Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rich Sommer

Part of what I love about games is that, even if you're best friends with somebody, it gives you these sort of moments where you get to interact on a completely different level. You all agree to these abstract rules, but there's nobody holding a gun to your head.

Richard Shelton

Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.

Samuel Coleridge

Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.

Chris Peterson

Restoring the canyon is no longer an abstract notion now that people can actually experience its beauty.

C. S. Lewis

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

Shimon Edelman

The algorithm the computational method for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

Shimon Edelman

The algorithm -- the computational method -- for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

Steve Morgan

I thought it was upturned tables. But when I got closer I realized it was definitely art because it's bolted to the ground. And on further inspection it looks like somebody's car, an abstract version of somebody's car.

Grant Smith

If I painted him I would probably just paint like his eye -- completely just beet red because it had some many drugs in it or something. Or maybe just a zoom in on a forearm or something ... just where it looks like an abstract painting but it's just veins.

William Jefferson

People have to have a forum to express themselves. They feel very deeply that there has been an injustice against the African American community. ... There was no way to control it.

Razia Khan

Suddenly sovereign credit ratings look a lot better in these countries and as a result banks would become more comfortable with African risk.

Tokyo Sexwale

Our team showed strength in the face of adversity. They did their best and Tomas showed why he is such a highly-rated driver. They are all a credit to their country. We are confident that our performance will improve at the next race, where we will again fly the South African flag with pride.

Nigel Harris

Overall, 2006 should be another very strong year for the South African automotive industry and similarly for Ford Motor Company. The positive growth trend in South African new vehicle sales that we have been experiencing over recent years is set to continue in 2006, albeit at a more subdued pace.

Marilyn Martin

Picasso never copied African art, which is why this show does not match a specific African work with a Picasso. He took its point of view to express his own art. In his drawings we can see three sketched antelopes which come very close to the Bambara sculptures of antelopes. But then he creates a metamorphosis in which he creates something phenomenal and new.

Michael Klein

Many African countries that desperately need new enterprises and jobs risk falling even further behind other countries that are simplifying regulation and making their investment climates more business friendly.

Marc Perry

Many African Americans consider faith an integral part of their lives. These are people that fit our target demographic really well in terms of income, age and lifestyle.

Ertharin Cousin

Many African Americans are living less than one paycheck away from hunger. When people hit sudden hard times, including illness, loss of job or disruption in health insurance, they are forced to turn to the America's Second Harvest network for help.

Ertharin Cousin

Many African Americans are living less than one paycheck away from hunger.

S. Walker

Regardless of people's skepticism, I am pursuing what is (and has been) my dream for my own purposes. I appreciate the importance that so many others have placed on this effort, but I would still do it if I was alone and no one was watching.

Andrew Bacevich

Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

St. Teresa

Patient endurance attaineth to all things; who God possesseth in nothing is wanting; alone God sufficeth.

John Schneider

People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.

Annie Dillard

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Richard Doherty

Stern alone can make Sirius bigger than XM within a year.

Jamelle McMillan

Starting off I think there were doubts. Nobody outside of our school, maybe even our gym, thought we were going to be here, let alone in state, period.

Rachel Platten

'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

Chris Heaney

Our goal is always to win state, so those goals will stay the same. Bringing him in here with 500 wins, that alone will help us greatly.

Fabien Pelous

Physically, the All Blacks were stronger and faster. They gave us a lesson. We did what we could but we know now that the road to the 2007 World is going to be very long.

Gore Vidal

Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.

Jeff Horner

I think some of those goals are impossible to get. It's kind of a weird system, but most of the time when we have more blacks than reds, we're in the win column.

Justin Marshall

I am delighted to see Jonah back on the field again. I had the privilege of captaining him for the All Blacks and he is one of the most dangerous wings the game has ever seen. It is a testament to the kind of man Jonah is that he is back on the rugby field. He is driven by a desire to succeed and we will have to make sure we are ready for him.

Lenora Fulani

Frank MacKay and the state leadership of the Independence Party have now shown their true colors. They're intent upon turning the Independence Party into an all-white party, where blacks and other minorities are not just unwelcome, they are maligned and abused.

Tana Umaga

He was instrumental in building the All Blacks tradition. We're pleased for the chance to pay our respects

Susan Howell

He has to expand the electorate, and that's a big hurdle. Blacks displaced by Katrina, these people are going to be horribly difficult to reach.

Andy Irvine

He (McKie) is not going to wave a magic wand and find a loose-head prop that's going to demolish the All Blacks or pull out a winger that will put Rokocoko to shame. That's not his role. There is no quick fix,

Martin Henderson

My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.

Branch Rickey

Our pitching staff is a conspiracy of ifs.

Monica Johnson

Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens, freedom through democracy.

Katharine Liell

There is no evidence of a conspiracy ... the state failed because there is no conspiracy.

Peter Hill

My job is to sell the Daily Express. My job isn't anything else. My job is to produce newspapers that people want to read and I can tell you that people want to read about the Diana conspiracy because the figures tell me that they do, seriously tell me that they do. People are fascinated and people tell me that they are fascinated. When I talk to people, they are fascinated by these stories and the more we write them, the more they are turning out to be true.

Rusty Hardin

What you will see is the most incredibly incompetent conspiracy if there was one,

T.I.

Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.

