Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Canals Barrera

Heels I've always loved, but a wedge is perfect, in between glamorous and a common shoe. If going to the store, why wear flip-flops when you can wear wedges?

For what it's worth historically, 9/11 was the news media's last great moment in terms of the public view. I'd be hesitant to say much more than that because we don't know how the public is reacting to this crisis -- whether there will be the same sense of unity and common cause. There was an immediate rally effect shortly after 9/11, and that rubbed off on the media.

I get page after page of negative balances. The most common mistake I have found is that someone receives parts at the back door and takes them to the shop floor without ever doing the computer transaction.

Robertson Davies

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

I wouldn't like to think of it as a divorce. I would like to think we worked together for a common good.

I wouldn't have touched that loan with a 50-foot pole. Common sense tells you that.

I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to understand me.

Thomas Reid

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

Stephen Parker

We're looking at a lot of runoff. People should use their common sense.

Scott Adams

There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time.

Charles V

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.

Isabel Allende

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.

Hilary Mantel

Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.

Frank Rich

Nationalization, unmentionable only yesterday, has entered common usage not least because an even scarier word - depression - is next on America's list to avoid.

The problem is that the stock market tends to predict downturns or upturns too early. The common joke is that the stock market predicted 11 out of the last 9 recessions.

Donald Wuerl

The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

Barbara Park

I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.

Ahmed Zewail

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

Ai Weiwei

The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Barry Zito

I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.

Aaron Koblin

My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.

The only thing which has kept Mac OS X relatively safe up until now is the fact that the market share is significantly lower than that of Microsoft Windows or the more common UNIX platforms. If this situation was to change, in my opinion, things could be a lot worse on Mac OS X than they currently are on other operating systems.

The only thing we have in common is the word history. In the past few days, our office has gotten a number of vitriolic e-mails.

Andrzej Wajda

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.

We seem to have a whole lot in common as women, and as mothers, so that's pretty interesting.

We're talking with the NRA to see if there's any common ground we can reach. But it's going to be a far reach.

Abigail Washburn

I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.

The GOP leaders are upset with me, but the Republicans around the district are thanking me for stepping up to the plate and giving them a choice in this election of a real common sense conservative Reagan Republican.

Alex Berenson

At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to have much in common with Michael R. Milken, one-time king of junk bonds.