Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony on television, and it was awesome. The music was so gorgeous I wasn't just crying tears, I was sobbing.

Patricia Sun

Patriotism is a beautiful thing - to love your country, your land, and your people and have a deep emotional affinity. But it can be so easily corrupted to polarized thinking, to harming others and ourselves if we don't realize what it is that is beautiful. It is beautiful because it is love.

Peter Malkin

Particularly, I enjoy strolling in the streets, watching passersby, gazing at the beautiful variety of the dresses and perceiving their joy; their sadness. At home, during the small hours of the night, I'll paint from memory what I have seen in the streets until I am under the impression of being with them again.

Alice Hogan

Such an ugly thing to happen in such a beautiful place.

Mark Twain

Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease.

Tom DeLay

Sure, when you get this number of people, there are stories of sexual exploitation. But in interviewing these employees one-on-one, there was no evidence of any of that going on. No evidence of sweatshops as portrayed by the national media. It's a beautiful island with beautiful people who are happy about what's happening.

Jim Murren

Our core competence is making beautiful and creative space that makes people feel special. So they took that care and put it in a medical setting. Everybody was motivated by a personal experience. We tried our best to put ourselves in the shoes of the patients and families and how they might feel.

Jim Willis

Robbie is probably the fastest kid on the team, and has a beautiful touch. He has played everywhere off the bench for us, and has fit in wherever he has played.

Ronnie Cates

Right there on the lake with the sun going down, (the amphitheater) is a beautiful structure. It's just a great way to enjoy an evening.

Richard Preston

Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling redwood space over redwood time, over thousands of years.

John Hagel III

Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it's constantly seeking out new challenges. But what's really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.

Mark Schultz

Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world.

Dave McCullough

Starting in 2000, we started having problems with customers turning to China, and then all of a sudden our production costs started going up and up. Basically, since 2000, we've been in a constant decline.

Alice Englert

Some of us don't have the energy to be as incredible and riotous and fantastic as Emma Thompson. You're constantly just lapping up her incredible hilariousness.

Brad Zigler

Some people are unable to get over their prejudices. The culprit is the constant characterization of options as gambling.

Drew DiPippo

Overall our defense has been a general constant for us. We've only given up more than 50 points in one or two games. Certainly, we could still improve at it.

David Novak

Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

Kelly Redmond

We've talked about this whole thing of Eskimos having 31 names for snow. If you live in a dry climate, you probably have 31 names for drought. When you are constantly faced with something, each instance matters.

David Alan Grier

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

Greta Scacchi

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

Will Rogers

Any nation is heathen that ain't strong enough to punch you in the jaw.

Steven Friedman

Some of these images from New Orleans have looked like Mozambique.

Lorrie Brown

I was just horrified. Images flashed before me of going to jail and being handcuffed and being put in a police car.

Gary Payton

I think (Stern) is just trying to get our image back.

Danny Aiello

People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

Dan Gilroy

The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

Sidney Jones

It could be a way of buoying up his image (to) his followers.

Derek Brewer

I don't think people want the image of an unfair playing surface. I think that is the administration's issue. We all want to be at home, we want to be at our house, but if this keeps everyone happy, then we're happy.

Francis Bacon

For the world is not to be narrowed till it will go into the understanding (which has been done hitherto), but the understanding is to be expanded and opened till it can take in the image of the world

Charles Stiles

If they get a message from a sender that has images and links enabled one day, and another one the next day where they're not, they tend not to trust that so much, or think there was an error. It sends an unclear message to the consumer.

John Wilkinson

If we all work together, we'll have a sustaining mixture for all of us to have.

Elizabeth Bowen

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Adam Savage

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

Annie Besant

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

Annie Dillard

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

Davy Jones

My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.

Elizabeth Hurley

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

Arthur Helps

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Curt Miller

We were too perimeter-oriented. Toledo played a mixture of defenses and they really had us on our heels. We were just settling for 3s.

Rousas John Rushdoony

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

Barry Lopez

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

Berthe Morisot

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Cecelia Ahern

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

Bernard Arnault

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

Charles Darwin

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.

Alanis Morissette

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Blake Mycoskie

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Chris Crutcher

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Ben Gibbard

Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.

C. S. Lewis

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

Colbie Caillat

I don't like being vulnerable. I feel uncomfortable in it.

Phoebe Snow

It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

Amanda Hocking

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton has taught us really how vulnerable we are in cyber hacking.

Debbie Harry

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

Amanda Schull

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

Alicia Keys

Not having all the information can make me feel vulnerable.

Alicia Keys

It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

Amy Winehouse

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.