Famous Quotes & Sayings

I have, I hope, a lot of compassion. I am certainly not an atheist. Maybe I am somewhere hovering between an agonistic and a believer.

Georg Cantor

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Gary Hume

I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

Gail Z. Martin

I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

Gabrielle Aplin

I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.

Thomas Mann

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

We knew Wayne County was quick on defense. They certainly won the turnover ratio. We missed two field goals early and that took some points away from us. We turned it over and our defense just got wore down.

We're still under the weather in certain weight classes.

We return a lot of experience in a lot of different areas. We cover more events, and we have more big-meet points. Overall we're pretty balanced. It's just a matter of developing depth in certain areas.

Al Golden

We're trying to get to the point where we have a legitimate two deep. And what I mean by that, you feel like any of those four can go into a game at a certain time and you feel good about it. You know, you're not nervous about it.

Gloria Steinem

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

Buzz Osborne

Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen changed everything; I don't necessarily like everything he did, but he definitely changed everything.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes.

Beau Willimon

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

Brad Goreski

I approach styling as if I were a woman and what I would want to wear to a certain event.

Bindi Irwin

My life is certainly not common, but I think of myself as... a 'normal' teenager.

Michael Steele

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

There are signs of promise in this approach, but certainly the jury is still out.

There are many unanswered questions surrounding this case. China certainly hasn't helped the situation by giving so little information about what happened and denying he's a state employee.

David A. Bednar

Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will.

Franz Beckenbauer

Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual.

Floyd Abrams

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm.

Homaro Cantu

There's just a certain fear that people have when they put meat coming out of a printer in their mouth.

Alan Kay

I've been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similarities because all the Fellows programs were derived from IBM's, which itself was derived from the MIT 'Institute Professor' program.

David Henry Hwang

My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented well at all on the stage, in the media, etc. So on those few occasions when something comes along, everybody feels obligated to make sure that it represents his own point of view.

David Harewood

You have to have a certain single-mindedness if you want to reach the top of the profession, and I'm not sure if I've got that cold-eyed egomania that perhaps is needed to get to the top. So as long as I can keep paying the mortgage and keep myself interested, I'll be happy.

Dmitry Medvedev

Russia made a decisive contribution to the victory over Nazism. That's clear to every honest observer. So, therefore, in a certain manner, it is indeed part of the country's national psyche.

Clare Balding

People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.

When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.

Illinois Jacquet

People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.

Ian Gomez

I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

Isabel Allende

I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

Isabel Allende

I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about a certain theme, but by reading the letters or reviews, I realise that everybody sees the book differently.