Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Southall Freeman

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

Diane Ackerman

The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.

Bryan Fuller

I love horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Those are my genres of love and devotion.

Bill Laswell

I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.

AJ Michalka

My dream is to work with people like Meryl Streep, Michael Fassbender, Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett. To me, those are true storytellers - genuine people who have stories to tell and make incredible films.

Bill Bryson

In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism.

Danny Meyer

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

Brendan Myers

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.

We have to be responsive to the marketplace. This young generation now in its 20s likes choices. We saw that in marketing products to them when they were teenagers.

This was an extraordinarily generous gift of real estate.

When you have a generic policy that says 'all,' it's the same as having no policy at all. We should be moved to action, but also disciplined so that what we do is good, not just feel-good.

There has been steady improvement generally ... Generally, speaking, it's good news.

There is a conflict, there's no question about it. The generals are unhappy.

Louis C. K.

I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.

Ruth Ginsburg

We're told these methods are less gentle to the patient,

We think this is the way to generate more revenue and we will put it back in the payroll in order to support the team.

We're not making genuine Portuguese music, but we used its spirit in the movie's score.

Chuck Close

Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.

Women in general are interested in this kind of thing. It's just an opportunity for them to get together, learn about their health and have fun.

Women have always been more responsible about health than the general population.

Shawn Levy

Why hire these geniuses if they're forced to stick with the script? You want to empower your actors as collaborators.

Lech Walesa

Why did we do all of it? To launch a new epoch, one without divisions. Without one shot, our generation was able to do it.

George Allen

Why can't you be more like Gene Upshaw?

This young gentleman is escorting me to jail

To save historic structures they have to be repurposed. We're looking for the renewal of the General Wayne Inn.

To save historic structures, they have to be repurposed. We're looking for the renewal of the General Wayne Inn.

We are working with leading genetic scientists day by day. People may try and use that method but we will be ready for them with a test.

We can take these genes and sequence them,

We have goals for (opposing team) rebounds and they doubled it and some on what our goal is. We slacked off that, but Geneva did a good job of getting in there for those rebounds.

Brian Henson

When people say about the Muppets, 'It's a gentle soul with a naughty sense of humor,' Jerry was just as responsible for that as my dad,'

Mike Farrell

When people aren't scared, that's generally time to sell,

David Letterman

There is no off position on the genius switch.

David Eddings

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.