Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Jackson

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.

Billy Hunter

Why is it so difficult to assume that basketball players may not need to use steroids? That it's anathema to what they do?

Iqbal Quadir

A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

Martin Amis

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

Zadie Smith

I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

Peggy Noonan

What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It's a scandal if he actually thinks it - that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state.

Reza Aslan

In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.

George W. Bush

As these milestones approach, we can expect there to be increasing violence from the terrorists, ... They can't stand elections. The thought of people voting is anathema to them.

Donald Berry

Doctors want to be able to design trials to look at multiple potential treatment combinations and use biomarkers to determine who is responding to what medication. At the end of the day, when they enroll the last patient in the study they want to be able to treat that patient optimally depending on the patient's disease characteristics. Using a Bayesian approach, the trial design exploits the results as the trial is ongoing and adapts based on these interim results. That kind of thing is an anathema in the standard approach.

Howard Stern

Regardless of how much money I make, this product costs a lot of money to put on. I don't think it's asking too much to ask people to pay 43 cents a day (to listen to satellite radio for the $13 a month fee to subscribe to Sirius).

Clarissa Estes

Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven-only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this is not yet listening.

Horace

Refrain from asking what is going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Eric Sanders

Reese Morgan (a Hawkeye assistant coach) came and talked to me and Chris Aldrich and asked us to walk on there,

Ken Jefferson

Recognizing that, in light of this incident as well as some previous incidents with persons impersonating officers, we're subject to be asked for that and we have the patience that we need to calm that person down.

Thomas Malthus

Reason interrupts man's career and asks him whether he may not bring beings into the world for whom he cannot provide the means of subsistence.

Martha Smith

Related to that, the Marshallese at the same time send a lot of protests to the United States. They ask that the tests be stopped.

Jerry Krause

Reinsdorf told me, 'You have an invitation to a press conference on Monday. The new manager of the White Sox asks that you be there,' ... Ozzie never forgot to this day.

Nigel Hamilton

Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was born there. The Observatory is known all over the world; the Royal Naval College is there. So I decided to do it.

James Redfield

Spiritual consciousness is, on the whole, very adventurous and all about pursuing our deepest, most fulfilling dreams.

Carl Safina

To save the seas, we can eat sustainably and be conscious of the seafood we eat.

Antoine Rivarol

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

Sylvia Forster

I think they are a little more conscious about eating right. I know the kids are because I hammer it into them.

Will Scheffer

I think there was a conscious decision to give our show a spare look.

Don Shaw

Jeremy is very conscious of the responsibilities of the setter position. He is looking forward to the opportunity of being in that role full-time.

Marie Lu

I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice.

Leonard Mlodinow

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

Minnie Pearl

I think Elvis loved his fans-I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them.

Kelly Jones

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

Colin Trevorrow

I was joking with my mom that all Jewish mothers now will want their kids to be filmmakers instead of doctors. Because you can make one film, and suddenly you're directing a 'Jurassic Park' movie.

John Crowley

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

Richard Ayoade

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.

Jason Ballweber

I enjoy directing something I've never seen. If I see it, it tends to influence my directing, and I end up second-guessing myself.

Salli Richardson

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

Michelle MacLaren

I always say, 'I love producing, but directing is my passion,' and for a while, I had to produce to support my directing habit.

James L. Brooks

I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can imagine, but I always think it's the one thing I can do when I'm directing is say is that it's all about the actors, that I can say, 'We're all here to serve the actors.'

Alex Graves

Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

Andrew Clements

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Ridley Scott

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

Alice McDermott

Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.

Bharati Mukherjee

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

Karin Slaughter

I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.

Martin Villeneuve

'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it's expensive, it's set in the future, and it's got tons of visual effects, and it's shot on green screen.

Julia Glass

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

David Guterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Shaun Cassidy

I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.

Master Kwon

Relationships flourish, when individuality,freedom and growth are respected.

Conan Stevens

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

Chen Hong

Our forefathers gave their lives for peace and freedom. Our generation has the responsibility to treasure what we have today.

Scott Walker

Maybe in the old days, Sully gets clutched and grabbed there and held down. Now he can spin around three times around three different guys. It gives a guy like that more freedom to move.

Dave Anderson

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Bhagat Singh

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

Benjamin Rush

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Mel Martinez

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

Billy Corgan

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

Munir Akram

I think there is consternation and perhaps a sense of injury at the tone and substance of the letter.

Mickey Matthews

I think that's what everyone's getting right now. Like Astroturf, you don't have to water it and mow it, so the maintenance is very low on it. And it doesn't have nearly the injury problems that Astroturf has.

Ron Artest

The only thing on my mind is getting in shape. I've got an injury. So the only thing on my mind is getting over my injury and getting in shape.

Brian Kapusta

Joey wrestled very well before the injury and has picked up where he left off.

Dino Novak

It could even be setting you up for injury if you have muscle imbalances.

Brian Billick

He's been told that there's a possibility of surgery since the injury happened. There was always that possibility. I don't know if it's any more viable now than it was before.

Walt Harris

He's having more tests to see what's wrong, ... Part of the problem is we don't know if it there's an injury in the bone, the joint or the ligament.

Mike Gillespie

He's a star. Only an injury keeps him out of the first round (of this year's MLB Draft), only an injury keeps him from being a long-time major leaguer.

Judah Friedlander

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.

Georgy Yartsev

People might say we didn't need this victory. I think we very much needed it. The Russian soccer needed it. Look at how many rookies we had.

Rick Halprin

People might not think it's much, but it's better than nothing.

Ed Feigenbaum

People might just have wanted to wait until they get their service back up.

Tom Parsons

People might have to stand by for one or two flights, but inconvenience to passengers should be minimal.

Victor Shum

State-owned enterprises have perhaps more options than international oil companies. Without shareholders, they can go places that might not be politically acceptable.

Felicia Brown

Some of (the children's) educational needs might not be met. You can't spend all the time that they'll need.

John Clayton

Someone might say, 'You didn't vote for him. Why should I?'

Josephine Crawford

Somehow, I'll spend it. ... I might go to Vegas.

Samantha Morton

People need to know that you're versatile, otherwise you don't get the opportunities.

Elizabeth Langland

Otherwise you're like a three-legged stool on two legs.

Oliver Cromwell

Remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

John Banville

I always think that if you know somebody's name then there's something slightly fraudulent about that person. Otherwise we wouldn't have heard of him or her.

Katie McGrath

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

Mahmud Abbas

My convictions are important, as well as the work. If I can do something then I will continue, otherwise I won't.

Patricia Clarkson

She's all right, otherwise I wouldn't be here,

Alan Greenspan

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

Robert E. Lee

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Bill Cosby

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

C. S. Lewis

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Tone Loc

I was actually very into all of that seriously and I didn't really want to be carryin' all of that over, the street life, into the studio.

Judy Parfitt

That's the thing with dementia. If you're with somebody who has a serious illness, you can usually talk to them, have a laugh every now and then - the person is still with you. With dementia, there's no conversation; there's no togetherness, no sharing.

John Edward

I'm seriously considering it, but I haven't made my decision.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Javier Solana

We are going tomorrow to get very serious on Sudan.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,