Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kiyohiko Nishimura

There is no doubt that our judgment (for a policy shift) has entered a crucial stage.

Stanley B. Prusiner

It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your most important findings.

Ashwin Sanghi

I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.

Wendee Saintsing

Walker hit crucial shots. She got everybody going. She ignited us offensively and defensively. We were able to find a groove and get focused.

Ewen Bremner

Whatever I do, it's crucial to me that I give it 100 per cent. It doesn't matter if it's a short film, stage, theatre, TV or blockbuster. It doesn't matter what level of budget or prestige it is.

Joshua Foer

We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved.

Gretchen Rubin

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

Tony Mowbray

When the match is poised at 1-1, you know one mistake could be crucial and there is an understandable nervousness. We seem to want to score the perfect goal when I'd much rather see us get scruffy ones - a toe poke or a ricochet.

Sam Allardyce

We have signed Oscar to strengthen numbers in the crucial midfield area.

Cristie Kerr

She's 16 now, so young, but she's matured quite a bit,

Mark Fox

Nick has matured and been able to make other people better.

Craig Swartout

We've come a long way. I don't want to sound braggadocio, but the team has matured so much since then.

Dennis Alejo

When you're getting matured the more responsibility you have

Trey Blue

We've matured over the year and they've been doing it all the time for us.

Andy Neff

We're not at the same place as the county. Our system has not matured to the point theirs has.

Nick Knight

I think his selection is a very shrewd one because he has matured as a cricketer this season,

Wendell Downswell

I think (Gardner) has matured tremendously. And since he has been there (at Bolton) he has been a permanent fixture in terms of his performance day in day out, week in week out, year in year out.

Brandon Miller

Brandon has matured physically and his technique. He is a top notch receiver.

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Michael Robinson

The process has been enjoyable, but at the same time, there is so much uncertainty. One day people are telling you you'll go in the second round. Next day people will say second day.

Ricky Gervais

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Bram Cohen

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

Djuna Barnes

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Dhani Jones

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Carole Bouquet

At night, I love to look in the houses. When I was little, I did that much more, when I was so bored. It might be awful in those houses, of course, but I still speculate about them in a romantic way. Its the same if you are famous: you are in the light, and most people have fantasies about you, but these fantasies have nothing to do with reality.

Carl Barat

When I said there was only one Judy Dench, I was, of course, referring to myself.

C. S. Lewis

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

Aaron Sorkin

Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.

Aaron Sorkin

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

Charlie Daniels

I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.

Charles de Lint

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

Charles Dickens

For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

Charles Caleb Colton

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Indy Uhlenhopp

We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Kami Roeder

We've seen them play, played them twice, and we know what they're all about.

Tim Finchem

I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do.

Erik King

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

Edmond H. Fischer

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

Ed Speleers

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

Lesley Nicol

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Caryl Chessman

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

Charles Spurgeon

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

Kofi Annan

Mr. Volcker has said that 'the findings do not make for pleasant reading,' and I agree.

David Graham

On paper,we should be fifth, sixth or seventh. The reality is, they have the potential to be a pleasant surprise.

Tyler Walker

(Friday) has been a pleasant day all around.

Ann Taylor

One ugly trick has often spoiledThe sweetest and the best;Matilda, though a pleasant child,One ugly trick possessed.

Ann Taylor

One ugly trick has often spoiled The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possessed.

Karl Pilkington

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

Henry J. Heinz

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

Ben Nelson

We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms.

Elie Wiesel

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

Brett Favre

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

Cathleen Schine

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

Floyd Reese

We won't exercise. You can write that if you want, though I don't think it will be a surprise to anybody.

Arturs Irbe

When we got the lead, it was a surprise for the American team.

Dede Miller

We'll see. There are still a lot of other issues. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if she did.

Charlton Heston

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

Tom Slade

She may be a big surprise for a lot of people.

Carre Otis

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Carol P. Christ

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Carol Shields

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

C. S. Lewis

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

C. S. Lewis

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

Agnes Varda

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.