Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Turner

We're getting a lot of (new) music together. It's all about our adventures at the moment. We don't see Sheffield much anymore ? it's a closed book. We're moving on and thinking about different things.

Stephen Colletti

My costar James Lafferty, and his little brother Stuart Lafferty, and another buddy of ours, Ian Shive, are working on this project called 'Generation Wild.' It's about getting people to realize that being outdoors is not scary - you can go on adventures like we do, in national parks, and practically in your own backyard.

Ann Hood

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.

O. R. Melling

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

Jaron Lanier

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

John Stockwell

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

Rupert Holmes

For me, the most memorable adventures are still the perils that we face daily in life and love, from the mundane to the meaningful. Where the comedy is often at our own expense, but where the drama, even if painful, reminds us that we are living and feeling here in the real time, with the ever-recurring possibility that this latest chapter will end with new understanding, hope and perhaps even happiness.

Joni Mitchell

In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here in Los Angeles, there are less characters because they're all inside automobiles.

Jawaharlal Nehru

There is no end to the adventures we can have if we seek them with our eyes open.

Johnny Damon

We know how hot they are. They're playing well. Hopefully those guys will cool off.

Brian Monahan

We started thinking, with all these hilarious and incredibly entertaining viral videos on the Web, what if we could harness that creativity for a brand? Would it be cool or lame? This is a grand experiment to see what happens when you kind of open it to the public and don't put any parameters on it.

Hanya Yanagihara

Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.

LL Cool J

What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.

Lexi Thompson

I met Taylor Lautner and Jonah Hill at the 'Today Show.' That was pretty cool.

Meek Mill

I don't rely on catchphrases or really like sing-along. I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that. It's been working for me, so I'd be cool with that.

Nick Woodman

I come from surfing, and surfing is the worst cool-guy industry of all. I decided long ago to try and kill the cool guy.

Manny Montana

When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.

Mike Downey

When Flash just started, it was 'Ooh, cool, I can make things move around the screen,' and you saw a lot of this gratuitous animation.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charlie Daniels

I've been to Iraq three times. I've been to Afghanistan, I've been quite a few places, and I want to tell you something, these kids, they're the best we've got. They're the best Americans, they're the most loyal Americans we've got. And we owe them when they come back.

Charles de Lint

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Alan Watts

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution.

Alan Perlis

Any noun can be verbed.

Alan Perlis

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Alan Perlis

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Alan Perlis

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

Bruce Barber

We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate.

Wissam Nasr

We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.

Vicki Warker

The potential is huge, considering that 55% of the U.S. population subscribes to a mobile phone.

Jeff Jordan

With the overwhelming popularity of mobile phones, the time has never been better for the merging of e-commerce and wireless devices.

Edward Zander

Mobile phones today are more like television when I was a kid,

Mark Taylor

Mobile and fixed-line services are also converging as rapidly as the worlds of voice and data.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre. You don't see him as a mobile quarterback. He made some plays today.

Gene Miller

The project starts as soon as school is out. We will move them (the mobile units) in when school is out.

Bruce Tulgan

Today, the most mobile part of the workforce is the most marketable.

Scott Kerstetter

We had a lot of turnovers, but Hannah Tobin was the MVP of this game. She was really mobile in this game.

Jon Tetzchner

With Opera Mini, most people can start surfing the Web with the mobile phone they have today.

Michael Gove

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

Nestor Kirchner

We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country.

MacGyver MacGyver

Using violence isn't the only way to solve a problem.

Ashwin Sanghi

There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

James Rosenquist

If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.

Nancy Verderber

It is not completely solved yet be we are still working on it but I think it will be.

John Short

I thought, 'I'm the expert, I've got to have some answers,' ... 'How am I going to solve this?'

Ronaldo Myers

(The expansion) is going to help. But it won't solve the situation.

Hubert Burda

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

David Allen

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

Tom Renney

We stuck with it. Definitely, we had to compete.

Alan Lightman

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Don Blalock

I said 'who is he?' I was stuck thereafter.

Leon Johnson

Our spinners bowled well as they stuck to the task and bowled well to their fields.

LaSheena Brown

That was something new. They were able to get that lob in, but we stuck it out.

Phil Garner

No, ... He snow-coned it. Stuck to the top of his glove.

Shirley Manson

There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.

Matthew Daley

If Patsy hadn't stuck with it, I'm not at all sure we'd be where we are today.

Alan Watts

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Alan Watts

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

Alan Mulally

The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles.

Alan Parker

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

Alan Perlis

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

Alan Perlis

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

Alan Perlis

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Alan Moore

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

Alan Moore

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.