Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoffrey Dennis

Many Mexican companies have adapted to softer demand by cutting costs and this will be extremely positive for margins once demand picks up in the second half, as we expect.

Jess Walter

My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.

Ann Cleeves

'Shetland' is adapted from the novel 'Red Bones.' The book is based around an archaeological dig, and the mystery starts with the murder of the elderly woman who crofts the land where the dig is happening.

Bryan Alvarez

Shamrock started out as a pro-wrestler years before he got into fighting. When he started with WWE he picked it up again very fast. He actually turned into a really good worker and adapted to the WWE style, meaning he did more than just shoot-style stuff.

Gavin Hood

I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

Sylvia Earle

I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.

Valentina Tereshkova

I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.

Ellen Key

The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman.

J. Taylor

Yeah, I made a couple plays out there, but that's what I get paid to do. I do enjoy it. This is a new role that I've kind of adapted to. I can fall in love with it, and I'm having a good time with it.

Joel Madden

I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day.

Tullian Tchividjian

There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation.

Charles Spurgeon

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

Abraham Lincoln

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.

Abraham Lincoln

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

Abraham Lincoln

Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation...

Alexandra Paul

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

Alexandra Adornetto

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

Rod Blagojevich

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

Kristy McNichol

My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy.

Malorie Blackman

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

Malorie Blackman

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Malorie Blackman

Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.

Luke Selking

We're not doing anything to help those children excel.

Aaron Baker

like a lot of research tends to overlook children in some areas.

Alexandra Fuller

I listen mostly to classical music.

Richard P. Feynman

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

Robert Klein

I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family.

Richard Rolle

Make sure you're not being put into a class of comparables that you shouldn't be,

Thomas Fuller

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched. Try whether

Robert Lloyd

Librarians, counselors, teachers, training, students, support, systems all those are excluded from the classroom expenses.

Tom Edwards

Lots of kids liked him, all different kids in his class.

Reggie Witherspoon

Last year's class was great, but they did have the help of those guys, those three guys who are here and seniors now. And what made it really challenging for these three is . . . we had to play a lot of freshman and a lot of new guys. And last year we rarely played a freshman in a game like this. We didn't have to go that deep.

Andrew Gibson

Last year we met as an after-school club, but this year we are meeting as a class during lunch period.

Isabella Rossellini

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Isabella Rossellini

It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

Robert Toombs

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.

Mallory Ortberg

After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.

David Cole

Low risk is something we generally recommend that users can ignore. Medium risk is something we quarantine, and high risk is something we automatically remove.

Lord Byron

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Michael Healey

Scott taught me a lot on general high jumping stuff, using my forearms and trying to keep me relaxed. He taught me how not to always be in such a hurry and missing stuff.

Richard Suzman

Minority health in general is worse than white health.

William Wood

Most water professionals think people use too much water in general and irrigate their lawns too much in particular. But we think the state is being unreasonable in their requests.

Gerald Wilson

My grades weren't what they should have been, so they sent me back to the ninth grade. I was glad, because I wanted to study music, and Cass Tech was second only to Juilliard. We studied all kinds of music, harmony and orchestration.

David Nicholls

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Eric Johnson

I was terrible my first year. In 10th grade I was still bad, but the team needed someone that small. I knew that I just needed to stay off my back for the team.

Melissa McCarthy

Since grade school, I focused on women's clothing.

Sean Hayes

We are really pleased with our results and 69% of students received A to C grade passes.

William Christopher

I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.

Ferid Murad

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.

Xiao Yaqing

The quality of the bauxite is lower than the top grades in Australia, but it's much better than those in China.

Nikki Reed

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

Phil Garner

make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Willie Revillame

Mr. Lim has always been there for me. No matter where I go, he's always there to support me.

Mark Zandi

One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more.

Lindsay Meggs

One of the things we talked about is it didn't matter about how we won, we just needed to win.

Meryl Thomas

One of the things I've always tried to do as president of the (Penn Hills) PTA is to get everyone moving in the same direction, no matter what the project was.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

Sushma Swaraj

Now we can only pray in God's temple for him to get better. It is a matter of prayers and medicines. The medicines are being administered internally and the prayers are being sent from outside.

Andrew Barrett

Next week is going to be more normal, when we get back to the real matter at hand, which is earnings.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Albert Schweitzer

Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.

Dennis Prager

There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world.

Dennis Prager

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

Dennis Prager

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

Dennis Prager

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

Dennis Prager

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

Dennis Prager

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Denis Diderot

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Denis Diderot

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

Alexandra Paul

I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.

Diane Kruger

I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.

Ed McBain

Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

Ed Parker

There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

Stuart Scott

My style is black. It's hip-hop. It's who I am.

William Shakespeare

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

Kate McCullagh

We got to see a different style of volleyball.

Tim Hudson

There's more than one way to do things. There's always different points of views and styles of pitching.

Alexander Smith

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

David Bowie

I'm a thinker not a talker.

Bill Moyers

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

Scott Fujita

Jesus Christ to me, is probably the most compassionate and revolutionary thinker of all time.

Aravind Adiga

I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)

James Patterson

Better readers are better thinkers.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

Bill Gates

You can be a business thinker.

Frank Colby

A new thinker is only one who does not know what the old thinkers have thought

Ken Thompson

I am a very bottom-up thinker.