Quotes and Sayings about Ale
"What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime."
- Frank Abagnale
(Related: Technology, Crime, Today, Youth)
"Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes."
- Frank Abagnale
"We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals."
- Abu Abbas
(Related: War, Thought, Goals)
"We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Vision, Ending, Occupation, President, Solution, State)
"There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own."
- Berenice Abbott
(Related: Ruin, Teachers)
"There are many talented people."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: People)
"Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Art, Talent)
"Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Court)
"Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Leaders, Troops)
"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Body, Students)
"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Politics, Power, Science, Experience, History, Knowledge, Action, Future, Gold, Past)
"I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl."
- Amy Adams
(Related: Work, End, Work ethic)
"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Negative, Performance)
"We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby."
- Jack Adams
(Related: American, Fact)
"The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Effect, Islands, News)
"Genius is the talent for seeing things straight."
- Maude Adams
(Related: Talent, Genius)
"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Observation, World, Worth, Writer)
"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Talent, Eloquence, Man, Modesty)
"Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire."
- Sheldon Adelson
(Related: Intention, Planning)
"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Talent, Pressure)
"Your talent is in your choice."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Talent, Choice)
"Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Thought, Logic)
"Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Fascism)
"Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Men, Victory, Passion)
"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Justice, Learning, Suffering)
"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales."
- Aesop
"I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Being, Force)
"I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: God, Heart, Virtue, Pen)
"After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Wisdom, God, Possessions)
"But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Cities, Israel, Land, Result, Rome)
"People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Related: People, Freedom, Monuments, Visit)
"I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job."
- Roger Ailes
(Related: Talent, People, Focus, Job, Programming)
"There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: Government, Talent, Crisis, Losing, Public)
"Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Experience, America, Country, Palestine, Today)
"It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women."
- Louisa May Alcott
(Related: Men, Time, Women, Talent, Genius, People, Difference)
"You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty."
- Louisa May Alcott
(Related: Power, Talent, Genius, Charm, Conceit, Danger, Gifts, Goodness, Modesty, Will)
"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty."
- Louisa May Alcott
(Related: Power, Talent, Genius, Charm, Conceit, Consciousness, Danger, Goodness, Modesty, Will)
"No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you."
- Sholom Aleichem
(Related: Living)
"A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction."
- Sholom Aleichem
(Related: Work, Direction, Man)
"Gossip is nature's telephone."
- Sholom Aleichem
(Related: Nature, Gossip)
"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor."
- Sholom Aleichem
(Related: Life, Dream, Comedy, Fool, Poor, Tragedy)
"The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger."
- Sholom Aleichem
(Related: Hunger, Poor, Pride)
"Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses."
- Vicente Aleixandre
(Related: Poetry, Questions)
"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
- Alexander Alekhine
(Related: Chess, First)
"Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents."
- Alexander Alekhine
(Related: Art, Chess)
"I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands."
- Alexander Alekhine
(Related: Beauty, Chess)
"Chess is not only knowledge and logic."
- Alexander Alekhine
(Related: Knowledge, Chess, Logic)
"I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty."
- Alexander Alekhine
(Related: Modesty)
"The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give."
- Alexander Alekhine
(Related: Happiness, Life, Purpose, Man, Sense)
"The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime."
- Alexander Alekhine
(Related: Time, Crime, Fact, Law, Mind)
"In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications."
- Alexander Alekhine
(Related: Fear, Opportunity, Opinion, Problems)
"Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!"
- Alexander Alekhine
(Related: Beauty, Will)
"I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties."
