Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois Truffaut

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

Hermann von Helmholtz

What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them.

Hill Harper

Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - 'fear' for me stands for 'false evidence appearing real.' We create fantasy, and in certain ways that's wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn't real.

Don Kardong

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

Elizabeth Jagger

On bad days, I like to wear something colourful so I strike attention. That's how I appear confident to others - and how I get confident.

Frans Lanting

The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.

Barton Gellman

Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

Marilyn Monroe

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'

Chuck D.

With a wife approving her husband's salary, it appears that this board's stamp is really just a rubber stamp,

Yield demand for the New Zealand dollar appears to remain unquenched.

Peter Hain

The problem is that once the government and he (Mugabe) encouraged the land invasions and did not do anything about the violence, but appeared to condone it, the situation escalated,

Gary Young

There are reports of numerous casualties. It appears the freight train hit the vehicle (which had come off a motorway bridge), which then ploughed onto an adjoining line and was in collision with the passenger train.

David Christian

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.

Sonam Kapoor

I only discovered the 'Harry Potter' series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a Chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of Harry Potter didn't help much, and I fared poorly.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Michael Freeman

This settlement represents a big step forward in the efforts to protect Pikes Peak. We're very happy the city appears committed to do this work, and to do it on a binding schedule.

There is probably no other member of the House that appears at as many events as Roy.

Tim Storey

The parties are in a perpetual game of political tug of war. For the past three years, one side has moved the flag an inch, only to lose that ground the next election. It is hard to imagine this parity could get any tighter, but it appears that it has.

The paper will appear daily, this I can say for sure. There have been many offers to help us.

Larry Wachtel

The only thing that was positive today was that there was nothing negative, especially no lousy economic reports that we've had over the last four trading days. The summer doldrums have not appeared so far.

There are huge inaccuracies in the data that appear in these reports.

To back away from appearing just sends the wrong message to constituents, ... It says you're just going to take your ball and go home if you don't like what's being said.

Sathya Baba

To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.

The photos appear to show somebody who was lying down and incapacitated. And again, intoxication was included in the original police reports.

We're hoping to identify these people to eliminate that (lead). All I can tell you is they appeared to be three white females: one around 20, one around 40, one around 60.

We see potential for further downside pressure over the near term, but the market generally appears well supported at the moment. So any weakness is unlikely to be very violent or major.

We're talking about inventory that would have shipped in the last month and would have appeared in PCs shipping around Thanksgiving, ... You're running smack into the holiday shopping season.

Alison Goldfrapp

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.

The government didn't present any case, they just wanted it to appear like they did,

The government appears to be going very aggressively after these types of leak cases, ... and when reporters are involved, I'm just gritting my teeth.

The Grand Nebula in Cassiopeia will appear in our sky just as the Great Nebula in Orion fades away. Even better, its home constellation is visible year-round from much of the northern hemisphere.

The Grand Nebula in Cassiopeia constellation will appear in our sky just as the Great Nebula in Orion fades away.

Arthur Smith

When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics.