Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Reeves

When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.

George Osborne

Working in the Major government, we all saw, pretty close at hand - perhaps closer than a junior minister - the problems that the party was facing, ... Those who learned the lessons, and those who didn't. I did. I still for the life of me can't work out why Blair and Brown didn't. The euro would be like an ERM that we couldn't even leave.

Robert Fisk

The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.

Kenneth Clarke

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

George MacDonald Fraser

Tony Blair is not just the worst prime minister we've ever had, but by far the worst prime minister we've ever had. It makes my blood boil to think of the British soldiers who've died for that little liar.

Anthony King

Whereas last year there was a clear popular preference for Mr Brown over Mr Blair as Prime Minister, that has now all but vanished.

Michael Williams

To bring my image back up in that light seemed to sort of take me back into that whole frame of time where I was the Blair Witch guy. I was the kid that they didn't know whether or not he was acting.

Gerry Adams

To bring about change in this situation, it needs to be driven. Mr. Trimble is a learner-driver, and cannot be left in the driving seat. Mr. Blair has to drive the change forward on every issue that has been mapped out. ...

Will Tudor

I used to do prank calls as these people and try to convince certain hoteliers that I was someone else. At the time, I used to do people like Tony Blair and William Hague. It was very good fun hearing people kind of thinking, 'Hmm, is that who I think it is?'

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

China Mieville

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

David Miliband

...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better

David Rakoff

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

Natalie Massenet

Net-a-Porter offers catwalk fashion and trend-driven shopping, but for Mr Porter, while fashion is still important, style is key.

Elfriede Jelinek

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

Dave Roberts

Richard will be riding for Mr Pipe, that is correct.

Gerd Langguth

Mrs Merkel has always been underestimated. She has an uncompromising will to succeed. She always seems to know what to do next and then get on with it.

Jane Austen

My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

Jane Austen

I am not romantic, you know; I never was.

Jane Austen

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

Jane Austen

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Jane Austen

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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?

Van Coleman

He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.

George Black

We think we've got a system that will work and we'll try to get it as polished as we can.

China Machado

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

Holly Tachovsky

She would not sugarcoat it for you. It was always very practical and real-world.

Baruch Spinoza

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Bruce Graham

What we need to do is sell this idea (to the town). It's not going to sell as a 'Save the Church' (proposal). The way we need to present it to the town is to find a sensible, practical use for this structure.

Rick Snyder

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

John Taylor

From a practical standpoint, most Americans don't live there.

Barry Schwartz

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

Al Jarreau

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'

Paul Hubbert

Theoretically, they still have time to do it, but from a practical standpoint, I don't think they are going to let it happen.

Ron Chapman

We are seeing a relief rally but there will be problems throughout the year and we're going to see a lot of volatility in the U.S. and Europe.

Dan McCanta

We know by season what some of our problems could be.

Alyce Wiedner

We've never had an argument. We've never had any problems.

Bubba Tyer

Luckily, there were no problems with his shoulder at all.

Simon Crisford

She had a lot of little problems in the winter and then more in the spring,

Aguri Suzuki

Since we launched the team in a short period, assorted problems are rising and there are many things that should be solved.

M. Thompson

She understands the problems we have up here. I know she doesn't have the solutions, but she's willing to look for them. I'm a supporter - 100 percent. One thousand percent.

David Bonior

We're not going away, ... These problems aren't going to go away.

Cindy Clough

We still have the same problems we had 30 years ago.

Miriam Kramer

His rhetoric on everything has been this legislature is spending too much. He also has some pretty significant philosophical differences.

Michael Whitaker

Some of the rhetoric has been embarrassing, even xenophobic.

John Fund

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

Gary Hufbauer

The rhetoric will be stepped up on trade.

Harley Shaiken

The rhetoric is much different this time - this time they're really out to get each other.

Mario Cuomo

There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.

Michael Kazin

It's a war only because we've got the rhetoric of wartime.

Robert Iger

They want the rhetoric to end and they want to concentrate on what they do best.

Paul Ryan

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

Charlie Kaufman

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Sal Viveros

Most U.S. users updated their anti-virus solutions because of Melissa, so they are safe.

Neil Jackson

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

Emmanuel Jal

Education is the only solution for peace.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Point at solutions instead of at each other.

Gregory Nunn

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.