Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug Liman

More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what was taken from Robert Ludlum's novel.

Doug Liman

The more real I got on 'The Bourne Identity,' the more interesting it got. So 'Fair Game' was the chance to go a few more steps in that direction. In fact, I discovered this whole other world that I had ignored in the 'Bourne' franchise, which is the domestic life of a spy, and how you make the two halves of your life coexist.

Doug Liman

I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.

Matt Damon

Right before The Bourne Identity came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

Platon

I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

Pierce Brosnan

Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking.

Matt Damon

Before 'The Bourne Identity' opened, 'The Legend of Bagger Vance' and 'All the Pretty Horses' had been huge bombs, ... I went eight months without getting an offer.

Julia Stiles

The thing with the Bourne movies is that they're so big in scope and the production value is so high and it takes so much organization.

Steve Wingfield

We want to take it to a community and give everyone a chance to come on board.

Martin Gerber

We knew they were a desperate team. This is their last chance to make it. I thought we were confident going into the game. We lost a little step in the first period. Things just didn't go our way.

Rosemary Palmer

We knew. They didn't even get a chance to knock.

Jon Nebel

We knew they'd come out hard in the third. They created a chance early and put it away.

Ronald Steele

We know we've got to win a couple more to have a chance to make the NCAA tournament.

Abbie Letz

We know we messed up there and didn't play well at all. We made a lot of mistakes and didn't focus. This is our chance to fix that.

Maurice Garner

We know we have to step it up now. One loss and the chance for the city championship goes out the window.

Mike McGann

We know we have to play a perfect game to have a chance to win. We've got to prepare and give it all we've got.

Raul Gonzalez

We know we haven't got much chance of the league but what we have depends on us winning in Barcelona. We need to have the conviction that we can do it and in the dressing room the feeling is there.

Michel Onfray

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Brene Brown

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.

Nell Newman

What I discovered was that just by eating normally, we all have background levels of contaminants.

Apparat

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

Stefan Sagmeister

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Tom Cotton

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

Tina Fey

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

Schalk Bornman

She was discovered by a staff member at the hotel. There is no evidence of a struggle or forced entry.

Teilhard Chardin

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.

Maajid Nawaz

The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.

Adi Godrej

We started the 10/10 objective in 2011, and that time, our turnover was about Rs. 15,000 crore. We would like to have a turnover of Rs. 1,50,000 crore by 2021. This will be through high growth in domestic and international operations as well as through acquisitions.

Attorney Garnati

We have scraped together the $9,500 to keep the doors open until March 31. We need a miracle to save our domestic violence program, and in turn, save women and children.

Pat Camden

We're being told there's an order of protection in place, and as I said, it's an ongoing domestic situation.

Joey Rodriguez

We've survived hurricanes ever since the domestic shrimp industry began. The only thing we haven't been able to survive is the dumping of imported shrimp.

Therese Fowler

My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship - especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the cooking, dishes, and laundry, while I do most of the yard work. I love to mow the lawn! And I take great satisfaction in planting and pruning.

David Wyss

We might have a lower unemployment rate and a somewhat lower gross domestic product, but it wouldn't be a huge impact.

Wasim Bari

We have included Iqbal because of his prolific form in domestic matches.

Ian Stewart

Loose monetary policy is working its way through the economy and what started as an export recovery is broadening out into domestic demand. There have been false dawns before but this does look encouraging.

Shelden Williams

We knew they were a team that wasn't going to go away. They saw that scoreboard and saw they were only down a few points.

Sara Parson

Very few of my opponents underestimate me. It doesn't matter if I can see them if they're on their back.

Tod Ruhstaller

Very few miners got rich. It was the businessmen who made the money.

Ross Levinsohn

Very few companies can perform at scale over the course of decades, and Yahoo has done that.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

Adam Mansbach

Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.

Bryan Adams

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Luke Pasqualino

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Michael Weatherly

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

JaJuan Smith

We just couldn't get two halves at the time when we needed it most.

Michael Schlacter

This is one of the coldest back halves of March we've had in a while.

Guy Smith

It's been like that since we were freshmen. We know our first halves aren't always our best. We know we have to step it up in the second.

Bertrand Russell

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Joe Schwarzer

Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,

Steve Ross

I think they said they were looking to read the law more aggressively than it has ever been read before. It was a mistake for them to pursue this matter. They ignored the original intent of the statute.

Patterson Hood

Most everything on it is real new. Lord knows I've got a backlog of songs, but when we went into the studio I pretty much ignored it. Everything else we've written since we started recording.

Alexa Von Tobel

Money shouldn't be worshiped and it shouldn't be ignored.

Agatha Christie

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Bonnie Raitt

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

Clive Sinclair

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

Peter Schuyler

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Charlie Chaplin

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Lint

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

David Allen

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

Dave Gibbons

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Bear Grylls

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

Antonis Samaras

Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.

Denzel Washington

One failed experiment is one step closer to Success

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

Bellamy Young

There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.