Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Graham Lotz

One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.

Anne Carson

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.

Anne Carson

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

Anne Carson

I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.

Anne Carson

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.

Anne Carson

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

Anne Hathaway

There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.

Anne Frank

You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face.

Anne Frank

Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.

Anita Sarkeesian

The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged.

Anita Shreve

I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.

Anita Roddick

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Andrew Wiles

Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.

Andrew Wiles

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal

Andrew Wiles

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.

Andrew Vachss

Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.

Andrew Vachss

A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.

Andrew Weil

As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.

Andres Segovia

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

Andrei Tarkovsky

All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.

Andrei Tarkovsky

When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part. What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?

Andrei Tarkovsky

If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? they have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. [...] If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money

Andrei Tarkovsky

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

Andrei Tarkovsky

I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone –as it seems to me– is in danger.

Andre Agassi

Hitting the ball has never been my issue, so I can literally not pick up a racquet for two months and hit the ball, really, really nicely. I mean movement's always an issue.

Chuck Palahniuk

I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.

Chuck Palahniuk

you can make mean anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

Chuck Knox

You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable.

Chuck Jones

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

Chuck Klosterman

To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.

Chuck Klosterman

Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.