Famous Quotes & Sayings

Red Cavaney

Lee has been a legend in the pantheon of industry leaders since the beginning of time. He commands this tremendous aura of respect when he speaks. People do listen.

Dave Kinney

Barrett-Jackson has created that same mystique and the same aura that Tiffany has with its blue box. Some people have to have that blue box, and some people have to buy from Barrett-Jackson because of the aura surrounding the name.

Curtis Hunter

I didn't like the aura of our body language on the court. We seemed that we were getting defeated, and even though the game was a large margin, we didn't play smart basketball. We're just trying to get these guys to understand that's not how you go out.

Ismail Kadare

If I manage to write something that I consider good and valuable in a particular place, that spot automatically has a special aura for me. In Albania, there are two cities where I have written the majority of my work: Gjirokaster, my home city, and Tirana.

Tom Riley

There's a certain aura when a superstar like Brad Pitt walks into a room - I've seen it myself - but it comes from everyone else going, 'Aaaahhh!!' That's what you have to deal with, people looking at you and whispering. That would be the strangest thing, feeling the change as you walk in a room and trying to ignore it. But I think I could cope!

William Collier

Workers like that are at their computers, they tell me, up to 12 and 14 hours a day, ... So the slow rotation setting on the Aura turns you at one degree every four minutes. At high speed, you move 120 degrees in 15 seconds.

Kara Walker

I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.

Daniel Handler

Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.

Boris Pasternak

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Italo Calvino

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Richard P. Feynman

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

Richard P. Feynman

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

Mamata Banerjee

Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.

David Shore

We're not closing any doors. What we've found is everybody's so fallen in love with these characters that we have to explore it, but we cannot simply throw out the essence of the show, which is the procedural element.

Barbara Jordan

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

Mohandas Gandhi

Let no one say that he is a follower of Gandhi. It is enough that I should be my own follower. I know what an inadequate follower I am of myself, for I cannot live up to the convictions I stand for. You are no followers but fellow students, fellow pilgrims, fellow seekers, fellow workers.

Ralph Peters

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Richard P. Feynman

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Jacques Chirac

Lifting sanctions is a goal we have supported for a long time, ... Now it is up to the United Nations to define the modalities of the lifting of sanctions.

Elijah Wood

LOTR' was a landmark experience in my career, ... And it's where I helped to define myself as a human being and as an adult. I went to New Zealand by myself and had my own house and my own car.

Roy Diliberto

Many people are not planning. Maybe they are saving some money, but how do they define what is enough. Most people would like to save more, so why aren't they saving more?

Manish Jha

Mobile ESPN has defined a new wireless category, and with that, we are positioning the service and our marketing around the idea that life will never get in the way of sports again. This is more than a phone -- it is like putting ESPN in your pocket.

Anderson Jones

Movies are the most influential medium in the entire world. They shape our dreams and our hopes, they define our heroes, they often show us how to live. They can be especially influential to the young.

Sally Kempton

Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly

Roland Martin

My life has never been defined as Roland Martin, CNN; Roland Martin, TVOne; or Roland Martin, 'Tom Joyner Morning Show.' I'm appreciative of all of those platforms, but I've done all different things. I'm still Roland Martin.

Kevin Madden

One of his frustrations was that everybody wanted to hire consultants, sit around ... and talk endlessly about problems rather than define solutions.

Rick Perlstein

As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better when the defining issue is national security.

Paul Henderson

Obviously, it was a defining moment for us as Canadians. I hear it every day, and it still is. It's never going to go away. We were voted the Team of the Century, and the goal was voted the sports moment of the century.

Lupita Nyong'o

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

Gavin O'Connor

Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.

Max Lawson

We are really depressed. We are left clawing our way back to commitments made three years ago. When we start defining success as simply standing still, that's a terrible situation to be in.

Lisa O'Hare

I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I just came out that way.

Tony Fadell

I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing.

Steve Harmon

Very few have been successful. Nuance is really defining voice interface.

Britney Spears

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Let's be honest; it's rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia - even during times of stress and fatigue.

Josh Billings

Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of

James Wainscott

Of course, that depends on what we do and when we do it.

Stephen Marley

Music is the medium... how you use the music is different. Everyone use music to a positive light and effect. So it really depends on the individual and one's outlook. My music depicts life in general and the things that I see and the things that influence me, and such forth.

Rafael Benitez

Maybe they will have similar possibilities. It depends on injuries and themselves. If they play really well then it will be difficult for me to ignore them,

Thomas Friedman

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

Troy Williamson

I feel like I'm that type of guy. It just depends on the opportunities.

