Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thom Mayne

We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as it enhances that activity. And that directly connects to ideas of city-making.

When I am me, I can see me in my space. My desk faces the window and an ocean. The flower on my desk gives off a wonderful aroma. The refrigerator has something in it I feel good about eating. When I am me, I can see me in my day. I am writing. I am talking from a heart of love. I am reviewing my notes, or editing, or walking, or something outside. I am connecting with nature and people.

Sylvia Earle

We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us,

We are from Day One going after every fan of the book. We want them to know that however they connected to the book, we've made a movie that's true to the book.

He's been a pretty reliable guy. The troops like him, and he connects pretty well with the public,

Matisyahu

The idea that God's mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous, and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I'm deserving of God's mercy, I'll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard.

Kelsea Ballerini

As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.

My focus has always been on connecting with consumers in a meaningful way.

John Oates

I think what we realized was that we would do songs that either had a personal connection to us or a professional connection to us,

He (Welch) missed an extra point, and he missed a 40-yarder early in the fourth quarter. But he connected when it counted. He hit it well, right down the middle.

Lou Ferrigno

He's been a bodybuilder his whole life ... and he's just trying to keep his connection to the industry.

He had a pretty pristine job. It's good he's still connected to it. He was the gatekeeper of the harbor. Everybody knows the Aerial Lift Bridge.

He had a pretty pristine job. It's good he's still connected to it, ... He was the gatekeeper of the harbor. Everybody knows the Aerial Lift Bridge.

Winnie Holzman

He had this feeling, which turned out to be true, that he and I might connect, and we really connected big-time,

He helped them get IDs and connect with the rest of the families. They wouldn't have known what to do without him.

He has to be able to relate what the Steelers mean to western Pennsylvania and, possibly, Pennsylvania. It goes deeper than just a football team. There was a connection there.

Jeff Davis

He is a great producer and really cool. He has done just tons of stuff and is all over the place. He really connected well with the concept, and he was really with us to make sure we were pushing ourselves and make sure we weren't slacking off.

I worked on inventing their connection and how the 60s influenced their lives. It helps that I've always been an extravagant liar,

I grew up looking at the world from above. And I think that has a connection with my love of landscape.

John Norquist

If we got connected to Indianapolis with a commuter rail, that transportation would provide job opportunities for people,

Casey Affleck

I have had many, many cats. We seem to connect well. I had a snake when I was a boy. It was given to me on my birthday.

George Tillman, Jr.

These guys at Fox knew that as a filmmaker, I could always tell different types of stories and each can emotionally connect to a universal audience.

We know we are going to have some people who are going to have some issues. But we are uncovering gaps, uncovering mistakes, getting people connected to their plans.

We're ultimately driving toward the whole idea of the connected building, everything on one wire.

Emraan Hashmi

A person like me who has grown up in a mixed culture ought to be spiritual. My mother is a Catholic, my father is a Muslim, and my wife is a Hindu. Personally, I feel spirituality is about being clear-hearted. It involves a sense of connection with the divine.

Hill Harper

Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing.

Ian Caldwell

I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.

Isabel Allende

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Isabel Allende

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

Hunter Hayes

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.

Hill Harper

We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it's difficult.

Hilary Mantel

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

Glenn Greenwald

When I was talking to strangers over the Internet in the 1990s, there would be a much more intense connection because they're disembodied, so it's just your brain and your soul interacting with this other person, and it just frees you up in this incredibly empowering way.