Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judy Olson

We have had a limitation on how many people we can take in. We have at least 10 applications for every position we're able to admit into the program.

Suzanne Collins

It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Germinal,' 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' and 'A Moveable Feast.'

Sarah Monette

Life on Mars would be awesome! Even single-celled life, although I admit that in my heart of hearts, I want it to be the barge-people of the canals.

Tom Bissell

Only in about 2007 or so did it become clear to me that games could stand proudly beside other storytelling mediums, and that's when I became more, shall we say, evangelistic in my position. Prior to that, I don't know how enthusiastically I would have admitted that I game.

Trinny Woodall

I would advise women not to be shy about admitting they've had Botox - it just shows you want to look your best, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Peter Lewis

The poor had to deal with charity hospitals. If admitted to these institutions, they were housed and fed, but they also shared beds and germs with all the other diseased patients in their wards, and often received little medical help; if they were refused admission, they suffered and died in the streets.

Jodi Picoult

Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never wanted to actually hear the words out loud, because then you'd have to admit to yourself that you'd wanted proof, and that somehow made you baser, less civilized.

Dawn Medley

Ultimately, we want to know, 'Can a student be successful here? We don't want to admit people who are going to be here one or two semesters and leave.

Ogden Nash

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Carol Kane

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

Charles Dudley Warner

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

Charles Stross

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

Ricky Gervais

I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.

Brian Eno

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Brian Eno

What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.

Laura Bush

very emotional and very moving to be here to see these sites.

David Schwimmer

I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked about the last scene. It was interesting because it was split right down the middle, 50/50. About half the audience wanted it to end with the very emotional scene between Clive and Liana, and that feeling of realization and catharsis. And, the other half were adamant about keeping that last scene.

David Guetta

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

Ezra Klein

People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print.

Gordon Hartwell

We'd gotten the momentum back, but the thing is, in order to be even with them, we had to do some extraordinary things. How many of those do you have in you in a particular game?

Dave Barry

We've actually gotten better musically over the years, ... But we've come to realize that we will never be good.

Kristen Schaal

I've been lucky. The projects I've gotten to work on are projects I'd want to watch myself. That's what I try to shoot for.

Mike Baldwin

With this release we've gotten back to the fundamentals.

Jeff Carnazzo

We've got most of our stuff in now. We've had a little more time to jell. We'll script our first 20 plays. Of course, you have to get a feel for the game, which is why we've rarely gotten through our 20 plays without making changes.

Dom Capers

We've got a lot of young guys that have gotten on the job training.

Donald Pleasence

It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.

Nelson Peltz

You know what term you don't hear anymore? Arbitrage. The markets have gotten too efficient.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Rivers Cuomo

When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.

Theodor Mommsen

The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.

Mack Brown

We did not have to show very much from a scheme point of view, ... and that's what we wanted.

Vicki Coleman

We'd give up three points and then we'd run three and then we'd run three and give up three. It went back-and-forth the whole way.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Michael Vickers

The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Father Thomas

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.

Dan Coffey

We settled down on defense. We just tried to stop them one (possession) at a time.

Tove Lo

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

Michael Scheuer

But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything.

Josh Daniel

Now that everything is settled down, I'm really considering going out.

Tom Tierney

Give him time to settle in, and he'll do the right thing for the Diocese of Cleveland.

Mayme Olson

We all just settled here and stayed here.

Larry Brown

We kind of got healthy. That was a key. Since we got healthy, we've settled on a rotation. That's been helpful.

Jason Bumblis

We had some jitters in the first quarter. But we settled down. We always win with our defense.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

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.

Carol Vorderman

When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because they'll give me a bit of energy to keep going.

Carlos Castaneda

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

C. S. Lewis

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

Agnieszka Radwanska

It's always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It's always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it's really hard to stay focused all the time because you're really tired after the whole season.

Alan Sugar

I am tired of hustling.

Alan Ladd

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.

Charlotte Bronte

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

Charles Stross

For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make the difference between trying to write a story around a cliche or an original idea, and better still, studying it can eventually clue you in on how to breathe new life into tired tropes.