Ra'anan Gissin

From here we go only to the road map to peace, or we stay put. It depends very much what measures the Palestinians will take and whether they will, for the first time in a lifetime, take their destiny into their hands.

Kenny Jackett

There are options. Will he leave? I don't know. It depends who comes in with a firm offer. We'll just have to wait and see.

Robert Kazinsky

I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.

Albert Schweitzer

Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Albert Schweitzer

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Warren Farrell

Men are not human beings,they are human doings

Ivonne Sanchez

Men is able to clonate a human body, but will never be able to clonate a human soul

Tom DeLay

medical research predicated on the destruction of human embryos.

John Kricfalusi

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.

John Lydon

My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is not free from human beings but for them.

Jason Silva

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Kenneth R. Miller

We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.

Vincent Bugliosi

For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

Kate Bernheimer

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

Noam Chomsky

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Orlando Bloom

Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.

Peter Singer

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.

Paul Bloom

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

Katie Featherston

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely.

Edgar Mitchell

It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also.

Aldous Huxley

Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience.

Bill Viola

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

Don McLean

American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening; a mystical trip into my past.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is

Nelly Furtado

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

John Stott

...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.

John Smith

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

Richard P. Feynman

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Albert Schweitzer

Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

Albert Schweitzer

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Ian Mckellen

Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

Toshihiko Fukui

Second-quarter GDP was revised upwards, representing the well-balanced nature of the recovery in Japan's economy,

J. Taylor

Now, we're going to look at see what was the nature of the service disruption.

Edgar Allan Poe

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Tim Shea

One of the things I'm trying to do, and we all need to do, is look outside our public schools.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

Vince McMahon

Obviously, we've got some time problems with doing a Pay-Per-View outside the country.

Kip Pulliam

Now you know you can get all you need in the league. We don't have to go outside the conference.

Tom Waits

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

Mark Bruener

I would say he's one of the more underrated outside linebackers in a long time,

Sergei Bubka

She's a personality, not only for sports. She is very intelligent, and she's a star outside of sports.

Lin Loring

We practiced outside on (Wednesday), and it went well.

Allan Palmer

The outside (of Hangar 37) has to be restored, and we've got to repaint it and put a new roof on, and make it look like it did in 1941.

Harvey Johnson

Mrs. Knox will be produced at the proper time.

Joseph Hume

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Dennis Prager

Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists

Dean Kamen

I'm a human entropy producer.

Jenn Lyon

I'm a really gifted physical comedienne. I write and produce a lot of sketch comedy.

Doug Henning

If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.

Beth Henley

I didn't really know how to get it to a producer or how to get it to an agent. Nobody's going to look at it unless it's a success.

Tom Rath

You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness.

Mark Langan

This ranks up there with the worst I've seen. There (were) feces throughout the house, urine-stained carpets, urine-stained sheets, trash throughout the house.

Zac Sandvig

To come up here and shut out a ranked team like this is really something.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Rodney Tention

Give them credit. They compete. That's why they're ranked No. 5 (now 4). They toughened up when they got down.

Tom Perkins

If that happened, it would rank right up there with anything else I've done in my career.

George Crooks

Marysville is ranked in the state and they have seven state qualifiers back. That's going to be a tough one.

Bill Castle

We've got a bulls-eye on us. I think we're ranked because of tradition and our past. Everyone comes after you.

Jonny Moroni

To be ranked sixth internationally our first time out was pretty great.

Warrick Dunn

You feel like you're underappreciated and undervalued all the time. Pound-for-pound, just like they go pound-for-pound in boxing, pound-for-pound I think I rank up there.

Ted Sarandos

'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

Brandon Marshall

I wouldn’t change any of my reactions

Hayao Miyazaki

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

Jack Canfield

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

Kevin Bailey

There's a wide variety of reactions in trauma situations, so I would say, yes, it could be,

Michael Aspel

People's reactions can be surprising but, if you have overwhelming news, I suppose the only thing you can do is just look, because you're stunned.

Noam Chomsky

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

Leon Trotsky

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

G-Eazy

The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Dick Wolf

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

Diane Sawyer

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

Dennis Quaid

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Eleanor Roosevelt

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

Edward Abbey

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

John Clifford

From talking to him, I think he wants to play receiver.

John Groff

From what we have been talking about, it's going to be really something.

Source Unknown

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

Joe Wurzelbacher

In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

Mary Evans

If we have the Word let us/ say it/ If we have the Word let us/ be it/ If we have the Word let us/ DO.

Ryan Church

Shocked. Only word I can say. That's it: shocked.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Mike Johnson

We've done an hour-and 15-minute workouts and not said a word to each other.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!