Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kazinsky

I'm a massive Trekkie. I've got original artwork from the '70s. I've got outfits. Yeah, I have actual 'Star Trek' outfits that I wear. I'm a massive, massive 'Star Trek' fan.

Steve Wynn

Let a real sun shine inside and burn away our sins! Fear not the actual time of day!

Jason Alexander

Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York.

Rik Paul

Many people feel if regular is good than premium must be better, ... and that's not the case. Due to advertising, a lot of people think premium fuel is better fuel, when in actuality it simply has a higher octane rating.

Rod Nielsen

So far the literature has focused on verifiable external stressors with less emphasis on how they are experienced by the individual, ... The same external stressor may result in different levels of stress in different people. A measure of self-reported stress therefore provides a better measure of the actual level of stress experienced by the individual.

Stephen Graham Jones

Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions.

David Thwaites

My feeling is that the actual numbers will be OK, but that there'll still be a lack of confidence about where we go from here over the next six to 12 months. Generally, we're still likely to continue grinding sideways to lower, although at the moment it's looking like its more lower than sideways.

Tom Shipka

My feeling is that, if the actual settlement is the same or approximately the same as the one described to me yesterday, all parties can live with it, no one will be fully satisfied with it, and it is an important step in the right direction for this institution.

Carlos Garcia

One of the best things is that a job at Copper will do different things for people. An actual resort management experience might be something they can use as a gateway into this setting.

Eminem

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Rick Perlstein

Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.

Richard P. Feynman

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Robert Mankoff

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

Kevin Mitnick

Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted.

Kurtwood Smith

We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We started out working five days a week, but now we're down to three.

Kurt Browning

What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.

Malcolm McDowell

The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.

Marc Faber

This is the choice in life. You choose what is less bad. I don't particularly like Mr. Obama, but I think he is less bad for the world than Mr. Romney. It is a tragedy of life that both candidates did not lose the election. They would have deserved both to lose.

Rick Perlstein

Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.

Robert Wilson

My work is formal, not based on psychology.

Kumail Nanjiani

When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.

Jeff Pulver

LignUp is one of the players in an industry value chain that increasingly differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century. By exhibiting a focus on a networking industry model, open interfaces, open standards, and an innovative Web services based architecture, LignUp has joined a circle of companies that represent the future of IP communications.

Sandy Alomar

Life is based on your self-confidence. When you trust yourself, that means you know you can do things. If you don't have that trust, that means you're always going to have doubts in your mind.

Guido Mantega

Lula is going to build a government based on alliances, a government in which businessmen, bankers, trade unions -- the whole of society -- will participate. The trademark of Lula's government will be participation.

Matthew Peterson

Life events may force you to rethink that plan, ... Don't rethink your plan based on what's happening on the market.

Phil Garner

Let's see how he feels tomorrow. That's about kind of what I expected based on (the fact) he's been throwing off and on every other day basically for the last week.

William Ward

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.

Rick Perlstein

Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites.

Ronald Kessler

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Manmohan Singh

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Marcy Kaptur

For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.

Frank Ostini

Life is very good. We've been blessed. It was a one in a billion chance of this happening to us and we were lucky that it did.

William Lerach

Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.

Tom DeLay

Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief,

John Boehner

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

Al Gore

Make no mistake about it. The leadership of Bill Clinton is making a huge difference for the children and the families of America,

Albert Schweitzer

If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.

Kevin Bardsley

Last year we met with our church leaders. They said there's going to be a point in life when you need to turn things back to God, and you have to decide when that is.

Charles Farmer

Many of these individuals and families may well decide to become our neighbors, ... We need to welcome them into our community, our churches and our schools.

Kelly Sloan

Many people say, 'I don't have to go to church to be a Christian,' without considering fellowship in relation to their continued spiritual growth. In the New Testament coming together is emphasized. Over and over we find the passages saying to love one another, encourage one another and comfort each other.

Rand Paul

One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

Heather Arnold

No one knows what Falls Church retail is today.

Bill Bradley

must maintain strict protection for civil rights and a clear separation of church and state.

Tom White

My hope for this declaration is that through the Holy Spirit, our church leaders will recognize that all people, gifts of God's creation, deserve the dignity of being who they were created to be.

