Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Kasparov

To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.

Garrison Keillor

Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.

Garrison Keillor

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

Gabrielle Reece

The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.

Gabriel Mann

Maybe that's partly why I'm an actor, I'm a fairly empathetic, emotional person, so I get very, very involved when it's really, really great when I'm watching - so it takes me a second to click back into reality again.

Francois Fenelon

There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Frank Gaffney

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

Frank Cady

At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.

Francois Mauriac

The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.

Frank Abagnale

In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.

Frank Chodorov

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.

George Cukor

Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.

George Clinton

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

George Clooney

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

George Clooney

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

George Clooney

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

George Clooney

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

Geezer Butler

I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.

Geena Davis

This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many female forensic scientists on TV because of all the CSI shows and Bones and whatever. I don't have to lobby anybody to add more female forensic scientists as role models. There's plenty.In real life, the people going into that field now are something like two-thirds women.

Gayle Forman

Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.

Gayle Forman

I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for; it’s Lulu too.

Gayle Forman

I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

Gayle Forman

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Gayle Forman

It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense.

Gayle Forman

But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Gary Cooper

Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.

Gary Cole

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

Michael Newdow

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

Elayne Boosler

I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

Edward Thorndike

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

Edward T. Hall

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?