Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gould

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

John Gresham Machen

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

John Green

I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment.

John Green

As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but nobody was moving. Margo rolled down the window, and I felt the thick air blow across my face, warmer than night ought to be. I glanced over and saw strands of her hair blowing all around her face. Even though I could see her there, I felt entirely alone among these big and empty buildings, like I'd survived the apocalypse and the world had been given to me, this whole and amazing and endless world, mine for the exploring.

John Green

My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.

Patti Smith

When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like. Rock was my generation's revolutionary, sexual, poetic, and political voice, but it had become corporatized. It was going into stadiums. It was so far removed from its basic roots.

P. J. O'Rourke

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

Mary Robinson

The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.

Mary Robinson

The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.

Mary Schmich

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape

Mary Roberts Rinehart

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. "And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

Martin Heidegger

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Martin Heidegger

The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at all, and as such things. The mathematical is this fundamental position we take toward things by which we take up things as already given to us, and as they must and should be given. Therefore, the mathematical is the fundamental presupposition of the knowledge of things.

Marshall Brickman

There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film, it doesn't work so you're dependent on a great director to keep the thing moving along.

Marshall Field

I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.

Mark McCormack

The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause for concern: the more self-satisfied you are with your accomplishments, your past achievements, your 'right moves', the less you should be.

Mark McGrath

Acting is about listening, and that's something that took me awhile. You almost don't have to learn your lines, if you listen to what they're saying and move it along.

Mark McGrath

As a performer, I want to hit the last row of the arena. I want to make big moves. I'm a spaz, naturally.

Mark Messier

When I left here I left everything here. It's time to move on

Mark Mothersbaugh

To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

Mario Vargas Llosa

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Noam Chomsky

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

Niklas Zennstrom

Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost.

Niklas Zennstrom

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

Nikki Reed

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

Nikki Giovanni

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

Nicole Trunfio

I could definitely see myself living back in Australia again. If I had a family, I could move back.

Nicole Polizzi

I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me.

Niecy Nash

If there is someone in your life who is not serving you or making you better, give yourself permission to move on.

Nickolas Ashford

You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

Nicki Minaj

I love to move around. I'm not a person who likes to stay in the same place all the time.

Nick Hornby

I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any happier. It was like scratching when you have chicken pox. You think it's going to help, but the itch moves over, and then moves over again. My itch suddenly felt miles away, and I couldn't have reached it with the longest arms in the world. Realizing that made me scared that I was going to be itchy forever, and I didn't want that.