Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terence Winter

Any abhorrent behavior is more interesting to me. I'm always amazed when somebody asks me, 'Why don't you write something about nice people?' Because nice people are boring, that's why.

Barry Commoner

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

Maajid Nawaz

The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.

Rep. Taylor

It is simply unthinkable that someone would beat another human being for sport. We need to send a message to these abhorrent criminals that being homeless does not make you target practice.

Fanny Kemble

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

Martin Indyk

Jeopardizing the national security interests of the U.S. is absolutely abhorrent to me, and I would never do anything to compromise those interests,

Jennifer Windsor

President Bouteflika's effort to wipe the slate clean is an affront to long standing civil society efforts to bring justice and accountability, ... Leaving the legacy of Algeria's abhorrent conflict unresolved creates an obstacle to lasting peace and, by de facto offering immunity to those responsible for grave crimes, raises the specter of future human rights abuses.

Jennifer Windsor

President Bouteflika's effort to wipe the slate clean is an affront to long standing civil society efforts to bring justice and accountability, ... Leaving the legacy of Algeria's abhorrent conflict unresolved creates an obstacle to lasting peace and, by de facto offering immunity to those responsible for grave crimes, raises the specter of future human rights abuses.

Regina Vidaver

To me the fact that we don't have a screening test for the biggest cancer killer in the nation is the best indicator of how little resources have been put toward this disease. It is absolutely abhorrent to me that we don't have a screening test for this disease.

Gregory Pritchard

Mahler's first symphony is not a typical symphony in that it's not abstract music; it does conjure up images of nature and images of heroism.

Harry Reid

No one suggests that John Roberts was motivated by bigotry or animosity toward minorities or women, ... But these memos lead one to question whether he truly appreciated the history of the civil rights struggle. He wrote about discrimination as an abstract concept, not as a flesh and blood reality for countless of his fellow citizens.

Twyla Tharp

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

Robert Summers

Frary executed tremendous abstract paintings. Frary contributed significantly to mid-century modernist art in Texas.

Newt Gingrich

For so many Americans, what goes on here in Washington often seems abstract and remote, unrelated to their daily concerns,

Aaron Huey

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Gayle Green

If we're going to teach it to all kids -- kids who might not naturally be abstract learners -- we need a variety of teaching methods.

Ad Reinhardt

I got out of Columbia and then into the American Abstract Artist group, which had almost all the abstract artists in the coutry in it, about 40 or 50.

Malcolm Gladwell

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

Issa Rae

You know, even with the 'Awkward Black Girl' episodes, they come out once a month. That's great for me, it's comfortable, it gives each time to digest, time for new people to get on to it and caught up, but oftentimes I have people who are almost demanding a higher output from me.

Issa Rae

I don't like to be overexposed. Too many articles, too many tweets, too many posts, I just don't like that. But at the same time, we live in a culture where that's almost necessary. People want content and they want their stuff when they want it.

Isabella Rossellini

By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vanity Fair' and the Lancome contract, someone asked how old I was. They almost fainted when I said 33.

Cory Doctorow

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

Rick Perlstein

Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that?

Rick Perlstein

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.

Richard P. Feynman

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

Robert Teeter

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

Richard P. Feynman

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

Mark Booth

Like anything else in venture capital, you tend to allocate capital to those companies that can yield the highest returns. It would have been a mistake to invest substantially when it was apparent that we would not be receiving great returns.

Tom Pecora

Loren is hurting, and he was apparently hit below the belt. If that happened, it's a shame in a game played at such a high level.

Michael Wynne

Lay had some excellent attorneys working with him. It is apparent to me that Lay wanted to say what he wanted to say, regardless of who was doing the direct examination. I don't think that, ultimately, it would have made that much of a difference.

Robert Fatton

So far, what I see of Preval, he is clearly reaching out to other factions. And there are plenty of people in the business community who apparently made peace with him.

Dick Cheney

My first thought was, bold words for a man whose office is the subject of an on-going criminal inquiry. But apparently that's not the subject of polite conversation.

David Knight

One apparently even had a shed built on the property with a driveway to it.

Eric Zahren

One individual has been detained with no further information on that individual. But there are three apparent stabbing victims.

Rick Wakeman

My eyes are green, and in one of them there is a splash of brown - apparently it is not a colour, but a freckle! Sometimes I notice that one eyelid droops more than the other.

Lauren Worsham

I was actually tone deaf until I had tumors in my ears - I had very small ear canals - removed. Once they fixed that, I was actually able to sing in a pleasant manner.

Mark Shand

Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness.

Mike McCartney

It doesn't take much to the canals to look blighted.

