Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy Gavriel Kay

I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.

Norman McLaren

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

Pico Iyer

The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if I was stepping onto the rooftop of my being: onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before.

Pico Iyer

Something in us is telling us we're moving too fast, at a pace dictated by machines rather than by anything human, and that unless we take conscious measures, we'll permanently be out of breath.

Vint Cerf

You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

Bernie Siegel

For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.

Avery Johnson

We had some good moments of team defense, but there's nothing really to get too excited about, ... I thought the big guys really tried. They're making a conscious effort to improve.

Clifford D. Simak

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

John Chamberlain

We understand the rescue workers were able to stay in contact with the workers. They knew at least they were conscious and stable.

There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filtered through the consciousness of a single 'reliable' narrator, I often wonder, is this the whole story? What could be missing here?

George Michael

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

George Karl

I think we, as pro coaches, should have a consciousness towards having an image and a role model mentality for kids.

Tubby Smith

We've got to get him a lot more conscious of playing without fouling.

When someone makes the conscious decision to flee the police at a high rate of speed and are endangering members of the public, they have to be held accountable for their actions, whether or not it results in severe physical injury.

Flea

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

Flea

I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Gillian Zinser

The people in my life are friends I have by choice. I've made a conscious effort to have them in life. I only have the time and energy for so many people, which has cut down my friend group to a handful, but I'm so much happier with fewer good people, who really do know me.

Tim Burton

We're trying to make employees more conscious of what they are buying.

J. G. Ballard

I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!

Banks

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

H. Rap Brown

To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together.

When you play with a lead you have to be patient and involve your teammates. I saw a conscious effort on the part of everyone to make the extra pass.

David Ward

We made a conscious decision to make BMX the recreation outlet for our family. For us, it's a great opportunity for the kids to experience good teamwork, sportsmanship and get them together.

We think the detection of these types of scent is way outside consciousness.

We are so proud to honor the work of Mira Nair, who fearlessly combines independence and risk-taking with social consciousness and continues the tradition of those who make feelings visible, who make sense out of sensations, who shine light into darkness.

Claire Cameron

I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.

Marianne Williamson

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

Rachel Sklar

A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

Peter Guber

When somebody is enthusiastic about a job opportunity - but gives off the feeling that this is not the only one they have on the table - they become more seductive in the employer's eyes. You become more desirable because it shows that you're making a conscious and thoughtful decision for the right reasons.

There is no need to be longwinded as a pastor, but there is a difference between being longwinded and preaching for a long time. Preachers should be conscious of time because God does everything in decency and order; nonetheless, God's word is not on the clock!

Carl Jung

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.