Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heraclitus Ephesus

The real constitution of things is accustomed to hide itself

Evan Osnos

When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.

Nasser Hussain

We are seeing Australia being drawn back to the way the rest of the world has to play Test cricket because without either of their two all-time greats - McGrath and Warne - they just cannot play like they have become accustomed to,

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.

Alvin Wyatt

We're growing accustomed to him doing the things that he does.

Andy Geiger

This program is much more about players than most. Jim came in, immediately got to know so much about each individual player and his family and about their experiences. It's a much more personal approach than most were accustomed to. Within the family, it became a small-college feel.

Kim Ji-woon

Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.

Tom Rachman

The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to having something for free.

Twyla Tharp

My favorite audience is everybody. I worked in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old until I went to college, and I'm accustomed to everybody can buy a ticket and everybody should be taken into account.

Martin Jacques

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.

Mao Zedong

would elevate the status of Beijing into that of a civilized capital, and make it fit to stage a 'civilized Olympics' in 2008. We certainly do not want to see the farce of the Olympic flag flying over a city in which a corpse is worshiped.

Frank Gong

There is no question that Beijing would want to do more, ... Do they want to do something 'big' just two days before Bush arrives in Beijing?

Robin Munro

What they need is some enforcement. More high-level directives from Beijing aren't going to do it.

Liu Peng

Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan.

Phil English

send a strong signal to Beijing that Congress will not sit idly by while China's mercantilist trade policy injures U.S. employers and costs us jobs.

Shashi Tharoor

The Beijing Olympics were an exercise in Chinese soft power. Americans have the 'Voice of America' and the Fulbright scholarships. But, the fact is, in fact, that probably Hollywood and MTV and McDonalds have done more for American soft power around the world than any specifically government activity.

Rebecca Patterson

But what's more interesting is the U.S.-China deficit, especially with what's going on in Beijing just now. It's going to put a lot of pressure on the U.S. to get China to move (further on yuan flexibility), and to the extent that they don't, that's going to raise protectionist rhetoric in Congress, which I think is ultimately dollar-negative.

Joseph Cheng

But it's for sure this is not going to make Beijing make any meaningful concessions under pressure.

Lamont Bryant

We are going to sit down and re-evaluate his recruiting. Will he visit a fifth school? We aren't sure. But the Indiana situation is very unsettling. We don't want any distractions. We don't want any surprises.

Kristin Gore

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

Steve Peterson

We're still searching for our fifth and sixth man, but we're getting closer.

Ken Macha

When we were trying to pick a fifth starter back in camp, it was between Saarloos and Etherton, and we weren't quite sure which way we were leaning. So we went to Kendall, and he was adamant about Saarloos. That's what clinched it.

Mike Miller

When it comes down to it, you can't ever not want to win. So our job right now is to win as many games as possible, and if we're in that fifth spot, that's great, and we if we're in that sixth spot that's great, too.

Bobby Cox

Maybe we can slip him in as the fifth starter.

Clint Hurdle

Leaving a game in the fifth inning I wouldn't think would make any pitcher happy, ... Sometimes different things will motivate people different ways.

Jim Grobe

We're just kicking ourselves that we don't have a fifth year for him. We couldn't do it. We had to get him on the field.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Golf Brooks

We have no practices at all. We just wing it. It's spontaneous. No one knows what to expect. Even hearing the same song we played the week before, it could come off different. Everything's off the wall. It comes out better that way.

Orrin Hatch

We want everything so if hearings aren't justified, we won't hold them, ... If they are, we will.

Brian Eno

I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

Jane Austen

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

Michael Strahan

People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that. Opposite shows, opposite coasts, opposite demographics, opposite everything - I love it, man!

Arlen Specter

We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be ready to go.

Jaime Martinez

We're hearing rumblings that it could be in the thousands. But we won't really know until Monday.

Luke Waddington

We're hearing it may be 6 p.m. Tokyo before an announcement comes out, and that's making people think it's a story to react to tomorrow. The timing of it is important because we're hearing lots of rumors.

David Boren

This process today made my opinion of the NCAA even more positive. This hearing today could not have been more fair. The panel members did their homework.

Michael Shermer

Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it's just thoughtful inquiry.

John Vane

Most uses of bioassay involving smooth muscle demand high sensitivity and specificity.

Howard Johnson

The prime thing is involving the public in the solution. In my experience, haven't seen as much of that public involvement as there should be.

Estelle

My favorite film involving scarves was little Edie in 'Grey Gardens.' I often wear scarves like that, under hats.

Donna Cavanaugh

I have never encountered a situation like this involving a breeder or someone who shows dogs.

Jennifer Laster

Online shopping, anything involving pictures, downloading music can use up too much of a taxed system.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

Bea Arthur

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

Jeremy Corbyn

There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.

Thomas Haden Church

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

Langhorne Slim

Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Alexander McCall Smith

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

Joan Johnson

She didn't want to be moved anymore, ... She said she wanted to stay here, and she didn't want to go back home.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Paula Creamer

We're fine. I mean, it happened. It's done, and we've moved on.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Jose DaCosta

We made an adjustment. Usually we play with one forward. We moved a second player up.

Charles de Gaulle

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

LeVar Burton

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

James Wolfensohn

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

James Woods

So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Martin L. Gross

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Brit Hume

How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?

Brit Hume

It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count?

Camille Paglia

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

William Shakespeare

Good words are better than bad strokes.

Julia Ward Howe

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

Arnold Palmer

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

George Herbert

One stroke fells not an oke.

George Herbert

Great strokes make not sweete musick.

J. R. R. Tolkien

He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.

Lewis Black

I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.

Novak Djokovic

My strokes just weren't there.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.