Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

C. S. Lewis

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.

Richard Clarke

We want to provide a link between the classroom environment and what you are doing outside of the classroom.

Kim Anderson

We have no idea how to classify ourselves. We pull from everything -- rock, hardcore, punk, indie.

Todd Apo

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Greg Amundson

Whenever you can hold a Class A team to just three field goals you are playing pretty solid defense.

Wendy Kopp

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

Jeff Judkins

When you're up 25 points, you pull your starters out with 1:54 left in the game. It's a classy way. You don't need to rub it in.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.

Carlos Ghosn

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

Jonathan Davis

When Family Values first started it felt like music was fresh and exciting. We want to recreate that same feeling for our fans, and offer them a full day of fun and some great music.

Joyce Kesse

We want her back. Our family is aching.

Agnes Smedley

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Agnes Smedley

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

Charles Dudley Warner

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Justin Kirk

When I'm watching television or a movie, I like to see stories that are extraordinary. I don't need it be something that is, 'Well this makes more sense to me because I can see this happening to me, or this happened to me.'

Richard Shelby

The process of what happened and how it happened was very troubling, and I think it tainted the whole situation.

Thomas Ian Griffith

I'm looked upon as a theater actor who happened to know martial arts before I got into the movies.

Ellen Muth

Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore.

Mariel Hemingway

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Delos Smith

When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.

Holly Holm

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

Jon Gruden

We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year,

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Brian Wilson

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

DJ Qualls

Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky.

David Mitchell

Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.

Jane Birkin

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

Alan Rickman

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

Akshay Kumar

Kareena Kapoor is my lucky charm

Chita Rivera

I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

Brian Bosworth

I'd rather be good than lucky.

Andre Previn

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Agnes Repplier

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

Charlie Byrd

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Charlie Byrd

I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.

Charlie Byrd

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Charlie Byrd

The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.

Charlie Byrd

Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.

Charlie Byrd

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Jim Hall

We want it be as normal a setting as possible and not have them stigmatized as being retarded.

Charles de Gaulle

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Peter Rose

We've seen no disruptions. We are anticipating a normal work day.

Taylor Lautner

If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

Brian Eno

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Evangeline Lilly

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

Dita Von Teese

So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner.

Cameron Russell

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

David Winters

Weyerhaeuser is a bigger, more complicated company. They're tackling some very tough things, but some of these things you can't resolve overnight, even though Wall Street is obsessed with the short term.

Augusten Burroughs

The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.

Aaron Paul

I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

Ze Frank

I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.

Aaron Paul

I'm obsessed with concerts.

Courteney Cox

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

Connie Britton

I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.

Amanda Peet

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack.

Tiffany Thornton

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

Theresa Breslin

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

Twyla Tharp

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

Jeff Mullins

She actually trained like an old mare; she never did train like a 2-year-old, ... She's always done what we wanted her to.

Anupam Kher

You are never too old for applause. What's satisfying is that I'm being appreciated for what I was trained for.

Liang Chow

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

Steve Chizmar

Unless you are trained to use this data, it is really meaningless.

Atticus Ross

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

Spencer Boldman

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.