- Alexander Alekhine
(Related: Work, Delusion, Difficulties)
"My contract is just for this year, but I have an option for next year. It is not signed at this moment, but I am only concentrating on this year. I don't know exactly what I will do in the future."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Future, Will)
"I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Old, Retirement)
"I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Home)
"Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Experience, Time)
"Eddie Jordan found me all the drives. If I am with Tyrrell today, it is because Eddie was there."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Today)
"Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Family, Home, Time, Mother, Question)
"Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Beginning)
"I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Positive, Disappointment, Race)
"I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Time, Being, EnglEnglish, First, Friends, Language, Moon)
"I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Beginning)
"It's my job, but I think it is too much."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Job)
"It wasn't all frustration. I've had a lot of good times with Ferrari as well."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Frustration)
"That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Dream, Chance, Pleasure)
"To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Publicity)
"When I go back to France now I spend all the my time with press and sponsors. I do not have a lot of time to spend at home with my family."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Family, Home, Time, France, Now, Press)
"When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner."
- Jean Alesi
"You never really know how quick you are before you reach F1."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Quick)
"You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there."
- Jean Alesi
"I must use Ferrari to the maximum. My priority is to get results. Then we will see what happens."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Results, Will)
"I think I will have a lot of opportunities in the future."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Future, Will)
"I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Race)
"I will be better in Monte Carlo than I was in Phoenix. If I can't win maybe I will lead 50 laps."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Will)
"I'm not sure they understand everything about racing cars. I am not sure that this is wise."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Racing)
"I made my choice to be in Ferrari. It is not easy because it is important for a man to have satisfaction. And for me to get the satisfaction I want means getting results."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Choice, Man, Results, Satisfaction, Want)
"No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: Greatness, Grace, Sin)
"Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: Men, Morality, Motives)
"It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: Heart, Apology, Being, Evil, Sin, Will)
"But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: God, Christ, May, Now, Rebellion, Repentance, Will)
"Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: Heart, Christ)
"God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: God, Earth)
"If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: Men, Children)
"It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: Men, Credit, Interest, News)
"None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: Time, Delay, Grave, Now, Will)
"Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: Nature, Fool)
"I paint because I love to cut mats."
- Arthur Alexander
(Related: Love)
"The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes."
- Bill Alexander
(Related: Anger, Being, Weapons)
"The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain."
- Bill Alexander
(Related: Government, Character, Fascism, Fight, Force, Popular, Republican, Spain)
"The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life."
- Bill Alexander
(Related: Life, Order, Republican)
"The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone."
- Bill Alexander
(Related: People, Army, Fighting, Force)
"The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people."
- Bill Alexander
(Related: People, Cities, Help, Military, News, Open)
"Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores."
- Bill Alexander
(Related: Force, Intellectuals, Poets, Spain, Workers, Writers)
"We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe."
- Christopher Alexander
(Related: Harmony)
"Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design."
- Christopher Alexander
(Related: Design, Environmental, Complexity, Problems)
"The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling."
- Christopher Alexander
(Related: Life, Nature, Feeling)
"Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts."
- Christopher Alexander
(Related: Work, People, Help, Relationships)
"It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs."
- Jane Alexander
(Related: Art, Age, Day)
"All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member."
- Jane Alexander
(Related: Art, Americans, Want)
"I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair."
- Jane Alexander
(Related: Reputation, Years)
"I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in."
- Jane Alexander
(Related: Age, Living)
"Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector."
- Jane Alexander
"Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved."
- Jane Alexander
(Related: Now)
"Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art."
- Jane Alexander
(Related: Art, Business, World)
"What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts."
- Jane Alexander
(Related: Excellence)
"No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody."
- Jane Alexander
(Related: Art)
"I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Funny, Character, Pain)
"You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Time)
"Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey."
- Jason Alexander
"We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season."
- Jason Alexander
"The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Funny, Humor, Sense)
"The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Work, Job, Pleasure, Years)
"I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Work)
"I still don't know much about directing a movie."
- Jason Alexander
"But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Heart, Grandparents)
"But I didn't know much about directing a movie."
- Jason Alexander
"The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Life, Actors, Manners, Play)
"There are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do not fully believe."
- Joshua Willis Alexander
"This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance."
- Khandi Alexander
(Related: Balance, Comedy)
"I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing."
