Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Millington Synge

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

John McCain

And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?

Jaron Lanier

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.

Jaron Lanier

Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.

Lee Atwater

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

Leni Riefenstahl

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

Kevin Mitnick

Use a personal firewall. Configure it to prevent other computers, networks and sites from connecting to you, and specify which programs are allowed to connect to the net automatically.

Kevin Mitnick

I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other groups are more interested in symbolic terrorism, like what they did to the World Trade Center - suicide bombers or something that really has an effect and is meaningful to people.

Kevin Hart

The quote-unquote 'description' of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it's about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can't deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.

We're going in the reverse of 46 of the top 50 cities in the United States. Almost everyone is going down, but we're going up. There is something going on in New Orleans that is not going on elsewhere.

We're going after the major alien smuggling organizations and drug smuggling organizations.

We're glad to finally have a good album out, and everything that comes after that is extra. If America is interested, that's great. If not, we'll be OK too. We're not trying to push for the crossover really hard.

We're giving up 40 pounds a man at almost every position in size, and they're really physical. They're just really physical defensively and we struggled to score.

We're shocked that there's so much funding from unexpected revenue sources and at this point the government is allowing tuition fees to be increase and the college strike to persist.

We're shifting slightly to align the content with people's expectations.

We're seeking damages for the wrongful exclusion of the benefits plan; we're seeking an injunction that requires them to start classifying people properly and allowing employees to participate in the employee stock-purchase plans. In our view, they can't continue to operate the way they're operating.

We're looking at the possibility of building a new building next door that would allow PMI to cater the theater as well as other events downtown.

Sandy Miller

We're looking at moving out of the mental health (program) piece at the high school and offering a more comprehensive social work, which will be working with the parents as well as doing all the counseling for the drug and alcohol abuse.

We're excited about this project. We applied for, and received, a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the National Association of Counties and the Wildlife Habitat Council. The grant, along with the help of all our partners will make this project successful.

Joe Gibbs

We're concerned there. We gave up five sacks. Two of them were a little situation where we didn't get the alignment the way we wanted it, so it was our fault. But at the same time, we scrambled out of there to save us a couple, too.

We're complaint driven. Almost everything is complaint driven by the citizens, or maybe other staff. I'm not out looking for violations so I can pick on a property.

Chris White

We're just going to pick up where we left off last year, ... The girls get along well and they've already gelled. They play well together, and we have a lot of strong younger players filling in our holes.

Rodney Atkins

Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking the songs lightly and trying to make sure I've got consistency.

Ron Reagan

My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.

Rhys Ifans

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

Richard Carmona

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered.

Richard Holbrooke

I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11.

Ricky Schroder

Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.

Understand 'Minecraft,' and you'll begin to understand the power of games. Like any good story, this one begins with a man and a dream. Markus 'Notch' Persson first started on the project to create a three-dimensional world vast in scope, with elements that allowed you to customize your character into the way you want them.

Rob Lowe

I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have.

Robbie Robertson

I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, let me see what I can come up with.'

Reggie Watts

I like joking around and being a little mischievous. Once an audience or even a group of friends realizes that you're being benevolent about it, then they're along for the ride.

Sanaa Lathan

In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started.