Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Fixx

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Michael Pachter

My guess is they want to sell high- definition discs. You want to get the high-definition monitor owners drooling. It's clever marketing.

Robert Harris

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.

Tina Brown

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

Edsger Dijkstra

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Warren Spector

From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

Elizabeth Bowen

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.

Karl Swanson

We're not doing anything extraordinary. We're just making more content available. Fans can get all the critical stuff they want from newspapers and talk radio. We are catering to the fans who want entertainment and personalities and the fun stuff.

Jimmy Rollins

We're not devastated. It's definitely at lot tougher, but as long as you have a mathematical chance, anything can happen. We can catch fire and that's what we need to do.

Tennessee Williams

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.

Fran Maier

Make no mistake: Your Catholic family and mine - not some disembodied Catholic institution - are the financial targets of these lawsuits,

Tony Benn

Madam, if you are so concerned about catching BSE, you should do what I do and turn vegetarian.

Stanley Hauerwas

Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.

Matt Leinart

LenDale is so big and so fast, and he just wears on the defense. He's a great complement to a guy like Reggie. He can catch the ball, he can run after the catch, he can run after his carries. He just does everything well. He's a terrific back and a big part of why we've been so successful.

Hayley Kissel

Lego has done some intelligent things with licensing in the past year. But they're just catching up.

Emileigh Mercer

Losing Cat as a mentor, friend, and teammate has been particularly hard on everyone and the goalie situation.

Penn Badgley

When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you're lured into doing things that you think are cool and fun and a good idea, but they're cheesy and awful. And recording a pop single was one of them.

Melissa Benoist

I have a very optimistic view of my future right now. I'm very excited to see where it goes, but I try not to make plans just because I know how unpredictable life can be. Especially the life of an actor, and especially the life of an actor on 'Glee.' I just want to be happy and healthy and surrounded by people I love, as cheesy as it sounds.

Olly Murs

It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.

Bryan Q. Miller

Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.

David Duchovny

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.

Chelsea Clinton

I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.

Evangeline Lilly

I dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard!

Jane Kaczmarek

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

Anthony Hopkins

Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.