- Khandi Alexander
(Related: Love, Comedy)
"I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me."
- Khandi Alexander
(Related: Work, Comedy, Teaching)
"September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Country)
"As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Music, People, Beliefs, State)
"I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Now, Right)
"I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Health, Goal, Care, Country)
"Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Health, People, Care, Democrats, Months, Saying, Trying, Want, Washington, Will)
"If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Money)
"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Americans)
"Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Race)
"The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Goal, Country, Legislation, Result, Will)
"The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Job, President, University)
"There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: War, Iraq, Nation, President, Republicans, Support, Wonder)
"We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: People, Achievement, Country, Diversity, Unity, Variety, World)
"We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Attention, Want)
"It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Music, Character, American, Living, Moods)
"I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Adventure, Writing)
"Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Friends, Shakespeare, Teachers)
"I loved all the world's mythologies."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: World)
"After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Work, Money, College)
"Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: War, Germany, Paris)
"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Books, May, Writers)
"My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Parents)
"When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Paris, states, University)
"There's this huge number of desperate people."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: People)
"My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Family, Work, Forget, Literature)
"Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: People, Feelings, Relationships, World)
"My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Concern)
"Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Books, Fantasy)
"King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Heroes)
"It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: War, Army, World, World war)
"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Trying, Writers)
"After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Family, Jobs, Support, Writing, Years)
"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Learning, Question)
"We didn't do anything wrong... Some are frustrated that we did it this way."
- Rodney Alexander
(Related: Wrong)
"To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair."
- Rodney Alexander
"I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry."
- Rodney Alexander
(Related: Failure, African, Leaders)
"I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican."
- Rodney Alexander
(Related: Republican, Want)
"I didn't have the base I needed to win the election."
- Rodney Alexander
"I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders."
- Rodney Alexander
(Related: Leaders)
"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Life, Science, Act, Deals, Psychology)
"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Act, Curiosity)
"Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Time, Desire, Possession, Self, Succeed)
"For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Thought, Virtue)
"In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Perception, Act)
"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Name)
"But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Ideas, Class, Contemplation, Reflection)
"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Life, Practice)
"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Enjoyment, Fancy, Future)
"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Business, Life, Nature, Attention, Being, Detail, Psychology)
"The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Desire, Expectation, Expectations, May)
"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Act)
"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Perception, Act, Mind)
"The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects."
- Samuel Alexander
"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Perception, Act)
"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Perception, May)
"We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element."
- Samuel Alexander
"What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Meaning, Mind, Philosophy)
"When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Thoughts, Fact, Memories, Obvious, Practice, Sense)
"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Appetite, Desire, Personality, Self)
"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Act, Contemplation, Enjoyment, May)
"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Experience, Expectations, Memories)
"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Thought, Being, First, Future)
"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Expectation, Future)
"It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Experience, Words)
"But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Action, Sense, Value, Word)
"My husband's a director, so he understands what I do."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Husband)
"I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Time, Acting, Actors, Preparation, Television)
"I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Work, Thought, Acting)
"Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Experience, Life, People, Hollywood, Nothing, Now, World)
"I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Beginning)
"I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: End, Hell, Injury, Want)
"I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Time, First, Night)
"I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Film, Focus)
"I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Love, Character, Beginning, End, Television)
"I believe life takes us where we need to be."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Life)
"I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Time, World)
"My parents wanted me to go to law school."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Law, Parents, School)
"Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Experience, Work, First)
"When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Money, Acting, College, Living, Writing)
"When you read a script, you get a feeling from it."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Feeling)
"I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Growing up, Voice, Want, World)
"The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god."
- Scott Alexander
(Related: Money, God)
"The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get."
- Scott Alexander
(Related: Order)
"All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy."
- Scott Alexander
(Related: Cheating, Dying, Evil, Losing, Mediocrity)
"Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully."
