Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daphne Gottlieb

I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.

Robert Pinsky

I'm far from immune to the American, perhaps historically male, prejudice toward practical and physical competence; I hope I've also considered that prejudice enough to have some distance from it.

John Roberts

I, John Roberts, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States...,

I hope we can use the time between now and then to reflect, to pray, to consult and to take counsel,

Nelson Mandela

I hope you will be able to discuss and consider this matter urgently and tell me your decision.

Michael Leunig

I increasingly wonder whether most humans are in a constant state of unconsciously fearing each other. Perhaps they fear how intimately different other people might be to them, and the problem is that there is no real way of finding out just how huge that difference might be.

Casey Stoner

I made a lot of good laps and was very consistent today. I felt very happy because I was very fast on my home track. But when I put on a new tyre unfortunately I slid off into the gravel trap. But I have to say the whole day was quite positive for us.

Rob Lowe

I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies.

Ilene Chaiken

I made a conscious decision to go back to what we did in the first season, which I think worked better. We went for more naturalistic drama, and we went for the humor which we missed the second year.

Alexander Hanson

I'm a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

Serinda Swan

I love jeans and T-shirts, but for red carpets, I like Oscar de la Renta, who is timeless. Marchesa celebrates the female form in an ethereal way. Donna Karan does an Urban Zen collection, which is eco-friendly. I love socially conscious fashion.

Casey Affleck

I love it: The push and pull, the constant renegotiating of morals, ethics, what to do, how to live... All of us stuck here together trying to sort it all out. It's fun. It can be, anyway.

John Burnside

I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.

Mariella Frostrup

I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother, I'm just very lucky, and there isn't much more to say. I'd like not to be constantly expected to be a spokesman for things that are part of the natural rhythm of a woman's life.

Simon Rich

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over 'The Onion' or 'Calvin and Hobbes.' That was considered completely normal.

I never could have considered that if I were part of a couple. Even now I'm not sure it will pay off. But in a marriage, I would have felt that I was not pulling my weight.

Sam Shepard

I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

I never considered fouling. We would give them anything inside the line, but defend the three and not foul.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

Tom Izzo

I'm trying to understand why we haven't been as consistent as we need to be. I'm only disappointed when guys don't play to their potential, and we haven't had enough guys do that together.

I'm trying to teach my guys consistency. Consistency is the key to success in the restaurant business. If you come in here tonight and you order the filet mignon, and you come back in a month to find its all different, you're not going to be as happy. You're going to want it to be just as perfect as last time, and that's what we're striving for.

I'm sure it will be considered to host a final.

James Patterson

I'm very conscious that I'm an entertainer. Something like 73 percent of my readers are college graduates, so you can't condescend to people. You've got to tell them a story that they will be willing to pay money to read.

Tobias Wolff

I'm very conscious of working from memory but I also know that someone else who was there at the same moment would write something different about it.

Alice McDermott

I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary.

Michelle Williams

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

Lorde

I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?

Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.

Inflation totaled about 4% over the two months, which was largely due to the Artic temperatures, and surge in consumer demand for salt.

Inflation isn't a worry just yet. The consumer is in pretty good form. People are still spending on their credit cards.

Inflation is going to remain in the top half of the target range and (it's) all very consistent with monetary policy needing to remain relatively tight for some time,

Paul Singer

In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.

In Geneva, I was seen as an outsider. In the U.S., I was considered Eurotrash. And in London, I'm seen as an American.