Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward P. Jones

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

Tom Wolfe

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

Rem Koolhaas

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar.

Alan Alda

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

Sonam Kapoor

You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.

Edgar Mitchell

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

Ben Rogers

We are comfortable with compulsion in other walks of life, such as jury duty or the requirement to educate our children.

James Stephens

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.

Roger Pilon

With today's decision, no one's property is safe, since any time a government official thinks someone else can make better use of your property than you're doing, he can order it condemned and transferred.

Yasser Arafat

I don't know. But you know we have condemned this. And not only that, I gave instructions to search who had sent this.

Atharva Veda

No one should be condemned as trash; even a little stick can serve as a toothpick!

Sathya Baba

Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.

Denis Villeneuve

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

Voltaire

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

John Harvey Kellogg

When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready to print, I held it in plates for a year nearly, waiting to see what would come out of all this discussion.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

Nick Clegg

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other.

Jane Austen

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

Barbara Kingsolver

There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.

Tim Phillips

What happens is that some of the locals will get into the fever because all the motorcycles are here. Some of the people out of town trade up.

Julie Ross

We all got spring fever a little early.

Donna King

We have kids with aching, fever and neck swelling. Their physicians say ... they have signs and symptoms of mumps.

Hanya Yanagihara

I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.

Kendall Kreinhagen

If the Fever want to come play, come on in. They might as well this season.

Jay Wright

I was very pleased, very proud. We played every possession. We played at fever pitch and that's what put the game away early.

Christopher Walken

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

Gov. Carcieri

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

Louis Zamperini

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

Kourtney Kardashian

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

Kreayshawn

Sometimes I'll dress like a boy, sometimes I'll dress like a Japanese crazy teenybopper. I have clothes from the 7th grade that I've kept and still wear.

Michael Keaton

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad.

Melissa McCarthy

Since grade school, I focused on women's clothing.

Mike Davis

We're moving more than a grade level a year. That's way more impressive than anything we've done so far.

Eric Johnson

I was terrible my first year. In 10th grade I was still bad, but the team needed someone that small. I knew that I just needed to stay off my back for the team.

Gerald Wilson

My grades weren't what they should have been, so they sent me back to the ninth grade. I was glad, because I wanted to study music, and Cass Tech was second only to Juilliard. We studied all kinds of music, harmony and orchestration.

Tony Hawk

There's a stigma to skating. People think of it as a kid's sport. People kept telling me I couldn't possibly make a living out of it. Then they said I couldn't keep it up in my 30s. And here I am in my 40s, and I'm still improving my skills.

Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

David Marsh

This was a strong day for us, so we should have scored a lot of points. We did, and I am very pleased with that. We will have to keep improving from here.

Tom Hall

The people who don't know about him will know by year's end. He's the total package. He's big, he's strong, he's quick, he's aggressive. Nothing but upside to him. He's a kid who I think will be big-time if he keeps working and improving every week.

James Barnes

With this investment, we are improving the quality and safety of the rail and preventing rail defects.

Andrew Dorais

She has been improving all season long and really peaked at just the right time.

Houston Nutt

We're going to have to be ready. Not only running the football, we need to keep improving our passing game. Our receivers are going to have to be ready. I just think everybody, tight ends, backs, you can't be one dimensional in this league.

Brett Pierson

People wanted more hours. There wasn't as much mention about online appointment systems or improving technology in general.

Johnny Ensing

Peter is really improving. He's improving his places and that's what I am looking at right now.

Tawni O'Dell

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Ernest Mandel

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Carlo Ponfoort

The positive surprise is insurance in Europe, which has performed quite well, including in the Netherlands.

Robert Thompson

When you've won an Oscar, everyone is really scrutinizing what you do, including every movie you do. So if it's bad, they're noticing it more.

Kevin Lynch

With Typekit, you sign on, you pay a single subscription fee. We're including that as part of Creative Cloud.

Tyler Cowen

Most restaurants in most cities, including Washington, are at a sort of mid-level. They're somewhat trendy, or they have some sort of gimmick, or they're somewhat expensive. And they make a lot of money off drinks. I tell people don't go to most of them, unless your goal is just to socialize.

Li Yuanchao

Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.

Vladimir Litvin

Watching how simultaneously statements are made, including at the top level, it can be understood that this is an organized campaign.

Anil Kumar

Most of the victims were local labourers, including women workers with infants and small children.

Tift Merritt

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

Gretchen Rubin

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

Eckhart Tolle

It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.

Delphine de Girardin

Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

Deepak Chopra

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

Rusty Schweickart

We're sitting in a shooting gallery, with hundreds of thousands of these things whizzing around in the inner solar system. So it's just a matter of time.

Ellsworth Kelly

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

Tom Stoppard

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Charles Dickens

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

Trudi Canavan

'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

Cary Elwes

It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.

Peter Speicher

We are at the low end of what we were predicting. It was a little better than expected, I guess. It was just so warm and wet. A lot of it was melting.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Brett Somers

I don't know a high C from a low C.

Bat for Lashes

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

John Wilson

We're still recovering bodies, and all the low crossings, the creeks, have flooded,