Doug Jones

Maybe it's unfair but it's a separation of church and state issue.

Eric Tolbert

What you're seeing is revealing weaknesses in the state, local and federal levels. All three levels have been weakened. They've been weakened by diversion into terrorism.

Alex Pareene

For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.

Desmond Tutu

God is not a diversion.

Ted Harrison

My perception is that we are headed toward a future where the surface water from the Rio Grande diversion is likely to be the dominant source of water for most communities around the Santa Fe area.

Maryann Gregory

Some of this is a diversion to keep your mind off what is really going to get you.

Martha Stewart

Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.

Cynthia Covell

Diversion does not only mean taking water from the river.

Ellen Willis

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We have not seen diversion of nuclear material for weapons purposes, but the picture is still hazy and not very clear.

Tullian Tchividjian

Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there's no reason to revisit step one.

Nancy Keenan

Even anti-choice Justices Antonin Scalia and William Rehnquist respect precedent, but that hasn't stopped them from explicitly saying they want to overturn Roe v. Wade .

Jared Diamond

Most people are explicitly racists. In parts of the world - so called educated, so-called western society - we've learned that it is not polite to be racist, and so often we don't express racist views, but... Racism is one of the big issues in the world today. Racism is the big social problem in the United States.

Warren Spector

I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

Robert Ritchie

It was explicitly understood that the video would remain at all times the private property of Mr. Stapp and would not be displayed or exhibited to the public.

Julian Callow

The ECB is getting toward a position of priming the markets for a future rate increase, but they don't want to say that explicitly because there have been false dawns before.

Minnie Driver

Minnie is my nickname. Amelia's my real name. I'd love to be an Amelia, but frankly then I think I should be a German woman with a horned hat.

Michael Scheuer

Frankly when I resigned in November, there wasn't anyone.

Mark Wright

Frankly I think this is one of the smarter funds Oppenheimer has developed.

Chris Moller

Frankly it does not sit very comfortably with us because we are raising this issue for the very valid reasons we have outlined.

Debbie Tower

Frankly if it saves one life, it's worth it.

Sergei Lavrov

Frankly speaking, we don't see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state apart from as a federation.

Mitt Romney

I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.

Howard Atkins

We would like to do more acquisitions within our geographic footprint. We think those make sense at the right price, but frankly we're not going to do those if they don't make sense from a price point of view.

Diane Swonk

We're more productive than we were in the 90s and frankly we didn't start hitting wage pressures in the 90s until about a 4-3/4 percent unemployment rate.

Warren Haynes

Making that record was one of the greatest musical moments in my life,

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Mary Wittenberg

Monday is the start of two races. One of the races will be over in 2? hours. The other race to be the world's greatest marathoner won't be over for 18 months.

Justin Gatlin

Maurice is one of the greatest competitors in the world. However this is a new era, the young guys are coming.

Gerald Curtis

One of his greatest opportunities now is to push agricultural reform,

Sally Schneider

One of my greatest joys is when someone like your wife takes one idea or one piece of a recipe and does it her way. That's what I'm encouraging.

George Granville

Of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, and love in vain.

Mike Perez

One through six, they really hate to lose. They all are very competitive. They may not be the greatest practice players, but in matches, I know they are going to get it done.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions

Rob Mullens

Oddly no. I am a trusting kind of guy, and the guide told us that they would do no harm.

Larry King

Maybe I could come out to guide people. I'd need a little uniform -- tell them I want a Washington Nationals uniform and we'll do the tour live.

Chris Foster

If an application is declined, it is usually because the application was done incorrectly or the guidelines and standards were not read.

Patrick Ho

If Intel guides up at all, it's a huge positive,

Jake Plummer

I didn't do much I just guided them down the field.

Jake Plummer

I didn't do much but just guided them down the field.

Joyce Cary

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Lynda Barry

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.

Laura Linney

If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

Brad Childress

When I look at that, I don't see that. Did he miss some throws that he should have made? Sure, and I'm sure he will tell you that as well. I don't see where that injury is doing something specifically to his throwing mechanics. I wish I could tell you I saw that.

Brendan Moore

I was supposed to be out two months, but I returned three weeks later. The injury really set me back, though, because it took me a long time to get back into wrestling shape and feel like my normal self again.