- Scott Alexander
(Related: Money, Hobbies, Will)
"Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Dance, America)
"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Office, Stars)
"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Truth, People, Excellence)
"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Eye, Mind, Paradox, Reality)
"The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Love, First)
"The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Women, Rights, Law, Water)
"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Sky)
"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Being, Difficulty, Man, Medicine)
"Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Expectation, Letters)
"I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Enemy, Man, Woman)
"Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Evolution, Man)
"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: HusbPeople, Eyes, Law)
"Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them."
- Shaun Alexander
(Related: Time, Wounds)
"I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season."
- Shaun Alexander
(Related: Time, Running, Summer)
"Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring."
- William Alexander
(Related: Life, Courage, Earth, Forget, Resignation, Snow, Spring)
"The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death."
- William Alexander
(Related: Death, Soul)
"Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools."
- William Alexander
(Related: Experience, Knowledge, Fools, Schools)
"The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care."
- William Alexander
(Related: Care, Rivers)
"The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more."
- Sherman Alexie
(Related: Dream)
"All art is exploitation."
- Sherman Alexie
(Related: Art, Exploitation)
"All I owe the world is my art."
- Sherman Alexie
(Related: Art, World)
"If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time."
- Sherman Alexie
(Related: Time, Poems, Writing)
"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures."
- Sherman Alexie
(Related: Purpose, Authority, Children)
"I would rather exercise than read a newspaper."
- Kim Alexis
(Related: Exercise)
"We are all put in different positions for different reasons."
- Kim Alexis
"Don't ever be afraid to step out and do something different."
- Kim Alexis
"When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward."
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
(Related: Will)
"Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Age, Experience, Women, Children, Victims, Violence, Will)
"Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Talent, Will)
"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Talent, Being)
"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"
- Woody Allen
(Related: Life, Death, Evening)
"Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent."
- George Allen, Sr.
(Related: Success, Talent, Ability)
"When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Death, Energy)
"Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Money, Technology, Time, Talent, People)
"I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Tea)
"What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing."
- Alejandro Amenabar
(Related: People, Hollywood, Nothing)
"An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it."
- Alejandro Amenabar
(Related: Awards)
"I think the concept of the sea is very important."
- Alejandro Amenabar
(Related: Sea)
"I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to."
- Alejandro Amenabar
(Related: Change, Actors, Talk, Want)
"In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance."
- Alejandro Amenabar
(Related: Movies, Horror, Silence, Today)
"My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books."
- Alejandro Amenabar
(Related: Mother, Brother, Books)
"Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much."
- Alejandro Amenabar
(Related: Music)
"We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute."
- Jeff Ament
(Related: Years)
"The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification."
- William Ames
(Related: God, Church, Direction, Will)
"Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church."
- William Ames
(Related: God, Faith, Church, Help, Today)
"Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II."
- Barbara Amiel
(Related: War, Countries, World, World war)
"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Talent, Genius)
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Work, Talent, Light)
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Talent, Genius)
"For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Fun)
"When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously."
- David Amram
(Related: Time, Being, Listening)
"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."
- Hans Christian Andersen
(Related: Life)
"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."
- Hans Christian Andersen
(Related: Life, God, Man)
"I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Talent, School, University)
"Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Actor)
"If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Art, Talent, Respect)
"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."
- Philip Warren Anderson
(Related: Interest)
"They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Life, People, Conservation, Name, Trying, World)
"I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Work, Money, Authority, Woman)
"The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset."
- Primo Angeli
(Related: Talent, Service)
"The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Character, Acceptance, American, Fact, Respect, Struggle)
"I believe that every person is born with talent."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Talent)
"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Talent, Children, Ignorance)
"I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs."
- Paul Anka
(Related: Talent, Songs, Teenage)
"Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in."
- Keren Ann
(Related: Talent, People, Songs, Writing, Years)
"Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write."
- Jean Anouilh
(Related: Talent, Open)
"Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale."
- Piers Anthony
(Related: First, Practice, Skill, Writing, Years)
"I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com."
- Piers Anthony
(Related: Internet, Now, Publishing, Self, Writer)
"Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited."
- Michael Apted
(Related: Music, Work, Financial, Rights)
"It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today."
- Michael Apted
(Related: Imagination, Talent, Skill, Today)
"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Death, Power, Heresy, Reason)
"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Power, Nature, Sex, Production, Woman)
"Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Mind, Reality)
"The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem."
- Yasser Arafat
(Related: Will)
"We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem."
- Yasser Arafat
(Related: Life, Israel, Population, State, Will)
"The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine."
- Yasser Arafat
(Related: Victory, Flies, March, Palestine, Will)
"Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart."
- Yasser Arafat
(Related: Palestine, World)
"In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth."
- Yasser Arafat
(Related: Goal, Order, Palestine)
"When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Money, End, Play)
"Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Power, People, Difference, Gentlemen)
"I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Country, Responsibility)
"Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: People, Boxing, Now, World)
"Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Mistake, Will)
"Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Winning, Titles, World)
"I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing."
- Alexis Arguello
"I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: People)
"I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Heart, Strength, Balance, Mind, Right)
"I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Fight, Opponents, Will)
"I have no regrets because I did everything by the book."
- Alexis Arguello
"I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: American, Fighting, Games, Gold, July, Kids, Will)
"I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Winning)
"When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: People, Actions, Country, Nation, Now)
"I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Power, Being, Day, Fire)
"When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Beauty, Money, Thought, Heart, Interest)
"If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Fight, Fighting, First, World)
"It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Competition)
"It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Fight, Will)
"Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Boxing, Fighting, July, Kids, Will)
"Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Age, Money, Women, People, Act, Fighting)
"Of course after the fight you want to make sure that you're okay and so is the other guy, it's a brotherhood in there, so you want to make sure everyone is okay after the war is over."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: War, Brotherhood, Fight, Want)
"See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Boxing, Help, Respect, Will)
"What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Family, People, Country, Help, Mankind, Nation, Respect, Wrong)
"When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning."
- Alexis Arguello
"Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Boxing, Today)
"I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Motivation, Boxing, Dedication)
"Yes, but the great thing about all the people - and I don't think there is any exception - who I've worked with is they've all been very, very talented musicians."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: People, Musicians)
"That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Work, People, Fun)
"Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen."
- Dick Armey
(Related: Hurt)
"A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales."
- Rudolf Arnheim
"They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise."
- Arrian
(Related: Difficulty)
"In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord."
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
(Related: Time)
"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."
- Mary Kay Ash
(Related: Life, Sales, Succeed, Will)
"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel."
- Mary Kay Ash
(Related: Talent, People)
"I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school."
- Shawn Ashmore
(Related: Character, School)
"These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase."
- Julian Assange
"I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all."
- Richard Attenborough
(Related: Argument, Reason)
"What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit."
- Richard Attenborough
(Related: Art, America, Now)
"Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie."
- Colleen Atwood
(Related: Action)
"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Religion, Catholicism, Saints)
"With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office."
- Louis Auchincloss
(Related: HusbCommittee, Hair, Meetings, Office, Years)
"Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent."
- Kevyn Aucoin
(Related: Talent, Respect, Ugly)
"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Talent, Direction, Lies)
"Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive."
- Jean M. Auel
(Related: Positive, Letters, Sales)
"It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake."
- Bille August
(Related: Life, Society, People, Dream)
"I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts."
- Bille August
(Related: Finance, Money, Film, Television)
"He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film."
- Bille August
(Related: Film)
"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Motivation, Talent, Will)
"Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Books, Will)
"The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find."
- Francis Aungier
(Related: Sex, Interest)
"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
- Jane Austen
(Related: Talent, May, Result, Study)
"I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert."
- Roy Ayers
(Related: Quick, Rap, Youth)
"I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America."
- Roy Ayers
(Related: Life, Music, America)
"We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan."
