Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shane Carruth

My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is coded and puzzling enough to entice conversation and interpretation, but also to do the opposite: to make some things clear so that it is meaningful in some way, not just a random assemblage of ideas.

Loretta Young

One of the loveliest women I know has the most unrelieved assemblage of homely features I've ever seen.

Bill Alexander

The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.

Jim Crace

There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.

Michael Stipe

My feeling is that labels are for canned food...I am what I am - - and I know what I am.

Allan Steinfeld

Since many of the favorites are from countries like Mexico and Kenya, we have those anthems and flags. What probably happened is the person in charge just couldn't find the Swiss anthem. Since we didn't have the Swiss flag or the national anthem, we canned them both.

Christopher Dodd

What you ought to do is prepare for a good storm, a hurricane, a storm where you'd like two or three days of ... water and canned goods and the like, ... Face The Nation.

Deb Caletti

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

Janel Maurer

This year they helped plant the garden. I increased the garden size to accommodate our goal of entering 500 jars of canned goods at the fair this year.

David Burney

FDA's latest findings about mercury levels in canned tuna should end the debate over whether canned tuna is a safe and healthy food for all Americans. No one is at risk from the minute amounts of mercury in any form of canned tuna.

David Acheson

We do not have information on what is put in canned light tuna.

John Phillips

Canned and dried foods, ... Unfortunately, there's no ice cream.

Michael Sutton

A DLL is canned functionality, so if you include a vulnerable DLL in an application, that application is by default vulnerable.

Freddy Shepherd

Scott has been our main target for a while and we are delighted that he has chosen to join us,

Anthony Cordesman

Serving soldiers develop a tremendous sense of obligation to their comrades, and are trained to see the mission through. They know the military and the risk, and they have already chosen to serve their country.

R. Robinson

Maury County has chosen to maintain its unit schools and smaller schools. As a result, it's impossible and not really practical to have the same identical courses at all schools.

Pedro Almodovar

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

Nicholas Burns

One would have hoped that he (Ahmadinejad) might have chosen a speech with more humility, a speech with a greater inclination to compromise. He was quite defiant ... That did not leave a lot of room for compromise, for diplomacy.

Elbert Hubbard

One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.

Richard McGuire

Gilts rallied, as the BOE minutes had something for everyone. The market may have chosen to focus on the softness of growth.

Samuel Johnson

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own.

Bill Graham

If an election has to happen, our executive of our party have told me they're in a position to have an emergency leader chosen and they can do that. So, I'm not worried about that.

Jamie Bell

My favourite superhero is obviously Batman because he's the sexiest. But I can't imagine myself as Batman.

Miranda Raison

My favourite programme of all time is 'Weeds'; the first three or four series are perfection.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.

Mary Quant

My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August.

Yotam Ottolenghi

My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.

Julianne Moore

I did find it particularly difficult to do Broadway. It was not my favourite way to perform. When I do theatre, I like it to be smaller. I like the audience to be closer; I like it to be less presentational.

Mike Birbiglia

One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the break-up.

Jess Glynne

I have a secret passion for horse riding. I haven't done it for ages, but I used to have a horse. I love it; it's one of my favourite things.

Virat Kohli

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I had a show at George Krevsky Gallery this past spring. That show traveled to Woodstock, New York where it showed for six weeks.

Paul Mellon

It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.

H. Hart

When he painted, he kept paintings which were significant to him. In all these years he's had a gallery ... he's never exhibited (private works).

Kathy Emerson

People are intimidated by galleries, ... Being interactive with the gallery is a very important thing.

Lucy Silliman

There has never been a gallery here for me to show my work. I show all over the country, and I've never had the privilege of showing in a gallery here.

Richard Prince

Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'

Howard Hodgkin

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

Victor LaValle

Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.

Philippe Petit

Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable.

Steve Daignault

In the grandest sense, it makes so much sense to reuse water.

John Muir

grandest special temple of nature I was ever permitted to enter.

Lee Quillen

The plants that are going to be the largest 10 years from now should be the largest ones you put in the ground.

Henry Paulson

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

Nick Frey

I don't have any problem with it. It may not be the largest in volume in the state, but the old vines have the longest tradition of the major varietals.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.

Zac Goldsmith

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

Billy Graham

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Howard Stern

Yeah, OK, Michael, ... That's why I've received the largest fines in history.

Patch Adams

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

Kathy Deck

We know we have the largest properties in the sample and what we are missing is going to be very small.

Neil MacGregor

The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.

Howard Struletz

When you put all that together, it's a pretty wide shopping experience.

Dean Ornish

The Internet has transformed many parts of our daily lives, touching everything from how we find information to how we go shopping, get directions, and even stay in touch with friends and family.

Elinor Lipman

I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.

Fergus Henderson

I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.

Banksy

We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves,

A. J. McLean

I shop more than most women.

Chita Rivera

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.

Cathy Guisewite

The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

Charles Baudelaire

All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

Matt Cookson

We're not discriminating. Whatever variety we get in.

Jorge Camejo

Obviously, for a variety of reasons, we would like to see it finished.

Jennifer Smith

There is just such a variety of things to see and do here.

Randall Kennedy

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Tom Johnson

Our (guests) aren't just speakers; they're a variety of things.

Nick Larson

We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.

Joe Perring

We are going to have a real wide variety of residential opportunities for folks.

David Liu

This is a breakthrough year because of the variety of deals.

Neil Tennant

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.