Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Hutton

We want people of all ages from every section of the community to be involved.

Ed Stoppard

In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.

Eric Kandel

Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavior.

Louis Agassiz

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.

Karen Maitland

We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

Julia Glass

Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw me and my sister off to college, and my first novel was published when I was 46. This 'tardiness' isn't something I'm proud of, but I'm happy to be an inspiration to others who arrive at these milestones later than most of us do.

Susie Hall

We designed something for all ages from 2 to 92.

Edwin A. Robinson

The power is yours, but not the sight; / You see not upon what you tread; / You have the ages for your guide, / But not the wisdom to be led.

Tim Watkins

We're high-end, exclusive for men and women ages 21 to 60.

Charles Schumer

We have to get the feeling that they are on a path, in a reasonable period of time, to stop manipulating the currency, to let it float freely. It's a delicate game, it's a delicate gambit, because the Chinese are very sensitive about being pressured into things.

Alan Tonelson

We have had 15 years of Chinese promises to improve intellectual property protection. They have all proved to be false.

Li Changchun

The CPC and Chinese government have always affixed prodigious moment to the inveterate friendly relations with Africa,

Lucie Morillon

We have so many cyber-dissidents in jail that we are trying to get out of there, and knowing that some of them are in jail with the help of Western companies is really frustrating. It's one thing to want to make money, to make profits. It's quite another one to become a weapon in the hands of the Chinese authorities.

Jack Ma

We used to take these great hikes on the Great Wall, ... From our hikes, we developed a friendship that ended up with us combining forces in forming this new Chinese company.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.

David Tang

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

Jimmy Wales

The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.

Jason Alexander

It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Carre Otis

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

Carol Mann

The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

Carol Shields

A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster.

Carlos Castaneda

Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.

Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

Carlos Castaneda

My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

Carlos Castaneda

Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.

Carlos Castaneda

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Carlos Gonzalez

Whenever we play a really good game, everybody's going to be a hero, and the good part about it is nobody's trying to be a hero.

Carlos Ghosn

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

Carlos Fuentes

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.

Agnes de Mille

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.

Aaron Yoo

I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

Charlie Chaplin

One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero.

Charles Caleb Colton

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

Ricky Gervais

My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.

Brent Sexton

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

R. Robinson

We're going to see him take some leaps here.

John Clarke

When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows

Oktay Varlier

The Turkish tourism sector performed extraordinarily in the two years 2004 and 2005... But in 2006, we won't see leaps like those we saw in those two years.

Terri Blackstock

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

John Doherty

If I pushed the poor person out onto the street and his wife or passerby called 911, there would be no charge, ... This is a punishment fine, not for services rendered.

Ciaran Hinds

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

Matt Bomer

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

Stacy Adams

He is the ironman. He's been a player for us since he stepped onto our campus.

Mamie Gummer

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Sendhil Mullainathan

You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

C. Wright Mills

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

Tracy Chevalier

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

Alan Ball

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

Charlie Munger

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life ...

Bo Derek

I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.

Eddie Van Halen

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

Eazy-E

Another murder I committed made the front page.

Bob Ehrlich

I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.

Brigitte Bardot

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.

Bruce Vilanch

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Diablo Cody

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Scott Trost

We made a little adjustment. We switched off on screens on him. We made him work for all his shots.

Joe Sakic

I didn't do much. I was just trying to get a screen in there. He shot it, and it just went off my stick.

Buck Henry

We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.

Eleanor Parker

I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

Hill Harper

Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.

Sidney Poitier

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.

Christopher Darden

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

Edgar Allan Poe

Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.

Ben Horowitz

There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

Alicia Keys

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

Teemu Selanne

The silver medal, it's going to taste better a little later. But right now, it's very disappointing.

Rick Pitino

This is the most disappointing preseason I've experienced in a long time. We'll look for the silver lining, and when I can find it, I'll let everyone know.

Michael Guido

There's a lot of inflow into silver in anticipation of the ETF.

Rich Beem

The thing is a rocket. It's a silver bullet.

J. K. Rowling

There's the silver lining I'm looking for.

Jerry Garcia

Every silver lining has a touch of grey.

Adam Hamilton

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

Thabo Mbeki

I am sure it is in the medical textbooks, there are many things that cause immune deficiency and you will find therefore in the South African HIV and AIDS programme, that it will say that part of what we have got to do is to make sure that our health infrastructure, our health system is able to deal adequately with all of the illnesses that are a consequence of AIDS.

Gloria Steinem

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

Jerry Falwell

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

Gideon Gono

I found myself doing extraordinary things that arent in the textbooks. Then the IMF asked the U.S. to please print money. The whole world is now practicing what they have been saying I should not. I decided that God had been on my side and had come to vindicate me.

Neal Shusterman

What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?

L. Ron Hubbard

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

Joshua Lederberg

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.