare

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

Jonathan Lethem

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Drake Bell

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

Billy Sherwood

I was so influenced by Yes then that things started to sound very much like Yes.

E. P. Thompson

I would be naive to think that it's not going to be heavily influenced by a lot of things he's taught me.

Josh Trank

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

Michael P. Anderson

There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here.

Brendan Fletcher

'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.

David Steinberg

In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.

Roger McGuinn

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

Egyptian Proverb

Making money selling manure is better than losing money selling musk

Steven Monaco

Making friends is easy, losing them is what's hard.

Sara Stern

Losing two students is a shock to the school and to the school community.

Bradford Cohen

Losing to me is like Kryptonite to Superman.

Ronald Koeman

Losing three internationals in this match were the reason for our poor second half,

Natalie Cole

Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

Pat Summitt

Losing is one thing. Losing the way we did tonight is unacceptable.

John Buck

Losing is never easy. It ruins your day.

Jeannie Galindo

Losing is hard, and they are kids. As we get older, we have a different perspective about these things. Sometimes in the moment, the match seems more significant and important than it really is.

Elizabeth Bowen

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

Jan Eliasson

I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.

Alan Alda

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

Aristotle

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Beeban Kidron

During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.

Hideo Kojima

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.