Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Hill

The potential consequences of an attack are just too catastrophic to ignore,

Lisa Sampson

The personal attacks and the attacks on the group are inappropriate.

Rob Schilling

The perception coming in is that you're going to be opening yourself up to personal attacks and ridicule from other councilors.

Chris Patten

We are profoundly disappointed that Zimbabwe's parliament has passed this law, which represents a fundamental attack on media freedom,

Steve Turner

We started to attack the rim and we got to the free throw line.

Doug Galloway

We started shooting better and started attacking offensively and defensively.

Ann Cooper

We are alarmed that state-run media are publicly attacking this newspaper. We are gravely concerned about the safety of Le Journal's staff, and call on the government to take steps to ensure their security.

Pat Lynch

We believe that the nearly 3,000 people who perished during the worst single attack this nation has ever seen deserve the respect and honor of a memorial that will never denigrate America.

Vincent Brooks

We believe that the attack was effective in causing destruction of that facility. ... As to who was inside and what their conditions are, it will take some time before we can make that full determination.

Charles Simic

A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

J. M. Roberts

She provides instant defense. And she can get a steal at any time.

Andrew Motion

The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact.

Heidi Range

When we all met her, we instantly knew she was the only person to share the rest of the journey with us.

Lisa Unger

I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant gratification, or all the little things that you can do with them.

Chad Hurley

People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.

Francis deSouza

We are looking at integrating instant messaging in every application we can.

Alfred North Whitehead

There is no nature in an instant.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Peter Quinn

We are not locking ourselves into any set of technologies, ... We're looking at a standard format. There are a number of technologies that can accommodate the format.

Martin Freeman

As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene.

William Lambert

You've got these tell-tale signs. People are locking it up unexpectedly.

Paul Nieto

This is not locking us into a particular idea or solution.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Andrew Klink

When we got that fumble, that was the turning point.

Joel Edgerton

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Albert Camus

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Dawn French

Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.

Jack Olsen

We're turning over every rock, so to speak.

Bjork

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.