Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Christopher Hitchens

Mr. Blumenthal stated that Monica Lewinsky had been a 'stalker' and that the president was 'the victim' of a predatory and unstable sexually demanding young woman, ... Referring to Ms. Lewinsky, Mr. Blumenthal used the word 'stalker' several times.

John Ellis

From number seven on I played very well. I knew just to stay in the tournament I would need to shoot three- or four-under. Fortunately, a 66 was good enough on a very demanding golf course.

Paul Browne

She screamed and shouted at her, demanding a refund.

Mariella Frostrup

I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.

Marty Booker

I don't know anything about the diva thing. To play receiver in this league, sometimes you have to be demanding and selfish.

Zubin Mehta

American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.

Brewster Kahle

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

P. C. Cast

I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

Paula McLain

It had never occurred to me to write a historical novel, but then I found Hadley in the pages of Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' and wanted to know more about her - who she was, how she and Ernest met and fell in love, what it was like for her to be married to such a demanding and stormy force of nature.

Larry Parrish

We're not centering. We've been late on the fastballs and out in front of the off-speed pitches. We're stuck in the middle.

Steve Watkins

Making the team is not in the front of my mind at all. I just wanted to come in here and show them what I can do.

Dan Castellaneta

Lets just plop them in front of the TV. I was raised in front of the TV and I turned out TV

Mike Stapleton

Lower the front end. Try to keep him level. Watch the top of his head.

Helli Homburg

Mrs. Richardson insists on that. But there are a lot of changes. We will have a new front door. We are putting up shutters that will open out. We are going to make this place look like a chalet in the Alps. We say it is 'The Chalet' next to the White Horse Motel.

Dave Mills

Mountain View has a very strong team. They don't have the runners up front in the (girls') races but they have a really, really strong group. They would be the next logical one with Borah as well.

Orlando Cabrera

Moving up in the order, hitting in front of Garret and Vladdy, that has helped a lot -- seeing better pitches. That is the spot. There are a lot of things you can do.

Sergei Gonchar

Maybe we just didn't shoot enough in previous games on the power play. But with a guy like John LeClair in front of the net, he's a great guy to have there when you shoot, so we have to use him.

Lindsey Vonn

My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.

Alexandra Fuller

People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).

Robert Wilson

If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message?

Albert Schweitzer

Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

Albert Schweitzer

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

Albert Schweitzer

If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.

Justin Dentmon

Man, I got scared real quick when I heard the news. I've never been in a situation like this before.

Steve Young

Luckily, you feel that way. If you really knew how long you were going to hear about how you played in the Super Bowl, how it went, no one could sleep.

Sathya Baba

Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of the heart.

Dennis Prager

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

Charles Stross

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

Bill Maher

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

Darren Shan

What are you doing?" "Looking for my fangs." "We don't grow fangs you idiot!

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.

Billie Joe Armstrong

We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

Brad Williams

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

Andrei Codrescu

There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

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.

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Martin O'Malley

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Rich Bixby

We didn't play well, but I will take it. To get to Troy three years in a row is special.

Ned Yost

We need two in a row to get us over the hump.

Ryan Howard

Wow, two wins in a row at home? That's big isn't it?

Diane Ackerman

Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

Mike Day

We've been here three years in a row ... we're the most experienced team left.

Jim Shannon

We've won three in a row now. We're getting better. This is the time of year you like to see that. We feel like we're starting to turn the corner.

Catriona Matthew

To start with three birdies in a row was perfect,

Brandon Makela

That's two wins in a row for us.

Josh Smith

That's the first time we've won three in a row since I've been here.

Dennis Christopher

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

Edgar Allan Poe

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

Dominic Monaghan

When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.

Tim Crouch

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

Alan Rickman

I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

Alan Jay Lerner

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Alan Chadwick

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

Al Pacino

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

Akira Kurosawa

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.