Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Benjamin Hickey

Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

I would love to speak with First Lady Michelle Obama about the addictive component of obesity.

Robert Holden

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Steve Rhodes

Money can be as addictive as lots of other things -- drugs, sex, alcohol. There are truly money disorders.

Trip Adler

Just as it can be addictive to be in a real world bookstore or library, it's the same on the Web.

Allan Gurganus

Collections collect collectors. It doesn't work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness.

Dave Gahan

I have a very addictive personality, so I'm even careful about wanting more of anything than I need - even chocolate.

Robert Scoble

Highlight just hasn't proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it.

John Landgraf

We get more e-mails and mail on a daily basis about Nip/Tuck than any of our other series. It's clear that Ryan Murphy's unique vision for a show that is both addictive entertainment and a deeply penetrating critique of America's obsession with surface beauty has tapped into something very powerful.

Linda Shelton

We want them to grow up and have a solid psychological and physiological basis for success. I love to move more than life, and want to empower girls and women to feel the joy of movement.

John Connell

We are seeing certain markets where housing costs and rents are going up on a monthly basis because of limited inventory, especially in developing Eastern European markets and major centers such as London, Paris and Moscow.

Terence Gabriel

We are probably going to see another 75 basis points.

Mike Street

We are pleased to have concluded the basis and substance of a deal with Gate Gourmet. The key to unlocking this dispute now lies firmly in the hands of Gate Gourmet and the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU). They must sort out their differences for the good of our customers and the employees of Gate Gourmet.

Wu Bangguo

There are both solid basis and immense potentials for cooperation between China and Morocco. Enhancing cooperation in various fields will definitely bring tangible benefits to the people of the two countries and play an important role in facilitating world peace, stability and development.

David Brown

We still think that the bigger 50 basis points move is the odds on favorite judging by the current strength of the euro,

Scott Snyder

We still see more value in the Asia-Pacific region than in the U.S. market, where people are still panicking over inflation. On a 15- to 20-year basis for a country like Japan, which has had years of market turmoil, there is certainly still room to run.

David Sobel

Where the basis of the request comes from is that the government itself has revealed nothing about these initiatives. The objective here is to move beyond unnamed DOT sources to really make public on an official basis some of the details.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Alan Ball

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

Alan Ball

It’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain, and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.

Alan Ball

Never underestimate the power of denial.

Alan Ball

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

Alan Ball

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

Reggie Lee

We knew they had a couple players, both named Moore. Jennifer Hinton did a good job on Andrea Moore in holding her her to four points.

Arron Afflalo

We know how tough it is in Oregon and we know both of them are very good teams. We don't expect a cakewalk at all. Neither one will be easy.

Rafael Benitez

We know how important the final of this Cup is. The incident is not serious. Both managers had the same idea. Someone must be sensible.

Paul Levy

We know how competitive the market is and have great respect for our peer group, but we will continue to look for opportunities where we can both buy and create value over time.

Paul Evans

We know and respect the rich history Liz Waters had as an all-women's residence hall, ... But our main goal is to accommodate the preferences of as many residents as possible. We expect both Liz Waters and Cole Halls to thrive under this new arrangement.

Greg Matthews

Very few for both of us. It's a protected species, can't be shot by the farmer ... that would be a big fine.

Kevin Keatts

Very bright student; he's in the highest classes we've got here. I think both parties are going to move in a different direction.

Cai Rumohr

Versus the positions as we went into the strike, Boeing certainly looks like they did give more, ... would cost both sides more, so getting it settled earlier is definitely better.

Michelle Young

Veronica Arce and Odette Barcomb both did an excellent job as setters.

Gerhard Schroeder

We want to send a clear signal that the region can very much rely on the fact that we are not just talking about providing assistance, but that we really want to help, and will help,

Chogyam Trungpa

Things get very clear when you're cornered.

Ahmed Akkari

We lack a clear statement where the newspaper apologizes for the offense and stand by it.

Evan Katz

We know we take liberties in that regard, but CTU clearly is a very efficient and effective (agency). And we're frankly honored and lucky to be working with them.

Frank Lampard

We know we're not quite there yet, last year was a fantastic day for us here. It was a big step towards winning it today. We're the ones nine points clear and as long as we do our job we're going to win the league. We got the result, we're nearly there.

S. Walker

Ultimately, there will be some standardization within communities, and it's not clear to consumers who will win in their areas.

David Leavy

Ultimately, the decision is theirs to make. Our responsibility, from our vantage point, is to make clear the risks.

Laurie Arron

Ultimately, it's clear that it won't work to try and take away equal marriage.

Lorraine Toussaint

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

David Perry

There is a whole virus underground out there. They critique each others' work.

Steve Owens

There are table top exercises that we have for our own events like the Herndon Festival. We practice what might go wrong there and then we have a critique of it to see what we need to work on.

Donald Norman

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

Steve Shortt

If something goes wrong, we stop it and say, 'Let's go back to the position where the wrong decision was made.' Since you are recording the training, you also can go back and immediately critique it with person being trained.

Carl Jung

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

Ryan Smyth

You never critique a win, but there is no question we can get better. It was a scrambling game.

