Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dogen

Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but the mind. The bubbles of water and the flames of fire are nothing but the mind. The flowers of the spring and the moon of the autumn are nothing but the mind. Confusions and dangers are nothing but the mind.

There are several drivers for potential earnings growth that I don't think are reflected in the stock.

Harry Reid

The president, I guess, is still being driven by Karl Rove,

Clara Hughes

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

Claire Cameron

A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the two novels, and they just weren't very good.

Cherie Blair

I am really lucky with my skin. It comes from my mum. Fashion tip from Cherie: drink lots of water.

Douglas Coupland

When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it.

Donella Meadows

No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

My mum is totally crazy for fashion still. Her job was as a laundress, but I loved it when she would dress up in her red suit with a mini jacket and flared trousers and get her wig fixed at the hairdresser's - it was the time of wigs - and we would go shopping.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

Ian Axel

I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.

Ian Holm

As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.

Hugh Laurie

I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I'm prey to embarrassment - the dread that everyone's sort of sniggering at you, that you're going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.

Hugh Laurie

It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.

Hugh Grant

With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.

Ed O'Neill

I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.

Elena Anaya

I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

Eleanor Catton

I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.

Christopher Nolan

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

Ridley Scott

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

Tim O'Brien

What do you do when you get a draft notice and you think a war is wrong? And I struggled with that for months prior to my being inducted into the army, and I'm still struggling with it, 40 years later.

Barton Gellman

Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.

Barry Ritholtz

When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.

Barry Ritholtz

Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.

Orison Swett Marden

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

We called the play out, ... Our guys in the huddle said, 'Watch the draw,' and a draw it was. We had a guy in space looking to make the play and didn't.

Charles Kelley

We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.

We outperformed everyone's wildest imagination on the revenue side, ... We've gone from $60 million in revenue in the last year at Candlestick (the old park) to about $160 million a year in three sold-out years here. The new park has really driven the revenue.

Harry Shearer

When (Pryor) took the 'N' word and repeated it in so many contexts and made you laugh at it so much, by the end he had drained that word of its power to sting and hurt,

Jacques Villeneuve

Winning is still the reason that I drive in formula one. And the title, as well. I'm not here just to be part of it. I haven't forgotten how to win.

Colby Rasmus

Who wouldn't want to go in the first round? But I think sometimes I did look at it like they put all that into me, into drafting me that high that there must be a level they expect me to play at right away. It was kind of new, trying to do too much, but I'm getting over that pressure and just playing.

Jerry Jones

Who would have dreamed he would have walked out there and played a game like that?

Roz Chast

My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.