Robert Grossman

There are many theories, some extreme, about what happened to the president, ... If we can put to rest some of the wilder conspiracy theories, I think it's healthy to do so.

Antony Beevor

Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.

Noah Hawley

When I sold my first book, 'A Conspiracy of Tall Men,' it was part of a two-book deal. It wasn't hugely lucrative, but it was enough money for me to quit the paralegal job I had in San Francisco.

Charlie Brown

It is incredibly misleading, it is devious, it is deceptive, ... This initiative does not put more cops on the street. It puts more marijuana on the street.

Kelly Ryan

Like, oh my God, what are, what are we gonna do, how are we gonna explain this? Like, what, what, you know, what are the cops going to say?

Terry White

If the cops hadn't told me I had to get out, I never would have left. I had everything I needed in my house, but what was I going to do? They had guns.

Jeffrey Skilling

So I told Vince he didn't have to worry, we have plenty of cops in (the group).

Elizabeth Warren

Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.

Brad Garrett

We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.

Allison Tolman

Our TV and movie cops are usually in heels and pencil skirts.

Jerry Doyle

We were talking, we had a table read or something, he said, "Jerry, how are you with horses?" I said, "I grew up with them all my life." He said, "Oh, that's great!" I said, "Yeah, they all had cops on them".

Gabriel Basso

I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.

Darin Erstad

People love throwing that out there: 'Is it going to wear on you more, wear on you less?' I don't know. Just play and whatever happens, happens, ... You know, you can't worry about that stuff. You do all your exercises and hope it holds up. I can't do any more work to make it stay healthy. If it goes, it goes.

Pranab Mukherjee

Redeployment is a regular exercise undertaken after a review of the situation in the state. Last year we reduced troops voluntarily.

Mike Williams

I might go down. But I am still on my high fat, low exercise diet.

Beilby Porteus

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

Bill Cosby

I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.

Bill Cosby

I use the exercise room early, because I don't want to get on the treadmill and everyone's going 'Oh, Bill Cosby,' and then they come around to see how fast I'm walking, and it becomes very competitive.

C. S. Lewis

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

C. S. Lewis

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

Carrie Brownstein

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

James Hall

It is obviously up to the FAA and the industry to work out the time frame that that needs to be done.

Heraldo Munoz

It is not ideal but it is still a noteworthy improvement. It is a new institutional framework that will oversee the promotion and protection of human rights for many decades.

Jon Garland

He wanted me to get out of there with a good start and in a good frame of mind.

Reggie Sanders

Hal and I really just sat back and started thinking about things, and the way that I need to go about seeing pitches and getting in the right frame of mind, ... I've just been working hard every day to get where I needed to be.

Mark McNulty

I feel like I've been playing well, and being back at Oak Hills should put me in a good frame of mind.

Anthony Mix

I have a big frame but I'm leaner now. I'm faster.

Alan Vest

I don't think Simon is in the right frame of mind to play this weekend so he is not in the squad for the game at Newcastle.

Bernie Williams

I already have the frame for it all ready at home.

Ahmad Fawzi

If we come out of this meeting with a framework for the process for a political transition, then we will have succeeded. This is the first step in a long road toward establishing good governance in Afghanistan.

Sgt. Maynard

He was very incoherent and made irrational statements on scene.

Gregory Allen

She was very irrational and having visions and hallucinations,

Orson Scott Card

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Jean Glavany

In Brussels, we were told that there was no question of supporting such an irrational slaughter.

Manouchehr Mottaki

I predict that the irrational American view will not prevail in the Security Council.

Harrison Birtwistle

It's the irrational things that interest me.

Karen Harris

Upset is an understatement. He was irrational and verbally abusive.

Michel Onfray

Religion is an irrational construct.

Joe Hill

The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.

Robert Sinclair

Our members are screaming. People are wondering where it's going to go and, of course, we can't tell them.

Dan Scott

Our members are hopped up and very angry.

Roger Toussaint

Our members will stand together and stand firm, and make sure the organization is not broken.

Steve MacFarlane

Our members know that working for Northwest Airlines, they have to have a strike fund.

Travis Barker

Right now, one of our members needs time off, so we're granting him that,

John Thain

pleased with the resolution of this litigation, which allows our members to vote as planned on the proposed merger on Dec. 6.

Bertrand Russell

Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?

Niranjan Shah

It is nothing. If some members (of the board) want to speak to the press about it, we can't do anything.

Lambis Nikolaou

I was the only one of the 104 members who did not vote.

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.

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.

Bede Griffiths

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Billy Corgan

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

Billy Corgan

That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

Bill Clark

The permit limits are pretty close to what the reality is.

Bill Cowher

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

Bibhu Mohapatra

I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.

C. S. Lewis

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

C. S. Lewis

Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope -- something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.

C. S. Lewis

He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.

Carl Rakosi

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Lawrence Krauss

That would give social structures more time to adapt.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

Carroll Quigley

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Barbara Mikulski

Politics is social work with power.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Le Corbusier

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.

Linda Casey

I think it speaks to the convenience of convenience stores.

Randy Couture

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

Anthony Romero

President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.

Edward Abbey

The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.

Brandon Ferguson

To be that disciplined about it speaks volumes.

Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

Alfred North Whitehead

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Abu Bakar Bashir

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

Bryan Batt

If you see something that speaks to you and you can swing it, don't question. I don't regret anything that I've ever bought, only the things that slipped away.