Barbara Jones

We've got some canals in that area. The officers went out about 3 to 5 miles from where her car was found. They've done a lot of work in terms of following up leads and it's still a hot case.

Robert H. Connelly

The water level in the canals wasn't that high when the floodwalls breached. We had a premature failure of the defense system.

Errol Morris

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along.

Erwin McManus

Wherever and whenever God is moving in a new and fresh way, there emerges a new song!

Jack Straw

We'll recognize and respect whoever emerges as a leader through this system. Our concern, however, is that they (the Iraqis) have to make swift progress to secure a leader.

Mark Olsen

We're looking to see who emerges as the No. 5 right now.

Chemi Shalev

He has shocked the entire Israeli political community. But we have learned from his time as prime minister that many of his moves fall flat and he emerges as the loser.

Alfred Whitehead

Every philosophy is tinged with the colouring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

John O'Donohue

There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.

Justin Rosenstein

Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success of an organization emerges not only from its individual participants, but also from the interplay between them.

Hubert Vedrine

This I not exactly what emerges from the reports of the (U.N. weapons inspection) commission, and I wonder whether he is not over-stepping his prerogatives.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

Deepak Chopra

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

Ellsworth Kelly

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

Tom Stoppard

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

Mariah Carey

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

Suze Orman

You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you.

Pauline Trigere

Fashion is what people tell you to wear. Style is what comes from your own inner thing.

Steven Page

Those of us that have the opportunity to have a mouthpiece, then let's keep talking about it. Right now if you look in the newspaper, there's a lot of meaningless stuff. A lot of stuff about the inner workings of Parliament and nothing about what we can do to make the world a better place.

Gretchen Rubin

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

Stump Mitchell

Mack always is looking to get better, not just maintain.

Jared Bernstein

Maybe we were looking under the wrong rock.

Bill Fulkerson

Maybe we're looking at November for oral arguments.

Simon Hawkins

Obviously we weren't able to offer him what he was looking for.

Matt Campbell

Obviously, we're looking to go well past ($1,000) this year.

Chris Rudge

One would rightfully say that you shouldn't just be looking at the quantity of medals, you should also be looking at the quality of medals.

Sheperd Paine

Monogram was reissuing the kits they made in the '50s, and they were looking for something new to give them some oomph,

Johnny Damon

More times than not, he's going to come through. He threw some tough pitches on the outside of the plate to get him looking out there, then he threw a perfect pitch in. Shields was an All-Star for a reason.

Christopher Monger

Now we are looking for distribution and fielding our first sales offers,

Kate Christensen

Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.

Arne Jacobsen

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

Bill Kurtis

Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

Wendy Liebmann

Here's an interesting thought about what might result: a good-better-best approach, with Macy's the 'good', Bloomingdales the 'better' and Marshall Field's the 'best,'

Alessandra Ambrosio

I've seen Bruno Mars before, he's amazing.

Jim Graham

Marshall has a really strong team. We didn't play badly, they were just that much better.

Doug McCuistion

Mars doesn't treat you very well, for the most part. So this is a very challenging thing to do." ()

Fred Taylor

At some point the volcanism will run out. It ran out on Mars a long time ago, and it has partially run out on Earth,

Colin Pillinger

At the beginning, some people thought we were a 'me too' mission: Send a lander to Mars and take a picture.

Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.

Mike Adras

Obviously, that would have energized our guys. It's a play that I know energizes Ruben, and it did just the opposite to him. That was a big momentum-changer in the first half.

Chris Crutcher

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Dean Ornish

I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.

Earl Nightingale

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

Earl Nightingale

Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

David Bowie

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

Iris Apfel

I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.

Source Unknown

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

James McAvoy

My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.

Greg Myers

No one was quite sure where she landed,

Stephen Ryan

From a branding standpoint, they've done something quite important.

Bob Woods

We've never done anything quite like this before.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Amy Lowell

Not a softness anywhere about me, Only whalebone and brocade.

Jane Gardam

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Robert Matthews

I had many, many wonderful conversations with her about everything under the sun. She was one tremendous person.

Jim Gresh

She's just a tremendous athlete. She can do it all. She's very versatile, and she can really play any position.

Larry Coker

We need to find out about ourselves. We're going to get a tremendous test.

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

Lloyd Carr

He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive.

Joel Quenneville

He's had a tremendous year, I'll tell you,

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Dick Van Dyke

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

Abdurrahman Wahid

I do not like violence.

Abraham Lincoln

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

Aaron Allston

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

Camille Paglia

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

Camille Paglia

Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?

Athol Fugard

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

Chazz Palminteri

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Bo Derek

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,