Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Asprin

Our mutual love of movie trivia factors occasionally in the 'Bone' character. It crops up a bit more in the 'Maestro' character.

John Sladek

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

Kenny Harrison

Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try.

Gregg Easterbrook

Playing football is obviously very strenuous. It's exhausting. You have to try very hard in football. But there's no heroic risk involved.

Mark Twain

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

John Sladek

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Tammy Bruce

We live now in a milieu that tells us anything goes, everything is okay, and all ideas and behaviours have merit. That's hogwash, and you know it.

Daddy Yankee

Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't have artists to look up to before. But the young kids now, they're looking at Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon and Ivy Queen like kids in the American 'hood look up to 50 Cent or 2Pac. I'm representing for my culture and my people. It's their music.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature.

Miriam Nelson

Our research shows that a program of strength training not only improves bone density but reduces falls, improves arthritis symptoms, and increases flexibility and strength.

John Cusack

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

Henry Rollins

Our record is all finished, ... It's mastered, and now I have to come up with artwork and a kiss-ass video for MTV. They never play our stuff anyway, so it's just a gesture. We'll pantomime through some ridiculous situation on film and the record will come out at the end of the year. It's going to be a release that no one will hear.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Stephen Phillips

Part of the problem with the previous art festivals was the weather,

Bob Taft

Passion Works is a studio where persons with mental retardation or other disabilities can create beautiful works of art and products and provide those to the community,

Kent Thompson

part vision, part coaching, part recruitment and fundraising and part conversation and collaboration. My job is to articulate the vision of the theater and to make it happen, and I know the only way I can do that is to have a lot of people joining into that vision. I view it as a serve-and-lead kind of job. The hard part is figuring out when you need to do which.

Ron Hawkins

Our research has shown that people are looking for a device designed exclusively for immersive reading.

David Wasserman

Our overriding goal is to unite the intent of the Hyde Park historic district design guidelines with our development vision.

David Boyer

Our medical staff has designed stretches for each of the jobs our people do.

Mark Jarvis

Oracle 8i is designed to be an Internet operating system.

Charles Baker

People here are really wedded culturally and emotionally to very rich plan designs relative to what you see in different parts of the country. They are just more expensive.

Charles Groat

Some of the reason levees aren't as high as they're designed to be is because they sink. We don't have a good enough handle on the rates of subsidence, and it doesn't subside everywhere at the same rate.

Harry Groves

Our team is designed for a meet like this. We have a strong team all around and should score well.

Philo

Our roadways are not designed for that kind of speed, ... Our roads are engineered for the purpose of 55 to 65 mph. Only racetracks are engineered and banked for that kind of speed.

Bill Gerstenmaier

Our system today is designed for a maximum of three to six crew, and for six just temporarily.

Jim Senall

I think this is very exciting. We're trying, as a region, to be users of alternative energy and be the designers of new technologies for this. This falls right in line with what we see as the future of our region.

Monika Chiang

I think that young British designers have a kind of fearlessness in they way they approach fashion.

Steve Roddy

Linux has quickly become one of the most popular operating systems for embedded applications. With our Diamond Standard 232L processor core, we enable designers to develop new systems with significantly reduced power requirements -- essential for handheld mobile applications.

E. B. White

I think one of the most interesting trends for spring is military. We saw it for fall, but for spring it's being shown with a floaty dress and I think it's made designers very creative, like, how do I do military but lighten it and make it soft?

Phillip Bloch

I think it's moving forward, I love to see designers mature and I think they did a great job. We know that they can do denim, so it was nice to see them do something else.

Max Azria

For me, one of the biggest designers is Azzedine Alaia. Everything he is doing is fantastic.

Christian Lacroix

Much later, designers like Dior and Saint Laurent recreated styles form the '30s and '40s.

Eric Berg

The only future for designers in Paris is to sell to a big group or to work for one,

Richard Martin

She was incredibly important. She was one of that first group in the 1930s of designers recognized by name.

Abe Badmus

He?d see us tense, like he used to be. He just emphasized us to go have fun and enjoy the moment.

Wendell Jeffries

One of the things we emphasized tonight was the third quarter. Usually we have a slow third quarter with or without the lead and we outscored them by nine and that was something we were looking for.

Melanie Gruer

The prime minister emphasized that it makes little sense to negotiate a victory that we've already won.

Dawn Seiler

We emphasized doing the things we do well. You can't go away from our strengths. When Pierre took away things, we went to our next option. The kids just wanted it (win) so much.

Ariel Sharon

We emphasized about the need for reform in the Palestinian Authority, and I think that's very important,

Al Groh

We had emphasized all week long that it was everybody's job in this game to find a way to win. What we put into it is for moments like this -- the satisfaction from accomplishment.

Bill Fennelly

Right now, it's the old shoot-not-to-miss syndrome and passing up shots. We've emphasized that you don't pass up shots; if you miss, you miss. We've had a hard time scoring, but it's never been because of our inability to make a shot.

Antony Beevor

The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.

Joe Kinch

They probably emphasized that. They were much more persistent at going inside.

Scot Roskelley

I had one or two unpleasant occurrences. I don't need to get any more graphic than that.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'

Thomas Sokolowski

He was the most sought-after graphic illustrator in New York City. He was making $150,000 a year, which is like a half-million now.

Kyrie Irving

'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I was at Ground Zero, and it was, to me, such a graphic illustration of what terrorism has done to our world.

Aisha Tyler

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

Marissa Moss

Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format.

Paula Otto

When we got it back from the graphic artists, none of us noticed that it made it a million million.

Dave Kinney

The graphics are very good, better than a lot of simulators. The avionics is what the key is. They're real avionics.

Anna Kournikova

Surfing people haven't learned anything from the I Love You virus,

H. Hart

Some of us have learned to listen when Richard A. Clarke has something to say.

Jason Lane

I think this team learned how to win.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Stephen Bull

It is amazing, I have learned a lot.

John Gibbons

It has been a long year but I look back at it more with a sense of satisfaction and optimism. I think we've learned a lot and we're ready to move forward.

Publilius Syrus

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

J. Hoover

It doesn't matter. What the referees call, they call. I've learned not to worry about that.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Joan Roscoe

It is like a documentary because she has it written day-by-day and incident-by-incident. She was a professor of English. Her writing is wonderful, wonderful writing.

Charles Johnson

wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.

Alex Hernandez

We have to look at race more often. And the professor seems to like to talk about race.

Todd Solondz

When I was making Storytelling, I couldn't watch while the violent sex scene between the student and the professor was being shot. It was too intense.

James Cronin

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

Pankaj Mishra

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

Charles Johnson

(Brown) wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.

Wystan Hugh Auden

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

Roe Hye

There is no way but that Professor Hwang has been involved.

Joel Edgerton

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

Dan Butler

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

Phil Klay

Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Bede Griffiths

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

Billy Corgan

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

Bill Crawford

When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

Bill Crawford

You never want to tie your responsibility to another's irresponsibility.

Bill Cosby

I think you need to make responsibility something that's not just a word.

Robert Battle

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

Idina Menzel

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

Poe Ballantine

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.