Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Surowiecki

If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.

James Surowiecki

From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.

James Patterson

Six Seconds should be Rick Mofina's breakout thriller. It moves like a tornado.

James Patterson

If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

James Patterson

And now I was trying to brush my hair,you know,when I thought about it,and looking at myself in mirrors,wondering if I was pretty.Pretty! A year ago,when my haair got in my eyes I hacked it off with a knife.The only thing important about my clothes was whether they were to stiff to move fast in battle. And Fang had been my best friend and an excellent fighter.

James Patterson

Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.

James Patterson

The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.

James Nesbitt

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

James Nachtwey

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

James Mercer

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

James McGreevey

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

James Mangold

The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.

James Madison

Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such changes be instituted by some informal and unauthorized propositions, made by some patriotic and respectable citizen or number of citizens.

James Lovelock

By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions.

James M. Barrie

He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.

James L. Brooks

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

Joe Nichols

You have to believe that things can be bigger than what you see in front of you in order to move forward.

Joe Rogan

Omigawa is moving forward like a karate robot

Joe Rogan

If I could, I would live in Houston, and I would encourage any comic starting out looking for a good place to develop to move there.

Joe Rogan

The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.

Joe Rogan

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

Joan Didion

When the ground starts moving, all bets are off.

Joan Jett

The better your base is, and the more you know from experience, the better off you'll be when you try and make the big move.

Jimmie Johnson

I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'Do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?'

Jimi Hendrix

Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over.

Eric Thomas

You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life; at some point, you have to unleash the potential and make your move(ment).

Eric Ludy

Christianity = me moving out, God moving in.

Emmanuel Jal

I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.

Emma Stone

Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind.

Emma Stone

I can't help moving my face - reacting - when I watch a movie, because I'm really inhabiting a character. I know this is weird, but it demonstrates what I love about cinema: it allows you to live a different life, to have a different experience, to disappear for two hours. I think it's wonderful.

Emma Goldman

Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.

Emma Goldman

Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.

Emma Watson

I didn't realize that I wasn't moving in a gender-equal world - I had a sense of it, but I didn't start to really see evidence of it, I think, until I hit puberty. Media even before that age is already creating all these biases.