Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?

Richard P. Feynman

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone - both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

Atharva Veda

Man is but the Image of God. Even Nature is but an appearance of God; the reality is He alone.

Benjamin Franklin

Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Samuel Johnson

Let no man rashly determine, that his unwillingness to be pleased is a proof of understanding, unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit, it is

Nelson Mandela

Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and to say somebody has died because of HIV/AIDS, ... And people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

Nelson Mandela

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

David Schwartz

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's ''good luck.'' You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Adrian Raine

Lying takes a lot of effort. You have to be able to understand the mindset of the other person. You also have to suppress your emotions or regulate them because you don't want to appear nervous. There's quite a lot to do there. You've got to suppress the truth.

Ren Ng

Light-field photography is a transformational technology that needs a transformational product to introduce it. For the first time, we have a light-field camera that's going to be for everyone - not something in a huge room in a research facility.

Chris Allsburg

Lucky are the children who know there is a jolly fat man in a red suit who pilots a flying sleigh. We should envy them. And we should envy the people who are so certain Martians will land in their back yard that they keep a loaded Polaroid camera by the back door.

Chris Ricks

Many of the pictures we're getting are old mugshots from a Polaroid camera and they aren't very helpful at all,

Keith Mason

One of the wonderful things about Hancock was his facial expressions. Not just his hang-dog expression, where he looks as if the whole world is going to fall on his head. He could do disgust, surprise - the camera used to pan in on his face, and he would display a whole range of emotions.

Lee Tien

One snap shot of me walking down the street from a camera above, sure that's not really an invasion of privacy, but when you're able to connect the dots of my entire routine throughout the day, that's another story. Our laws haven't kept up with that, and yet technology is creating those problems for us.

Mordechai Vanunu

Next they decided to put me in total isolation. The first two years, they keep me in a small room, filled with light 24 hours and camera inside.

Thomas Gibson

You know, it's nice on a sitcom to have an audience there, but there's still a wall of cameras between you and them.

Tyra Banks

I don't know how to be sexy on a date. Put up a camera and a wind machine, and I'll give you sexy. Put me at a dinner table with some candlelight and the moon shining in and, oh, I will give you dork.

Randy Johnson

Get that damn camera out of my face!

Pat Descher

Miss Jackie is the hardest working, most loyal employee. She cleans the lobby like it's her own home. She talks to customers like they're her own friends. To the crew and the people who work there, she is like their grandma.

William Amos

Maybe four years had passed, ... Most of the crew were probably the men I knew.

Alex Cox

I did a television series in Japan this year, which was really fun, even though it's working with a Japanese crew and I don't speak Japanese.

A.J. Allmendinger

Fourth is a great result for our situation. Today really goes to my crew because they worked so fast to get those things done and get us back out there.

Marc Guggenheim

One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

Mark Konlock

I worked in the nursery for two weeks, and they were going to let me go, but they let me work on a crew one day and decided to let me stay. I always say it's because I dug three holes and the other guy only dug two. I learned a lot there.

Eminem

I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and N.W.A. and I never went out and shot nobody.

Gregory Olsen

I feel welcome, ... With a crew like this, how could you go wrong?

Larry Dixon

I feel good about going into the next race this weekend at Phoenix. I think Donnie (Bender), being a new crew chief, has learned some things to do and not to do. We hope to improve upon what we did at Pomona (Calif.) two weeks ago.

Isabel Gillies

I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much.

Dick Wolf

T.V. has to be edited and scored and everything else, and if you don't like what you're watching it can be a very painful process.

Andy Dick

It's being edited as we speak. I think it might come out in the winter,

Craig Zadan

The way Rob Marshall has edited this movie, you can't just go in there and say take this out or take that out. It was all constructed so intricately.

Garry Beers

It was filmed at 7 o'clock in the morning. It had to be edited and on a plane to New York by 5 p.m.. It was worse for the singers - they'd have to get up at 4 o'clock. That whole side of it was very non-rock 'n' roll.

Richard King

I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

Mark Twain

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

Fran Lebowitz

I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.

Terry Gross

I love the edited version of it.

Richard Shelby

Let's follow the money, ... If we follow the money, we're going to get to the truth, and I think the truth will not be very nice.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.

Sandra Sanchez

Many people think that they just simply are not following the steps. There are no legal channels.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

Hank Ketcham

Mischief just seems to follow wherever Dennis appears, but it is the product of good intentions, misdirected helpfulness, good-hearted generosity, and, possibly, an overactive thyroid, ... The Merchant of Dennis The Menace.

R. Bakker

Men are forever pointing at others, which is why I always follow the knuckle and not the nail.

Charles H. Townes

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

John Travolta

My kids probably stay up too late. My wife goes to bed around 3 A.M., and I follow around 7 A.M., but it works.

John McGraw

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other ninety-nine percent are followers of women.

Tim Maloney

Getting hired under 18 is somewhat of a privilege.

Tony Dungy

I did not know Rod at all when I hired him. I got his name and talked to him on the phone. That's all I needed.

Tony Fernandes

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

Kelli Williams

I'm convinced that I've been hired for jobs because I can cry on cue.

Bradley Cooper

It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.

Mona Williams

We acknowledge we should have had better safeguards in place to make sure our (floor-cleaning) contractors hired only legal workers.

Kenneth Langone

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

Herb Trimpe

I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.

Cynthia Lowery

We have hired some young people. If you hire somebody without experience, it's going to be lower.

John Schwartz

Legally, this is referred to as an increase. There's no two ways about it on the ballot. However, if you look at the preamble, it says this proposal would reauthorize the levy. That tells taxpayers this is something they have paid before.

Maurice Williams

Whenever you see your quarterback on the ground, especially rolling around in pain, it's not good. We get paid to protect him. That's what we want to do and when we don't, our week is long.

John Hopkins

If a student has already paid tuition for his or her university, that's it, we don't take any money,

Dave Ramsey

Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission

Andy Irons

On my waves I just did as many turns as I could and it paid off.

Mark Chmura

I didn't do it to grandstand. I'm being paid to render an opinion. That's essentially what I did.

Walter Dean Myers

I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.

Lela Rochon

I'm glad that I ran track in high school. I think it paid off.

David Steinberg

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

Italo Calvino

I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.

James Calhoun

Of course, any vote will be made in regular session.

Kyrie Irving

Even during my injury, I had fun because I got to be a regular college kid.

Lisa Brown

She does that regularly ---- she's just a solid player. She is just great. She is just all over, a well-rounded leader.

Lance Gross

I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.

Tequan Richmond

I never got to go to prom. I never went to regular school. I ate lunch by myself.

John Danby

This was a sour way to end the regular season.

Marty Schottenheimer

We've won the first of a nine-game season. We have a nine-game regular season and right now we're 1-0.

Tim Taylor

The expectations are there for them. They've come through a big regular season, but now that's not enough. And that's a whole different animal.

Alexandra Adornetto

Find x if (x)=2sin3x,over the domain -2piX=Beth 'Stop goofing around!',I said. 'I'm not! I'm stating the truth.You're my solution to everything',Xavier replied. 'The end result is always you.X always equals Beth.

Timothy Noah

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Tony Marshall

I feel rapt that we will now see the tangible results of the money.

Bob Boughner

When the votes come in, the results will speak for themselves.

Gordon Campbell

We can't look at the results we've had and say those are the results we want.

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Abel Ferrara

Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Donald Miller

If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't; we'll see.

Serena Williams

With my website, I'm really interactive. I've written a lot of things about me.

Noam Chomsky

But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.