Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Januszkiewicz

Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.

Barbara Lee

I think that there's going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our democratic rights. And I believe that those who are good Americans would want to see this not happen and that we debate how to find a balance between the public safety and the protection of civil liberties.

Barbara Johnson

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

Barbara Kruger

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

Barbara Jordan

We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.

Barbara Kingsolver

I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.

Barbara Kingsolver

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

Barbara Kingsolver

This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.

Barbara Kingsolver

A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. I have a commitment to accessibility. I believe in plot. I want an English professor to understand the symbolism while at the same time I want the people I grew up with - who may not often read anything but the Sears catalog - to read my books.

Barbara Kingsolver

I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.

Barbara Kingsolver

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Barbara Kingsolver

We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

Barbara Kingsolver

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.

Barbara Kingsolver

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and moving you to answer them for yourself.

Ashthon Jones

I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.

Ashton Kutcher

If you believe the good stuff that people say then you have to believe the bad stuff and then you allow yourself to be on a roller coaster of what other people think. So I think you try to find the good in the bad and the bad in the good and balance yourself and stay on an even keel.

Ashwin Sanghi

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

Ashwin Sanghi

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'

Ashwin Sanghi

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

Larry Page

We are targeting innovation. We believe mobile applications are essential.

We're looking forward to it because we can play longer. I believe we're ready to do what we have been wanting to do for a long time. Take control of our career.

We're here to make these players better all-around, and get them to the big league level. Winning is not stressed as much as development, but I believe winning is a by-product of what we teach.

We're heading for a very sensitive time in these negotiations and I believe it is imperative that this is resolved quickly.

We regret having to make these painful workforce reductions, but believe they are necessary for us to remain a strong, vibrant organization,

We're grateful that kids will be safe for at least a few more weeks. We believe the burden is now on church officials ... to offer any information they might have on his crimes.

Scott Dixon

This race is so difficult, so hard to win. I can hardly believe we won it. But Chip gives us a great team and great equipment and there are going to be more wins this year.

Diane Ravitch

This process of self-censorship is ubiquitous and that those who do it believe that they are doing the right thing. That they call it "sensitivity" and "fairness" review without realizing that they are censoring to placate pressure groups, or in anticipation of protests.

This win meant a whole lot for the program. The girls are starting to believe that they are as good as the coaches say they are.

Carlos Tevez

This win is for him. Winning the gold medal is a great feeling because we are a great team and we believe in each other.

Alfred Korzybski

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everythingor to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Max von Sydow

There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all.