Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian K. Vaughan

I love other movies that have been made since, but I think more than any comic book movie, 'Superman' just totally seemed to capture superheroes in ways that others have not.

David R. Ellis

It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.

Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.

Denis Napthine

Victoria is proudly the multicultural capital of Australia; we have a diverse, harmonious community.

John C. Calhoun

Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear.

John C. Calhoun

Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and revolution if not counteracted by some appropriate and strong constitutional provision. Such is not the case in the slaveholding States.

William Graham Sumner

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.

Ray Charles

I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.

Al Pacino

I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.

Brunello Cucinelli

In the heart of the desert and founded by the first Spanish Conquistadores, Las Vegas has become the entertainment capital of the world, with more than 30 million visitors a year.

Nelson Mandela

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

When a sheriff has an inmate who's escaped and committed capital murder ... you should have that guy in lock down 24/7.

We have learned over the last 10 or 15 years that images captured on film show only a very small part of an event.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.

Vint Cerf

We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is digital and easy to transmit exacerbates that. I don't know that we know yet what social norms we wish to adopt.

Vint Cerf

There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.

Wilbur Smith

I live in Cape Town but my favourite holiday destination is Hermanus, a little seaside town about a 90-minute drive away, over the pass and down to the sea, on the sunshine coast. It's where I love to escape to with my wife for a weekend every now and again.

Marc Andreessen

The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And so enterprise can go in and out of fashion four different times, and we can go and invest in one of these companies, and it's okay, because we can stay the course.

Nolan North

Of all the games I've done, the only time I've ever lost my voice was on 'Call Of Duty 2,' playing a rasping Russian captain on the Stalingrad level.

Nick Hanauer

A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.

Laura Bailey

It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.

We didn't play with any enthusiasm or energy. We don't have it every night. That comes from heart and a passion for what you're doing. We don't have enough of that right now. We're capable of it, but we're not there right now.

We didn't play they way we were capable of, and we took a step backwards.

We are going to use our capital to invest in our own development of digital businesses,

Noah Feldman

During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net.

I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.

Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.

A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

Cristina Kirchner

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

Erno Rubik

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

Erin O'Connor

I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. My favourite piece is a voodoo mask from just outside Cape Town.

Ferdinand Lassalle

Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.