Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leos Carax

When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.

Herbert A. Simon

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

Floyd Abrams

While Judy Miller sat in jail for 85 days and Mr. Libby knew that she was doing it to protect him, no call came in from him, no letter arrived from him,

Gerry McGhee

When we arrived on the scene, the home was totally involved.

Caron Butler

When we arrived in Cleveland (Monday) we were in the back of the bus and we said we know Gilbert is going to come out and have a big game, so it's on us. We didn't play well in the first game.

Robert Wagner

When we arrived at the scene, there were four people still in the 2003 Ford Expedition,

Peter Clarke

We know he traveled from West Yorkshire and arrived in London with three other men, ... We need to know his movements until 9:47 a.m.

Chris Anderson

We want to make them feel they've arrived at a resort. We want to make their way easier.

Nana Sutresna

When I arrived there (in Pyongyang), they have just decided to hold a bilateral meeting with South Korea in the level of generals. They need a time to decide (whether to send defense minister in) the meeting in the level of defense minister.

Alan Watts

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

Alan Parker

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

Alan Moore

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

Chinua Achebe

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

Dave Barry

That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.

Dave Barry

If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

Carter G. Woodson

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

C. L. R. James

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

Alan Paton

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

Chief Joseph

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

David Mitchell

The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.

Cai Guo-Qiang

For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces. They form a unity in showing the power of destruction, the beauty of destruction, whether it's from nature- because the boat has sunk- or through other forces. It's really the beauty of decay and death that holds a power here.

Buffalo Bill

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Bruce Wilkinson

Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear.

Bryan Davis

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

Adam Arkin

The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.

Alan Moore

I find that if I'm watching somebody upon television or in a movie that is on a window ledge or in some high precarious position my hand starts sweating and I get that crawling feeling in the soles of my feet.

Bob Newhart

I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall.

Jesse Carlsen

My greatest hope is to have two girls crawling on the floor three to four months from now, and daddy will play with them.

Amanda Tapping

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

Larry Kane

Stations were crawling with record promoters. They were everywhere. They invaded a station, and they always had gifts,

Gennady Zyuganov

It defies the nation's history and commonsense. With their filthy hands and drunken heads they are crawling into the sanctuary of the state.

Regina Brett

How do you know someone is a grandparent? They've got milk stains on every shirt from burping babies. Their pants are worn out at the knees from crawling around giving pony rides. They have 2,842 pictures of the grandkids on their smart phone and not one photo of their spouse.

April Six

Aden and Avery are walking short distances. But Ajay is the laid back one. He was the last to crawl. It took the other two crawling everywhere before he decided he wanted to crawl.

H. Hunt

We want to travel, and we haven't had time to. And we have to get our house fixed up for our old age. It's been sad and it's been happy. It's been emotional.

Jay Williams

The point for me is to get in, fix it up and get out within two years.

Tim Hendricks

We are always preparing. We work on specific things like the jumps, because they take longer to fix and get together.

Jenny Moshak

We started brainstorming about what were the problems, how could we fix them, what were our resources and where could we start.

Pete Carroll

Why stop a game if you're going to make mistakes fixing mistakes?

Kevin Browne

We have to fix a lot of bugs, improve our features, and get them working as they should.

Nellie McKay

I'm glad if people can listen to some music and maybe fix some prejudices of their own, just by thinking.

Derek Smith

We're going to get it right. We're going to fix it. We have to fix it.

Dan Hawkins

We're going to have to get this fixed (by Congress),

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Alan Alda

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chris Christie

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Ben Bradlee

There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.

Tina Brown

Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century.

Trent Reznor

Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out. There's no real way around that.

Richard Land

I would say that Pat Robertson is way out on his own, in a leaking life raft, on this one.

Tom Rosenstiel

Journalists are trying to make the distinction between leaks that are political and leaks that are whistle-blowing.

Orson Card

When magic comes back into the world, ... here's where it comes from, leaking from this drainpipe.

Anne Robinson

Whose silicon is sadly leaking into their head?

Rob Stevens

I wish it would get a move on. It's frustrating. We've come a long way and now we are sitting here in a hot, damp, leaking building.

J. Horton

We have a lot more leaks than in the past.

Alan Cropsey

When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,

Mark Williams

Probably Adelaide (deserve it), they're on top. It's a noted thing to win the McClelland Trophy.

Alcee Hastings

It pains me to report that progress noted in the pre-election period was undermined by significant deficiencies in the count.

Bob Bowlsby

They called and notified me they'd like to talk with Steve and I noted their interest. That's all there was to it.

Nikki Cox

I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Bill Hall

Several students have called and said, 'I have a video, do you want it?'

Jim Sweeney

We didn't do anything spectacular on offense. But Tony Porto bailed us out several times.

Toks Olagundoye

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

Hanoi Hannah

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Ruth Winstrom

We're going to be there for several days.

James Gill

We were able to talk to several witnesses at the playground.

Greg Strobel

We don't know when he's going to be back. He'll be out for several weeks. That's a big deal.

Cat Deeley

If I'm interviewing someone I need to know everything about them - I do these massive spider diagrams. Everything under different categories, and certain questions in other categories.

Hoda Kotb

The biggest thing I've learned is to smash my own spiders and get on with my day. There will be another!

Jonathan Swift

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

Karl Pilkington

At what point is a wasp ever going to have a chat with a spider?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Patience to the spider

Neil Gaiman

Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

John Ratzenberger

When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.

Taylor Swift

I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.

Rick Riordan

I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider!

Abraham Lincoln

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

Courtney Love

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

Alexander McCall Smith

There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.

Ethel Mumford

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

George R. R. Martin

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

George Herbert

Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]

Honore de Balzac

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

Josh Billings

Young widows still bide their time.

Mark Twain

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

Bob Dylan

I got this grave yard woman.

Adam Grant

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

Steven Schier

We are many, many yards away from a score.

Larry Leopardi

We probably had about 300 cubic yards on Wednesday.

Willie Nelson

It can't get much worse, 100 yards an hour, ... It's frustrating bumper-to-bumper.

Carl Jung

Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

Jimmy Swaggart

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

Rob Andrew

It wasn't even borderline, it was about two yards forward.

Jennifer Garner

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.