Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sylvian

I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.

Lorraine Toussaint

We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite.

Mohsin Hamid

I've realized that it's important to stop trying to think I'm any one thing. People are confused as to their identity and try to cling to one aspect of that identity to describe what they are: American, Republican, Muslim. These are really incomplete.

David Waller

The point here is that the (US) administration has been very thoughtful in making sure that all aspects of the trip go well,

John Brennan

We are please with every aspect of our curriculum,

Maggie Erlenbaugh

We started slow tonight. We just couldn't put every aspect of the game together in the first game. The second game we were really fighting. I thought we played more our style. It could have gone either way.

Ty Zabel

We started off great. It's a long season for a freshman. We are just getting worn down. From here on out, it's got to be all heart and working on that mental aspect of the game.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.

Marguerite Gardiner

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.

Jacques Chirac

there are currently no bombs capable of functioning on the French rail network.

Loren Thompson

We're in no rush to bomb Iran. The fact that we have bombing plans on the shelf for dealing with Iran is not new because we've been generating those plans for a quarter-century. That's what planners do.

Bill Joy

A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.

Antonin Artaud

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

Paul J. Meyer

We have no political agenda. It's the bomb imagery we objected to.

Robert Francis

We don't have any evidence at this point of a bomb or missile,

Thomas Murphy

We're getting tied up in too many things. We need to get that bunch that bombed the World Trade Center first.

Ariel Sharon

What 6,000 bombs (attacks by Palestinians) didn't do to my home and my village the government did.

Donald Selkin

What's interesting is it's rare to break new highs in an industry that's pretty much bombed this year. Many stocks go sideways. This one is moving up.

Bill Casey

We spent millions on this. The taxpayers trusted us. Bringing people in here who can't see questions our credibility. We need to please the people who sit in the seats.

Thomas Donohue

We have to get over the paranoia and start bringing people to the US.

Brian Nelson

We have no intention of duplicating those efforts. We get incredible content from our partners, but in this case, we are covering largely under-reported stories and bringing them to our audience.

Mark Joseph

We've always had a School Committee member or two on these committees, and I feel very strongly that should continue. We need to know what we're bringing in.

John Tortorella

We're going to miss him. He's a main piece to our puzzle, offensively, defensively, on our power play, all the things. Having said that, we'll hope he comes back but if he doesn't we have to be concerned about bringing someone up and we have to keep on playing.

Gifford Miller

Unless he wants to make Portland the sixth borough, this seems to be the opposite of bringing jobs to middle-class New Yorkers,

Brett Galloway

Working with Intel, Nokia, RIM and others, we are unifying a triad: bringing together wired and wireless networks, voice and data offerings, and industry support for Cisco and partner offerings.

Jeff Kinney

Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!

Ron Holmes

With Nebraska being at the event, it will be tough because they will always be a solid team. They are pretty much bringing the same group they had last year. If we play up to our level, we will play them very closely.

Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Stross

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Alain Prost

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Denis Leary

There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.'

Lyle Kessler

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

Edith Wharton

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Chris Chan

We're making money on the freighters at the moment, but not a dramatic return.

Ross Levinsohn

We're going to take some pretty dramatic steps to provide industry-leading safety.

Dan Ahrens

We're more than happy to profit from short-term fluctuations, and we think this morning's dramatic drop is very short-term,

Attorney Crank

With the large increase in workers in the extractive industries in our state, we've seen a dramatic increase in drug activity.

John Bolton

very dramatic news about the extent of Syrian involvement and involvement by top officials in the Lebanese government in this assassination.

Ram Kolluri

We're looking at the headline news, but the market is being supported by the girders of the economy, a basic, strong foundation, ... I don't expect a dramatic rally from here, but we are very much on track for a high-single-digit, low-double-digit total return for the year.

Chris Abani

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

Chogyam Trungpa

The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure

Chip Conley

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

David Greenberg

We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

David Guterson

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything you’ve got into it.

David Crystal

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

David Suzuki

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

David Suzuki

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

David Suzuki

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

Thom Mayne

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Ben Carson

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

Charlie White

From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier.

Alfred North Whitehead

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Kristine Fauerbach

We prefer to give them away than to have them go somewhere where they will be turned around and sold again.

David Baker

We prefer to do that in a non-public session.

Sarah Richart

We prefer to do a lot of things electronically. We just get better results that way. Any of the streamline stuff, we can do.

Bernard Laporte

We preferred to let him recuperate and release him on Thursday.

Rick Kern

We prefer not to have our traffic go through that road.

Michael Franti

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

Dale Parsons

We want somebody who's going to do a lot for the county. We're not going to rush.

Dave Reed

We want somebody who is really going to do it.

O. Winston

We're just waiting for somebody to fall. It's going to happen.

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney. Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney, ... Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Rich Rodriguez

Somebody just has to step up and take over. With our backs, somebody will do it.

Cliff Herberg

Somebody is supplying these lawyers. They've got an agenda.

Doug Adkins

Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mallory Ortberg

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Huseyin Sahin

She died. I will be making a statement shortly.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Sizwe Kupelo

This statement can be described only as utter rubbish.

David F. Houston

We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made.

Sourav Ganguly

Only time will tell. It's not right for me to make a statement now.

King Abdullah

worked together as effectively as the terrorists do.

Michael Hayden

The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work.