Famous Quotes & Sayings

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When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: ''I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.''

Frank Mastalerz

We were trying to embrace the community on a different level of entertainment and appeal to middle-aged people who could relate to a Las Vegas-type show.

Rhonda Johnson

We have put some nice touches to it making it more appealing and it's all paid for.

Sandro Bondi

We have repeatedly asked the appeals court that the official count of the votes be carried out with full respect for the law, that is with the maximum precision and transparency.

Atul Lele

There is a lot of cash around at the moment, and established infrastructure with stable cash flows is an appealing investment.

John Jacobs

When I feel attracted to a client, what that really means is that there is something appealing about the person; it's a good sign for the patient.

Thomas Mallon

The green appeal of solar sailing - traveling by light, once chemical propellants have done their dirty job of orbital insertion - ought to be powerful.

Sharon Shinn

I'm not sure how writers and artists of other graphic novels join forces, but this is how the process worked for me: First, I produced my final script. Then, Mark Siegel, my editor at First Second, assembled information about 10 or 12 different artists and had me look through their portfolios to see what kind of styles appealed to me.

Anna Kendrick

I think I'm trouble-adjacent. I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like. I skirted the stuff that other kids were doing because the idea of actually getting in trouble was not appealing to me, but I still wanted to have adventures.

Agnes Smedley

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

Agnes Martin

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

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.

Toba Beta

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.

Theodore Bikel

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Kurt Masur

I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin King

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Adam Mansbach

While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.

Brian Greene

What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.

Evan Peters

I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It's fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.

Daniel Barenboim

In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

Charles Hazlewood

I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Had Beethoven been able to carry out all his plans to fruition, then, for example, today we would have his opera Macbeth, a Faust, and many others. He would have contracted himself to write a whole series of operas.

Richard Hatch

We were always working overtime, throwing things together. Every first year is always hectic enough, because you have producers and network executives fighting it out over what they think you should do. With all the belief that science fiction was just not meant for TV, they didn't understand what they had until it was too late-and by then they had a hit show, the highest rated sci-fi show of all time on network television!

Hans Davidsson

The expressiveness of this organ is beyond belief, ... There's a vocal quality to the sound that you don't hear in modern instruments.

Martin Indyk

There is a lot of blame to go around. But on the American side, the conceptual failure that contributed to disaster was the president's belief that democracy and elections solve everything.

Abdullah Gul

There is a link with an organization in Afghanistan in terms of belief and understanding.

Neil Higgs

There is clearly the potential for a lack of belief in the value of the local government election process: if people do not believe in it, turnout will be low.

Victoria Cobb

There is certainly a belief that the state can never get enough revenue. This is a source of revenue no matter how unfair or how difficult it is on families.

Byron Katie

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.

Empedocles

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

Eric Kripke

Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections.

Carlos Ghosn

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

Rob Fields

We want people to know we take this very seriously. This isn't for us to go out there and play. It's a lifestyle, a commitment you've got to make.

Charlie Daniels

Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.

Charles Taylor

To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Daryl Gross

We have a young team and I think they've shown me they have a level of commitment and desire to compete. It's really exciting.

Delores Killette

The people of New Orleans have our commitment to restore service to pre- hurricane levels as quickly as we can.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Kevin Decker

We want to redeem ourselves after losing to Greenwich. We're ready to start the season and continue the streak. We want to make it 29 in a row.

Susan Hill

We have no intention of leaving and we intend to continue to provide the services that we're providing. It won't be easy, but we're staying.

Phil Zepeda

We have never seen an outpouring of support like this in our existence. It's just tremendous, and the outpouring of support just continues to come.

Greg Scott

We want more students to join. We hope those numbers continue to increase.

David Schmidly

We want him to get well, get back on his feet and we will look forward to the time when he will return and continue his contribution to our university.

Ryan Anderson

We wanted to win Metro to continue our legacy. It's keeping the tradition going that was passed on from (former players) Jamal (Crawford), Rod (Stewart), D. Hudson and David King. It's all about passing the torch and keeping it going.

John Hargreaves

We have produced record results...these have been delivered by providing our members with outstanding value for money and through continued store expansion,

Jim Tressel

We've seen him mature and grow into the role, and he is just going to continue to get better and better. He can be a very efficient running back here at Ohio State.

Mark McClellan

We've seen enrollment continue at a steady pace, faster than what we saw before the late December surge.

Carlos Castaneda

When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.

Carlos Castaneda

If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile...To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

Carlos Castaneda

To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.

Carlos Castaneda

Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

Carlos Castaneda

There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

Carlos Castaneda

A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.

Carlos Castaneda

The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

Stacy Schiff

When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.'

Charlie Chaplin

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Benjamin Graham

It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.

Jackie Lang

Fiber utilization is important, we use every part of the tree and don't waste anything.

Dale Dutt

Fiber is important, as long as you keep it down.

Bill Price

The optical fiber unit is still for sale. We're still working with multiple bidders.

