Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dylan McDermott

New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.

Jeff Kagan

On Monday, the floodgates will open and consumers will be bombarded through their mailboxes, their televisions and newspapers. It will be confusing at first until they realize they can get all of their services from one company. Then it should be easier for customers.

Brett Myroff

Tougher sentences being dished out are clearly making spammers feel the heat. However, spam is clearly not a thing of the past. E-mail users worldwide are still being bombarded by unsolicited messages, and, two years on, Gates' famous prediction now looks extraordinarily optimistic.

Bharati Mukherjee

I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room.

Tim Murphy

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

Leon Askin

Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.

Rebecca Fuller

We did lots of free ones for friends and people in church and whoever. They just started performing so many times, and we were bombarded with requests.

Lisa Ling

We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

Dan Tredinnick

We didn't want to create another opening-day effect, especially for private landowners who might have been tempted to consider posting their ground if they were constantly bombarded with anglers.

Cory Doctorow

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

Malorie Blackman

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

Malorie Blackman

What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.

Johann Kaspar

Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man

Jean Bruyere

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

Emily Johnson

Let?s just say you?re not going to see these books at the public library.

Mary Kaufman

Libraries and books have always been a part of my life and have made a difference in my life. I have always had a passion for books, both reading and collecting.

William Shakespeare

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Maureen Corrigan

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Mabel Illidge

Many students see the importance of the minor, and even a major in Spanish for personal pleasure, for interest in new careers and for enhancement of their own careers.

Stephen Parker

Motivating more young people to take an interest in understanding and learning science at school is important not only because science careers are exciting and rewarding, but also because young people need to know about how science and technology is changing our world -- their world!. Science in School is just one of the initiatives being supported by the Commission to take this forward.

Damon Jones

When I got to the league, I learned and looked up to guys who had long-lasting careers because they didn't partake in alcohol. I'd say it's very rare (for an NBA player), but I'm already high on life and I enjoy living, so I don't need any extra additives.

Chris Cornell

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.

Diane Lane

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.

Diane Lane

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

Dennis Ritchie

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

Dennis Quaid

Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.

Marc Bolan

I am the 'Cosmic Dancer' who dances his way out of the womb and into the tomb on 'Electric Warrior.' I'm not frightened to get up there and groove about in front of six million people on TV because it doesn't look cool. That's the way I would do it at home.

John Krasinski

Luckily, I have two of the coolest parents around. They're so open about having any and all experiences, so they never hindered us in any way by categorizing or judging anything.

Fred Thompson

Lemonade: 50 Cool Recipes for Classic, Flavored and Hard Lemonades and Sparklers.

William Shakespeare

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.

Chuck White

Selfishly, I think it's kind of really cool for a parent to have an only child.

Phil Flynn

So far the cooler weather hasn't put more pressure on the supply, but a hot scorching summer could definitely push prices higher.

Cathy Sturgill

So it's really cool. They put together a curriculum package.

James Mercer

Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.

John Krasinski

My main focus is to always try to be myself first, and then, hey, if I wear a cool jacket, that's a bonus.

Rob Sheffield

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

Rig Veda

One should respect his motherland, his culture and his mother tongue because they are givers of happiness.

John Gallagher

One very important secondary set of skills people learn is how to manage a large-scale project with a globally distributed team, usually made up of people from different cultures and different countries,

Pamela Satran

Now there are thousands of people with those names that wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for them. This generation of parents is looking to get away from cookie-cutter stuff, and our culture of celebrities is supporting that.

Dennis Prager

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

Edgar Mitchell

The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world.

Leonard Mlodinow

French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.

Dominic West

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

Gunther Grass

Only the Social Democrats will truly defend the culture of the German people.

Rick Perlstein

My liberal friends love to dismiss Reagan. You know, they'll say something like, 'Oh, didn't he, like, only read one-page memos when he was in the White House?' Well, that's just good managerial practice. I mean, Franklin Roosevelt made people write one-page memos.

John Sheffield

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.

Joe Cocker

There are people who'll dismiss me as 'just' a singer. That's how it is, how it's always been, but just because I'm not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn't mean I'm not putting in the graft.

Colin Morton

I would be surprised if someone was willing to pay at this price for the stock. I am pretty cynical, but I am loath to dismiss it completely.

Raul Garcia

I did not know. If I would have known, I would have dismissed him immediately.

Chuck Palahniuk

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

Anthony Chan

The overall weakness was so pervasive that it would be silly to completely dismiss the devastating weakness of this report.

John Perry Barlow

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

Frank Mateljan

We have the option to proceed with the citation or dismiss it.

Frank Roder

We're not doing it to escape anything. We're doing it to help kids.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

Alberto Gonzales

Obviously we would have preferred the escape not to have occurred,

Lord Falconer

No one should be able to escape justice by not turning up when they're supposed to.

Romesh Gunesekera

My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines.

Rene Saguisag

Now that they are free men, if they have really escaped as the military claims, then the more they should be able to communicate with us with ease.

Kathleen Blanco

I can't feel we escaped the worst, because we don't know what the worst is.

Joel Heesch

If we don't start playing like an experienced team, this year will escape us, without us doing what we want to do.

