Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nhat Hanh

When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot is like a father and other monks are like your big brothers, your small, younger brothers. It is a kind of family.

We did something that nobody thought we were able to do. It's a different atmosphere here.

James Keller

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

Lindi Ortega

I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.

Fernando Torres

I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

Catherine Asaro

The teaching fellow establishes the atmosphere of a class in the first few meetings. I have found that students appreciate having the ground rules clearly defined from the start.

Nancy Roman

Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that.

Nancy Kress

If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.

Walter Kirn

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

We do believe that it's a question of how the overall economy is faring. The atmosphere is improving, everyone's looking forward to a positive development of the economy and we do believe that the confectionary industry will benefit from this.

We definitely have some stuff to work on before districts. Being in this championship game atmosphere is going to help us though.

Jim Bishop

We don't know all of the controls on how these plants grow and thus cannot predict how things will change in the future as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to rise. For example, seldom do people go to sea to find out what is happening in the wintertime. We did just that.

We work on that defensive pressure all the time and those steals were the result of the work of everybody on the floor. It is tough coming out here in this atmosphere and trying to come away with a win after losing the momentum in the second half.

We worked very hard to create an atmosphere where the idea was to celebrate community and cross boundaries.

We're excited to be placed at Penn State. It's more than just our 12 players and coaches. Now all our fans have an opportunity to come and support us the way they have all season. It should make it a very exciting atmosphere for us.

We stayed composed because we know what we can do, and we just want to stay within ourselves and play our game. We didn't let the crowd or the atmosphere rattle us. We just did what we do.

Buzz Aldrin

What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity.

Linda Thompson

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

The props received a lot of action. The atmosphere was terrific, and people were living and dying with every play.

We played a solid 14 minutes but the bottom line is you got to play 60 minutes, it's a playoff atmosphere and we've got to do a better job. We've got to play a lot better defensively in our own end.

We're likely to break the 8 yuan per dollar level this month. The diplomatic atmosphere has played a role as it suits Chinese interests to move a little quicker as the U.S.-China relationship is at risk of deterioration.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

Corliss Lamont

Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.

Clifford Geertz

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

Julian Wright

We understand their situation coming here. We did a lot of stuff for Hurricane Katrina relief during football season. Our fans are classy. They will show their support. It will be a great atmosphere Thursday.

Allison Tolman

I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.

Mark Hudson

What she brings to our library is an atmosphere of kids wanting to be in the library, ... Some places kids don't even want to go to the library, but here, our kids want to go and it is because of Mrs. Grimmett.

With close to 200 young people on stage, the atmosphere was electric.

We will look at the current inventory and work to ensure a proper atmosphere at the library.

Edward Rutherfurd

I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need to tell the reader everything. But one hopes that the writer's belief in his characters is evident in the telling, just as the mood created in the writer's mind comes through in the atmosphere of the scene described.

We're still young, but we have experience. We return all but one guy, so the players we have coming back know the system and know the routine. It's a more laid-back atmosphere than in the past. I don't know if that's good or bad, but we'll find out in about two weeks.

We're trying to give them a club atmosphere without drinking and it has worked out better than we were thinking it would. We talked to other people and they didn't have good results. They told us what to look for and what to be on guard for.

Bernard Hill

Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the perfect way to be.