Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Barton

The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.

Leos Carax

When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.

Herbert A. Simon

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

Floyd Abrams

While Judy Miller sat in jail for 85 days and Mr. Libby knew that she was doing it to protect him, no call came in from him, no letter arrived from him,

Gerry McGhee

When we arrived on the scene, the home was totally involved.

Caron Butler

When we arrived in Cleveland (Monday) we were in the back of the bus and we said we know Gilbert is going to come out and have a big game, so it's on us. We didn't play well in the first game.

Robert Wagner

When we arrived at the scene, there were four people still in the 2003 Ford Expedition,

Peter Clarke

We know he traveled from West Yorkshire and arrived in London with three other men, ... We need to know his movements until 9:47 a.m.

Chris Anderson

We want to make them feel they've arrived at a resort. We want to make their way easier.

Konrad Hilbers

We are pleased to have secured such an important element in creating our new service, one that will benefit songwriters, artists and consumers alike.

Billy Joel

There are certain artists who have taken it upon themselves to save the world, and I find that gets tiresome. I think the artist's first obligation is to the art, not to the issues . . . I think if I have something to say the best way to do that is just to tell a damn good story.

Hedda Sterne

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

Leslie Allen

We want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists,

Jose Gonzalez

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

Nathan Sawaya

What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

Nicholas Haslam

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

Kathy Savitt

We believe that Bill Maher's interviews with some of the world's most renowned and up-and-coming artists and entertainers will offer customers unique insight into the motivations and inspirations behind the books, films, and music they love.

Richard Duffy

We felt it was important for people to have that part of their life available in the Helena community. Now there are many artists here in the Helena community. There are artists who have moved here for that very reason.

Alexis McGee

We also train our investor clients to develop win-win scenarios that benefit both the homeowner in distress and the investor. That way the troubled homeowner can sell their way out of foreclosure and conserve some equity for a new start, and the investor can realize a reasonable profit on resale of the home. That's much better than seeing the owner lose everything in an auction on the courthouse steps.

Gerald Lucas

Whether that's bad news for the upcoming auctions depends on whether you take a cup-half-empty or cup-half-full perspective.

Mayor Mazzarella

We would try to block the auction if they try to sell the license. It's city policy that we do that. The license is for the business that you give it to.

Tohru Sasaki

Should foreign investors, who have helped fund U.S. twin deficits, show weaker demand at the 10-year auction and the trade deficit widens, that may make it easier to sell the dollar.

Britney Spears

Since bidding for my jewel-encrusted bra in the eBay charity auction has exceeded our original expectations, I'm concerned that some of you may be confusing this bra for something that it's not.

Craig King

Mr. McKenzie has an incredible track record in developing the Lake Fork area, and this auction will enable him to sell a substantial portion of his inventory in a single day. With 28 sites selling absolute, it's a rare opportunity for some people to obtain a site for their lake home at a great price.

Mark Davis

We hope to serve over 100 dinners tonight and we would really like to thank the local businesses that donated the silent auction items.

Soichiro Kimura

Yesterday's auction showed strong demand for debt and people were looking for a reason to buy.

Cyril Beuzit

We've seen there's demand for longer-dated securities. The auction will go quite well today.

Gretchen Rubin

Take care of difficult calls or emails as quickly as possible. Procrastinating just makes it harder; getting them done gives a big boost of relieved energy.

Peter Bell

We want to provide that service in a way that reduces our dependence on foreign oil, is less injurious to the environment, and really gives a boost to our local economy.

David Stewart

With the Internet being such an essential business communication tool, the NB750 provides small and medium businesses with a safety net that is simple and cost-effective to implement, helps save money and boost productivity.

Art Hogan

We're getting an oversold bounce. Telecoms are getting a boost because of the AT&T Wireless (news), ... Investors are going to buy those tech stocks that we're not necessarily worried about.

Curt Berger

We're real excited about sending 11 to state. We also got a big boost from our junior varsity wrestlers, which is what you need to win a district championship.

J. Taylor

VCG is excited that The Hobart West Group chose our StaffSuite solution to meet its business needs, ... We are confident that they will realize a tremendous boost in their productivity when it is fully implemented.

