Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mcewan

In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.

Ian Mcewan

A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.

Ian Hislop

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.

Ian Hacking

Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he means what WE call mathematics. Likewise, I think, for the sciences.

Hugh Lofting

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

Hugh Mackay

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

Hugh Laurie

I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that's not the conventional definition of hiding.

Hugh Jackman

To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.

Horace Greeley

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

Horatio Nelson

The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

Horatio Nelson

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

Horace

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

Horace Mann

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.

Homer

Do I know what rhetorical means?

Homer

When a woman says nothing's wrong, that means everything's wrong. And when a woman says everything's wrong, that means everything's wrong! And when a woman says something's not funny, you'd better not laugh your ass off!

Rick Santorum

If I sign this does that mean Paul is dead?

If I didn't get 1,000 (on Friday) and it meant we won the game, fine. If I didn't reach 1,000 this season, fine. Just so we keep winning.

If he's in uniform, that means he has served his suspension and will play.

Sheldon Souray

I can't tell you how much that meant to us.

Amani Toomer

I can't understand that. I mean we are playing for a championship. I just can't understand that.

I can wait three months, but I meant three months.

I couldn't think of a meaner thing that could happen.

Ralph Neas

I don't think the cordiality necessarily means everything will go smoothly,

Solomon Jones

I feel like, even though I had that, I didn't play that well tonight. It doesn't mean anything because we didn't get the win.

Bartolo Colon

I don't want to think about it, but now I have to because I'm at 19. It is important to me and to my family, but it is also important to the team because it means we're winning games.

I don't think too much of it. It's one of those things, we have to comply, but that doesn't mean we like it.

I don't think they will know what it means until they reflect later.

He's made this too personal for me to think we could talk or get anything meaningful from this.

I could never do my training without the support of my wife. And then there's the rest of the team and my uncle. This race is meaningful for me on a lot of different levels.

Erich Fromm

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

Erica Jong

The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.

Erica Jong

I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.