Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Pritchard

Mahler's first symphony is not a typical symphony in that it's not abstract music; it does conjure up images of nature and images of heroism.

Harry Reid

No one suggests that John Roberts was motivated by bigotry or animosity toward minorities or women, ... But these memos lead one to question whether he truly appreciated the history of the civil rights struggle. He wrote about discrimination as an abstract concept, not as a flesh and blood reality for countless of his fellow citizens.

Twyla Tharp

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

Robert Summers

Frary executed tremendous abstract paintings. Frary contributed significantly to mid-century modernist art in Texas.

Newt Gingrich

For so many Americans, what goes on here in Washington often seems abstract and remote, unrelated to their daily concerns,

Aaron Huey

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Gayle Green

If we're going to teach it to all kids -- kids who might not naturally be abstract learners -- we need a variety of teaching methods.

Ad Reinhardt

I got out of Columbia and then into the American Abstract Artist group, which had almost all the abstract artists in the coutry in it, about 40 or 50.

Malcolm Gladwell

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

Richard P. Feynman

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

Kurtwood Smith

If I had not gotten along so well with some of the people on the show, it would have been a different story. But in this case, it was great. But sure, it will be fun to look around.

Kumail Nanjiani

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

David Smith

Like a powerful medication, the Internet has a revolutionary impact on global business, and it is hard to imagine a firm that has not been affected. Unfortunately, along with the benefits come many side effects that have the potential to dramatically erode productivity and pose many other dangers to the enterprise and to employees, themselves. That is why it is so vital to carefully monitor employee Internet use. This study confirms that uncontrolled employee Internet use is a very serious threat to compliance, security and productivity.

Gary Warner

Lighting is too expensive, so we plan to lease the lights from TECO. The cost of electricity will be passed on to businesses along the road.

Stacy Schiff

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

John Seabrook

Like Honeycrisp, SweeTango has much larger cells than other apples, and when you bite into it, the cells shatter rather than cleaving along the cell walls, as is the case with most popular apples. The bursting of the cells fills your mouth with juice. Chunks of SweeTango snap off in your mouth with a loud cracking sound.

Joe Morgan

Make no mistake about it, we lost a generation of inner-city players along the way. I think that starting today, with the opening of the field here in Compton, we will stop the erosion of inner-city players.

Christopher Cross

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

Sara Sheridan

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream.

Peter Greene

Lowe's was maybe a bit of a letdown this morning, and the other retailers and some of the homebuilding stocks are down. The Dow transportation average is also weak today, despite UAL's gains. There's really no new news today to push us too much in either direction. We've had a great run recently and a minor decline isn't so bad.

Lisa Murkowski

Last year, the Ninth Circuit had a caseload nearly 60 percent larger than the next largest circuit, ... This causes delays in a circuit where the average disposition time is now five months longer than the national average.

Catherine Young

Last year she was an average to an above-average setter. This year her setting has tremendously improved.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Many of these jobs are quality, middle-class jobs, ... The film industry is pivotal to the city's economy. ... In fact, the average scripted features -- television and commercial productions -- have a direct production-related economic impact of $150,000 to $250,000 each day they're in production.

Marilyn Mackes

Seven of the top-10 majors with the highest starting salary offers saw increases in their offers over last year. Engineering remains strong, and another high point comes for economics/finance graduates, who saw a spectacular 11-percent increase to their average starting salary offers.

William Fields

Serving small customers on a long-term basis doesn't provide enough of a margin. It might be a different equation for a company spending 10 times or more than your average retail customer.

Matthew Brown

Security and compliance requirements should boost IT spending by financial services firms, while resurgent demand for networking technologies should give the telecoms sector a shot in the arm. Unemployment has hit new lows. Two years ago, 13% of IT contractors went more than 90 days on average between contracts; now only 3% experience this level of uncertainty and difficulty in finding work.

Don Young

So far, the prices are still pretty decent. Our bean yields are down 30 percent, but our corn just seems to be up to average this year.

Todd Tubutis

We're not being in your face about it, but we're not shy, either.

Jiri Fischer

Life without hockey, I hope I don't have to face it for some time.

Ginny Brown-Waite

Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

Bob Stein

Love him or hate him, he's no fool. He's realized he may have lost his leadership post, but with the trial he faces losing much more than that. He may not be as focused on keeping his House seat as he has been.

Tom Larson

Last year, the weather was at everybody's back and we did better than the industry. This year, the weather is in everybody's face and we feel we're doing better than the industry.

Maureen Cooney

Let's face it. You're not going to order lobster.

James Harper

Let's face it you can't get any worse than being in default.

Antawn Jamison

Let's face it - when myself, Gilbert and Caron step up, we play a lot better as a team.

Michael Farber

Let's face it. We struggle with this too. It's a tough year to pick a winner.

