Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daphne Gottlieb

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.

Frank McCourt

I'd just go into a room in my memory and just look around and start seeing things that I'd forgotten, like the alphabet on the blackboard in Irish, which we had to chant every day for months and months and months. I remember the Gaelic script and things like that. And this awful, putrid lavatory that we used outside." ()

Graham Nelson

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!

John Williams

I don't think we're going to get into the Greek alphabet this year. The good news is it's still 56 days before it starts.

Steve Farhood

From the inception of the alphabet organizations, they have been very, very selfish. It's never been about what's good for boxing. It's always been about what's good for them, specifically what's good for them financially.

Josh Pais

I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.

Dr. Seuss

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!

Virginia Postrel

For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential forms?

Mark McKinnon

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.

Graham Nelson

Remember that 'Curses', being free, is circulated much more widely than shareware games, so it gets more than its fair share of attention.

Graham Nelson

I have been working on a more serious game, called 'Jigsaw', for about 18 months, but don't hold your breath. it'll be a while arriving.

Graham Nelson

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

Andrew Wiles

I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep.

Andrew Wiles

Here was a problem, that I, a ten year old, could understand and I knew from that moment that I would never let it go. I had to solve it.

Andrew Wiles

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.

Andrew Wiles

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.

Andrew Wiles

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

Graham Nelson

Once the announcements were actually heard, there was a slow but gathering response. by the end of the first year, an avalanche.

Peter Scarlet

People have a tendency to stereotype shorts as being a means to an end (for filmmakers to) eventually produce a full-length feature. On the contrary, these short films stand on their own.

O. Singh

Some friends are leaving, some have already left, and those remaining will eventually leave.

Dwaine Lentes

Our team is so deep. Our press eventually wears people down and when they start to get tired, we pounce.

Ray King

Our goal is eventually going to happen, and hopefully for the fans, it will happen here.

Andy Kennedy

Recruiting is like shaving - you had better do it every day, or you will eventually end up looking like a bum.

James Thurber

Most presidents eventually have to shed people who are liabilities in order to survive.

Ben Kersten

I will eventually have to have an operation.

David Mitchell

It is a worry. Eventually something's got to give between how much we own and how much space we live in.

Kurt Mayer

Just follow our lead. They'll eventually lose steam and turn tail. You just have to turn your back on them.

Zygi Wilf

Regardless of what is found in the investigations, we will take the appropriate measures for those who were involved.

Jim Cabucio

Regardless of the outcome of a Friday night game, each Saturday morning, Kyle could be found teaching our youngsters the fundamentals of the game.

John Byrd

re-emphasized all the reasons the jury found him guilty in the first place.

Zachary Abuza

suffered terribly in terms of arrests - more than 300 around the region - including its founding leadership.

John Lasseter

Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away.

David Pollock

Starting yesterday, we activated our volunteers and found how many and which ones would be available.

Debbie Cox

Someone must have found them and put them there.

Pat Summerall

somehow found out I'd got the liver. But they said they didn't care, didn't want to meet me.

Dennis Hastert

Our problem was an embarrassment of riches. In many cases, we found three or four people qualified to play the role of chairman,

Mark Hogan

Our new guys are going to have to hit well, because we're full of new guys.

Michelle Theall

Our mission is to inspire and inform women to live life to the fullest through outdoor adventures.

Dan Brooks

People meant a lot to her. She always wanted to touch people. Maria was just full of life. She had a lot of heart.

Audrey MacLean

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

Paul Horsnell

Some of these refineries will not be back to full operation, perhaps well into next year.

Tim McGillivray

Some of our schools are more full than others, so you can't always place them at their neighborhood school.

Alex Smith

Our school system needs a fully funded gifted program.

Peter Schnorr

Our goal is to get a full day -- 10 hours -- of active, pen-down writing.

Richard Clarke

Our goal is by the third week in October to open the full 20.9 miles of road for travel.

Pam Collins

People like a library with more services and more hours ....

Wayne Martin

People know that we're doing that. It's a lot of the same people, and they can watch it an hour earlier. But we take pride in providing that service.

Jon Harmon

Steady progress is being made on the issues, but there is still some left to go through. We're looking at several hours left, certainly, if not longer.

Georgia Johnson

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

Peter Goldman

Playing poker in their Quonset hut on Tinian, killing the last hours of the preatomic age.

Michael Brown

Maybe I should have screamed 12 hours earlier.

Nancy Floreen

We need more options, not fewer. We need them to increase trains and hours to get people out of their cars.

Ken Matthews

We never taught him to sit. We spend hours teaching them to stand (for show).

Stephanie Davis

I went to the doctor, and about an hour later, I was in the trauma center.

Josh Henderson

Original 'Dallas' fans, please come back, because it's the same show 20 years later - same drama.

Bob Reid

Planning for retirement is not something we can put off until a later date. The time to plan is now.

Judy Meyer

Just a week or two later he passed on.

Cameron Wade

It has a potential threat to property later this afternoon.

Jake Plummer

Later in the season, you don't remember how they came, you only remember it's a win.

John Wright

Later in life, you have a different perspective of what sex is all about.

Larry Beinfest

I'd like to think that we're talented but inexperienced. We'll see how that ultimately translates into wins and losses later in the season.

Brad Butler

I don't know. We'll wait and see one day when I run for office. That's one of my plans later on in life.

Ken Bacon

He (Cohen) did have tentative plans to go in June, and he has postponed any trip until some later date.

Allard Baird

Out of respect to him, I'd rather have him do that.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Simon Leung

I think the timing is going to be more towards the end of this year rather than earlier.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Jon Karkow

I think he was thinking more about the end of the runway approaching rather than the birds.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Craig Berman

He really wants to get back to the work he's been doing for 15 years in search rather than running a company.

Charlotte Rampling

I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.

Ben Kingsley

The astonishing silences in a Tarkovsky film... can sweep you into screen and... you don't want to end.

Joe Sakic

I didn't do much. I was just trying to get a screen in there. He shot it, and it just went off my stick.

Simon Reuben

I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.

Jonathan Tropper

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

Nancy Buirski

If they get to a screening and it's sold out, don't get too discouraged.

Scott Trost

We made a little adjustment. We switched off on screens on him. We made him work for all his shots.

Bruce Vilanch

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Sidney Poitier

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.

Walter Kirn

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

Ken Wilber

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

John Krasinski

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

Matthew Rhys

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

Saul Berman

Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.

Veronica Roth

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Sam Worthington

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

Donita Stewart

She is very independent, and suddenly she couldn't do the things that she's always done.

Gillian Armstrong

It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.

Elizabeth Warren

I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

Clarence Thomas

My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.

Adam Savage

Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

Mo Ibrahim

I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.

Terri Bartlett

To say that toys make someone violent, I think, is absurd.

Daniel Craig

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

Larry Jones

But that's up to Toyota if they want to use it.

Jean Kerr

Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!

Jason Mewes

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

Fannie Flagg

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Nigel Hamilton

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

David Bohm

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole...

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Mary Wilson

We have always understood that visibility is viability.

Daniel Johnston

To understand and be understood is to be free.

Tom Nolan

Winner never understood how that was a factor. It was always very alarming.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Richard Codey

Well, at least it was until Aug. 12, 2004.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Lofa Tatupu

I won't even think about it until I get there.

Corey Brewer

I won't know what everyone is going to do until I guess, a week from now.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't know until I wake up (today).

Enid Goldstein

I was up until 1 a.m. (Monday) cleaning.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.