Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Milton

And out of good still to find means of evil.

Norman Douglas

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Norman Jewison

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

Norman Cousins

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

Nolan Gerard Funk

There definitely have been a few roles that involved showing some skin but I'm not afraid of showing some skin from time to time. I mean the truth is, when I come home I take all my clothes off anyway so I'm kind of used to being naked.

Nolan Bushnell

You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.

Noel Gallagher

The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet [gigs], it means, "Give me the check, I need to go to the Levis shop and I need a 1960s Gibson."

Noel Gallagher

Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.

Noel Gallagher

There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean?

Noel Gallagher

Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.

Noah Emmerich

In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?

Noah Baumbach

When I'm editing, I tend to cut, go back over it, cut, go back over it, cut, so by the time I'm done, even with a cut, I don't have a rough cut and then work on it so much. I have a pretty rigorous cut of the movie that's usually in the range of what the final movie is going to be. It doesn't mean I don't work on it a lot after that, but I get it into a shape so I feel I can really tell what it needs, or at least it's ready to show people.

Mitch Albom

I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.

Mitch Albom

People are only mean when they are threatened.

Mitch Albom

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.

Mitch Albom

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

Mike Watt

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

Mike Weir

If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

Mike Yaconelli

Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are even more serious. Speeding through life endangers our relationships and our souls.

Mike Tyson

I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.

Miguel de Cervantes

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Neil Innes

But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.

Neil Innes

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

Neil Jordan

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

Neil Diamond

Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.

Neil Diamond

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other meaning to you. Otherwise, you just put a Wiki page on camera. You can learn something, but it won't mean anything to you later on.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard. For every hard thing you accomplish, fewer other people are out there doing the same thing as you. That's what doing something hard means. And in the limit of this, everyone beats a path to your door because you're the only one around who understands the impossible concept or who solves the unsolvable problem.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought.