Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Nutter

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

Christopher Moore

Do we still have to floss?" Tommy asked. "I mean, what's the point of being immortal if we have to floss?

Billy Graham

Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We're all sinners, everyone of us, and a radical change is needed for all of us.

Billy Graham

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

Billy Graham

World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We're separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me any more.

Billy Graham

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.

Sathya Baba

Try within your means to satisfy the needs of the poor.

To the older guys, it probably means more (to get 500 wins). We're trying to get it into the players that this is an accomplishment for the whole association. It's something special.

Maya Angelou

I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

Iwan Rheon

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.

Ivan Krastev

Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.

Christopher McCandless

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Meryl Streep

She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important.

Meryl Streep

One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you

Meryl Streep

What led me to that was I have never - I mean, I watch movies and I don't care who is the protagonist. I feel what that guy is feeling. You know, if it's Tom Cruise leaping over a building - I want to make it, you know? And I'm going to - yes, I made it. And yeah, so I get that.

Yield-curve inversions do not necessarily mean a recession, but they're usually tied to slowdowns.

Dogen

An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.

Dogen

The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon yourself. If you do this as you sit in ecstatic meditation, the whole universe itself scattered through the infinity of space turns into enlightenment. This is what I mean by the Buddha's seal.

Dogen

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

Stephen Jay Gould

Science can't tell us what our life means ethically. It can't tell us what we are meant to do as moral creatures. But, insofar as science can understand what we're made of, and what we're related to, the Darwinian revolution completely revised our ideas about who we are and what we're related to and how long we've been here and why we're on this Earth.

Stephen Jay Gould

The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.

Stephen Jay Gould

I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity.

Doug Larson

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Robert Englund

There'll always be movies that are meant for the big screen, and they should be seen that way.

Shelley Moore Capito

Being nice doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. You can be nice and be strong at the same time. That's a character trait that we need more in Washington.

Stanley Hauerwas

To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don't become part of that without an ongoing questioning of what it means to become part of that.

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.

When Miss Frances says no, she means no. She's pretty strong-headed.

But our proposals were turned down, which means that the Ukrainian authorities were tuned to confrontational moods from the very start.

Robert Irwin

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Peter Beard

I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.

Dolly Parton

Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are. To me, that's what being a star means.

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.