Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imogen Heap

There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.

Oscar Wilde

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Lynda Barry

When an attractive but ALOOF (""cool"") man comes along, there are some of us who offer to shine his shoes with our underpants. There are thousands of scientific concepts as to why this is so, and yes, yes, it's very sick but none of this helps.

Doug Elmets

If tribes like the Rumsey tribe, who have demonstrated a shared commitment with local governments, are not permitted to participate in local planning decisions by formal means, the governor is then, in effect, encouraging tribes to remain aloof and apart from their communities and it's horrible public policy.

Atharva Veda

A person, whose heart is pure, remains untouched by 'pain' just as an assiduous person remains aloof from sinful deeds.

Sathya Baba

Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.

Julie Quinn

They tend to have eye issues and can have skin allergies because of all of the wrinkles. They were originally raised as Chinese guard dogs and can be more aloof than other breeds sometimes.

Gerald Shuster

He's the one guy who, among modern vice presidents, is so aloof and so remote from ever making public statements and being in the public eye, even in a functionary capacity.

Bob Lieber

He's not aloof at all. He likes to laugh and joke. There is not an aura of 'I'm better.' He is a concerned teammate.

George Eliot

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.

Lynn White

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Scott Styris

We've got good depth now, and that breeds confidence,

Preston Wilson

When you're able to come back in the fashion that we did, it breeds confidence.

Rob Braun

What this does for our program is that it breeds success.

Kym Whitley

My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.

Martin Freeman

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

Chris Nicol

I don't know what we have for next year, but success breeds success and we did it with quality guys this year and we're so proud of them.

Donald Trump

I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples. It breeds tolerance.

Charles Schumer

We have to get the feeling that they are on a path, in a reasonable period of time, to stop manipulating the currency, to let it float freely. It's a delicate game, it's a delicate gambit, because the Chinese are very sensitive about being pressured into things.

Alan Tonelson

We have had 15 years of Chinese promises to improve intellectual property protection. They have all proved to be false.

Li Changchun

The CPC and Chinese government have always affixed prodigious moment to the inveterate friendly relations with Africa,

Lucie Morillon

We have so many cyber-dissidents in jail that we are trying to get out of there, and knowing that some of them are in jail with the help of Western companies is really frustrating. It's one thing to want to make money, to make profits. It's quite another one to become a weapon in the hands of the Chinese authorities.

Jack Ma

We used to take these great hikes on the Great Wall, ... From our hikes, we developed a friendship that ended up with us combining forces in forming this new Chinese company.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.

David Tang

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

Jimmy Wales

The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.

Jason Alexander

It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.

Holly Swoape

We have never really had any problems that I know of. Occasionally there are little scuffles -- between dogs or humans -- but nothing serious.

Christopher Stone

We usually have about 50-60 dogs in the day. We go up as high as 25 dogs for the overnight.

Taylor Handley

I've never YouTubed myself, and I'm actually scared to do it. I think I may just let sleeping dogs lie on this one.

Ellen Potter

I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.

John McWhorter

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

Jan Johnson

We are prepared for at least 250 dogs and cats. Right now we have three to four veterinarians on staff. All the food has been donated from local grocery stores, pet stores, Second Harvest in Milwaukee.

Cory Smith

Where there was water, you would see packs of dogs swimming.

Sharon Smith

Word of mouth is, two individuals have been scouring the area, finding high-price value dogs and selling them with fake papers.

Jerry Moore

We'll be giving people obedience tips for their dogs and how to get their puppies started properly.

Carlos Castaneda

The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a stream of tremendously rapid, unique events. So you must trim your body to make it a good receptor. The body is an awareness; and it must be treated impeccably.

Carlos Castaneda

All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.

C. S. Lewis

But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.

C. S. Lewis

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

C. S. Lewis

we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.

C. S. Lewis

We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

C. S. Lewis

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

C. S. Lewis

Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure all the time that he had done the right thing; but whenever he remembered the shining tears in Aslan's eyes he became sure.

C. S. Lewis

But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.

Josh Page

We want to pressure them and get some turnovers right away. Hopefully we can pressure their guards and not let them get comfortable in the half-court set.

David Reeves

We have security guards here and we monitor quite a bit.

Kelly Hawthorne

We have people who get us the ball. So many teams don't have someone who can get it inside. Our guards can handle the pressure.

Lauren Hoisington

We usually get two or three fouls in the first half. I think we're used to it by now. Our guards played really well.

Francois Chereque

We shall remain on our guard until the very end.

Scott Stauffer

We set up a perimeter to guard our vehicles; make sure they weren't torched or stolen,

Andre Miller

We have Howard, a veteran point guard who's going to come in and get the job done.

Aravind Adiga

The coop is guarded from the inside.

Tod Kowalczyk

We're guarding, and we've guarded all year. That's not the problem right now.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Dennis Schain

Ultimately, before they build, we'll inspect to make sure the plan has addressed all the issues and will be implemented properly.

David Allen

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

John Romano

One will get more than what they originally bargained for, I guess.

Cheech Marin

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

Donald Rupe

It was originally more like a concert. We've turned it into a theatrical production.

Andy Weir

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Julie Regan

We were originally scheduled to present it, but we need more time. We're still writing it.

Janet Yellen

This suggests a presumption that the rate (now at 3.75 percent) will need to be raised further,

Bridget Fonda

I was raised on Bruce Lee.

Steven Calabresi

I and one other person raised our hands.

Robert Milmore

If another bidder comes in the stakes could be raised on TWA to where AMR doesn't think it's worth it.

Action Bronson

My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'

Alan Furst

The idea that someone is going to write me, and I'm not going to answer - I was just raised not to do that. We are the result of our upbringing, and my upbringing was very much to meet obligations... You just didn't let things go.

Brenda Strong

There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.

Greg Oden

You are who raised you. I've never been into entourages and stuff, and I know Zoe hasn't either, ... That's why I understand when he comes here and doesn't want to be bothered.

Raf Simons

I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.

Brandon Boyd

I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos.

Alan Watts

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

Brett Lee

As a Test cricketer you expect that at times you're going to be heckled, and you must have a thick skin.

Ashley Scott

You know what, we're very skinny in our family.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.

Benjamin Watson

It's a sin problem, not a skin problem.

Diane Ackerman

Our skin is what stands between us and the world.

Demi Lovato

I feel most confident when I'm taking care of my body and my skin.

Damon Lindelof

If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something that only builds up after it's callused for awhile.

Mark Noll

When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

John Updike

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

Laila Robins

A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Andy Serkis

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.