Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stanley

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

John Ryding

The plunge in durable goods orders in January is entirely due to volatility in transportation. The underlying details of this report are much stronger than the headline.

Bryan Whitman

We are looking into what information -- and in what detail -- was provided to the commission, but as I understand it, at least some of this information was provided.

Edward Gibbon

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Norman Finkelstein

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.

Richard Rhodes

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.

Mike Goodman

What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future.

Jami Attenberg

What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

Orlando Dominguez

The person is fine, he just drove up to the scene.

Kate Mulgrew

When you turn 50, you realize that the better part of your life is past, ... Mothers usually don't get to spend five weeks with their 21-year-old son. We drove all over the place.

Kurt Backes

When he drove (Woodall) over in that last period, I just felt tingles down my spine and I was looking forward to my match.

Steve Dixon

When he drove there, he went up to the house, spent 12, 13 minutes in the house when no one was home,

Mick Jagger

When we drove up, he was out front, scalping T-shirts and selling a few tickets,

Richard Kovalcheck

When we get the running game going, everything ... just gets in a rhythm. It doesn't even feel like we drove 80 yards down the field, it goes by so quick.

Erica Cerra

I grew up in Vancouver and my father drove me to every single one of my acting lessons, auditions, and jobs.

Dennis Dinsmore

She drove away from there. That was the last time she was seen. She did not return to her home on Hall Way.

Zach Randolph

When I drove to the hole I couldn't really get off the ground. It's hurting really bad. I ain't got no lift, nothing.

Charles Stross

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

Akshay Kumar

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

David Cunliffe

I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealands economic performance.

Dave Barry

The reason it's called "Grape Nuts" is that it contains "dextrose," which is also sometimes called "grape sugar," and also because "Grape Nuts" is catchier, in terms of marketing, than "A Cross Between Gerbil Food and Gravel," which is what it tastes like.

Aimee Bender

You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.

Dick Cavett

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.

Dennis Miller

Some people like M&Ms plain, and some people like them with nuts.

Bess Truman

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.

Bertrand Russell

Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [...] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration of the Sphinx; and the devotee of nuts by pointing out that hazelnuts and walnuts are as deleterious as other foods and only Brazil nuts should be tolerated. But when I was younger I had not yet acquired this technique, with the result that my contacts with cranks were sometimes alarming.

David Suzuki

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

Reid Hoffman

Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.

Brian Chesky

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

Ginni Rometty

We're about to scale something now that couldn't have been scaled before.

Anne Hathaway

On the scale of someone who's really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter.

Ann Voskamp

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Geoffrey West

Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.

Cindy Moore

We are scaling it back. It's going to go off but not on the scale of $20,000.

David Eagleman

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Eoin Colfer

Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?

Jack Kerouac

And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.

Tilman J. Fertitta

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.

William Goldman

Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.