Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelangelo Antonioni

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

Shona Thorburn

We've accomplished so much already. That one more win sets you apart from so many other teams, so many other programs and great players. We can't look too far ahead. We really need to take care of business (Monday) night.

Toni Ziegler

We're interested in what motivates dads to be good parents because there are so many men who just aren't good fathers. This work could help to tease apart what makes a good dad.

Richard Ashcroft

We're in a malaise. What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?

Nong Duc Manh

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.

Robert Sweeney

We actually breached the wall due to the deteriorating conditions caused by the intense wind at this particular point. It created a blowtorch effect through the apartment doorway.

Montel Williams

I take apart restaurant menus everywhere I go. I kind of tick off a lot of chefs in restaurants because I'll say, 'You can keep all of the sauce, keep all of that garbage - just give me that piece of fish. Forget the salad dressing, I don't need all of that extra stuff. Just give it to me straight up, and I'll eat it.'

Norm MacDonald

With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.

Neville Marriner

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.

Clifford Jordan

We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.

Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Louis Navellier

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

Louis Sachar

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Jim Myers

The other team played better than us today. That's basically what it came down to.

Michelle Wie

The positive energy I received from the crowd was awesome. I felt like I basically knew half of the people in the gallery.

Andy Watson

The personnel in the support offices know they are doing their jobs well when they never hear about themselves, because that means Soldiers have their food, equipment and issues squared away, ... If you look at the basic needs of Soldiersfood, shelter, a means to survivethen you realize that a Soldier cant eat, communicate, or have the equipment they need to do their job without logistics having a hand in the operation.

Tom Coughlin

The personality of the quarterback, he has a large plate and he is going to lead by example and by his play. That's basically where our football team is. Our players do rally around Eli and his play and that's the position he has taken and that's the way it should be.

Ehud Barak

the perception in the world was that they tried to strangle us. In Lebanon we violated this basic rule and we were unable to hold what we took.

Alan Ball

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

David Mitchell

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

Drew Brees

We've already got things lined up, and we'll be rocking and rolling the minute the clock strikes midnight.

Vernon Keenan

We are aggressively pursuing this around the clock and we are making progress in the case,

Mike Hill

There are clocks on there, I notice, but you still don't know what time it is.

David Cole

We're in a time where the clock is moving much more quickly on GM. I think they're fortunate to have Jerry because this thing is going to be played out in the next six months, not the next five years.

Chadwick Boseman

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

Chris Villarrial

We were a smash-mouth team. We'd dink and dunk you down the field and every once in a while we'd go for the big play. We were very conservative, working the clock all the time.

Michael Chertoff

We're racing the clock in terms of possible injury. We're racing the clock in terms of illness, and we're racing the clock to get them food and water.

David Del Tredici

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

Penn Jillette

Working in television, you really need a composer who can work in many styles especially when you're working in comedy. Stockdale can do anything.

Daniel Handler

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

Arthur Honegger

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead

Pablo Casals

Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Robert Morris

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Stephen Sondheim

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

Tim Rice

To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.

Howard Shore

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.

Jeff Freeman

We're starting to come around. We're liking where we're at right now.

Ally Carter

Because sometimes not liking someone is easier.

Janet Jackson

You can tell someone who doesn't have love in their life, then someone who is in love.

Andrew Mitchell

I have a liking for totally unaffordable 1950s sports cars.

Jane Austen

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

E. M. Forster

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

Mike Piazza

If it's something I do, I want to take it seriously and work at it, ... But I can't see liking it enough to stop playing at this point.

Evan Miller

I got the opportunity to see different types of ducks, and I started liking them and respecting them.

Davey Havok

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.

Missy Elliot

I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.

David McCullough

My wife, the star I steer by.

Dave Barry

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.

Caitlin Flanagan

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

Cary Grant

When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.

Condoleezza Rice

The potential marriage of weapons of mass destruction with terrorism is everyone's nightmare.

William Shakespeare

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

Aisha Tyler

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

Bob Newhart

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

David Reuben

A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

Benjamin Walker

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

Kurt Angle

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.

Asghar Farhadi

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

Lauren Kellin

We usually get it done somehow. We've always been a third-period team. As soon as we put all three periods together, we feel there will be no stopping us.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Curtis Jackson

My work out routine is always changing. It should never stay the same for long periods of time.

Don Cahoon

We were a little too sloppy in all three periods to be able to squeak out a win.

Michael Garnett

Getting thrown in like that is a tough way to make your debut. In between periods I talked to Dunham, and he said to go out there and relax. After that I played as I always played.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Theaster Gates

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Kourtney Kardashian

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Charles Spurgeon

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Alan Watts

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Al Madrigal

Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.

David Guetta

We are one energy. Together we can make a change.

David Graeber

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Cab Calloway

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.