Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Margot Kidder

They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did on the show was boring.

Warren Rudman

He was somewhat of an enigma to many people. I'm not so sure he didn't get along, he just didn't mix a lot with people. He didn't seem to have a lot of friends.

Jeff Feuerzeig

He started as an enigma to me; he remains an enigma to me.

Katharine Blake

It surprised everybody because the initial motivation was just recreationally oriented, but we all share a fascination with all things romantic and the mediaeval period, that enigmatic period is open to a lot of interpretation.

Harry Hamlin

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

Steve Winwood

And also there hasn't been much footage of Traffic either. There is very little in existence and since Traffic is a very enigmatic and unusual band, we thought that now was the time to put this out and give people a taste of what Traffic was really about.

Robert Smithson

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

David Bowman

San Antonio had to rely on the hold harmless provision this year.

Rick Parker

We don't have to interpret what it looks like. This is what it is.

Carolyn Anderson

We're sort of the soundtrack to these wonderful, wonderful images, ... The subject is the universe, but we interpret that loosely.

Maria Bamford

When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it the way I want them to.

Devdutt Pattanaik

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

Robert Wilson

Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.

Gary Jennings

I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The text has disappeared under the interpretation.

Luigi Pirandello

Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!

Ludwig Wittgenstein

We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.

John Reid

Madonna has nailed it with this record and we are rolling it out very big indeed.

Maripol

Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her.

Chris Crutcher

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

Chris Crutcher

If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.

Denis Diderot

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Edgar Allan Poe

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

Edgar Allan Poe

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

Edgar Allan Poe

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.

Ben Jonson

Success hath made me wanton.

Tom Mueller

From the very beginning, we said we wanted to know the truth about this terrible incident, ... Now we do

Ronda Rousey

I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing.

Andy Weir

I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.

William O'Neill

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

Pat Barker

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

Charles Caleb Colton

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Alan Ball

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Bobby Valentine

Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess.

Elizabeth Kostova

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

David J. C. MacKay

We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

Abdu'l Baha

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.

Liz Williams

Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

John Bradshaw

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

Mark Bradford

Everything I do has an underlying political question.

Todd Williams

It's something within his joint, most probably the cartilage, and it could be something underlying from the old injury.

Edward Miller

They want to use it, but it can't be put out there. It's going to be an underlying part of the campaign.