Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robbie Guertin

We've all got lots of different influences. We never sit down to write a song and say, 'This is going to be a Brian Eno type of song,' or 'This is a Bob Dylan song.' It's totally little bits of lots of different stuff that come together and hopefully it's something coming out of us that we're creating.

Chris Lilley

There are bits of me in all my characters.

Helen Petrauskas

There are some groups who say that Firestone's tire recall should be expanded. They offer small bits of information but lack the complete picture. These kinds of suggestions will make the situation worse.

Greg Austin

When you tear out insulation from the wall or something like that and it comes out in bits and pieces all you do is tear it all out.

Norman Finkelstein

I no longer say I'm unemployed. I say I'm unemployable. It's different. An unemployed suggests at a certain point in the future, you might be employed. That's not the case with me. I'm unemployable, and unfortunately, that's one of the bits of the web, in particular of Google.

Pete Carroll

With the little bits I have, no. I'm not concerned about that one bit. I'm more concerned with helping the process and making sure everything comes to the front.

Mike Riley

We're just hauling out the last bits of debris.

Tom Wilkinson

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Ellen Klages

My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.

Michel Onfray

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Nell Newman

What I discovered was that just by eating normally, we all have background levels of contaminants.

Stefan Sagmeister

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Tom Cotton

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

Octavia E. Butler

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

Tori Kelly

My fans were the ones who discovered me on YouTube. I don't ever want to forget that.

Tift Merritt

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

Tina Fey

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

Teilhard Chardin

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.

Bruno Walter

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

Bela Lugosi

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

Atharva Veda

O Nanak, serve the Lord forever; He is the treasure of glorious virtue.

Sallust

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Granth Sahib

Night and day, I sing Your Glorious Praises, God. I praise You, O my Beloved.

Granth Sahib

Give me that understanding, by which I may meditate on You. I sing Your Glorious Praises with each and every breath. Nanak takes the Support of the Guru's Feet.

Cameron Mackintosh

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

Al Gini

The glorious thing for you always has consequences for others.

Conor Oberst

It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

Eddie McGuire

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Marty Turco

When it comes down to it, the opportunity to win here is at its highest level. That's what I was looking for.

Richard Nugent

We're going to start doing this more regularly, ... I could be mistaken, but that's got to be one of the all-time highs. I'm pretty sure it's the highest we've ever had.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Keri Hilson

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Beatrix Potter

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Lauren Herring

When I was little, I used to feel a lot of pressure. Before matches, I'd want to throw up. But now, I've adapted. I do get homesick sometimes, but I have to remember why I am there and what I have to do to go pro.

Michael Chertoff

making provisions for people in nursing homes or hospitals to get them out so they are out of harm's way and don't need to be rescued.

Tempestt Bledsoe

I love helping people put their homes in order.

Jack Campbell

There are the ones who have a lot of land and want to be annexed because they want the sewer to make the land more valuable and the lots smaller. Then there are the people with homes with working septic tanks that don't see why they should pay to hook into a sewer system they don't intend to use.

Robert Reich

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.

Ryan Thompson

Yards have always sold homes and they always will.

Allard Beutel

We are looking at that what can we do for people who had homes nearby, who want to work but don't have a home to go back to at night.

Gabriel Mann

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

Ai Weiwei

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time—this massiveness made of individuals.

Eddie Izzard

I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!

David Duchovny

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Charles Rule

We're going to get to ship Windows 98 with all its Internet functionality intact? and that's the key,

Azealia Banks

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

Ryan Jacob

Three years ago, nobody took the Internet seriously. We're in it for the long term.

Jenny Emanuel

We want to make sure the Internet is secure.

Margot Robbie

There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!

Aristotle

We are what we reblog.

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Charles Stanley

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

Alan Moore

I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!

Chris Bohjalian

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

China Mieville

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

Dave Barry

Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out.

Dave Barry

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

Buenaventura Durruti

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Chiang Kai-shek

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Kurt Vonnegut

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Denzel Washington

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Charles Schumer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Charles Fourier

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Alan Bullock

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alain Prost

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Al Seckel

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

David Sedaris

..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch

David Ginola

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Dave Barry

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

Bobby Cannavale

The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations.

Derek Jeter

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.

Dennis Miller

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

Ai Weiwei

The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised. ...

Ariel Sharon

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Tobias Menzies

Do I think the West End relies too heavily on star names? Yes, I do, and it can result in miscasting and sub-standard stuff. Not always, but occasionally.

Brigham Young

We went west willingly--because we had to.

Jana Kramer

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

John Muir

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.