Robert Mankoff

I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I won't quite get it anymore. Because sometimes the grenade goes off in the moment, and then it doesn't repeat down the line.

Jack Brooks

Luke's a pitcher. There are not many 'pitchers' around. He had to work at the end, but he worked through it. No matter what happens he goes after the next batter.

Ken Lynch

Life goes on. We are not moving at all.

Craig Frederick

Life goes on. I have to worry about other things. If that's what they think is best, there's nothing I can do about it.

Steve Tambellini

Let's go one step at a time. We'll see how the procedure goes Wednesday. Hopefully he'll be back.

Craig Fugate

Many homes were impacted and shelters were opened, ... In some of these neighborhoods, till the water goes down, people are not going to be able to get back in their homes and start making repairs.

Tasia Scolinos

Much thought goes into how and why various tools are used in these often-complicated cases. The important thing is for someone not to come away thinking this whole process is arbitrary, which it is not.

Dominic James

No day goes by without planning my future. I really try not to think about it (NBA), but that is one of my goals. That's why I'm here.

Jack Stephens

One of the things this system offers is redundancy, and so if one tower goes down, there will be another that will pick up the communications and that you can patch into.

Jan C. Ting

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

Dan Stein

Millions of American workers, in all sectors of the labor market, have seen their jobs and wages undercut by the phenomenon of mass illegal immigration.

James Altucher

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.

Tommy Chong

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.

Jaime Suchlicki

Only those who are doing something illegal should be worried about the U.S. government's actions.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Eugene Brezany

If they see illegal activity, of course, they're going to report it. But we are not law enforcement, and we don't want to be perceived as law enforcement.

Roger Wicker

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

George Casey

Level 1 is being totally independent, and we know they're not going to be there in large numbers for a while. But they're already getting to level 2, which means they can get into and lead the fight.

Chris Larsen

No-cost loans are pretty popular right now, especially for people with larger loans. The larger your loan, the smaller the penalty for no-cost loans.

Richard Greenfield

One of the things they'd like to do is return more to shareholders, and ... a larger buyback makes a lot of sense at this point.

Jim Tracy

One-and-7 obviously isn't the way you want to start. But the (Dodgers) team I managed last year started 12-2 and we won 71 games. So it's not a large enough sample size of games. It doesn't mean this is the kind of team we're going to be for the next six months.

John Burns

Of course, Pol Pot in Cambodia, Rwanda -- things on a much larger scale than this. But this is pretty bad.

James Macdonald

More and more production is starting to shift into some very large operations.

George Sansoucy

Obviously, they've got to remake themselves; obviously, they've got to make themselves relevant in a more significant way again. Their contribution in print is now not needed in large part.

Tullian Tchividjian

As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

Beckie Rolbiecki

From just being comfortable to have seen the large crowd. It's the same gymnastics; it's just in a different arena.

Charles R. Swindoll

...the single most important issue in all of life (is) your relationship with the living God... how you can know Him in a personal and meaningful way.

Charles R. Swindoll

In spite of the extent to which Solomon went to find happiness, because he left God out of the picture, nothing satisfied. It never will. Satisfaction in life will never occur until there is a meaningful connection with the living Lord above the sun.

Debra Messing

We have so many different options now and ways to communicate digitally. But I don't think anything is more meaningful or powerful than a hand-written letter.

Debra Messing

So my son is very curious, which is fantastic. He loves school. So I don't have to encourage him too much, but I love to do it because I know it's meaningful and words are powerful.

Dieter Rams

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Eileen Atkins

The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.

Elinor Ostrom

Some of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years just appall me. Why do humans need huge homes? I was born poor and I didn’t know you bought clothes at anything but the Goodwill until I went to college. Some of our mentality about what it means to have a good life is, I think, not going to help us in the next 50 years. We have to think through how to choose a meaningful life where we’re helping one another in ways that really help the Earth.

Elena Kagan

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

Deepak Chopra

In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us

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.

George Washington

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave.

Edward Castronova

One thing that's surprising is how serious this is. It's now my career.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Edsger Dijkstra

Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

Edward Abbey

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

Steve MacFarlane

If all sides are serious about getting this done before the deadline, I think it can be done.

Dom DeLuise

I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.

David Nicholls

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

Christine Lavin

I was a very, very serious child, ... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

Tommy Mottola

I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera.

Steve-O

The idea is to improve somebody's day. That's how I've always viewed my job. I'm a distraction therapist. I make people's problems go away for just a little bit.

Robert Reischauer

This has to be viewed with some skepticism,

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.

James Farrior

Yeah, he's watching his weight all right. Watching it expand.

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

Betha Aris

I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Stacy Keibler

I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting.

Viggo Mortensen

there he is, I'm watching him, there he goes.

Brian McCloskey

We got a little cute. We started watching ourselves." ()

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.