Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Robert Wilson

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.

Chris Hill

So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The settlement on offer is a good one and I'd hope they would see their way to doing that.

Towson Fraser

Obviously, they've got an incredibly compelling story to tell.

David Delainey

We had a very compelling story that we were telling, and we weren't telling the complete truth.

Mike Easley

Given the facts and circumstances of this case, I find no compelling reasons to invalidate the sentences recommended by the jury and affirmed by the courts.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Aaron Karo

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

Howard Levine

New-store growth is a significant contributor to our goal of making Family Dollar a compelling place to shop and invest. As we have indicated, this year we are focused on improving our new-store opening processes and increasing our new-store productivity to drive better returns to our shareholders.

John Roberts

On the other hand, simple disagreement about whether it's an appropriate issue for the public to see would not strike me as a very compelling governmental interest,

Coleman Stipanovich

We're not disputing the fact that (executives) deserve to make a lot of money. Just make it performance based, so everyone is benefiting, not just them. It's all about increasing shareholder value.

Ron Simmons

Madison Township has a large geographical area, and the people there, are mostly farmers, mostly rural community. For that reason, we don't have high population numbers. Our school is the smallest; still, those kids deserve to have their own school.

Dwight Yorke

Let's party tonight. The Mariners didn't deserve to lose - but it's all about taking your chances.

Pat Cleland

Let 'em enjoy it. They deserve it. I'm so happy for our community. I'm so happy for the kids.

Ty Wigginton

Seth deserved to win. The offense just wasn't there to support him.

Ty Wigginton

Seth deserved a W, and the offense wasn't there to support him.

Budge Pountney

Sean went extremely well for the Wanderers on Monday night. He deserves his chance. We want to make the Wanderers competitive in that if a player plays better for the Wanderers than the player who played for the Saints, they will be up for selection.

David Brabham

Sebastien and Scotty did a great job and the guys deserved everything they got tonight.

Dave Sica

Mike has just done a tremendous job in just his first year with that team. He and the team deserve every accolade and honor they have received.

Ian Morrison

Lots of snow there this evening and tomorrow.

Brian Primeaux

Mild restraint will go a long way with lace. No one has done a floor-length lace evening gown since the late '70s.

James Beattie

Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave!

Paul Crouch

My favorite time in the garden is in the evening sitting out in the gazebo with friends having snacks and cocktails,

Guillermo Coria

My first match was very fast, so I was able to settle myself down afterward. But, the evening match was difficult.

Guillermo Coria

My first match was very fast, so I was able to settle myself down afterward, ... But, the evening match was difficult.

Stephen Wright

I have a microwave fireplace in my house. The other night I laid down in front of the fire for the evening in two minutes.

Henry Reed

I have known her pass the whole evening without mentioning a single book, or in fact anything unpleasant, at all.

Tom Connor

So kind of a one-stop shopping experience. People can come down there and spend an afternoon, spend an evening and really have a full experience.

Dieter Rams

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Michael Ritchie

If we don't do it, it will be lost to history. Plays like this were a big part of the theatrical landscape for a long time.

David Hockney

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Bridget Riley

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

Brian Setzer

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

Dylan Moran

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

Aldo Leopold

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

Derek Walcott

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Mick Jagger

Network television. They're always worried about how many times you're going to say f--- on the air.

Gail Evans

Networking is not about you -- it's about putting people together.

Ivan Misner

Online networking is a phenomenon that really has just started to reach its stride.

Ralph Nader

should be stripped of their non-profit status, and television networks who work with them should realize they are working with a political organization, not an educational organization.

Donna Shalala

She actually started the women's network in this town,

David McSweeney

I have been totally smeared on network TV, and it's a complete, outright, unmitigated lie.

Bethany Mota

I really utilize all of my social networking sites.

Ed Graczyk

We are providing the broadest offering with the most flexibility for our network operators. Each of these services represent something unique to the operator.

Richard P. Feynman

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Dan Shechtman

Let us advance science to create a better world for all.

Barbara Thompson

LWS is kind of science with an edge.

Carol Licko

Scripps is a science institute. We don't want to be suing the county.

Dennis Flanagan

Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.

Dennis Flanagan

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.

Democritus

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

Democritus

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

Democritus

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Stephen Leacock

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something

Sammy Cahn

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

Felix Rohatyn

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

Dick Cheney

We are not going to simply stand by.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

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,

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.

Magnus Scheving

LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.

Rocky Carroll

My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.'

Dick Wolf

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Rachel Tucker

I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

Ed O'Brien

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

Dominic West

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Alexandra Fuller

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Dennis Quaid

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

Dave Rowntree

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Jimmy Rollins

I got things to do. I'm not going to watch baseball, I play it.

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.

Mark Schmidt

Oh, yeah, I'll watch it when we get back to school. We don't stop.

Linda Thompson

Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.

Virat Kohli

'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.