Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Cockburn

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

James O'Byrne

We're journalists and we just pack it away. You don't get a special badge of courage for losing your home.

Suzy Menkes

There are some designers who flash and burn - Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don't think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition.

Kathleen Sebelius

But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing.

Ian Campbell

Lots of people just buy product right off the shelf and stick their badge on it. At the end of the day, they end up with a toaster that looks like a Russian tractor.

Joe Veronese

She refused to give me her badge number, and she hung up.

J. K. Rowling

We've been improving it. The badge now read Bighead Boy.

Bob DiBiasio

From a professional and personal standpoint, Friday will never be the same for me. It was a badge of honor to be on Hal's call list.

Scott Turow

I think the first serious novel that interested me was The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.

Jennifer Wright

Mild temperatures and budding spring foliage make this a great time of year to shake the dust off of that old gear, and get back in the boat.

Robert Jennings

Knight's performance will entertain the entire family. It may even inspire a few budding musicians to practice more.

Sarah Waters

I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the freedom to go into a world of my own.

Carolyn Hunter

Here and there you'd see a tree that was budding or grass trying to grow. There was hope.

David Sax

I have been growing this moustache, a budding Burt Reynolds number, for a good cause known as Movember.

Patrick Thompson

I am really sorry to know that this happened to such a budding young player; I am still in a state of shock,

Callum McDougall

Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

Shreya Ghoshal

It is only your passion which takes you forward. So it is my gyaan to all budding singers that keep faith in your passion and prepare yourself, because you will get that opportunity sooner or later, and if you can prove yourself, people will line up for you.

Lauren Zalaznick

Together with the Weinstein Company we have been able to show these designers' passion for creativity and incredible talent to an ever-growing audience. We can't wait to get back out there and give another crop of budding designers the opportunity of a lifetime.

Jim Rogers

We've seen so much destruction and teardowns of dated homes. We just don't fit in anymore.

Jim Rogers

We've seen so much destruction and teardowns of dated homes, ... We just don't fit in anymore.

Mike Marqusee

His songs haven't dated because he penetrated the surface of these issues. He said what was wrong at a deeper level He is trying to make sense of a world that is utterly chaotic.

Landon Liboiron

I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

Khloe Kardashian

People are gonna comment no matter what. If I dated the most clean-cut, perfect guy, they're gonna comment. That's just the way it is.

Jennifer Long

I don't know why he felt the need to do something this crazy. We dated for about four months. He didn't have a temper. He never hit me or nothing.

Hannah Simone

I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

Jay London

I dated a partially nude model, and she did a half-assed job.

Ricky Henderson

The existing, dated facilities provided by the Ross Theatre do not meet the demands of the events it is now required to host.

Amy Tan

Dementia was like a truth serum.

Bill Crawford

Let's not let our fear of dementia deepen our fear of dementia.

Laurie Graham

None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common.

Floyd Skloot

At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

Elena Dementieva

Do you know that Russian girl Dementia or something like that? Her serve is no more powerful than mine.

Carl Cotman

We're not ready to write an exercise prescription for Alzheimer's or dementia yet. But the results are extremely exciting.

Karen Ritchie

A large number of elderly people are taking medications that can mimic early dementia and are likely to be classed as having early dementia.

Dennis Alford

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Kenny Troutt

I go to the farm generally every other week, but I'm on the phone with them every day, and I watch every race on TV. Not a day goes by when I'm not working on that.

Dan Glickman

When we certify organic, we are certifying not just a product, but the farming and handling practices that yield that product,

Dutch Proverb

What a farmer does not know, he won't eat.

Keith Horne

We farm here, but we also live here. We understand the stakes.

Dave Gilmour

There are a lot of farmers who have marginal operations who just need help,

Steve Davies

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak. They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

Steve Davies

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak, ... They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

Jerry Miller

Single farmers need to find someone who can relate to what they do. Those people are out there. They just need to meet 'em.

Charlie Chaplin

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Charlie Chaplin

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Charlie Chaplin

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Charles Dudley Warner

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Charles Dudley Warner

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Charles de Gaulle

I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

Charles de Gaulle

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Bruno Walter

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

Bela Lugosi

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

Cameron Mackintosh

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

Al Gini

The glorious thing for you always has consequences for others.

Atharva Veda

O Nanak, serve the Lord forever; He is the treasure of glorious virtue.

Granth Sahib

Give me that understanding, by which I may meditate on You. I sing Your Glorious Praises with each and every breath. Nanak takes the Support of the Guru's Feet.

Oscar Lua

I think it let us know that we are that one unit, that one heartbeat. I think today is just another step into our glorious run.

Granth Sahib

Night and day, I sing Your Glorious Praises, God. I praise You, O my Beloved.

Sallust

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Anne Fadiman

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Horace Engdahl

I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Paul Theroux

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.

Maury Yeston

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

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.

Jay Grimes

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

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.

Nigel Barker

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Mark Johnson

She sent a laser in there. You look for breaks, you look for bounces, and we got one on that first goal.

Dave Ross

I think the state accidentally sent the wrong message,

Sergei Mitrokhin

If today or tomorrow the sentence had been pronounced there would simply have been international uproar.

Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Kraig Troxell

He was sentenced a total of 115 years. All but 25 years were suspended.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

George Savile

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Lois Lowry

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.