Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tipper Gore

We want to reach every community and every work place so that people will understand that stigma is just a piece of this puzzle that needs to go away.

I. Stone

What the right-to-work law says to the economic development community around the country is this is a state that's committed.

Dick Miller

We want our community to maintain its quality, ... Manufactured homes devalue property. We wanted to draw a line in the sand that said 'just don't go there.'

Aasif Mandvi

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

Jason Fleming

We were trying to find some way of providing services and programs to kids in this community that would give them some opportunities that normally they may not have.

Scott White

We have a wonderful facility and part of our philosophy is 'just for you' events, giving members of the community an opportunity to come and be here and experience what God has done through our facilities.

Harry Reid

We've sent a message to the community that we don't want urban heliport sites, ... They have continued to negatively impact our neighborhoods and we don't want any more of them until we provide the non-urban site.

Allan Bloom

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth.

Anita Frazier

There is a little feeling of 'holding our breath' right now in the industry, waiting to see how all this will unfold. Console transitions always make the publishing community nervous.

Tawni O'Dell

People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

Umberto Eco

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

Rob Reiner

The other side talks about being the party of diversity and the party of inclusion, ... And how do they figure this? This is what I want to know, except, unless they define diversity as two guys at the head of the ticket that are from two different oil companies.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

Zeus Kerravala

We're starting to hit that wave where interoperability and partnerships will define the long-term winners and losers.

Nancy Carroll

We're looking for an indicator of what RDG thinks is feasible, ... The matrix will help guide us to that next step to actually define what will be in the Rec Plex.

Billie Jean King

Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.

Neil Flynn

On 'Scrubs,' I played a very unusual character who pretty much was defined by saying and doing strange things, so it was easy to improvise around that.

Lindsey Vonn

A part of me is missing when I can't ski, but I've learned there's more to define me and make me happy, like stand-up paddling and Jet Skiing - things I'd never done before. Or being with people I love and just enjoying life.

Jackie Robinson

We have a social responsibility and we are held to a higher standard than other institutions,

Dr. Fukino

We have never held out or said that we are doing everything perfectly, and we have accomplished everything. We have said that there's more work to be done, but that we are moving forward.

Kevin Bentley

What we did, we held what we were going to do until there were about seven seconds on the play clock. Because if he's going to check, which he is, don't leave him with enough time.

Edward Brooke

When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.

Eric Schneiderman

You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.

Jonathan Tasini

The people who supported the war must be held accountable.

John Walsh

We're held to the highest standards and when that is violated, you violate your own department's trust and you are held accountable for those actions.

Doug Harvey

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

Kenneth Fisher

Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.

Monica LeMoine

What the school hoped to do for these kids was to hold them accountable for their actions, which they'd never really had before.

Tyler Brand

We wanted to try and hold them under 15 points in the first half. We got out in the passing lanes, got some steals and were able to get our offense going off that.

Dan Nobbs

When it was hit, I knew it was going to be trouble. I saw it leave the infield, I knew it was gone. So it was one of those things, especially on a 0-2 count, you want something that is he going to nibble at and not really get a hold of.

Norm Bruemmer

We're just stronger in singles. We couldn't hold Elliott back anymore.

Francis Frank

We are going to hold the province to that now.

Lindsey Williams

We are holding out that something might develop. We are remaining hopeful that we can come up with a resolution prior to the 31st.

Janis Joplin

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Kathleen Battle

I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.

Artur Rodzinski

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

Miriam Makeba

I was so scared. Such a big orchestra

Mark Thielen

I remember when we did the Tchaikovsky (concerto), he just flew. We weren't used to that. But when we do things like that, it makes the orchestra grow.

Pat Miller

It is extraordinary - the orchestra tells you so much about the stage and what's going on,

Christopher Young

Usually when I am approached to do a score for a horror movie, it's to attempt a repeat performance of what I did way back on 'Hellraiser' or 'Jennifer 8' - one of those really orchestral scores.

David Ogden Stiers

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

David Ogden Stiers

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Liza Frulla

All orchestras have problems, and I can see it all over Canada. We just bailed out the Winnipeg orchestra, three years ago,

Patrick Adiba

All of the situations we encountered, we'd anticipated because of all the testing and rehearsals we did. We were never taken by surprise.

Carlos Mencia

If your gonna drop out of school - tough grades are not your goal - then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.

Carl Crawford

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

C. S. Lewis

But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.

Agnes Varda

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

Agnes Varda

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

Aaron Tveit

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

Aaron Tveit

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

Aasif Mandvi

There's no school that you can go to and learn how to be a "Daily Show" correspondent and how to interview people and, you know, essentially leave your soul outside the door and go in there and kind of, you know, destroy people's lives sometimes.

Aasif Mandvi

Bradford specifically there were a lot of Pakistanis there. Even today it has a very large Pakistani population.It was something that I experienced - getting chased home from the bus stop after school by English kids, boarding school, being targeted for praying to what they call Allah wallah ding dong.

Ahmed Hussein

Khartoum supports the Chadian rebels, financially, politically and militarily.

Danielle Brooks

My mother is a pastor. I think she has her moments where she's like, 'Dani, what are you getting into,' but at the end of the day, she really supports me as an actor.

Meredith Whitney

You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

Cindy Sheehan

supports the troops, our country, and our President.

Kweisi Mfume

supports a person's right to do whatever they feel they must do. If that is boycotting or informational picketing, we support that.

Marty Dickens

There is nothing we can find that supports what they're doing. It's very puzzling.

Jaime Pressly

Your core supports your spine and your torso. Everything you do depends on it.

C. S. Lewis

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

Jane Byrne

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

Charles Sanders Peirce

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

Charles Mingus

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

Eduard Hanslick

So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

Edward Abbey

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

Edward Abbey

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Edward Abbey

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

Atul Gawande

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Ed Silliere

Speculators are tripping over themselves to get out.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Aasif Mandvi

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

Brent Scowcroft

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

Diane Wakoski

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

David Graeber

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

Byron Katie

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

Olympia Snowe

We are here today because we want to be responsible stewards of the surplus,

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.