Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Repplier

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

Charles Gradante

There is conversation that over the next ten years, hedge funds would become like mutual funds, ... There is some merit to that conversation, but I think there might be some lag time.

Laura Marling

When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.

Stephen Amell

I would love to be nominated for an award at some point or do something that at least engenders the type of cultural conversation that a role like Giancarlo Esposito on 'Breaking Bad,' or actually any of the people on 'Breaking Bad.' I would love to have a role in a feature film that was a cultural talking point.

Mohsin Hamid

My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion.

Jolanda Schreurs

We are at a point where the major issues are moot. Those formerly unhappy now, from what we understand in conversations, support our current efforts. The politics is such where we feel it's an important conversation with the full board.

Terry Pendleton

We struck up a conversation right then like we'd known each other for years. Since then, it'd been that way.

Laurie Graham

I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.

Bonnie Williams

We want to promote the Red Cross as well as recognize the extraordinary deeds of our neighbors.

Sartaj Aziz

We have never crossed the Line of Control,

Mike Huckabee

What the Red Cross needs now more than donated goods is cash, ... This is shaping up to be one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, and it happened to our neighbors in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Kyle Beatty

The fact that it is fast moving would limit things like damage from rain fall. But the fast movement contributes higher wind speeds and means it will be fairly strong when it crosses the state.

Art Hogan

There are a lot of cross currents today. And there is talk that one of the big hedge funds is going under the waves.

Carl Tannenbaum

There are a lot of cross currents out there ... but overall the report suggests the job market is still doing pretty well.

Stephanie Scalessa

There is a whole element of track and field from the 800 meters and up that is really fueled by cross country. In those events, we weren't having much of a showing. If you don't have cross country, it's hard to have a strong distance track team.

Temple Grandin

I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

Scott Robertson

waiting until the end of the year and crossing our fingers and hoping that our students will pass.

Michael Turner

We have to get our heads and telescopes around that.

Quinton Young

We wanted to win the conference, and even though we didn't do that we still have a lot to prove. We're heading up there with a swagger.

Tommy Shaw

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

Brian Eno

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Cherie Lunghi

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

Al Goldman

The possessed kid in 'The Exorcist,' whose head spins around.

Nicholas Byrne

The positive news in our view is the dividend... however, the headline net profit looks light.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Jack Nichols

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Carre Otis

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

Carol Mann

The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

Carol Shields

A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster.

Carlos Castaneda

Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.

Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

Carlos Castaneda

My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

Carlos Castaneda

Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.

Carlos Castaneda

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Carol Vorderman

I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.

Carol Vorderman

Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.

Carlos Mencia

Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman?

Carlos Ghosn

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

Carlos Castaneda

It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked.

Carl Bernstein

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

C. S. Lewis

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

C. S. Lewis

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

Carol Shields

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again...

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Richard Smith

We want it to be a learning experience. It's an opportunity to review the plans you developed. Doing a plan is first in the process.

Agnes Repplier

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Drake Reed

We have had a lot of tough lessons on the road this year. It's time to start learning from them.

Tom Watson

I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.

Susan B. Anthony

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

Travis Fimmel

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

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.

Richard Cook

There are a lot of different paths that you can be on. We just have to wait to see which one.

Lao Tzu

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart.

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

J. J. Johnson

We're seeing a very substantial shift going on in the market.

Timothy Ghriskey

We're seeing a pullback really just from yesterday.

Chris Shipley

We're seeing a lot more activity, a lot more energy, a lot more companies.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Kate Bush

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

Gene Simmons

If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.