Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Bouquet

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

Carol Shields

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Carol Shields

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Carol White

What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Carlos Fuentes

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

Carlos Fuentes

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.

Carlos Fuentes

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

Carlos Fuentes

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

Andy Garcia

When I met him, he seemed to me a humble man who spoke through his music, and that's the way he's always been, ... He dedicated his life to his music and his art, which transcends cultures and even age.

Tony Hawk

I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

Tracy McMillan

We have this false idea in our culture that if you haven't made it by 30, then you're never going to do anything interesting. My 40s have been the most incredible time of my life.

Brian Eno

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

Robert Galvan

Venezuela is serving as a model of respect for indigenous peoples and their right to culture, land and sovereignty.

Dave Douglas

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Alan Moore

All culture must have arisen from cult.

Alan Ball

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Eric Anderson

We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible.

Anthony Davis

We have to go out, and whatever happens on one play, whether good or bad, we have to go to the next play. We gained valuable experience since the game we played them. We've executed better, so I just can't wait to see us putting it out there.

Chris Carpenter

We have a solid staff and we have five guys that have experience and know how to pitch. It's going to be a fun year. We've still got to go out and play the games, but we have the potential. We'll see how it plays out.

Zhang Ning

We have no specific expectations about how far we will go now. We just want the players to keep learning from the experience of taking part in these international matches.

Sal Fasano

Whenever you don't have fastball command, it's pretty tough to get everything else to work. If anything, it's a good learning experience to know that the fastball is the most important pitch you throw.

Annette Brown

We want people to experience as much as they can instead of talking at them, lecturing at them, or reading information to them.

Gayle Devin

We were trying to be everything to everyone. My experience tells me that sometimes that doesn't work. You can't really differentiate yourself in the marketplace.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Tara VanDerveer

We have played more games on the road ... we've had that experience already. We're ready to play, and we know we have to play well.

Joan Baez

I was going to say thank you for inviting me but I already had my plane ticket.

Gloria Steinem

Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.

Emma Roberts

What is Twitter?! I don't know what Twitter is! Everyone keeps inviting me to Twitter and everyone's going on about twittering and tweeting and this whole thing, and I just don't understand it.

Nacho Figueras

Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.

Kevin Russell

How many people did you say you were inviting to dinner?

Laura Stankiewicz

Vince Vaughn is very personable. He was just so comfortable on stage improving, inviting students on stage and interacting with the audience.

Mike Richter

Thank you for inviting me here for Mark Messier night, sponsored by Kleenex.

Chace Crawford

Really, I'm pretty laid-back, always cracking jokes.

Jeff Roberts

We've got a master trail system that has ? laid down on a map ? hundreds of miles of what will someday be trails.

Ed Widdifield

When I was laid off I didn't even know what a resume was.

John Browning

We remain well on track to meet all the new targets laid out in July.

Scott Winfrey

She completely laid out. She saved us three runs.

Sally Kempton

Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions is woman

Tim Johnson

So far, we've laid 5,000 tons of rock and about 300 yards of grout.

Hassan Adams

We laid it on the line. I have no regrets.

Martin Frost

never laid out as a requirement for deals.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Jeong Kim

We have a woman who tied for third place in the national spelling be as a kid, and just really wanted to come back and do this.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Eric Swalwell

I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet.

Don Cooper

We did everything we can do with these guys. They're like the National Guard. They're on 24-hour call.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

Kofi Annan

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Garth Jowett

Woodruff is a public personality with wide public recognition. He's a national story.

Alexander Ovechkin

For sure, Pavel Bure was my hero. I was very young, but I remember this moment. I recorded the game.

Glenn Hughes

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.

Brendon Urie

I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'

Dennis Brown

Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.

Jim Messina

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

Christina Aguilera

I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.

Jim Ed Brown

When I started in '54, it was only one track on a quarter-inch machine. We didn't have recording studios much around the country; we went into the radio stations and recorded our records.

Kate Smith

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Mahathir Mohamad

I read that the investigation is not complete. Statements have yet to be recorded from several other people,

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alvin Copeland

We've won state championships when we haven't won region. It's not over.

Jessica Smith

We have so many fatalities in our state from impaired drivers. This is another tool to get them off our roadways.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Abby Wambach

I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

Rick Adelman

We're just trying to make sure somebody's on him all the time.

Brooke Adams

With this one I just want to make sure it was OK.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

I. Stone

What we're really trying to do is to make sure when they get to kindergarten, they are better prepared, because for many of them, there is nothing until they get to kindergarten.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

John Small

She didn't do the crime, but she sure can do the thyme!

Mike Holmgren

Let's just wait on that and make sure what's written and what's said is correct.

C. S. Lewis

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

C. S. Lewis

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

C. S. Lewis

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

C. S. Lewis

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Alan Sugar

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Alan Kay

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Charlotte Bronte

Conventionality is not morality.

Charlie Chaplin

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

Charles de Gaulle

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.