Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

Italo Calvino

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Kevin Mitnick

My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.

David Stout

Machines have the power to become the ultimate interactive art-making tool. Computers are becoming postmodern blenders bringing together images, sound, and interactive, nonlinear space.

Dave Flaskas

Libby is the hottest swimmer in the world right now and is on the way to becoming a superstar, if she is not already there.

Ray Looze

Leila is at the threshold of becoming a world-class swimmer. With continued progress, she will be a force to be reckoned with at the end of the season.

Bobby Miller

Let the ice cap melt; it only reflects the heat from the sun, protecting earth from becoming just so much desert. The great grandchildren of the morons who elected and reelected George Exxon Bush and Dick Halliburton Cheney can survive, at least for a while, by killing off each other for a drink of water.

John Hewitt

Liberty Tax Service is a solid contender for the franchising industry to watch. Our growth is solid in number of new franchisees and new offices. We are establishing a visible brand name that's quickly becoming known for excellent customer service and a vibrant corporate culture.

Matthew Parry

Lower second- and third-quarter demand -- as the northern hemisphere warms, less crude oil is required for heating purposes -- will result in the already over-supplied global crude-oil market becoming increasingly bloated.

Atharva Veda

Love binds all hearts in a soft silken symphony. Seen through the eyes of Love, all beings are beautiful; all deeds are dedicated; and all thoughts are innocent. The World is one vast kin.

Sathya Baba

Let all beings in all the worlds be happy). Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.

Doug Liman

Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren't all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros.

Thomas Gibson

People think that human beings have gotten worse, that because of the pressures that modern society puts on us, we've gotten worse, and we've gotten capable of doing more terrible things. I don't know if I necessarily think that that's true.

Andrew Chaikin

I can tell you with some degree of confidence that in the next millennium we'll see human beings walk on other planets and even perhaps go to other stars,

Oliver Stone

I found them both to be courageous, deeply wounded people. They're both still suffering from the injuries. Will said this is a testament not to the evil, but to the good that we as human beings are capable of. That's important. That's healing.

David Robertson

One of the principal differences between the work that I have done at other places, either as a guest conductor or as a music director, and that of St. Louis is that I feel the biggest potential we have here is that we play the music with the type of emotional understanding that few other orchestras match. So while we're trying to come as close to technical perfection as human beings can, what we're really working on is trying to get the raison d'etre , the reason for being, of that music.

Natasa Kandic

I was sure that ordinary people here would react as human beings when the tape was broadcast, that the video tape would finally convince Serbs of what happened in Srebrenica. And many people did contact me to tell me how shocked they were.

Sigmund Freud

I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

William Williams

Life is valuable -- when completed by the imagination. And then only.

Kris Mayes

Legislators will debate the issue of how much the program should be funded. So we're waiting for the funding process to be completed and we just don't know when that will actually occur.

Quentin Crisp

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Sathya Baba

Love is essential to become a complete human being.

Rajendra Dahal

Last year there were many who welcomed the king's move. But now the same people are opposing the king's government. It's a complete turnaround.

Preston Burch

Scrapping hardware that is three-quarters complete is, I think, sinful,

Dana Perino

Security measures were thoroughly reviewed, including intelligence matters, I do know that at the end of the day, when the process was completed and the transaction was approved, homeland security questions were resolved.

Jeff Lemire

Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-on-demand print run of a dozen or so copies, shows publishers and editors a completed piece of work and that you can follow through on a project.

Mahmud Abbas

So far the elections have gone calmly and smoothly, and I hope that they will be completed without incident.

Cory Doctorow

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.

Michelle Byrd

Ms. Moore embodies the talent and diversity of some of New York's finest actors.

Olympia Snowe

More mouthpieces doesn't guarantee diversity and localism and competition, ... Diversity of ownership does.

Adriana Martinez

Nevada is a perfect testing ground for a candidate, given its diversity.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

Elbert Hubbard

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Bob Schneider

I can't perceive of a football playoff in the private school sector with a diversity of teams,

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Elinor Ostrom

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

Robert Kazinsky

I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.

Albert Schweitzer

Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Albert Schweitzer

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Warren Farrell

Men are not human beings,they are human doings

Ivonne Sanchez

Men is able to clonate a human body, but will never be able to clonate a human soul

Tom DeLay

medical research predicated on the destruction of human embryos.

John Kricfalusi

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.

John Lydon

My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.

Kristin Cast

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

Albert Schweitzer

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Sathya Baba

Life is, Loving - Listening - Lifting - Learning - Living

Cyril Connolly

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk

Kevin Jones

Let this be a learning lesson. Let?s pick up the pieces. Hopefully, other teens will not make the same mistake.

Mark Anderson

(Madeline's) a raw talent. She had never run anything over an 800 (meter). She'll learn more by training with Jaclyn and Caitlin.

Jim Newberry

Lexington needs to stay a place where people want to live, learn and raise a family.

Pat Summitt

Losing the way we lost is unacceptable in this program. We will learn from it.

Scottish Proverb

Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more

Antonio de Mendoza

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

Christopher Lawrence

Mozart's symphonies are quite special. One of our landmarks is our recording of all of his symphonies, which means that we've recorded not 41, but 68 symphonies. Many people are unaware that there are many unnumbered symphonies.

Andre Agassi

means as much to me as doing it in the finals.

David Hopkins

More people means there is more of an opportunity for crime,

Jim Haslett

Obviously, that means a lot to me -- that's what friends are for.

Orel Hershiser

obviously keenly understands what it means to be a Dodger.

Taron Egerton

Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

Timothy Noah

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

Bob Hunter

I can tell you this thing is by no means is it going to throw up a lot of cash.

Chris Evert

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

Charles Osgood

It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.

Dick Van Dyke

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

David Nicholls

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

David Nicholls

Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.

S. Hughes

She won't be missing a practice. And she wants to go see some events, but that probably will be after her event.

Anthony Baccam

Sitting out and missing the whole season was really frustrating, especially seeing the team wrestle and you can't wrestle.

Danny Coyne

When I got expelled, it opened up my eyes. It made me realize what I was missing and things I needed to be doing.

Walter Benjamin

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.