Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Botton

I find a welcome interest in the problems of everyday life. I find a humanity and a devotion to using thought to alleviate suffering.

Jessye Norman

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

John Nestor

We looked at private equity when we were considering hedge funds but there was no similar record of problems - evidence of fraud - that merited the devotion of inspection and other resources.

Charles Spurgeon

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

Sathya Baba

Modesty and devotion to God are real jewels for woman kind. The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.

Gustav Krupp

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Saint Teresa of Avila

Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.

Elmer Jackson

We don't pray aloud. There are no religious classes, but we do have devotion each morning and we do have a New Testament and Old Testament survey. That is as far as we go.

W. S. Gilbert

Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.

Zach Parise

Regardless of what the players think about it, it's the way it's going to be, so you might as well enjoy it.

Howard Stern

Our radio stations are scared, ... I mean, it's hard for them, they're in it alone. I'm telling you, and if you enjoy the show, you must go out and support our sponsors.

John Mara

Paul will be remembered as one of the greatest commissioners in the history of professional sports. When Paul succeeded Pete Rozelle as commissioner, he had big shoes to fill, as everybody was quick to remind him. In his own style, he went about the task of filling those shoes, and the results speak for themselves. During his tenure, the National Football League has enjoyed unparalleled popularity, prosperity and labor peace, thanks largely to Paul Tagliabue.

David Lynch

People just need to relax and go about their life and enjoy life and enjoy Laurens for how they see Laurens.

Bob Basso

People need to enjoy themselves because that's all they have. Many people in Hawaii are working two and three jobs, so it needs to be fun.

Ronnie Davis

People like that we give good service, and we can come to the home or to the office. I have another job also, but I really enjoy seeing the look on people's faces after I've finished detailing their car.

Kevin Bettencourt

Sure, I?d like to get revenge for him. But he told me to just go out and enjoy the moment.

Sarah Will

Some of these guys had never skied before, and all of a sudden they've got the wind in their hair and they're taking some falls and getting back up and really enjoying themselves in the outdoors with their families to support them.

Robert Sarver

Our people really enjoyed it here. The facilities are great, and we have a great relationship with the University of Arizona. It feels like home to me here.

Michael Servetus

Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me.

Matthew Stewart

Like many of the ideas that mattered in the American Revolution, extraterrestrials got their start in antiquity. The Greek philosopher Epicurus speculated that the universe must be infinite, eternal and abounding in 'worlds' just like our own.

David Green

I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.

Kelly Clark

I found out there is a lot more joy and hope and eternal things in the world than snowboarding.

William James

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.

William James

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

Thomas Sokolowski

He was always young. He was the hope everyone had of being eternally young.

Michael Moore

He has the funniest lines in the film. I am eternally grateful to him. (on President Bush)

Lord Alfred Tennyson

He never sold the truth to serve the hour, nor paltered with Eternal God for power.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Bebe Neuwirth

I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn't like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you're] not part of the people in the bar.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Are you keeping anything else from me?” “I’m keeping a lot of things from you.” “Like?” “Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.

Barry McCaffrey

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

B. H. Liddell Hart

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

Larry Martin

We need plans and ideas from outside this committee.

Billy Corgan

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

Bill Shankly

My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

Bill Crawford

When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

Bhagat Singh

It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.

Bob Denver

Our lives will never be the same without him,

Tracie Beasley

Our lives are so full. For people to get outdoors and recreate is so important.

John Powell

Our lives are shaped by those who love us and by those who refuse to love us

Simon McBurney

Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'

Harry McDonald

Our mission is to see if it lives up to its promises.

Keith Hampton

Some men and women have had their lives ruined.

Adriano Moraes

Rob is a legend. He's been saving lives for 30 years and never missed a season.

Toba Beta

Man will never be stronger nor independent if he lives under perpetual motivation of others.

Chris Lom

We need more tents and we need better logistics if lives are going to be saved.

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Cate Blanchett

The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

Herman Gorter

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Abraham Lincoln

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

Joey Lina

The expulsion, my friends, is utterly without any basis.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

Autre Ne Veut

I started singing the second I could utter sound.

Kenneth Clark

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.