Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shawn Amos

Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.

Jim Letten

New Orleans' survival depends on three things. Getting a handle on violent crime, building a viable public school system and eradicating the abject and debilitating corruption that that has plagued New Orleans for so long.

Michael Barrett

This string sextet by Schoenberg is based on a Viennese poem in which a women walks with her lover under the moon and confesses that she is pregnant by another man. The man tells his love he will stay with her no matter what and raise the child. The arc of the piece moves from abject sorrow and guilt to joy and underscores the transformative power of love and commitment.

John C. Calhoun

If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.

Gordon Brown

We are conscious of the abject poverty that so many countries and individuals face. We're being driven forward by the urgent need to act,

Ben Carson

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

Atharva Veda

Water is the abject necessity for any kind of life to exist.

Kara Walker

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.

Rex Tillerson

There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.

Richard Rogers

Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty big battles on public commissions, too. The key is to have a good client.

Richard Rogers

When I started out, nearly every architect I knew was working in public practice; that's where the radical thinking was done. But, there's always a danger of looking back as our fathers did and saying, 'Things were better then.'

Richard Rogers

Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world.

Richard Rogers

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

Rick Perlstein

Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population that was not anticommunist in 1961 was miniscule.

Armand Assante

Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ... I think that's the task, in a way, to show what an architect of duplicity this character is, in his simplicity, forthrightness and morality. It's a strange and wonderful study of how far a horrible lie can be taken in terms of a character.

M. Wolfe

Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.

Teresa Jones

Several factors are combining to drive the need for a unified architecture for accessing applications from remote locations and by diverse client types.

Charles Jencks

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

Rick Perlstein

Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.

Robert Wilson

My work is formal, not based on psychology.

Kumail Nanjiani

When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.

Jeff Pulver

LignUp is one of the players in an industry value chain that increasingly differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century. By exhibiting a focus on a networking industry model, open interfaces, open standards, and an innovative Web services based architecture, LignUp has joined a circle of companies that represent the future of IP communications.

Sandy Alomar

Life is based on your self-confidence. When you trust yourself, that means you know you can do things. If you don't have that trust, that means you're always going to have doubts in your mind.

Guido Mantega

Lula is going to build a government based on alliances, a government in which businessmen, bankers, trade unions -- the whole of society -- will participate. The trademark of Lula's government will be participation.

Matthew Peterson

Life events may force you to rethink that plan, ... Don't rethink your plan based on what's happening on the market.

Phil Garner

Let's see how he feels tomorrow. That's about kind of what I expected based on (the fact) he's been throwing off and on every other day basically for the last week.

William Ward

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.

Patrick Cotter

We're not conceding anything. We haven't pled guilty to anything.

Bill Schultz

Maybe you've got to hate her from the evidence. Maybe you want to somehow find her guilty of this offense. ... The only way for the system to work is for the jury to do the right thing and look at the evidence.

William Kennedy

My guilt is all I have left. If I lose it, I have stood for nothing, done nothing, been nothing.

Darryl Littlejohn

I can't really say I had anything to do with it at all. I was in the apartment. The only thing I pleaded guilty to was being in the wrong place and having a beeper.

Ben Jonson

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Elin Hilderbrand

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

Jim Talent

There are people walking around guilty of murder.

S. Walker

Basically, he's told me he had no involvement in this murder, so we intend to plead not guilty and we intend to go to trial.

Nick Barnes

I feel guilty because I can't go down there and do anything else.

Albert Schweitzer

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

E. Helm

Madam Ambassador, it's been a joy to work with you while you were at the United Nations.

Dustie Robertson

Me and Joyous always work really well together. We can just read each other.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Dennis Prager

The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better

Denholm Elliott

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

Dean Ornish

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

William Walsh

Of all the plagues a lover bears,Sure rivals are the worst!

Chris Cleave

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

Aimee Bender

My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

Edith Sitwell

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

Edith Wharton

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

Unknown

To our wives and lovers - may they never meet!

