Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

Gary Locke

We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.

George Graham

We have schools teaching yoga, rock-climbing, martial arts, fly-fishing, ... If a kid is in a program that hasn't changed from when the parents were in school, it's just not OK.

Oliver Kahn

We have a small lead over Werder Bremen but things can change quickly. We were lucky in this game.

Oliver Kahn

We have a slight lead over Bremen now, but at this level everything can change in an instant.

Lynn Fox

We have no plans to change the guidance policy.

Stephane Dion

We have no choice but to act. Climate change is the worst threat the world is facing from an environmental perspective. It's putting at risk our relationship with the planet.

Dan Bartlett

What the public wants is back-to-basics governance and decision-making. This is not a situation in which it changes overnight or that there's a 'Hail Mary' pass that changes the dynamic. . . . There's not a magic bullet.

Matt Barnes

Whenever we need some kind of big play to change the course of the game, we look for Crosby to do it. He's always a threat to score no matter where he has the ball.

Malik Peiris

What the study finds is that the impact of influenza in this case, on hospitalizations in Hong Kong ... is very similar to that documented in colder countries.

Cecil Rhodes

The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton. (on why he left England for South Africa)

Thomas Campbell

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

Scott Shane

I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really found it kind of fascinating; of course, this was during the Cold War. So they were kind of the other great enemy that you grew up hearing about.

Theaster Gates

My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.

Ted Cruz

When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.

Jane Austen

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

Charles Buxton

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

Steve Sweat

We started to get cold down the stretch.

Carre Otis

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

Carlos Castaneda

It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

C. S. Lewis

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

Marjorie Anders

When you're walking from the Broadhurst, those eight minutes make a huge difference. They could be the difference between a hectic end to a night on the town and a leisurely one.

Ritch Price

When you're trying to rebuild a program and gain respect, wins like that give you credibility right out of the gate. It makes a huge difference recruiting-wise. It's not the same old Kansas.

Bill Tribou

We wanted to win and so did they. The difference in the game was the one kid and his speed.

Horace Greeley

We wanted to win and so did they, ... The difference in the game was the one kid and his speed.

Abba Eban

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

Aasif Mandvi

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Jane Siberry

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Arianna Huffington

We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don't live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more?

John Baker

Pop used to be as safe as it could be. Today it's radical to hear harmony and melodies.

Bashar al-Assad

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

Henry David Thoreau

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody

Bernie Worrell

If a person would study-not extensively, just hands-on, real instruments, and study a little harmony and theory, you could take it even further.

Ashley Monroe

I feel like it's the most unnatural thing for two humans, especially of the opposite sex, to live in harmony under one roof. You realize how different men and women are.

Rig Veda

Harmony prevails if people of similar nature meet.

Kathleen Noone

I surf out of Harmony on a big wave. It's all Tabitha's fault.

Stephen Ryan

We have had 6,000 hits in the first 24 hours,

Victor Lazarovici

The real impact of what we've seen in the first quarter will hit the second-quarter results, from the increasing momentum of the metal price.

Josh Smith

When I've had to score, if they leave me open, I'm going to try to make them pay by hitting the jump shot like I did tonight.

Larry Wall

When Ivan hit last year, it passed over 150 platforms.

Craig Barlow

When it was in the air, I never thought of it going in. I just knew I'd hit it good.

Tom Seaver

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.

Kelly Hawthorne

We know if we pass it out they can hit the shots.

Jim Tracy

We know he's very capable. He has the pitches to get major-league hitters out.

Al Bagnoli

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.

Paul Moore

The reading process, and being concise, is just as important. To really vet the content, a software product was just not going to do it alone. Maybe a combination of things is the answer.

Tom Shales

Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.

Sue Monk Kidd

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

Sharon Salzberg

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power.

Mike Shula

We know we're in for a tough one, maybe the toughest one all year.

Mike Davis

We know D.J. is out indefinitely and maybe out for the season.

Adam Katz

This was not a money issue. Was the money fabulous? No. Was it part of the decision-making process? Absolutely. . . . But by no means was it the only thing involved. In the end, the money was a secondary, maybe even a tertiary consideration.

John Cassavetes

I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.

Charles de Lint

I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.

Charles de Lint

Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.

Charles de Lint

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.

Carl Sagan

Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future.

Chad Harbach

Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you've written in your notebook. It's there on the page and either feels right or it doesn't, and it's hard sometimes to go beyond that and discover why it feels that way.

Chad Harbach

Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

Jami Attenberg

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.

Jason Aldean

My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

DJ Garrity

Right now, it's just trying to get the nuances of sculpture, simplicity.

Alan Lomax

Folk Music is the map of singing.

Bryn Terfel

I started singing because I come from Wales

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Janis Joplin

I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Janet Jackson

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

Chris Brown

I started when I was about 11, singing.

Charlotte Church

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

Edmund Spenser

So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.

Lykke Li

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

Stephen Potter

Yes, but not in the South', with slight adjustments, will do for any arguments about any place, if not about any person.

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

Rainer Guntermann

If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).

Rasheed Wallace

I don't have the slightest (idea), but they better come up with something.

Ike Barinholtz

The first two years I was on 'MADtv' were really, really fun. We always thought it was 'Saturday Night Live's very nice, slightly asthmatic, shorter cousin.

Chris Rock

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.

Anna Kendrick

I never have used a trainer. I'm slightly intimidated by the idea of somebody in my face.

Andy Serkis

I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!