Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.

Dale Guthrie

Lots of the wild animals in the caves have spears in them and blood coming out of their mouths and everything that a hunter would be familiar with. These were the Ferraris and football games of their time. They painted what was on their minds.

Ann Sanders

Many of the rescued animals will be brought to the Saline County facility to be rehabilitated and then placed in foster homes. Hopefully, their owners can eventually reclaim them.

Peggy Ostrom

Molecules are fossils, too. We've shown that proteins survive in very old fossils, and proteins can tell us about diseases, about where prehistoric animals fit in the food chain, what they ate and who they are related to.

Atharva Veda

May I be dear to deities...people of equal capabilities and animals alike... and may I be blessed with a long life!

Martin Kennedy

One of the things we least understand is why animals evolved so late in Earth history. Why did animals wait until the 11th hour, whereas evidence for more primitive life dates back billions of years? One of the best bets to explain the difference is an increase in oxygen concentration in the atmosphere.

Scott Davis

Of all the animals that people have been trying to clone, the dog is the only one that has proven really difficult.

Mark Twain

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Carol Wheeler

One volunteer said the animals are past being scared - they're blank,

Liv Tyler

Life excites me. I'm not talking about appearing in movies or doing interviews, but just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting, you know ?

Mark Sunner

More and more malicious code is appearing in web traffic as opposed to e-mail.

Anthony Chan

Now, with the economic recovery appearing to be somewhat in place and the central bank not lowering rates, we see people trying to get in at the gates before rates start to rise.

Toru Umemoto

Negative consequences of the hurricane are appearing in economic indicators and getting hard to ignore. The dollar may slide should more figures indicate economic weakness.

John P. Kotter

We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.

Tom Schatz

Given the current circumstances, whoever becomes majority leader will have to be careful about appearing to do something special for their friends or district.

Todd Sanders

I was really surprised how young appearing two of them were.

Robin Bhar

Base and precious metals remain in a virtuous circle with each appearing to feed off the strength of the others.

Kevin Marino

I have never been involved in a case where the prosecution has engaged in such inappropriate conduct in terms of making investigators available to the press, appearing on nationally syndicated television. It's improper, it's unwarranted and I will not tolerate it.

Albert Schweitzer

My life is my argument.

Thomas Erskine

Let reason be opposed to reason, and argument to argument, and every good government will be safe.

Alison Reynolds

Many people have used the argument that opening up trade leads to political reform and social reform.

Oliver Purnell

Momentum in sports is a powerful force. One could make the argument that we're playing better than any team coming in ó so I'll make that argument.

Terry Anderson

Much of our argument is likely to be with the U.S. government, rather than the Iranian government,

Brian Rolston

Maybe. You could make an argument for it. The bottom line is you give that team (Detroit) any time with the puck, they're going to make plays.

Ralph Catalano

One argument is that it was conserved to help us lift buses off of pedestrians who just got hit. My belief is that nature conserved the stress mechanism because of its effect on gestation. Natural selection doesn't care about individuals, it just wants poundage and conservation of genes. It found a way to maximize the pounds and the genes.

Scott Peters

No one has signed on to his view that the benefits are illegal. He has been authorized to make that argument in his own name but not on behalf of the City Council or the City of San Diego, ... I would never have voted to authorize him to litigate this illegality issue if the retirement board hadn't brought it up.

Mario Gonzalez

One woman was having a violent argument with her boyfriend close to the store. As she turned to walk away from her lover, he pulled out a pistol and shot her.

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Source Unknown

There are hundreds of languages in the world but a smile speaks them all.

Pankaj Mishra

Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

Elif Safak

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

Rabih Alameddine

All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

Guillaume Salluste

My lovely living Boy,My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.

Kelly Shackelford

Newspapers are embarrassing themselves and showing themselves to be irrelevant; it shows people living in two different worlds.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

Christy Turlington

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

Andrea Roth

When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was living in L.A. at the time.

John Abraham

If they're living in the past, they're living in the past.

Ken Bowersox

If they need us to stay a year, that's fine. We like living on the space station, and we feel comfortable that we have a way home.

Dick Vermeil

I don't know who wrote that, but it's bull. You can quote me on that. Just like I was run out of St. Louis, that's ... people make a living on speculation. They're an embarrassment to the media.

Carol Wood

We're living in a different world now. We have lots of security measures in place.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

Kevin Connell

So it's not like we're not moving the football.

Ken Starr

moving very quickly and we've made very significant progress.

Lennart Maack

Moving up is tough because no one is the favorite.

Ron Walters

None of those people who have made that policy are moving off the scene.

Leslie Nielsen

No, no, no, Mel is very much together as a director, always moving forward.

Jim Bianco

Now that yields are moving up, all these reasons have been shoved aside, and order in the universe has been restored.

Chris Crutcher

It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I think it's impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they're happening.

Dick Vitale

Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

John Burnside

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

Alan Watts

What would you do if money was no object?

Thomas P. Campbell

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Henry Grunwald

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

Andre Bazin

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.

Michael Nesmith

Don't object so much, you'll live longer.

Martin Puryear

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

Philip Johnson

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

Tony Russa

Like I said, I didn't ask, ... When I got the thumbs-up I said OK and I walked out, so I don't know.

Callie Thorne

So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

Edward Abbey

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

Joe Peel

She understands the severity of what's going on down there and that those people need help, ... She's OK with it.

Trinny Woodall

Shorts are practically a uniform in every woman's closet. Tailored shorts are okay for running around, and if you're 18, you can get away with cut-offs. But it's very easy to make a mistake with shorts.

Dee Brown

If they tell me to go back to school then that's what I'll do. That's OK. I'm OK with that.

Reggie Bush

I don't have to down-talk Oklahoma. Everyone saw the way we played, saw the way Oklahoma played. It's really pretty self-explanatory.

Amanda Thompson

I did okay (in the 800). I could have done better. I like it better outside.

Teresa Favuzzi

The question is: Are we really talking as a society that we want to support suicide for anyone? Because this is a societal question. Are we saying suicide is okay for some people but not other people?

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Charles Spurgeon

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Dennis Prager

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

Dennis Haysbert

I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted a shot to do it, and they embraced that and said, "All right, come on in. Let's see what you've got." So, I went in, and the rest is history. It felt good when I went into the office, and it just worked.

Deborah Smith

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

Elbert Hubbard

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Eleanor Roosevelt

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Elizabeth Drew

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Bibesco

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Kathy Deepe

There is a part for everyone. And if they don't want a speaking part, they can be on the set crew.

Yoko Ono

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm terrible at speaking when I cry. Thank you so much.

Itula Mili

Sometimes, when we're together, we start just speaking pidgin and stuff like that and that's good, too.

Moliere

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Michelle Obama

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.