Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Taylor

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Alan Watts

The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

Alan Bennett

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

David Sanborn

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

Buddy Holly

That'll be the day when I die.

Brunello Cucinelli

Work, which is considered an expression of a person’s value, also becomes a part of one’s spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good

Jack Kerouac

But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

Edith Wharton

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

David Icke

Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my golden rule of 'Do what you like so long as you don't impose it on others'. Authority's role should be in protecting the unwilling from the will of another. After that, they should push off and leave us alone.

Matthias Platzeck

We want the negotiations on forming a new government to proceed quickly.

David Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Chad Harbach

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Michel Onfray

We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We are protesting a new form of dictatorship and authoritarianism.

Alex Ferguson

We're in great form at the moment and looking forward to every match.

Method Man

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

Nicolas Roeg

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.

Heikki Kovalainen

I enjoy playing golf, but no, I don't think golf helps driving. It does take my mind away from driving, though; every time I play golf, I don't think about Formula 1.

Arthur Rimbaud

Misfortune was my god.

Anne Frank

Misfortunes never come singly.

A. J. Bowen

To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

Nicholas Rowe

As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great.

Nicholas Rowe

As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,/ And none could be unhappy but the great.

Philip Omondi

It was just misfortune and we are still perplexed by what happened.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

Louisa May Alcott

Everybody has their days of misfortune.

John Dryden

When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.

Alan Cooper

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

Alan Bean

It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.

Alain Robert

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Al Stewart

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Al Jourgensen

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

David Amram

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

Dave Davies

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Dave Barry

By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

Diablo Cody

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Bob Gaudio

But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.

Brad Rex

We're getting on a roll at the right time.

Tori Amos

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

Dick Ebersol

I was just swept away with how that sounded. It just rolls off your mouth.

Rob Kurz

We're on a roll right now. We can't wait to play another game.

Derek Lowe

I think it's tough for everybody. We can't just go out there and roll over and die. ... To see where we are right now is very disappointing.

Dean Waters

You just can't roll out the balls. You have to do it on the court.

Frank Molinaro

That was a tough loss. But no excuses. Now we just have to take this win and try to keep rolling through the Shore Conference.

Samuel Butler

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Saeb Erakat

Where do we go with this vicious cycle?

Dave Matthews

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

Mike James

Any dog, you put him in the corner, no matter if they're vicious or not, they're going to bite back.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.

Tori Amos

The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.