Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorie Smith

We want to try and gather as much input and information as we move into the interview process.

Ludivine Sagnier

I would like to perform more in English. But there have to be many good things gathered for me to be willing to do a movie. I watch trailers of every new American movie and I'm, like, 'OK, I'm not missing anything!'

Richard Smith

We strive to provide a place of gathering and understanding where people of all socioeconomic backgrounds can come together,

Melissa Caldwell

We're just gathering and labeling information, ... We're not telling people what they should be offended by.

D. James

There is a long history of people gathering in the same spot at the same time every week, or after work. A new guy could come in and see what the latest news was and what's going on in sports. Before people had TV and telephones it was one of the only meeting places we had; one of the only places to go and get local news.

William R. Alger

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Greg Wilkinson

We're like everyone else. We're trying to gather information, but information is hard to come by.

Dan Ford

Wasn't their mess. Was the loose mess that had already gathered the night before. Lemme tell you...they did clean.

William Brewster

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.

Al Pacino

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

Chita Rivera

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

David Sedaris

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.

David Suchet

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

David Naughton

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

Brunello Cucinelli

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

Bryan Sykes

There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. . . I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. . . . We're very closely related.

Michelangelo Antonioni

But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.

Bernardo Bertolucci

English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Willie Nelson

Mainly because I'd already been paid on it . . . and paid pretty good.

Sanyo President

We have high-end range refrigerators which are mainly meant for the urban areas.

Jamie Bamber

When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.

Miuccia Prada

Lengths are mainly around the knee, but, in the evening, it is really short. So it's mixed up in that way.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's a winner. She took that shot mainly because she's a winner.

Bobby Short

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

Viswanathan Anand

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

Romola Garai

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Mark McKinney

It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.

Jami Attenberg

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

David McCullough

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

Camille Paglia

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

C. K. Williams

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal

Eugenio Montale

The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.

Edward Hirsch

Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

Edward Hirsch

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Eric Brown

Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

Isabel Allende

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

Jonathan Galassi

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

Ron Sanders

That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.

Rebecca Stead

Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.

Louis Lane

The so-called No. 2 is actually the first one because he thought the first one, which he wrote second, was a little better, so he had it published first.

Siri Hustvedt

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Morley Callaghan

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

Michael Richards

We have more work to do. We're taking small and slow steps. Other towns do it. We can do it.

Moses

I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.

Christine Baldauf

We're getting there. It's been a long two weeks off where we didn't play crossovers, so we had two weeks without games. We're slowly getting back into it.

Monte Kohler

We're going to go slow and make sure he's ready.

Ben Affleck

You get old, you slow down.

Sylvia Hatchell

To play slow would not be the thing to do with her.

Dan Johnson

We're approaching this slowly and methodically. There's a lot of work to be done.

Flip Saunders

We were a half-second slow and they were throwing it up there.

Donatella Versace

There's time to slow down, after you're dead.

John Mackey

When we start a new store, we make sure that we transfer enough starter culture from other stores that are already Whole Fooders, who've already incorporated our values and our culture within themselves into the... into the store.

Bobby Cox

I don't think I'd ever take out a starter who had a one-hitter going.

Busta Rhymes

Then i starter krompy kromp with Kroomp Krompp and the i kromped all over the Krommmmp!

Frank Robinson

Who's it going to be? ... We don't have other starters here.

Johnny Damon

We really didn't have a No. 1 starter all year. Or a No. 2.

Joker Phillips

We really thought Tony was going to be our starter going into the spring. We thought he was the better back.

Randy Edsall

Anything we want to do offensively he can do, ... That's why he's our starter this week.

Cliff Politte

It's a two-way deal. If we're not pitching, the starters are doing well. But if they need a right-hander in relief, I want it to be me.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Charlaine Harris

I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.