Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chandra Fernando

There are casualties but the fate of the commander is not known yet. He was critically wounded.

Constance White

We still want to keep our casual look, but now people want something extra and interesting. Not just a hoodie, but one that's fun or even intellectual.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm a compulsive note-taker, and I used to feel self-conscious about pulling out my little notebook and taking notes during a casual conversation. Then I noticed that people really seemed to enjoy it; the fact that I was taking notes made their remarks seem particularly insightful or valuable. Now I don't hold myself back.

Bryan Whitman

we have no indications that the allegations of civilian casualties is accurate.

Connie Maina

Whenever there is a drought, the first casualties are usually hippos who live in the water.

Monica Mitro

Whether she's casual or red carpet, she's put together.

Les Claypool

As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing.

Lea Thompson

Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.

Thorne Smith

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.

Greg Wittrock

She's obsessed with cleaning. I think she has OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder about dirt.

Tony Fadell

We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We're totally obsessive compulsive - when we see an idea, we're like, 'let me in, it's so much fun.'

Michael Gray

I'm always looking for a good deal. I'm meaner than a woman as far as going shopping. I'm a compulsive shopper.

Trisha Meili

I had issues. I was a compulsive runner. I had an eating disorder. And I needed to look at that ... how to get peace with that in a way, and how to deal with not being the same person that I was before the attack, and come to some peace that that's OK -- that different doesn't mean worse.

Source Unknown

Have you heard about the latest 12 step group for compulsive talkers? It's called ... On and On Anonymous.

Keith Henson

The rewards that compulsive gamblers get are only one step removed from exogenous chemicals, unless you are a big winner.

Cynthia Voigt

I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.

Michael Platt

It seemed very, very similar to the experience of people who are compulsive gamblers, ... While it's always dangerous to anthropomorphize, it seemed as if these monkeys got a high out of getting a big reward that obliterated any memory of all the losses that they would experience following that big reward.

Ruth Rendell

I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

C. P. Scott

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

David Sedaris

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

Louis C. K.

Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

David Duchovny

Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.

Charlie Munger

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

Benjamin Franklin

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

Brian Tracy

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Dave Ramsey

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

Carl Sagan

Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future.

Chad Harbach

Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you've written in your notebook. It's there on the page and either feels right or it doesn't, and it's hard sometimes to go beyond that and discover why it feels that way.

Chad Harbach

Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

Charles de Lint

I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.

Charles de Lint

Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.

Charles de Lint

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.

Cherrie Moraga

A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.

Billy Collins

I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.

Andrea Walker

When they (the committee) started, I noticed they didn?t have any students on the committee,

Randy Pausch

If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Al Lewis

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.

Al Boliska

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Penelope Mitchell

My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy things.

Heather Casey

My three-year-old is talking better, and people have noticed my twins communicating better.

Dave Lewis

I wish I had noticed the teammate's number so I could tell you his name. He is a true American hero.

Doug Bruno

You know, I noticed that she went smaller, but I don't think it made a difference.

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?

Kenny Graham

We started pulling some of the starters even though it was only 2-0 but you have to look at the big picture.

Bill Maher

New polls show that Obama is now pulling away from Mitt Romney. And, of course, what could be more natural than to see Mitt Romney and pull away?

John W. Thompson

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them. We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

John Thompson

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them, ... We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

Darrell Waltrip

Since I'm in Seattle, I'm pulling for Seattle!

Glen Flanagan

We'd keep pulling away and they'd reel us back in.

Kim Kalama

Right now, at least they're doing the cleanup. That's very necessary. They're pulling out the tree from the sinkhole.

Bob Reece

I think it's a storybook thing. Everyone is pulling for Brandon.

Rick Hill

He was pulling in six figures. It didn't look like working together was in the cards.

Richard Durbin

He has the right to say what he believes, ... but all of us should be denouncing these remarks as totally irresponsible.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

David Carradine

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

Terry Kratovil

Nothing ever seemed to ruffle him. He always had a smile. He was always cheerful.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Alex Hernandez

I don't know what happened, ... Every thing seemed to be going well, but Wilson was just too fast.

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Joseph Bruno

years and years. He was not taking anything.

Lynsey Addario

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Angelo Reyes

We are concerned. We are taking the appropriate measures, but we are not panicking.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

David Ramsey

The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.

Mohammed Kamal

We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.

Hans Vestberg

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.