Terrell Owens

I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself.

Mark Cooper

Tommy suffered the injury in training. He could be out for a month, which wouldn't leave much of the season left.

Bill Cowher

Tommy had the MRI and right now it looks like he has a non-surgical injury to his elbow. He will not be able to throw for six weeks and then at that point he will be able to start throwing and we will see where he is.

Luciano Spalletti

Watching him walk today after seeing his injury really moved me.

Barbara Mandrell

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

Tim Zasada

We're an injury away from being mediocre or bad.

Ron Artest

The only thing on my mind is getting in shape. I've got an injury. So the only thing on my mind is getting over my injury and getting in shape.

Chris Stevens

My intentions are to be the Republican candidate.

B.J. Upton

I don't have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.

Bo Burnham

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

Dan Brooks

You have to find out everything you possibly can about what their intentions are so you can be prepared.

Tim Halstead

Our intentions are to someday have a property.

Angelo Bitsis

We're not making any assumptions. What his intentions were, we don't know.

Ron Hebert

You always want to win. But we went into the jamboree with the intentions of looking at some different rotations.

Tom Renney

I'm leaning toward Henrik, but we'll see. Those are my intentions at this time.

Dante Hall

I have no intentions on being a coach.

Charles Grassley

only want judges who will do their political bidding on the bench, regardless of what is required by the law and the Constitution.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, if someone judges himself, only then is he known as a real judge.

Warren E. Burger

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

Sharon Osbourne

Last year I thought it was all about me actually. I thought it was all about the judges and that we could do what we wanted. But it's really not, in the big scheme of things.

Don Samuel

Just get rid of judges altogether. Just let the Legislature set the sentences.

Doug Anderson

That could reduce the population by 200 inmates, ... The judges are supposed to come in soon.

Lord Hailsham

Fortunately, Lord Chancellor, your judges do not appoint the Master of the Rolls. I do.

John Thomas

We think it tastes good, but we don't know what the judges are going to say.

Kate Reed

I thought I pulled it together for the the last jump, it was the most pressure I've ever felt. Unfortunately the judges didn't see it that way.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Robert Schmuhl

Branson is a metaphor for red state America,

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Aristotle

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Florence King

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Gerald Edelman

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

Mike Birbiglia

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

J. T. Walsh

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...

Chris Eigeman

I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.

Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

John Doe

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Ha-Joon Chang

I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.

Dolly Wells

Essentially, we wanted to be in one of Azazel's films, so the notion was we'd simply write an Azazel Jacobs movie ourselves, and then give it to him and be like, 'Right, here's you next film, now direct us. Go.'

Golan Levin

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Gary Peters

I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.

Loren Thompson

We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.

Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

Lauren Goodman

More than just being the voice of a generation, Marvin Gaye proved to be its very heartbeat.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O!My many friends proved all untrue;But now I have no money, O!My friends are real though very few.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O! My many friends proved all untrue; But now I have no money, O! My friends are real though very few.

Lee Hamilton

We're getting better at this. But we still haven't proved we are safe.

Thomas Keller

ultimately, the system proved instrumental in fostering an undeniably unified restaurant staff.

Ewen Bremner

I've proved to myself I can get along in different kinds of parts and different kinds of productions.

Cathy Clark

He had proved to us over and over he could be trusted, so we didn't question him.

Didier Deschamps

Over the two legs, PSV proved they were a better side than us. They are a strong and solid team.

Michelle Monaghan

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

Antonio Porchia

The fear of separation is all that unites.

Bob Kane

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

Buddy Bell

There's not a whole lot of separation between them, to be honest.

Condoleezza Rice

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

Ed Mathey

After this weekend you will start to see some separation in the standings.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

Jennifer Capriati

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Neale Donald Walsch

The problem with a Separation Theology is that it produces a Separation Cosmology, a way of looking at all of life that says that everything is separate from everything else.

Dominique de Villepin

Accusations are useless.

Aaron Copland

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

Warda Tahir

When together, an ocean. When separate, a useless drop.

A. J. Jacobs

Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

Dave Barry

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Alan Coren

The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

Charles Bukowski

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

Abu Bakr

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.