Famous Quotes & Sayings

People look at marriage through a romantic haze, but it's actually a business contract. Couples need to look beyond the big day and the meringue dress and the honeymoon in an exotic location. I think arranged marriages have a lot going for them because expectations aren't so high. There isn't the assumption that things will be automatically wonderful.

Spitzer obviously hopes to bring about a domino effect. He puts himself in a good position to arrange for that.

Spitzer obviously hopes to bring about a domino effect, ... He puts himself in a good position to arrange for that.

Lord Byron

Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.

Jimmy arranged to buy the film rights to the book. He wanted to meet her and interview her in December, and, of course, we had to go with him.

Dick Murphy

I think it's quite nicely arranged around our cultural center this year, and I think that's fine. People still will see the stores as they park and walk through downtown, going to and from the festival. There will be plenty of traffic that day. We'll see how it goes this year.

Warren Burger

It is not possible to arrange for any broadcast of any Supreme Court proceeding, but when you get the Cabinet meetings on the air, call me.

Goran Ivanisevic

It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.

I can't imagine Walton going through a year without playing Delhi, ... I was comparing our schedule to last year and I think our schedule is tougher this year and we're D. ... That's one thing when we decided to go D, I asked (Delhi coach and Section Four coordinator) Dave Kelly if we could still play Sidney, Unatego and Delhi, and he said they could arrange it.

For years healthcare has been moving away from the inpatient care trends that our current facility was designed around. Outpatient services at SCMC (e.g. physical therapy, outpatient surgery, CT scans) have increased 33 percent over the past five years. The new facility's floor plan is arranged to accommodate this continuing shift in services.

Jason Calacanis

Just start thinking about all the different services in your life. Like getting your dry cleaning picked up and dropped off. Nobody has done the Uber of that yet. But that will be Uberfied. You will arrange your dry cleaning via your phone.

Allen Ginsberg

I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... And think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries... Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences ...

Sergei Prokofiev

I thought with fury of the wonderful American orchestras that cared nothing for my music; of the critics who repeated for the hundredth time, 'Beethoven is a great composer,' while balking violently at new works; of the managers who arranged long tours for artists playing the same hackneyed programs fifty times over.

Peter Jennings

He rearranged the show, while we were on air, he rearranged our travel plans while in the air, he even tried to arrange our personal lives, ... What Would Peter Do?

If a hunter harvests a lion in the Black Hills unit, he or she has 24 hours to bring the lion to the Rapid City GFP Office for inspection. The second unit is the prairie unit that comprises the remainder of South Dakota outside the Black Hills unit. Any person who harvests a mountain lion within the prairie unit must contact a conservation officer, state trapper or other GFP representative within 24 hours of harvest and arrange for inspection and pelt tagging.

Piers Morgan

I don't think it's very easy to arrange car crashes.

Boris Yeltsin

We must gradually arrange things to get rid of foreign (aid) injections,

He was Mr. Clean; he was every woman's dream. All his glasses were always perfectly arranged and the cabinets were spotless. His son said that if something was used that night, he would have cleaned it.

Erich Leinsdorf

I was several times at the White House and once I arranged for a chamber group of the Boston Symphony to play at the White House.

He was brought into my office and so badly wanted to meet Shaquille O'Neal. I arranged that the next time Shaq was here. I befriended him then. He and Shaq are so much a like. Their games are not all that similar ... but as far as them being likeable and smiling, they are very much alike.

Norma McCorvey

Henry McCloskey, Jr, arranged the first initial meeting. And we met and we discussed, for the first time in my life, reproductive rights." ()

Albert Einstein

When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

Shipping is really not a problem in most places. It's something that needs to be arranged, and once you figure out how to arrange it, a whole new shopping world opens up to you.

Many chefs do not even know the nutrient content in the raw materials and how to arrange them together to make a healthy dish.

After we map out all the main characters' individual arcs, using color-coded index cards, we arrange them by episode and get a rough idea of the scene order.

Ranbir Kapoor

I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Nicholas Winton

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

We discussed the possibility of the grandmother starting to have visitation with the children. We are setting up a timetable to arrange these visits.

Noah Feldman

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

George Cukor

So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.

As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.

Trent Reznor

I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art.