Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tori Amos

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

Jose Rizal

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will go on with ordinary life.

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

Ellie Kendrick

Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of 'Upstairs Downstairs' is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.

Our brains have the ability to reorganize themselves by forming new neural connections throughout our lives. This ability is called neuroplasticity.

Kerry Healey

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

Tina Brown

'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism.

Barbara Hepworth

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

Barbara Hepworth

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.

Somebody could be in police work for umpteen years and doesn't have the formal side of the training, yet is very qualified to hold the job. This would be a way of tying the two together in a way that is fair.

Shane has size, strength, he can shoot from the outside, he can post up. It's nice to have a player his size who can shoot it form the outside.

Since I got here, one of our goals has been to reach out to our former players. Having them come back and support our team means a lot to me and our program.

She's a former Longhorn, and I'm one of her sons. Sign for my mom.

She is not in the form at all. We tried to persuade her to give up all-around but she insisted to give it a try.

We have a policy to go after Iraqi funds whether they were abused by members of the former government or spent by international bodies.

We're acknowledging that a mistake was made on the play. We don't have a formal statement on it.

Charles Bukowski

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

We have rejigged the one-day side to what we hope will provide a range of options to take on a formidable World XI side, as well as forming the nucleus of the 2007 squad for the World Cup.

Kim Clijsters

There are a lot of good players here this week, but Amelie is in form and playing well so she will be tough to beat.

We need a win in whatever form we can get it. We've been practicing hard, and hopefully this will be the week.

Flavio Briatore

Let's put it this way: I am not even sure at the moment we will be in Formula One in 2008.

Jason Robert Brown

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell.

Sathya Baba

Love is the form of Brahman (The Supreme Reality)Brahman is love Divine.

Solidarity members joined in at midnight. There are no formal offers at this point.

She's come back to form pretty quick, she's trained on and everything is good going into the race.

The outside influence in the form of Argentine auction, which matched expectations, helped the market. And tomorrow's futures expiry weighed slightly, as usual.

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

William Gibson

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

Walter Kirn

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

Ramakrishna

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.