Famous Quotes & Sayings

Siri Hustvedt

I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it.

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.

The Democrats are in exactly the same position as the Sunnis in Iraq, ... From the very beginning, they have done everything they can to disparage the process. Now they have to turn around and convince their supporters to participate. That is a pretty quick pivot.

Greg Wise

I used to work as a tour guide for Americans. I'm convinced that even after four weeks on the road they had no idea where they had been. They were in a bubble.

I was never able to convince myself that there was a cost-free alternative course, as from 1961, or that any of the different strategies since proposed, especially those involving stronger military action, would have made sense.

Atom Egoyan

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

Tomas Berdych

I do a lot of biking. I need that mileage and the long-distance stuff because tennis demands it. My fitness trainer is always trying to convince me to do an Ironman. I can probably run the marathon, I can make the 112 miles on the bike, but I will never swim for 2.4 miles. I will die after 100 meters.

Tom Weston-Jones

I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.

We'd like to influence them to let us have some say in what goes on and to convince them to hire local workers,

We don't know what is actually going to happen. We've never been faced with this before. We have tried to put forth as much information as we could gather to convince them that this was not necessary.

Martin Henderson

We worked together in Perth on a TV show called Sweat. When I met Heath there was something extremely charismatic about him. Obviously he had talent, and I convinced him to move out of Perth and come to Sydney - the Hollywood of Australia, if you like. So I just convinced him to do that and looked after him when he arrived. We got a flat in Bondi.

We worked from sunup to sundown. I think that's what convinced me not to go into farming.

We are meeting representatives of BP in an effort to convince them not to withdraw from the joint venture.

Jack Layton

The question is if Mr. Martin will realize that he needs the support of other parties to get things done or not. We will be putting some proposals in front of the House and convince other parties to support them. However, at the present time there is no discussion of some sort of an agreement,

Robert Greenwald

You don't need to convince the traditional gatekeepers anymore. That's liberating.

We used it to convince our family and friends we weren't crazy, that this wasn't just a whim.

Alexander Pope

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

James Long

These relatives were theorizing and telling her who did it. I think she's totally convinced he did it because the relatives told her he did.

These young women aren't going to convince their boyfriends to go see chick-flicks and watch Lifetime,

The state is not giving us money to do any of that. But, even if we did put millions of dollars into it, I am convinced we would still not find them all.

Matthias Platzeck

The SPD has to eliminate the doubts about our unity. We can only convince the public of the force of our ideas if we cooperate and stay together.

Ray LaHood

People can say all types of stuff, ... When I lived in Peoria before, people tried to convince me to run for things. I had an opportunity then and I didn't. I will say I'm never going to rule that out in the future. Politics is a lot about being in the right place at the right time.

The more I've seen Ouachita play, the more convinced I've become that they're one of the top five teams in 4A.

John Cole

Right now, there's not enough signal in the noise to be convinced that there's anything there. One has to be strongly skeptical of all these kind of things. But you have got to be open-minded too. Maybe somebody will find something. But if they do, it has got to be solid.

President Chirac has told him to back down as he was leading the country to the wall. He tried to convince himself he could be France's Margaret Thatcher, but forgot he was only the number two.

At the end of that presentation, she was no more convinced than she was before that the endgame has been thought through.

Cost is a big challenge. It's not like hospitals aren't used to paying a lot of money for important things like medical equipment, but it's a little more difficult to convince them that money is better spent on information technology rather than new medical technology.

Tobey Maguire

Do whatever you can to convince him to do the movie.

convinced that no family member has anything to do with this.

Rich Rodriguez

Convinced is too strong a word. I'm optimistic. I feel encouraged that he can play that position. The thing with Nate is we've got to make a decision which position will get him on the field quicker. He does enough things from a physical standpoint we think he can play somewhere for us.

Tim Russert

And you are convinced the Kurds, the Sunnis, the Shiites will come together in a democracy?

There is sufficient upbeat news on the economy to convince the FOMC to tighten. If the economy warrants a rate hike, the Fed would be doing a great service by delivering.

Woodrow Wilson

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right