Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harrison Ford

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

Glenn Gould

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

Ginger Rogers

People are still people no matter how you cut it.

Harry Crews

I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

Harry Chapin

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.

Harry Chapin

No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.

He sees the whole floor. He's always pointing people here, there and everywhere, and while he's pointing he sees somebody cutting back door and he throws a pass. He's the glue to their team, but they've got four other guys they throw out there that are pretty good, too.

Amy Stephens

I'm so proud of our kids' effort to come into this environment with a game of this magnitude, delaying Indiana State from cutting down their nets.

Andrew Leigh

Instead of cutting tax rates for the rich, we should focus on making the tax system simpler for ordinary Australians.

Bob Rae

But he had eloquence and charm, as well as a cutting intellect that made his views and perspectives impossible to ignore.

John Deane

CCTV will make a real difference, but the human touch remains essential in cutting crime.

This is a fairly dramatic reduction. They're cutting it down to 600 restaurants next year, whereas I was thinking they would cut it down to 800.

This is a big issue for Los Angeles, obviously, because it has such a large number of second-generation kids - kids whose parents are immigrants - and when we looked at it down the road and some of these projections, obviously L.A. is at the cutting edge of these trends.

They run a lot of standard stuff. We have to work more on our stuff ? cutting down the turnovers, especially.

Leslie Nielsen

They've been cutting back on real actors for a long time,

Chris Evans

They tend to be cutting edge. They are practical; most of them have been out there doing it.

Neil Jordan

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive

Neil Gaiman

Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get.

Neil Gaiman

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

Neil Gaiman

The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me.

Neil Gaiman

I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe.

John Muir

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

John Vinocur

At the edge of the cliffs, the wind is a smack, and D-day becomes wildly clear: climbing that cutting edge into the bullets.

John Varvatos

The shirt may be cut slimmer or looser, the suit might be darker or lighter, the sneakers might not have laces, but you're still talking about shirts and suits and sneakers.

John Ruskin

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

John Stott

Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.

John Steinbeck

It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.

John Steinbeck

This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".

John Steinbeck

The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.

John Spratt

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

John Simm

I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.

John Podhoretz

Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.