Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Guzy

When I'm photographing, I think - like any rescue worker who deals with tragedy - you have to have some protective barrier around your heart so you can do your job. You tend to have a delayed reaction to things. I feel things more deeply after I put the camera down.

Scott Aukerman

What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.

Suzanne Fields

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

Emily Smith

We know each other, we visit each other and in times of crisis, we pull together. We cannot let the barriers of language or culture or custom come between us. We are united in the call for justice. We know that every good work is rewarded ten-fold.

Atharva Veda

Verily, every creature lives there, the cow, the horse, and man, where this charm is performed, as the (protecting) barrier for life.

Elliot Perlman

In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure my work will change things much, but at the very least, you want to make people feel that they are not alone.

Kim Jee-woon

Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.

Kathleen Sebelius

What we've been finding is that when you remove the barriers to innovation, you can actually hold costs down while lifting entrepreneurs up and getting better health results.

Ma Jun

When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

Carlos Fuentes

I love having critics for breakfast

Sandy Millman

We have seating, do breakfast and more full service lunches.

Stan Heath

We have to get ready to play on Saturday and fight for a win. We have to create our own breaks and get to the point where we're greedy with a lead.

Derek Jeter

We have no excuses. We got all the breaks to get to this point. We had our chance.

Lucy Dalglish

What these open government laws do is break down that wall of government secrecy so that everybody knows what's going on. A democracy can only function if we have information. You can only have oversight of government if you have information.

Manu Ginobili

Whenever you are in a good streak, feeling good about yourself, you like to keep playing. But it's good to have a break after the back-to-back (games). We were kind of tired today, so its good to have a couple of days off.

Kurt Eichenwald

Whenever someone says zygotes are babies, I reply: 'Imagine a thousand zygotes in test tubes in one room, and three toddlers in another. A fire breaks out, and you only have time to get to one room. Which would you save from burning - the zygotes or the children?'

J. Hoover

When you see a guy break as many tackles as he does, it gets the whole offense going, and we all feed on that.

Billy Hunter

When you saw him break down, that was heartfelt. That was from the heart. Now I wonder what people will say about the image of NBA players. I think this is indicative of where our guys really are.

Carl Edwards

It's not supposed to be easy. It's not supposed to be driving down the interstate.

Tracy Harris

When you run with those girls every day, you can't help but get better and that is what is driving them.

Bob Krueger

We want everyone to get home safely who may be impaired from driving for any reason.

Joe Pitts

Ultimately, this could mean more jobs and more investments in Clarksville. There are no specific projects in the works right now that are driving this, but we hope to find one after this passes to somewhat use as a 'guinea pig' to help work out the process.

Dave Barry

Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

David Swanson

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

Laila Robins

I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.

Nick Pisca

We started driving around together as soon as we got our licenses. We love to drive.

Elbert Hatchett

This sudden jump turned her driving experience upside down and her whole world upside down. She lost the most precious thing there was to her. Her intoxication had nothing to do with that.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

M. Wolfe

We have never had prices so high and increase so quickly.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Alan Meeder

When you say you get 130 or 140 high school kids together, people say you must be insane.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

John Freeman

The real issue is how high does that threshold need to be.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Stephen Colletti

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

Carol Leifer

I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain.

Carlos Castaneda

"Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings." Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness. "This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom."

Carlos Castaneda

... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

C. S. Lewis

Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

C. S. Lewis

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

Nick Brown

When you're young, you recover fast. I can take a lot of pain.

Agnes Repplier

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

Agnes Repplier

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

Charlotte Bronte

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers

Charles Dickens

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Charles Caleb Colton

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

Sergio Perez

Pastor is a driver who doesn't respect other drivers.

Dave Barry

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

Bryan Singer

What we call evil doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Cary Grant

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Carole King

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

Callie Khouri

I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Brian Eno

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Jasmine Cresswell

dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Charlotte Bunch

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Kate Bush

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

Gene Simmons

If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Carlos Boozer

Sometimes we win; more times than not, we don't. But that's his choice.

Carlos Beltran

I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs.

Agnieszka Radwanska

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

Aaron Staton

I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

Aaron Sorkin

The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.

Alan Shearer

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

Charlie Ergen

If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.

Charles Tillman

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.