Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynn Shelton

Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed.

Jerry Seinfeld

You spend so much time in the world of virtual that the actual - which nothing is more actual than stand-up - it's a painful experience for the audience, and the comedian a lot of time - we miss that.

Theodore C. Sorensen

Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security.

Neil Turok

If you think about the actual problems we are facing - all the crises - we have the means to solve these crises. The past has shown us we are able to do things we never imagined we would be able to do.

Nathaniel Philbrick

One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past.

Lauren Ambrose

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.

Vicki Lawrence

I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.

Akon

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

We are continuing to sample the air throughout the affected area to make sure there's nothing hazardous. What the actual cause of the smell is, we really don't know.

Alphonso Jackson

This nationwide telephone number will provide callers expanded services and hours and the opportunity to speak with an actual person, ... With all that displaced families are going through starting to rebuild their lives, the last thing they need to encounter is an answering machine without answers. We have increased our staffing at the National Servicing Call Center in Oklahoma, and we currently have the capacity to handle 15,000 calls daily.

We added a 1949 Florence stove, which used a combination of gas and oil. They used it to heat the house. The actual original stove was out rusting in the apple orchard, so we found one to match. We spied one outside someone's house and asked them about it, and then we got it.

We actually have no idea what will happen when you put in a state-of-the-art wind turbine ? what the actual effect on species would be.

Robert Pinsky

To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' That what I do is somewhere on the line between speaking to you as I am now and actual song. And the things I love when I say one of those poems to myself - it's a little bit like singing, it's a little bit like speaking.

With the technology swoon of the last couple of days, this is actually a pretty good showing. Even though they had to reduce the actual pricing, I think this gives investors some leeway in terms of looking for a profit.

Pat Metheny

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

Mark McKinnon

Normally, when politicians talk about 'cutting the budget,' they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim to have 'cut the budget.'

Roger Rosenblatt

Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes.

Patrick Carman

I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

Patricia Polacco

My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.

We have the conceptual plans. In eight weeks, we'll have the actual plans.

Isaac Herzog

We needed to make a dramatic change in the way we approach welfare housing, ... There has been an increasing demand for welfare housing, while the actual supply of homes has continued to dwindle.

The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.

Helen Vendler

I always write after I think for quite a long time, so the actual writing time is rather short. I think a lot of the work gets done when you have something on your mind while you're doing many other things.

Hannah Kearney

On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.

Ashwin Sanghi

In Kolkata is a temple where the deity worshipped is Amitabh Bachchan. The daily aarti is performed to the chanting of the Amitabh Chaleesa. And people still ask, 'Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived?'

We were adamantly opposed to a payroll tax or an employee tax, but this is very different because it is tied to the actual cost of the pool.

Tyrone Hayes

We demonstrated that a realistic pesticides mixture (based on a mixture applied to an actual field) at low, ecologically relevant concentrations can have dramatic effects on amphibian development and growth and ultimately, we predict, survivorship.

We won't know his actual views until his first opinions at the court appear,

We are monitoring the situation closely, but right now we don't have any actual plans because a fuel surcharge always has an impact on consumer demand, so it is always a trade off,

The DA that prosecuted our case back in '91 did everything he could do in the case. He got a conviction in a wreck where there weren't any witnesses-- no witnesses to the actual wreck.

We haven't got any reports yet of actual flooding.

Zachary Levi

There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.