Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Fixx

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Michael Pachter

My guess is they want to sell high- definition discs. You want to get the high-definition monitor owners drooling. It's clever marketing.

Robert Harris

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.

Tina Brown

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

Edsger Dijkstra

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Warren Spector

From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

Elizabeth Bowen

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.

Sarah Pinborough

Monsters don't scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it's a great medium for horror.

Mike Birbiglia

Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.'

Jai Courtney

I don't handle creepy crawlers well. I had a spider problem at a house in Australia, and one of my female friends had to come rescue me from it.

D. James

I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.

Marilyn Monroe

Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

Richie Benaud

'Mullygrubber' is an Australian term which means something that creeps along the ground; it's like a little grub.

William Shakespeare

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death

Mark Eaton

We've done it plenty of times this year, come back in the third. We had a (four-game) losing streak there and we knew this was a key game for us because teams are creeping up on us.

Paul Di Filippo

You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of a sudden the glaciers are creeping down on you.

Alfred de Vigny

Let us dream that once upon a time have lived men stronger and greater, who were more determined for good or for evil; that does us good.

Adoniram Judson

Love to Jesus is a sure title to the greatest possible happiness; for Jesus is omnipotent and has determined to make his friends happy, and surely will not forget a single one in whose heart is enkindled one spark of love.

Rich Thompson

Many races were determined by less than half a second in another exciting, full-house meet.

Daniel Costa

Much of the world's weather is determined by what happens in the Antarctic, so understanding the Southern Ocean is a key to understanding global climate.

Rep. Caruso

No one is excluded. But at this point, we haven't determined which individuals we want before the committee.

Tara Stewart

My great grandmother was feisty. She was determined to be around forever.

Matt Millen

Maybe it took me a while to really understand that. But I do understand it now, and if anything, you're more resolute and more determined and more, to be honest with you, downright ticked off to get this thing done.

Phil Jackson

Obviously the game was determined by Howard leaving so early. That took a lot of energy away from them and we played well as a group.

Frank Gonzalez

If a terrorist's determined enough, he'll find a way. I think some of the rules went too far, like (prohibiting) nail files. But people got used to it. So why not just leave it alone?

Spike Jonze

On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.

Pia Zadora

I'd like to keep going, to keep exploring. It's like anything else there's no way you can reach any kind heights or potential in your first film.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

Jiles Smith

We need to work with them to get the height down to three stories.

John Jay

We can be undersized and play. We do sacrifice some height and girth when we have to slide down with more lean guys. Where we are now, I'm going to try and get as much time as I can out of each starter.

Caitlin Flanagan

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

August Wilson

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

Edward Gorey

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

Calvin Harris

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

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.

John Grace

Macquarie may have to raise the offer. It's a question of what shareholders want.

John Hunter

set out systematically to question every established process.

John Fitzgibbon

Semiconductors have always done well, ... The question is how well.

James Rubin

Mr. Haider is still going to be governor, as I understand the reports, and still going to be in the party. So the question is what the party's role will be in the Austrian government.

Jeffery Smith

Now, there's not a question about it. They know that to participate at Woodward, you have to have a helmet.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.

Robert Shaffer

There are many different types of logging. The question is, how much is enough?

Francis Gaskins

If they're profitable, they could go public. The question is, if they want to.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

Jay Zygmunt

Sit around and wait. At least it's the same rules for everybody.

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Grant Teaff

What will come out of this is there will be uniform rules set.

Ron Krumer

There are no rules to how long it could take to go away. It could take one day, it could take two days, it could take two weeks.

Mayor Baker

My rules are simple. Treat everyone fairly. Treat everyone with respect.

Kevin McGrath

We all have to live within the rules.

Paul Archey

Eligibility rules are still being discussed. It will be similar to the IBAF rules.

Nancy Denton

There's something about the rules; you still have to score a run to win.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Alexandra Fuller

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Dennis Quaid

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

Dave Rowntree

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Jimmy Rollins

I got things to do. I'm not going to watch baseball, I play it.

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.

Mark Schmidt

Oh, yeah, I'll watch it when we get back to school. We don't stop.

Linda Thompson

Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.

Virat Kohli

'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.