Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Mary Mason

Part of what I've found is that people who can think creatively and can do this kind of work need a tolerant environment, ... Texas will wind up looking un-American, intolerant and very foolish.

Jon Nelson

People have their set impressions about the trumpet. It's either part of an orchestra, or it's played by one or two famous jazz musicians who are doing traditional music. But people are doing very creative things.

Dave Williams

Standardization of creative units allows us to focus more on the message and other key variables that drive ROI.

Christina Hendricks

Some people are way less creative than you wish they were.

Dan Glickman

Piracy not only has an economic impact on our industry, ... but it has an impact on the creative spirit in this country.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're a psychopath." "I prefer creative.

B. J. Novak

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

Bibhu Mohapatra

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Allyson Schwartz

Preserving local open space is not just critical to our region's quality of life, but also to safeguarding our water and environmental quality.

Bob Etheridge

Our ports are not only critical entryways into our nation that must be protected but they are critical entryways to our economy.

Patrick Joyce

Parking is critical to a facility like Springfield Clinic.

Jeff Raikes

Partners play a critical role in delivering solutions and applications to customers with the Microsoft Office System. The value of Solutions Competencies is that they enable Microsoft to deliver resources and training to partners that are meeting their customer needs. And for partners, the opportunity to highlight their expertise to customers is tremendous in the growing IW solution market.

Irwin Berger

Paul's considerable development experience, team leadership skills, and knowledge of scalable data and security management will significantly enhance our testing and trading infrastructure. As we continuously work to develop the next generation of alternative investments, Paul will ensure our critical real-time data systems meet our evolving needs.

Clarence Briggs

Staying current is critical for maintaining a website's relevance, and the WMT makes doing that easy.

Richard Blumenthal

State regulators twice rejected the proposed Islander East pipeline because it poses a significant threat to water quality and critical marine resources in the Long Island Sound,

Skip Lockwood

Spouses play a critical role in managing their husbands' illness. Having the opportunity to talk with someone else who has the same thoughts -- the same ups and downs -- can put things in proper perspective.

Greg Hart

Some of what we're going to say may sound critical or harsh.

Steve Murdock

Part of what's really extraordinary about that is Hispanics have been a large part of culture forever. Many of them were here before the Anglos were.

Carlos Cardoso

Our people have such a performance culture that they want to get better every day.

Peter Thiel

Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.

Kathryn Xian

Our goal is to influence peer culture so that we can prevent violence from happening in the first place.

Robert Hunter

rock 'n' roll, jazz and traditional folk culture.

Sathya Baba

Respect for women is a sign of real culture.

Romie Littrell

Managers can't manage diverse cultures successfully until they understand what culture is and know their own culture.

C. S. Lewis

The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

Bethenny Frankel

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

Lucas Glover

I tee off when the gates open, so nobody (will be there). It should be good.

Scott Chasin

I think Gates had a very optimistic view of the world.

Alberto Tomba

Giorgio tried to push away from the gates during the race as I suggested to him. But unfortunately he was wrong. He made a mistake. It shouldn't have happened.

Emma Lazarus

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand/ A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame/ Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name/ Mother of exiles.

Derrick Brooks

Obviously, we wanted to play better than we played last week, come out of the gates a little faster. We had an opportunity to make some plays ... and we did.

Lennie James

One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.

Ed Nelson

Yeah, Antonio Gates is somebody I point to as I try this transition. I know it's not easy, but I also know it has been done.

Marnie Dacko

We've got to be able to come out of the gates ready to go. We can't have any time where we have a mental lapse.

Chantal Sutherland

I'm just so lucky - my office is a racetrack. That is something I'm very thankful for. It's exciting, and it's challenging, and there are a lot of emotions and nerves that come with it, but right there before the gates open, before that minute and a half or two minutes of the race, it just hits you.

Hilary Rosen

Our list represents many different genres throughout all parts of the 20th century. And our hope is that each song will help tell a very different story,

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

Gloria Estefan

My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.

Bryan Fuller

I love horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Those are my genres of love and devotion.

Peter Jackson

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

Crystal Bowersox

My music is pretty versatile; I have a lot of genres and styles. I don't think I should be pigeonholed into one thing. So we'll see where my career goes.

M. J. Rose

When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

Alex Clare

I like songs in all different genres and types. My production and songwriting is everything from pop rock to hip-hop and everything in between.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.

Peter Hammill

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.

Nicole Scherzinger

I come from a strong religious background, and I had a very conservative upbringing. So I was nervous, and confused. Here I was wanting to be Whitney Houston, so why did I have to dress in lingerie to do that? I didn't get it.

Dick Tomey

We recovered from (Penn State). I don't think it had any lingering effects.

Colleen Atwood

I like the architecture of lingerie.

Brian Billick

For them to linger as long as they did, which usually means they don't have irrefutable evidence, and then to come out and say there was no possession. I'm just done with it.

Miranda Kerr

I collect underwear from my travels. Lace, lingerie, bodysuits... they're like souvenirs.

Mariah Carey

When it comes to lingerie, I know what I'm doing.

Kate Upton

I would love to have my own lingerie line.

Melissa Peterman

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

Colin Trevorrow

I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.

Leonard Maltin

It is as old as the movies themselves.

Malcolm Petal

I think it was important for us to show that you can make movies in north Louisiana,

Mike Marsh

I watched some of the old Peter Sellers movies to pick up some of his nuances and his style of comedy. He is so unique.

Heather Graham

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Ridley Scott

I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

John Daly

I still say they made that movie after me,

Robert Sean Leonard

I think people respect my work, but I was never in one of those movies that made me a star.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Kenny Thomas

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Dale Scott

He'd been disgruntled since the sixth inning, so it was time for him to go.

Stieg Larsson

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Ned Colletti

I take nothing for granted. I know the value of finances, I know the value of people. I've had to be street-smart since I was a little kid,

Ken Slater

Burlington will be a big challenge, to see where we're at. It (Friday's game) will be something that will tell us what kind of a team we have and if we've made improvements since Christmas.

Shahzia Sikander

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

Henry David Thoreau

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

John McLaughlin

Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience

Richard Bach

There is something that is transcendental about when we are immersed in that which we most love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

Bill Burr

Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.

Ike Taylor

I watched TV for two days, and then after that I just couldn't watch any more.

Silas Weir Mitchell

'Grimm,' I think, is a unique show in a lot of ways. There is certainly nothing on TV that looks like 'Grimm'.

Rachel Tucker

I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

Mary Karr

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

Bill Mitchell

He will when he watches it on TV later.

Azita Ghanizada

TV and film has defined my entire life.

Rocky Carroll

My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.'

Ed O'Brien

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

J. D. Hayworth

Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

Beilby Porteus

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Becca Fitzpatrick

A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent

Barry Pepper

Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me

Barry McGuire

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.