Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

When I discovered Buddhism, I realized that Buddhism agrees with that. Buddhism adds something, too, which is that your life also never begins. It's eternal.

Thomas E. Mann

Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an environment in which members of Congress feel free to buck popular sentiment and wrestle seriously with the problems confronting the country, it reinforces the ideological divide between the parties.

Carl Tannenbaum

The pool of available labor is diminishing and worker efficiency is growing more slowly. This adds up to a higher level of pressure on wages, and, by inference, on inflation.

Octavia E. Butler

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

Kevin Kane

until an application is derived that adds true value and intrigue to this product.

George Young

We are pleased to retain the excellent technical expertise of Don Foot in a position of responsibility and impact. At this point in the development of our Comstock/Mountain Lion iron project and the ongoing work at the Western Utah copper project, their background and technical expertise will be invaluable to us. Likewise, Dr. Nelson adds a tremendous dimension of knowledge and technical capability to our board of directors.

Bob Reed

We are pleased to be leaders in this effort among U.S. companies. Our entire management team considers diversity a business imperative, and our commitment to diversity -- besides being the right thing to do -- adds value to our company and our communities.

Chuck Jones

We're in a slower-growth environment and as Larry said, if you can get 10 percent growth from organic growth and 10 percent from acquisition, it adds cash and adds earnings. That's as long as they can make the integration work.

Jennifer Bowers

When you teach the way we do, you need some time off. The work day is longer than eight hours, and it's not just grading papers that adds to the time.

C. S. Lewis

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

C. S. Lewis

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

Charlotte Bronte

It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.

Charles Dickens

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

Charles Stross

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Carina Perelli

The process has gone smoothly and well from a technical point of view.

Stanley A. McChrystal

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

Booth Tarkington

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

Dianne Feinstein

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Marissa Moss

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

Thomas Mallon

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources.

Tom Hulce

Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.

Brian Eno

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Kara Walker

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

Bret Easton Ellis

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

Connie Willis

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

Fred Baker

When we had 3,000-person meetings, a lot of the people were not there to work on things. The meetings that we have are smaller. The mailing lists are more contained, and the work is actually proceeding better.

Mike Hargrove

We're putting together lists of names and are narrowing it down. It's important in our minds to do this quickly. But it's more important that we get the right guy.

Dick Cavett

Meryl Streep belongs on anybodys list of greats.

Jim Phillips

We have lists of people ready to do lists of things,

Jeff Cooley

There are short lists of two- or three-letter words that most people don't use. People probably haven't seen a lot of words that are key.

David Ives

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Cecelia Ahern

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

Carl Erskine

You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Charles Dickens

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Charles Dickens

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Spurgeon

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Susan B. Anthony

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

Brandi Chastain

And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.

Branch Rickey

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

Charles Stanley

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

Bret Michaels

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.

Dave Davies

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

David Sze

For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

Bryan Singer

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

Lynsey Addario

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

Eckhart Tolle

The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.

Matt Damon

We have a similar perspective, ... We're total hams.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.