Billy Porter

You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody else's energy. You have to own your thing, or own it with very fiber of your being.

Reed Hastings

It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair.

Tom Connor

Our team is neat. They're the fiber of a lot of people in the United States. They're the little guy who got knocked down and kept getting up again.

David Hill

I will fight this with every fiber of my being.

Albert Schweitzer

Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.

Gaylord Perry

Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out that He's wearing pinstripes.

Kim Gordon

I love the way Lady Gaga finds humour in fashion, but it's still very stylised.

Anne Donovan

Sheryl finds a way to help her team win a game, and it doesn't necessarily have to do with scoring.

Kathy Mattea

Love travels, the miles, upon the wings of angels. Love finds you, I swear it's true, and I will love you from here.

Frank Cacckello

She was reincarnated tonight. A player of her talent finds a way to play through the pain.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's a winner. She's just a tough little kid and she finds a way to win.

Debbie Ball

She's got to be one of the most organized high school students. She finds a way to do everything.

Sathya Baba

When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has traveled only from himself to himself.

O. Singh

Night and day, he is engrossed in worldly affairs, and even in his dreams, he finds no peace.

Jason Smith

When he first got to the NBA, a friend of ours and myself would always go see him play on the road.

Agnes Repplier

It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

Agnes Repplier

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

JoLaine Jones

We were totally just friends. I had no idea he was romantically interested in me.

Alan Sugar

I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.

Charlotte Bronte

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him

Charlotte Bronte

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlie Daniels

He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.

Charlie Chaplin

I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

David Sedaris

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Menander

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

William Shakespeare

For my part, it was Greek to me.

Demetri Martin

Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up.

Billy Joel

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

Eddie Izzard

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so.

Aristotle

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Amanda Cunningham

Poet in Greek means maker. It's the idea of making something that has never been made before.

Augusten Burroughs

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

C. S. Lewis

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

Alan Rudolph

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

Alan Kay

The greatest single programming language ever designed

Alan Kay

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

Diane Wakoski

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

David Brooks

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

Dave Chappelle

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

David Mitchell

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

David Crystal

The internet is an amazing medium for languages,

David Sedaris

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

John Harbison

No performer wants the listener to be distracted, least of all Lorraine,

Evan Siegel

We know the kind of music listener that we are looking for.

Ken Hill

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Moby

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

Kelly Jones

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

James Mercer

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

John Ray

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

Lester Bowie

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

Michel Brunache

We have no objection that he travel if ultimately this is what needs to be done for him to get treatment.

Alan McCoy

We have needs for people with specific backgrounds and training." ()

Alan Sugar

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Roy Blunt

The product we had for today wasn't quite where it needs to be yet,

Brian Cox

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Brian Eno

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

Boomer Esiason

Small businesses no longer need to feel like a deer in the headlights when considering constructing or updating their Web sites. With ClickThings what you see is what you get, unlike some other competitive Web-based Website building tools.

Diane Wood

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

Howard Dean

We have no idea what this woman's record is about. She's obviously an accomplished attorney. The question is what does she believe. We have no idea, ... This Week.

Antony Sher

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

Brian Eno

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

Eliza Taylor

Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show.

Eula Biss

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

Ryan Kolb

We're still struggling with the first period and I don't know what to do about that. But obviously we were able to regroup in the second period.

Billy Wilder

Make subtlety obvious.

Keyshawn Johnson

The championship, in my eyes, in television, is obviously an Emmy.

Bruce Chen

We won, so obviously I feel very good.

Jeff Mitchell

We want it to stay the way it is, natural. We want it to be open to the public.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

There are still too many people out there who are claustrophobic. On easyCruise, we are going to open up as many cabins as we can.

Daniel Barber

It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

Kara Walker

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Lyle Kessler

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

Eckhart Tolle

Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

Rick Peterson

This puts him on track to open all our options.

Brandi Carlile

The purpose of it all is love.

Brandi Carlile

There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.

David Kim

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

David Kim

On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.

David Graeber

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

Dave Barry

Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

Chinua Achebe

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

Mark Cuban

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

Kofi Annan

We shall see, ... They want to end this.

Garfield Ewings

We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.

Joyce Banda

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Kate Winslet

I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.

Cindy Morgan

The geeks shall inherit the earth - I've always said that.

Eddie Rickenbacker

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

David Hilbert

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Huseyin Sahin

She died. I will be making a statement shortly.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mallory Ortberg

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

Sourav Ganguly

Only time will tell. It's not right for me to make a statement now.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

Erick Jensen

If they wrestle like they did this weekend, we could make a statement at states.

Eric Schmidt

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

Ludivine Sagnier

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Lisa Cholodenko

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

James Gray

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

James Joyce

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

Bram Cohen

Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.

Matthew Elliott

We're written off every year, so we're used to it.

Thomas Mesereau

Why did you want an addendum to what you had already written and signed?

Rachel Joyce

I have written stories since I was a child.