George H. W. Bush

Some Americans want us to withdraw our troops, so we can escape the violence,

Robert Jarvik

I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

Rohit Shetty

We had a great time making 'Chennai Express.' It was a learning experience working with Shah Rukh... it was a positive experience.

Mark Williams

Luckily, we have 10 or 12 who are going to have to step up more, which is important. Obviously, we have a lot of finals experience in our side, and it's important for them to step up.

Diego Klattenhoff

Luckily, I had that experience on 'Homeland,' to work with these unreal people who are unbelievably talented, great actors.

Estelle

Luke James has this mystique about him that's not something you can explain; you can only experience it. He's got a whole D'Angelo feel to him as well.

Dan Fee

Lynn Swann doesn't have any experience and he doesn't have any policy proposals for the future, so he's left with attacks.

Nishi Silva

Life experience provides us feedback of our lives.On the other hand,trying to become an experienced person puts you in danger.We should let our selves get experience by the time only when your life is ready to provide it on the right time with the right people.

Jerry Sloan

Let them experience a day off in there, and see if they can keep themselves ready. It's important to see if any of them try to take the third game off.

John Foxe

Last year was our first opportunity (to be on MNF) in quite some time. Hopefully, we'll learn from that and understand what's at stake there. The whole world is watching. There's no question all of your peers are watching. It's something that guys should gear up for, and I think we'll learn from that experience last year.

Charles Stiles

If they get a message from a sender that has images and links enabled one day, and another one the next day where they're not, they tend not to trust that so much, or think there was an error. It sends an unclear message to the consumer.

Daria Werbowy

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

Raymond Berry

You made the impossible possible. Those images of your performances still haven't faded.

Nate Lowman

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

Kara Bunte

The outpouring of support has been amazing. People are now starting to see the images on TV and want to help.

Bruce Jackson

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Marshall Strickland

We?re really mirror images of each other. Dials is physical, Marco is physical. . . . That?s our game.

William Butler Yeats

Those images that yetFresh images beget,That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.

Julie Myers

We're seeing more new material and more new victims. Tragically and frighteningly, the kids in these images are getting younger, and the images are getting more and more violent and graphic.

Martha Stewart

Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that.

Jim Talent

Missouri is going to be better off because we've kept these jobs in Missouri.

Walt Fennell

One of our jobs is to be a greeter. As a resident, I like that too.

Roger Williams

One of my major jobs as secretary of state is to get people to vote, and I'm going to do my job.

O. J. Simpson

No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed.

Jay Shows

One thousand-plus jobs within a 40-mile radius represents a major labor provider.

Ray Giacoletti

Money is the crux of our business. People take jobs because of money. Money ruins everyone.

Roger Schagrin

Numerous plants will be shut down, thousands of workers will lose their jobs and communities will be devastated.

Dito Montiel

When I had jobs, I was always doing manual jobs because I couldn't think. I worked at the docks, unloading trucks, and did ridiculous jobs.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

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.

Cory Doctorow

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

Charlie Morgan

One of the things we stress is to make sure you are prepared. Do you have enough water? Do you have the right equipment? When we travel, there is a checklist of things, the type of places we stay in, for example.

Sam Bush

Of course, I wasn't old enough to get in these places back then,

Tom Adams

More of this stuff, ... and transportation to places downtown.

Darrel Hoffman

When I look back, there are so many places where we can improve.

Dave Ramsey

There's a great place to go when you're broke--to work!

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Dean Atkins

If we put all this on the menu, it would look like all the other places where you have to squint to read it.

Tony Domenech

There are other places students can live, and if you want an investment, go to a condo.

Charles Spurgeon

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Dennis Prager

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

Dennis Haysbert

I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted a shot to do it, and they embraced that and said, "All right, come on in. Let's see what you've got." So, I went in, and the rest is history. It felt good when I went into the office, and it just worked.

Deborah Smith

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

Elbert Hubbard

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Eleanor Roosevelt

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Elizabeth Drew

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Bibesco

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Sue Christiansen

So far, they seem to be working well and doing what they're supposed to.

Mike Birbiglia

My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.

Debbie Johnson

No one seems to know who he is.

Brian Joubert

Now you can win without a quad, and that doesn't seem right.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Jay Grimes

She seems like she'll come through. It's going to be a while.

Frank Sinatra

Sinatra has had a long and wide association with hoodlums and racketeers, which seems to be continuing.

Dennis Bailey

I did a small part, he's the one who did the big part.

Scott Kahan

For small investors, they probably aren't the place to be.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

Courtney Riepenoff

She's small and she's inexperienced . . . but she's feisty.

Douglas Jerrold

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Dustin Lynch

My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.

J. Taylor

No one in town has a seven-member band,

John Anderson

I would have thought most towns had some kind of evacuation plan.

Estelle Parsons

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Charles Kuralt

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Hannah Baldwin

We're just a little town that did things that were unheard of at the time.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.

Magnus Scheving

LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.

Rocky Carroll

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

Dick Wolf

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

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.'

Ed O'Brien

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

Dominic West

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.

James Farrior

Yeah, he's watching his weight all right. Watching it expand.

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

Betha Aris

I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Stacy Keibler

I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting.

Viggo Mortensen

there he is, I'm watching him, there he goes.

Brian McCloskey

We got a little cute. We started watching ourselves." ()

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.