Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Stephen McCausland

We have no connection that we have been able to find between the three men. So far there's been no paper trail we've found.

Katherine Collins

We have never been able to make a connection in those cases.

Agnetha Faltskog

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

David Nail

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

Carlton Cuse

I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.

Chris Colfer

Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

Ella Boyd

We are providing a variety of programs for the general public on Tuesday, March 14, and Wednesday, March 15, at the Ocean Connection in the Ocean County Mall.

Siv Meisingseth

We are talking about sick leaves, and that is not illegal. We think there might be a connection between the two.

Agnes Repplier

It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

Agnes Repplier

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

Alan Sugar

I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.

Charlotte Bronte

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlie Daniels

He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.

Charlie Chaplin

I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.

Charlie Chaplin

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

Charles Dudley Warner

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

Charles Dudley Warner

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Ivan Radenovic

We were trailing most of the time, but we had them. We were good enough to win, and it showed in the way we played. We gave them a terrific game.

Wayne Johnson

When I'm thinking about the Nationals, I'm not even thinking about the $140,000. If I win the Nationals and they gave me a $140,000 check, that's when it would hit me.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Kevin Kinel

We set ourselves up really nice. All of our swims were monstrous. These guys didn't let anything get to them. We gave ourselves some good opportunities.

Thomas Steinbeck

You didn't grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.

Catherine Deneuve

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Elaine Sciolino

In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan International.' The man who gave her the job was Mr. Khatami, who was then head of the Kayhan publishing house.

Kim Cattrall

I never gave up believing that there was much more to life than how I was living it.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own

Alan Cohen

So I'm true to my unique gifts, and I make space for others. And we all end up winning.

Phil Smith

People with unusual gifts sometimes have unusual profiles,

Ward Grant

on the gifts that God has given us and our great nation.

Howard Gordon

One of the gifts the actors who do the show have is to make ridiculous situations feel real. We acknowledge when we're writing it or doing it that some things are unlikely, but it's the show and Jack Bauer doesn't work at a carwash.

Justin Chon

I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy.

John Fortier

There are real questions about her, about whether she has the intellectual gifts needed for the court.

Mortimer Adler

In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.

Susan Dunn

We wanted to provide opportunities for our members to serve, and some people need sort of a push or a boost; they need a suggestion of what they can do and how they can use their spiritual gifts in some kind of service. So we opted to offer different ideas for that as well.

Mistie Williams

We know we have lost incredible players. But we still have incredible players, (players) ready to fight, ready to win.

Eric Schneiderman

High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments. And there is an incredible race for speed now. People are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to shave milliseconds off.

Kourtney Kardashian

I find a pregnant body to be beautiful and an incredible reminder of what a woman's body is made to do.

Annika Sorenstam

We started making some birdies on the back nine and had an incredible finish. It's amazing, and it's so much fun.

Kathryn Lasky

Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.

Michelle King

She is truly incredible when she listens to the radio and is able to sing the harmonies. I?m jealous of that ability.

Dionne Warwick

I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

Bob Braman

She's going to be our leader. Kirsten Hagen has also had an incredible summer.

Edwin Markham

The thing that is incredible is life itself.

Carol Vorderman

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

Carol Vorderman

My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

Carlos Mencia

I grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope.

Carlos Ghosn

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

Carl Barks

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

C. S. Lewis

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

Tommy Amaker

We have no one to blame. That's what I wanted the kids to know.

John W. Thompson

What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves.

Jim Allen

When your kids get on a bus, you want...

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Nnedi Okorafor

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Brentson Buckner

With a performance like that, 2006 might be a magical year.

Grace Gummer

There's something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.

Robert Schulz

We always want to have the right rating on a company. There's nothing magical about the timing.

Agnus Berenato

We've had a magical season. I don't think we're ready for it to end.

Patrick Ness

The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.

M. Wolfe

For whatever reason, $199 tends to be a magical price point.

Howard Davidowitz

The advertisers are gone. It's a question of getting them back. But getting every one of them back is priced into the stock. The stock is priced as if everything she does is magical and perfect.

Ron Taffel

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Carol Leifer

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.

Carlos Delgado

You probably don't call home and say, 'Hi, mom. I am facing Pete Schourek tonight.' Names and stats don't do it. You have to do it out on the field.

Carlos Beltran

My mom and dad gave me everything they could have given me.

Richard Herring

We have seen a lot of momentum buying,

Aasif Mandvi

When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

Aasif Mandvi

The Daily Show writers are incredibly smart and very well plugged-in but occasionally they would need me for certain specific things, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I completely know how to do that; I can solve that problem,and then I'd be like, 'Mom?

Charlotte Bronte

Who has words at the right moment?

Charles Stanley

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

Charles Spurgeon

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.