Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are deeply concerned about the increase in levies on packaged software and on IT hardware, which will be a setback to efforts to promote IT utilization in the Indian economy and for vital applications like education and health.

We are deeply concerned about the continued erosion of Sri Lanka's four-year-old ceasefire as marked by the recent series of violent incidents.

Ira Sachs

Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

Ira Glass

The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

Imogen Heap

Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.

Ina Garten

There's something really wonderful about a party where you help yourself. Of course, first you get what you really want. But 'family style' service also really encourages people to connect with one another.

Steven Seagal

I don't consider myself a martial-arts star. I'd be offended and disappointed if I got a reputation as a martial-arts star.

I don't necessarily think that the world should know everything, and even if you consider yourself to be extremely honest, that doesn't mean you have to blurt everything out all the time.

Steven Pinker

My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.

While technology efficiently delivers news stories to our desktops, laptops and mobile devices, magazines are all about context - how ideas and images are presented in relation to one another and within a larger point of view.

My only real contact with what my father did was that he could get 16-millimeter prints, so every weekend we would show two or three movies at home. But our house wasn't frequented by stars. My father's personal life was his personal life, and it was separate from his professional life.

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

This is very unprofessional, but at 'The Toxic Avenger,' Demond Green, Matt Saldivar and I had a contest to see who could say the word 'ochre' the most times during the show. Well, I had a song called 'Choose Me Oprah,' so I just said ochre instead of Oprah the whole time.

Sandro Veronesi

Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery.

Mandy Patinkin

I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.

Mae Jemison

Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

In this work, you have to convince everyone all the time, at different levels, to support your dream. I learned you have to be confident in order to do that.

Nicola Griffith

I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a writer. Period. Story matters to me.

Nate Lowman

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

Natalie Maines

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

Natalie Martinez

I think the last game console I had was Super Nintendo. I remember once I played the Sega Genesis. But Super Nintendo was my last game device. I played outside more. I liked kickball and baseball.

Natalie Jeremijenko

A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?

Lee Kuan Yew

In the East, the main object is to have a well-ordered society so that everybody can have maximum enjoyment of his freedoms. This freedom can only exist in an ordered state and not in a natural state of contention and anarchy.

When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities.

Laurence Yep

At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'

Lolo Jones

I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.

We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud of.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

I feel like I've started to create my own culture of being a voice for something, and that's what people want to know about. I love that because I am a woman and because I a rap, and I look the way I look, I can connect with the demographic of people who feel like they have a voice in me.

Lloyd Blankfein

At the end of the day, it's not a normal condition to have interest rates at zero.

Loretta Lynch

Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.

For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.