Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Sheckley

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Robert Sheckley

I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.

Robert Sheckley

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.

Robert Sheckley

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

Robert Sheckley

So I try to stick with the structure, make the sentences work, and not to follow one sentence of 114 words with another of the same length.

Oliver Herford

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Chris A. Bridges

Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt.

Gyorgy Legeti

Of course I do care about the way my music is performed and so I cannot really say that I am not interested in how it is received.

Robert Fitzgerald

Of course anything can happen, and as we know there are a great many examples of the other way of doing it, but I myself don't think I would enjoy it.

Gerrit Smith

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.

Terry Pendleton

Leo already attempted to do that one at the first meeting.

Jim Neal

Loyalty is built up based on how we handle business year over year, how we attempt to take cost drivers out of the business, and a realistic view of a carrier making a decent return on invested capital.

Jeff Duncan

Many within the military have reached breaking point, either leaving en masse or attempting to protect themselves via this organization.

Zdenko Tomanovic

Mister Milosevic said there were attempts to poison him in the prison.

Pranab Mukherjee

Militants have made about five infiltration attempts since the October 8 earthquake, including two on a single day,

Monica Crowley

Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.

Michael McCarthy

Mr Blairs attempt at Gleneagles to start a climate change partnership with the developing world, or at least initiate a dialogue, is vital.

Steve Kay

Meat packers have suffered the worst sustained losses in history, and I would not be surprised by any decisions that are made. Having said that, the major companies are doing their utmost to attempt to tweak their existing operations.

Adam Blankman

Now that the world economy is on firmer footing, investors have grown skeptical that rapid growth can coexist with tame inflation.

Jamie Zawinski

I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.

Colin Trevorrow

Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other.

Deepak Chopra

We're all inseparably part of each other. We all coexist in each other.

Leonard Susskind

Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably.

Jan Denise

When I'm tempted to do something that feels like giving up, I won't ... because love doesn't give up (I Corinthians, 13). But, lest I push love aside, I will make sure that what I'm holding on to can coexist with love.

Scott Simms

There are no set plans. But development could coexist with the spent fuel storage.

Skip Bertman

When pro and college teams try to coexist long term, ... the college team usually loses.

Pope Francis

We can coexist well [with Muslims]. But there are fundamentalist groups.

Albert Schweitzer

An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.

Stavros Cosmopulos

Make the layouts rough and the ideas fancy.

Stephen Parker

No one respected language more than Nabokov. You don't read it for his ideas, you read it for his presentation.

John Walsh

on interesting subjects, ideas and unfamiliar artists, with many surprises for visitors.

Philip Gee

Maybe just to get my idea out. Maybe to find out other people's ideas, to see if they're similar to mine.

Fred Brown

Now we would like some ideas for different shows. These must be quality shows.

Ludwig von Mises

Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.

Ludwig von Mises

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

Chris Evans

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

Denis Healey

I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.

Abraham Lincoln

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

David Horsey

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

Antonis Samaras

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

Bobby Jindal

Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.

Lynsey Addario

I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.

Anna Sui

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable either for recreation, science or for wildlife, but the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. It follows, then, that any wilderness program is a rearguard action, through which retreats are reduced to a minimum.

Donald Rumsfeld

I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Michelle Duffey

(Miranda) can't sit quiet for very long, so she'd be talking to somebody.

Rick Carlisle

One of the reasons it seemed like a quiet 37 was his shooting percentage. Unfortunately, we couldn't get him under control.

Roger Baldwin

She was a frail, beautiful, unassuming woman ... She always had a quiet insistence on the rightness of what she was doing.

Gideon Ezra

She was quiet and shy ... she was a very serious person,

Bryan Ferry

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Dee Dee Ramone

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

Diego Della Valle

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

Charlie Munger

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Ai Weiwei

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Jonathan Ive

It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.

Jill Soloway

I'm a naturally open person - some might say radically open.