Axl Rose

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

Carl von Clausewitz

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Bradley Cooper

I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect.

Rashad Bobino

Man, I can see why they're No. 1 in the nation.

Mario Bailey

Man, he's a senior. He's worked hard, and this is for him.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Toba Beta

Man has to postulate weirdness, before reaching the new science.

William Burroughs

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Pat Connors

Man has a very poor track record when it comes to nature.

Barry Alvarez

Man did he play. I was really proud of him. . . . I really thought he played exceptional for a young kid.

Phil Garner

make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Willie Revillame

Mr. Lim has always been there for me. No matter where I go, he's always there to support me.

Mark Zandi

One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more.

Lindsay Meggs

One of the things we talked about is it didn't matter about how we won, we just needed to win.

Meryl Thomas

One of the things I've always tried to do as president of the (Penn Hills) PTA is to get everyone moving in the same direction, no matter what the project was.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

Sushma Swaraj

Now we can only pray in God's temple for him to get better. It is a matter of prayers and medicines. The medicines are being administered internally and the prayers are being sent from outside.

Andrew Barrett

Next week is going to be more normal, when we get back to the real matter at hand, which is earnings.

Alexandra Paul

I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon.

Edgar Mitchell

Another way to think of this is there are now 6.8 billion people on this planet, and half of them weren't even born when we went to the moon, and so they don't have the perspective.

Edgar Mitchell

We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.

Edgar Mitchell

When I went to the moon I was a pragmatic test pilot. But when I saw the planet Earth floating in the vastness of space the presence of divinity became almost palpable and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident.

Edgar Allan Poe

Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon!

Edgar Allan Poe

Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado.

Edgar Allan Poe

...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom. And lay down at the feet of the demon. And looked at him steadily in the face.

Eldridge Cleaver

In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.

Eileen collins

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

Rob Gronkowski

I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I'm quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.

Jeremy Spencer

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

Steve Evans

If this moves forward, you'll see a reigniting of the water wars like you wouldn't believe.

David Land

Traders are not being overly quick to get into long positions as the oil price moves up, but are quick to unload if they see any weakness.

Lawrence Tierney

People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it.

George Bald

We need to understand how freight moves and what is involved.

Phil Garner

We'll make the moves we always make. We'll pinch-hit, we'll double-switch, we'll defensively make moves.

Troy Glaus

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

Jill Buford

I don't think any one of these is the solution. It's going to be a combination of them all. This is just a big puzzle and we need to put all the pieces together.

Aaron Copland

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

Kathy Miles

So he wrote on a little yellow piece of paper, 'Les Miles.'

William Wycherley

I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.

William John Wills

Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible.

Jamey Wright

We have the pieces to the puzzle. We have a lot of weapons.

Kathay Lovell

We've been down this road before with non-performance of redevelopment property. I don't want to go down that road again. That's a valuable piece of property.

Alexander Wang

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Mary Tavenner

She was a peacemaker. Her poems are always uplifting.

Octavio Paz

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Rachel Platten

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Tyler Johnson

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

John Barton

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

James Welch

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

Billy Collins

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

Seamus Heaney

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

Alexandra Paul

Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Let's get the power back to the people, ... not have the politicians go into a back room and slap each other on the back and smoke a stogie and come up with an agreement, smiling.

Michel Gauthier

Mr. Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

John Humphreys

Now they have a pretty strong portfolio. This is a powerful tech story for the company, and they need that.

Thomas Fuller

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Charles Spurgeon

Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.

Diane Lane

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

Dennis Prager

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

Walter Benjamin

We are pregnant with freedom.

Susan Hazen

This rule provides far-reaching protections for all Americans and bans pesticide testing on pregnant women and children.

Robin Wright

I never went to college. I was pregnant at 23.

Megan Smith

I've seen her, and she didn't look pregnant at all.

