Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

C. S. Lewis

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.

Richard Clarke

We want to provide a link between the classroom environment and what you are doing outside of the classroom.

Kim Anderson

We have no idea how to classify ourselves. We pull from everything -- rock, hardcore, punk, indie.

Todd Apo

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Greg Amundson

Whenever you can hold a Class A team to just three field goals you are playing pretty solid defense.

Wendy Kopp

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

Jeff Judkins

When you're up 25 points, you pull your starters out with 1:54 left in the game. It's a classy way. You don't need to rub it in.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.

William Gass

The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

Francis Parkman

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.

Verne Lundquist

Think about a descent from top to the bottom.

Kathleen Blanco

When folks who are desperate are trying to get home, it just makes it more difficult for us to get to folks whose lives are in danger.

Joe Volpe

We are producing more jobs than the labor market has workers for ... we're desperate for immigration,

D. James

We've got a very stern test here. They're going to be a desperate bunch, and that's something they're not used to. We're in the same boat, so it should be a good football game.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

Willie Mitchell

When you're a desperate team, you do whatever it takes.

William Shakespeare

Desperate times breed desperate measures

Nate Corddry

Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

Bob Geldof

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

Steve Coppell

We were desperate for a left side, and the videos landed in our lap.

Claudia Rankine

When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows?

Greg Brockbank

We have put into place a system so that won't happen again.

Will Blalock

We've seen this stuff happen to us before.

Justin Kirk

When I'm watching television or a movie, I like to see stories that are extraordinary. I don't need it be something that is, 'Well this makes more sense to me because I can see this happening to me, or this happened to me.'

Bruce Jones

When I met with police, we told them the only thing we wanted out of this was integrity of the investigation, so that this doesn't ever happen to another family,

Shia LaBeouf

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

Richard Shelby

The process of what happened and how it happened was very troubling, and I think it tainted the whole situation.

Tom Bissell

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Thomas Ian Griffith

I'm looked upon as a theater actor who happened to know martial arts before I got into the movies.

Raul Rodriguez

Why tackle the Hispanic people only? That is not fair. That is not right. That is not justice.

Ted Cruz

There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.

Andrew Greeley

One Hispanic woman... was telling me about her religion, and all she was talking about were the parties, the festivals.

Howard Davidowitz

Is Wal-Mart going after the Hispanic and African-American consumers? Absolutely. They're a significant percentage of Wal-Mart shoppers,

Alfredo Alonso

Hispanics tend to use radio very frequently. They spend longer listening to radio. The Hispanic population is very brand-loyal, and once they identify with a radio station, they tend to stick with that station.

Frank Cruz

He was a true pioneer of Hispanic media here in Los Angeles. And he was a gutsy cameraman.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Ozzie is the Hispanic Jackie Mason. If you look at him in that light, you don't worry about anything he says.

Bob Yevak

White, black, Hispanic we should all be in one league playing as a team together.

David Ware

We've never had Hispanic day laborer sites. That's a totally new phenomenon.

Carol Vorderman

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

Carol Vorderman

My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

Carlos Mencia

I grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope.

Carlos Ghosn

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

Carl Barks

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

C. S. Lewis

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

Tommy Amaker

We have no one to blame. That's what I wanted the kids to know.

Jim Allen

When your kids get on a bus, you want...

Miguel Nicolelis

We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

Tom Tancredo

He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.

Dan Harel

We are here to evacuate, and we will not leave until it is empty.

Lynsey Addario

Every story takes its toll on me and leaves an impression on me.

Jeff Horvath

The other team saw all of our players leave and maybe that lulled them to sleep.

Sian Jones

The people who lived here couldn't leave it.

Catherine Bell

We usually work 14-hour days, and sometimes 16 to 18 days, which doesn't leave much time for anything else - most Sundays are spent recovering.

Elias Koteas

I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

Kim Gordon

I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to explode.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The majority is never right, unless it includes me.

Dennis Prager

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Ben Horowitz

For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Elizabeth Banks

Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.

Flula Borg

The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.

Bob Consalvo

We think we can keep everything in there, just a smaller portion of it.

Yan Xiaohong

What we've investigated may be a very small portion of the problem.

David Bositis

For a big portion of the African-Americans, there's not better education.

Alexander Mackenzie

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

Jim Barnes

A small portion of several things is probably better for you than a big portion of one thing because you get a wider variety of nutrients.

Ross Siragusa

The tomato portion of it still is pretty negligible.

Mary Ann Mobley

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

Carl Sagan

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

Richard Leakey

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

Carl Sagan

But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Maurissa Tancharoen

Marvel is a very vast and diverse universe.

George E. Brown, Jr.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.

Moby

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

Alex Beuzelin

They are still vastly under-performing the U.S. economy,