Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

John Abraham

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

Michael Wilson

We had brief discussions with the SG and his entourage.

Beckie Scott

I did have a brief flash of 'Oh no, not now, not here.' In a way it was a huge setback. It meant a little extra double poling for me at the start of my leg. But fortunately ... it wasn't insurmountable.

Malcolm Wilson

I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.

Jason Robert Brown

I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.

Andrew Barbour

I have every intention of going around to more groups, ... I also intend to brief legislators on various levels.

Kacey Musgraves

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

Marc Guggenheim

I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.

Albert Schweitzer

The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life

George Perkins

We're not cutting back to save the world, ... I'm going to need to figure out how to get along.

SJ Morrison

We're not cutting any services; what we're doing is redistributing services.

Robert H. Connelly

Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs

Mark Twain

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.

Mark Twain

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.

Jalal Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Bruce Schneier

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.

Mark McKinnon

Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.

Najib Razak

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

Evan Spiegel

What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they're largely ephemeral. We may try to write down and save the really special moments, but by and large, we just try to let everything go. We remember it, but we don't try to save it.

David Stern

What we're doing here is largely symbolic. But it tells everyone that we've got to help. We've got to do better.

Myles Munroe

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Michael Griffin

We are largely deferring utilization (of the station) and we are paring logistics (flights) to the bone.

Rick Smolan

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

Shawn Garrett

Obviously we'd have liked to come here and win it the first time out. We shake it off and get ready for tomorrow.

Mary Matalin

No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

Cheryl Tiegs

My father's name is Theodore, but that - it's always - I've always liked the name Theodore. I read a lot. It's in a lot of literature.

Bill Cowher

No, I kind of liked the ones he's had,

Stan Cliburn

Naturally, this wasn't the way we wanted to start. We would have liked to have put on a better show.

Kacy Catanzaro

I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

Sami Abdulbari

One of the Clarksville d-lineman told me to keep it up. He liked the enthusiasm.

Luis Castillo

I would have liked to stay; I would have liked at least another year.

Frank Haith

Like anything you do, it'll work for a short period of time. But he's so intelligent that he's going to keep working.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down, with all reformers on the under side.

Michael Garnett

Getting thrown in like that is a tough way to make your debut. In between periods I talked to Dunham, and he said to go out there and relax. After that I played as I always played.

Andrew Barrett

I would be very surprised to see this spill over for a prolonged period of time.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Curtis Jackson

My work out routine is always changing. It should never stay the same for long periods of time.

Lauren Socha

I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.

Luke Evans

I've dabbled in period films in my career, and I've enjoyed each one.

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney. Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney, ... Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Peter Schmitz

Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.

Bhagavad Gita

Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectly than it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.

Merv Adams

One of the things that we stress is never talk to a stranger. We tell them, 'Run away and tell your teacher, tell your mother, somebody you can trust. Always trust a policeman.

Markus Gandler

Of course, the I.O.C. wanted somebody to be guilty, but there is no way I feel guilty.

Sam Cassell

I'm an All-Star in my mind. You don't have to have somebody tell you that, to be an All-Star. It doesn't work that way.

Swae Lee

Imagine you're doing your thing, and somebody comes up to you and just kills your mojo. Just tell them, 'No flex zone!'

Jeremy Corbyn

I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you're not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else.

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.