Ray Brown

That's nothing. He also thinks he's a pregnant woman.

Oprah Winfrey

I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.

Melissa McCarthy

I'm not a great pregnant woman.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I've actually worked out more pregnant than when I wasn't.

Kim Kardashian

Of my own, I like my upper stomach. I just seem to always have abs.When I'm not really pregnant, I have a great two-pack.

Isabella Rossellini

I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer.

Matt Zito

Lucent is trading at around $10 so how in the world are they going to raise capital?

Walter Mondale

Mr. Reagan will raise taxes; and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

Mike Pompeo

My goal in getting rid of tax loopholes is not to raise taxes. Our problem in Washington, D.C. is not a revenue problem, it is a spending problem.

Robert Milmore

If another bidder comes in the stakes could be raised on TWA to where AMR doesn't think it's worth it.

Sharon Cody

I was raised with a sense of not throwing things away.

Sally Field

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.

Robert Rennie

I'd be surprised if the BOJ raises rates at all this year and that is something that will tend to see the yen underperforming.

Tom Brady

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Edgar Allan Poe

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

Eddie Vedder

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

Abdul Kalam

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

William Shakespeare

For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

William Shakespeare

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.

Michael Bruce

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, / No winter in thy year!

Charles Dickens

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Charles Caleb Colton

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

Marty Schottenheimer

Like a lot of their linebackers, you can get on them, but they won't stay blocked.

Joan Armatrading

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

Isabel Allende

one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years.

Shai Agassi

No one has said that we will only stay in that area.

Earl Boykins

Whenever you lose, you're concerned. But we've got to stay confident.

Chris Frantz

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

Barry Bonds

I did have it. It just didn't stay between the yellow lines,

Mitch Kapor

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.

Corey McKeon

Getting in their heads, it's key. For a team that has had success, you have to stay in their faces.

Eddie Van Halen

I boil the strings so they stretch.

Phil Everly

My son and I run a string company, and he has a studio there, and I go down sometimes and we'll record.

David Joy

We'll see if Goldman can keep that string going.

Aldous Huxley

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Jacqueline Bisset

I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.

Jason Rich

We've been winning, losing, winning, losing. We've got to string wins together.

Tim Berners-Lee

I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.

David Platt

My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.

David Gray

I know his work can be extravagant, ... But the first track on 'Want One' is one of the most astonishing things that has come out in years. And I wanted to work with his scope. He has more than one string in his bow.

Barbara Corcoran

No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

Anna Held

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Luis Suarez

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

Melinda Shiraki

We usually end up crying. He tells us not to be scared.

Frank Beamer

He may. I think he does some things that tells you he can be in that running.

Judd Gregg

Whatever my wife tells me to do with it,

Kenny Lofton

He tells guys, 'Go out there and play hard, but have fun,'

Joanna Lumley

Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.

Joan Rankin

When someone tells me how they feel when they see something I've done and they want to live with it, that's the best,

Deepak Chopra

Walk with those seeking truth...

Abraham Lincoln

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

Sergei Lavrov

If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?

Banksy

When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss.

Charles Baudelaire

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

Bessie Coleman

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

Frank Robinson

With us right now, you can give us 20 walks and it'll still be a 2-1 or 3-2 game.

Jane Austen

I walk: I prefer walking.

Brandon Boyd

I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can't walk somewhere, I'll bike or skateboard.

Joyce Banda

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

Audrey Hepburn

My look is attainable. Women can look like

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.

Chris Evans

What does a woman want? More.

Tucker Max

Women always want the guy that other women want.

Tina Brown

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.

Democritus

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

Denis Diderot

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Deborra-Lee Furness

As adult women, we're better able to protect ourselves emotionally. We understand we don't need to spend time with people who don't make us feel good. We recognise that some people have bad energy and we know we don't want that in our lives. Instead, we choose to spend time with people who love us and treat us well and make us happy. There's no doubt that shows on your face.