Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tadao Ando

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Sylvia Plath

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and the streetlights are part of the spotlight apparatus on a bare stage set up for you to walk through. You get a feeling of being listened to, so you talk aloud, softly, to see how it sounds.

Rollo May

Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the other unique characteristics of the human being is based upon his consciousness of himself.

Rollo May

Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.

Stephen King

Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.

Stacie Orrico

I am very determined when it comes to my music, and I grew up just loving those singers who had that urban sort of feeling. So when it came down to making my record, I wanted to have that as well. ForeFront was really good about letting me go in that direction and then of course adding the more pop sounds. I feel very fortunate that I got to explore some unique and creative angles musically.

Stephen Chow

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

Stephen Chbosky

Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.

Tim Bishop

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Tim Cook

Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it.

Thomas Leonard

The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.

William Shirley

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

William J. Clinton

We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.

William James

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Will Ferrell

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Samuel P. Huntington

I don't think that the Israeli lobby is unique. It may differ from the others in the extent by which it is focused on just one issue, which is the survival of Israel, which is understandable, and promoting Israeli development and aid to Israel, and so forth and so on.

William Faulkner

It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.

Warren Miller

Experiencing flow helps a person remember that they are unique. ... Just like everyone else.

Warren Miller

You are a unique person, just like everybody else!!

Vera Wang

I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom's passage through their new life together.

Roger Ailes

If you are a good communicator, be unique: put yourself in your own commercials and do something a little different. To the extent you can focus on what it is you want to change, what it is you know how to change, and what it is you think will make life better for other people, you're going to do better.

Roger Ailes

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

Robert Reed

It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

Rob Brown

There's not much room for deviation, yet if you manage to crack it, there then you can express things that actually do sound unique and genuinely original.

Richard Dawkins

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

Thomas Perry

I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice.

Robert H. Schuller

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

Richard M. Nixon

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

Richard Foreman

I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'

Robert Duvall

I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project.

Sandra Day O'Connor

For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.