Samuel P. Huntington

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

Jerry Fisher

People critique the media if they're uncomfortable with the facts that are presented.

James Rollins

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.

Alan Bennett

An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.

Chris Cleave

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

Jack Ryan

The people who daily serve Winston-Salem, day in and day out in public service - and their families who suffer the risk of always worrying - you are the heroes.

Gretchen Rubin

Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.

Anthony Trollope

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

Mark Harmon

We're going to evaluate him on a daily basis. The earliest he could be back (for a game) would be Friday.

Thomas Dooley

If I am taking a job, I really want to do it 100% on a daily basis, and that's not what I can do right now.

Sue Monk Kidd

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

Aristotle

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Don Ward

We are all truly directing. We all feel deeply part of it and are making a great collaborative effort. Each one of us respects the other's place.

Azim Premji

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

Richard Rhodes

When I heard what had transpired, I was deeply saddened. I resigned in support of Mrs. Wheatley because I know she has given unselfishly of her talent to this community.

Edward Kennedy

Sen. Ashcroft has a deeply disturbing record on issue after issue of vital importance to millions of Americans.

Sam Altman

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

Joe Solmonese

Signs that Ford may have capitulated to right-wing extremist groups are deeply troubling.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

Walter Isaacson

Mrs. Graham was an important and remarkable person in our profession and all of us lucky enough to know her are deeply saddened by her untimely death.

Richard Gilman

We deeply value the trust our subscribers place in us and we are working diligently to remedy this unfortunate situation. Immediate steps have been taken internally at the Globe and the Telegram & Gazette to increase subscriber credit-card security. We regret the disruption and inconvenience that this incident may cause.

David LaChapelle

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

E. Hurley

We are providing a stage where everyone can participate and everyone can be seen. We see ourselves as a combination of America's Funniest Home Videos and Entertainment Tonight.

Mike deMaine

We're interested in providing something for people of all types and ages. It's going to be family-friendly, and there'll be entertainment between each inning.

Eartha Kitt

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

Dick Cavett

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

Chad Hurley

YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.

Kevin Spacey

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

Bob Hope

Television is the box they buried entertainment in.

Charlie Worsham

I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.

Chris Alexander

E-mail importance is defined by the receiver, not the sender.

Chris Abani

If I dont get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.

Diane von Furstenberg

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

Audrey Meadows

Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.

Bernie Bickerstaff

When we come to Miami, we need to just mail it in. We don't even need to stop.

Bill Gates

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.

Bill Gates

If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.

Theodore Kaczynski

Unfortunately, no, ... man responsible for the mail bombings.

Scott Schnell

With the Hotmail breach, the mail was quite secure as it was going over the Internet. It was the back-end system that wasn't secure.

Tom Bailey

Yes, people's obsession with my Thompson Twins years is very frustrating,

Carly Rae Jepsen

I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.

Brad Pitt

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession...

Ken Livingstone

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

Barbara Kingsolver

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

E. M. Forster

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

Agatha Christie

... obsessions are always dangerous.

Alberto Giacometti

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

Jeb Bush

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

Tom Bissell

The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain.

Erik Hanson

On that return, I was getting kind of scared, ... So I'm screaming out his name, 'Ryan, Ryan ...'

Susan McBride

He was the yes-man to Tom Ryan. He had no thoughts of his own; whatever Tom Ryan told them, Kunkel would do it.

Dusty Baker

First I have to see him out of the bullpen. I do know Ryan Dempster is my closer.

Ashton Moio

I like Ryan Gosling from the inside. I think he's a beautiful person, and then if you didn't have anything, I'd still be his friend.

Rob Thomas

Ryan Hansen is my favorite person on the planet. He is my discovery. I'm so proud of him.

Jeff Bean

To have Ryan do what he did and have him not go is tough.

Derek Roy

It seems like every time Ryan makes big saves we respond.

Ryan Franklin

This is Ryan Franklin, fercryinoutloud! Get some hits!

Sean Badding

We're just scratching the surface in Turin. The television will become more obsolete.

William Williams

My surface is myself.Under whichto witness, youth isburied. Roots?Everybody has roots.

Hal Joseph

We are just scratching the surface right now.

David Lynch

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

Bill Cowher

It may have been more that we're working out on a different surface than what we usually work on in Pittsburgh.

Gary Hume

The surface is all you get of me.

Tom Kleckner

There's three types of mines, and what we have in Texas is surface mining.

Nikki Sixx

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

Ivan Pavlov

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

Charles W. Pickering

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

Charles Taylor

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

Charles Edward Merriam

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

Alan Greenspan

The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed

Akhil Sharma

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensibl e and unattainable... Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard.

Chris Asplen

What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which may not be unconstitutional but may pertain to our unique sense of privacy in the United States.

Alan Parker

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you experience your wisdom and the power of things as they are, together, as one, then you have access to tremendous vision and power in the world. You find that you are inherently connected to your own being. That is discovering magic.

Chogyam Trungpa

When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.

Diane von Furstenberg

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

David Suzuki

The event of creation did not take place so many eons ago, astronomically or biologically speaking. Creation is taking place every moment of our lives.

Cesare Pavese

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Bill Johnson

I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food!

Edward Hopper

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

Edith Wharton

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.