LaToya London

We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't have them, so many people would be coming at me right now and I wouldn't know what to do.

Justin Turner

This will probably boost that number by 15 percent.

John Smoltz

Whenever you see a rash of new guys coming through, you never imagine they can contribute the way that they did. I think it's a great boost of confidence for them to be able to feel that no matter what happens this year, they have the capability to be a big part of our organization.

Cleve Ryan

The other team has scored more than we have, and that's the bottom line.

Alan Pardee

We are going to see a slow fading away of some of the funds in the bottom half of the performance rankings.

Edmund Stoiber

We are at the bottom of European economic growth, ... Schroeder had four years to fight unemployment and did nothing.

Bob Goin

We reinstated the guy. The bottom line is that he was cleared and he's back on the job. Now go do what you've got to do.

Chris Hoffman

We're in crisis - we're not meeting demand, and that's the bottom line,

Christopher Thornberg

We're in a housing-driven economy from top to bottom at this point in time.

Jose Canseco

We spoke about it quite in depth. And-you know when I op-when-when I rejoined the team back in '97, we'd be working out-talking about it. You know we'd go into clubhouses and do steroids. Bottom line.

Alan Curbishley

We have said to all the teams down the bottom we have done our hardest.

Alexandre Burrows

We have to have a better power play, that's the bottom line. We've got to get it done (tomorrow).

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

David Guterson

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

Cesare Pavese

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

David Riesman

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Edward Kennedy

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

Mike Rush

When you say goodbye to so many great volunteers, it's always hard, but it's good to know there's always a new generation of leaders emerging.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Bob Barr

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

Alan Moore

Life isn't divided into genres

David Shields

Genre is a minimum security prison,

Billy Gibbons

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

Carlos Fuentes

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

M. J. Rose

When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

Thomas Ligotti

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

Emraan Hashmi

I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now.

Kathy Najimy

It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.

Tom Selleck

I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

Larry Brilliant

I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

George Crook

But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.

Bodhidharma

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Sundar Pichai

What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.

Dayananda Saraswati

Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.

Aasif Mandvi

That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin.

J. Hoover

You'd like to see Indiana State a little later on in the schedule, but what are you going to do? We just have to get ourselves ready for that match. No excuses.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

Matt Will

No one is better situated than we are in Indiana to do this.

Al Ries

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

Akon

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Mike Butters

We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.

Chris Cooper

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Greg Stuart

We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Bill Porter

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

Tom Coulson

When we first opened we had only six school buses. Now we have 24.

Butch Klein

When I got there, he opened the back of his vehicle and it was just packed,

Nigel Hamilton

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.

Ben Okri

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.

Djimon Hounsou

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Damien Rice

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

Winfried Vahland

When Octavia was introduced in India in 2001, it had opened up new segments.

I. Stone

We opened May 2, and by the third week in June, we were selling out, ... Wicked.

Peggy Laskowski

We opened it up to the community, and it went pretty well. It was a lot of fun.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Bob Riley

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money

Bill Walsh

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

John Baumann

We're just getting our first results back. So far, so good.

Alexandra Adornetto

Find x if (x)=2sin3x,over the domain -2piX=Beth 'Stop goofing around!',I said. 'I'm not! I'm stating the truth.You're my solution to everything',Xavier replied. 'The end result is always you.X always equals Beth.

Timothy Noah

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Alan Parsons

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!

Lucas Till

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.

David Reuben

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

David Remnick

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

David Duke

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

Ben Whishaw

My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'

Edgar Cayce

Russia will become beacons of hope for the world.

Agnes Smedley

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Agnes Smedley

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Alexander Milinkevich

This is a sheer farce, this is not a real trial.

Ron Faust

The sheer volume of Vietnam veterans now is overwhelming.

Harvey Fierstein

It's through sheer will that I can sing.

Charles Simonyi

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

Charles Stross

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

Charles Spurgeon

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

Alan Watts

As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

Akon

I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.

Chogyam Trungpa

The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle

Chinua Achebe

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

Chick Corea

You've got to create the space, then fill it.