Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard C. Armitage

I think that when Tolkien created Gollum and the ring, he even expressed in his biography that he never really knew what he created until he went back and looked at it.

Antonia Fraser

King Juan Carlos would be worthy of a full biography as a major player in his country's history. Alas, my Spanish is not good enough to offer myself!

Jamie Cullum

I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano in his kitchen; he had a grand piano in his kitchen. And I thought, 'Well, if Tom Waits has one, then I must.'

Gerald Nicosia

He was one of the first to treat these people as serious American writers, ... Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac.

Gerhard Schroeder

He has a biography that makes clear that he grew away from the (leftist) scene, and he's done great work for our country.

Brad Grey

Mental illnesses involve biological brain disorders, no matter what Tom Cruise says,

A. S. Byatt

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.

Denis O'Hare

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

David A. Adler

My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there.

Mark Dahm

Recipes are like a wizard that provides quick buttons for certain complex Photoshop actions. It tells you the step-by-step commands in Photoshop and gives you a one-click button to perform the action.

Terry Francona

I think he felt like somebody might have pushed his buttons a little bit. I try to speak in generalities, because I don't want to ever communicate through the media. I think he felt like maybe I did that a little bit. I certainly don't ever want to do that.

Katie Hardman

Since she was a college gymnast and because she's been through college gymnastics, she knows a lot about what's going on up there, what's going through your head. She knows what kind of things will better prepare us for meets.... She definitely knows what buttons to push.

Robert Gallery

So far when we've gotten down there, we haven't made the plays we needed to. I think every defense buttons up when they get down there in the red zone.

Sigourney Weaver

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

Harry Anderson

We have met the enemy, and he is us, ... We can all do better. We weren't in the positions to push the major buttons ... (during and after the storm), but we can all do better.

Alexis Waggoner

We have buttons now that have his picture and the phone number that you call in case you know anything.

Deborah White

U.S. gasoline may be rattling people's cages. We're going to see another steep draw. That, Nigeria and Iran are the market's three hot buttons right now.

Cameron Diaz

Which turned out to be no problem, ... Because we really did feel like sisters, and sisters can get pretty mean because they know each other so well. They know the buttons to push.

Thomas Tryon

Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.

David Dunkel

Recent accounting-related legislation is having a significant impact at a time when the pool of qualified prospects is declining due to the 150-hour rule instituted by most states. As a result, many hiring managers have more work than they can handle with current staffing levels and cannot find enough capable new hires.

John C. Wright

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.

Fernando Martin

Real Madrid cannot say it went off to look for him -- but that doesn't mean he doesn't interest us.

Wayne Dyer

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your ''now,'' is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.

P. James

Our recruits and officers obviously cannot practice high-speed chases on the streets of Newark. Yet sadly, they do happen, and our officers must train for them. By making use of modern technology, Newark's finest will be able to simulate and train for these incidents.

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

James Gleick

Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.

John Laws

People have worn shower shoes, flip-flops and clothing that is ripped where it shouldn't be. They're not the clothes you'd naturally wear if you meet with the general public.

Becca Fitzpatrick

His muscles flexed under his clothes, holding me, leading me. Never letting me stray far.

Bibhu Mohapatra

My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.

C. S. Lewis

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

Betsey Johnson

It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.

Betsey Johnson

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

Antonia Thomas

Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.

Harry Balzer

January doesn't require you to take clothes off. In March, it's imminent.

Sue Halpern

Last week I said, 'You know, I think maybe the kids might need prom clothes.' They immediately sent out emails to every Jewish organization in the entire country on Tuesday. And by Friday, the clothes started arriving.

Richard Bentley

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself

Dave Bristow

The 19-year-old turned himself in after we got in touch with him.

Mark Peterson

I watched the way he prepared himself before games. Before I saw Colton I never went to the outfield before to long toss or run before games. Now, I have my own routine before I pitch.

David Patterson

I think he should have won the Nobel Prize. I don't know why he didn't. He was sort of a shy person who didn't promote himself outside the scientific community. He would rather work in the lab.

Five Live

I think he's a centre-half but we know he can play in that position, so I think he's done himself a lot of good.

Bob Bradley

I still think it will happen. I think this was a little setback but there's no reason why he can't push himself forward.

Bobby Cox

Jonathan has come a long way since he was a little teenager. He's made himself into a real nice player.

Chris Smith

John's been preparing himself for this role for the last three years. This is his time to shine. He's really impressed us with his work ethic. He's got to make the plays that we know he can.

Mike Trapasso

Justin wasn't trying to overpower people and get strikeouts. He had to stay within himself and learned that.

Sathya Baba

Patience is all the strength that man needs.

Franz Humer

Patents will not stand in the way of producing the drug for mankind.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Tara Fisher

People need to know that predators aren't a man in the bushes. Eighty-five percent of the time you know your attacker.

Buzz Hargrove

Our union does not resist change, so long as we can manage it in a way that does not threaten our members.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Irish Proverbs

Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.

E.R. Rock

Pity the man that all women wish to be friends with because none of them will want to be anything more.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Carol Windley

Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.

Heather Mills

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

Sarah Pinborough

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.

James Gray

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

Max Hastings

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.