- Shaukat Aziz
(Related: World)
"In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward."
- Charles Babbage
(Related: Talent, Ability, Circumstance, England, Law, Profession, Reward)
"Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good."
- Bruce Babbitt
(Related: Government, Time, Congress, Law)
"I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Music, Time, Talent, Thought, American, School, Students)
"For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: Life, Opportunity, Hope, America, Country, Freedom, Generations, Land)
"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Death, Men, Fear, Children)
"Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent."
- Kevin Bacon
(Related: Talent, Famous)
"I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was."
- John Badham
(Related: Funny, Personality, Today)
"What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Work, Society, Talent, Being)
"There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Work, Talent, God, Man)
"Instinct is untaught ability."
- Alexander Bain
(Related: Ability, Instinct)
"The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel."
- David Baker
(Related: Authority, Israel)
"What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses."
- David Baker
(Related: Grammar, Tools)
"The drama is a great revealer of life."
- George P. Baker
(Related: Life, Drama)
"Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum."
- Robert T. Bakker
(Related: Job, Kids, Teaching)
"The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me."
- Robert T. Bakker
(Related: Life, History, Career, Earth)
"I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly."
- Scott Bakula
(Related: Business, Love, Work, People, Acting, Relationships)
"The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener."
- George Balanchine
(Related: Ballet, Flowers, Garden, Man, Woman)
"A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples."
- Emily Greene Balch
(Related: Time, Nationalism)
"I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Acting, Interest)
"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Judges, Party, Washington)
"Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Home, Enemies)
"Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Fun, Play)
"Down with Dukes of Hazzard!"
- Alec Baldwin
"Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Policy, Public, Public policy)
"I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Time, states, United)
"You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Age, Change, Actors, Years)
"To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Business, Choices, Integrity)
"There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: People, Country, Forget, Media, Now, Thinking)
"There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Time, Movies, People, Letters)
"Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Sex)
"I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Idea, President, states, United)
"Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: People, Actor, Career, Facts, Trouble)
"The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny."
- Daniel Baldwin
(Related: Funny, People)
"I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get."
- Daniel Baldwin
(Related: People, Want)
"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Talent, Nothing, World, Writer)
"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set."
- Christian Bale
(Related: People, Acting, Environment, Nothing)
"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."
- Christian Bale
(Related: People, Acting, Empathy)
"The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Decision, Decisions)
"Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Actors)
"No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?"
- Christian Bale
(Related: Challenge, Day, Disappointment)
"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message."
- Christian Bale
(Related: People, Character, Hope, Difference, Ethics, Film, Obsession, Saying, Will)
"It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Actors, Fools)
"There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Months)
"It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me."
- Christian Bale
"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Life, Movies, People, Acting, Circumstances, Fantasy)
"It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Waiting)
"In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Movies, Doubt, Interest, Romantic)
"In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Love, Life, Wife, Belief)
"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Life)
"I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Life, Want)
"I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous."
- Christian Bale
(Related: English, Famous, World)
"The interesting thing about a movie is the movie."
- Christian Bale
"We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Laws, Man)
"What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Dress, Hell, Man)
"When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things."
- Christian Bale
(Related: People, Character, Film)
"You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Life, Actor, Job, World)
"So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Vision, Actor, Help, Will)
"I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway."
- Christian Bale
"I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Life, People, Attitude, End, Living, Theory)
"An actor should never be larger than the film he's in."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Actor, Film)
"I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Past, Thinking, Want, Years)
"I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make."
- Christian Bale
(Related: People, Idea, Fact, Want)
"I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Trying, Woman, World)
"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Sound, Writer)
"I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Want)
"I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Idea, First)
"I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Romantic, Will)
"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"
- Christian Bale
(Related: Movies, Idea, Character, Actor, Magic)
"All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Time, Giving, Obligation, Will)
"I have a fear of being boring."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Fear, Being)
"I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am."
- Christian Bale
"I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Life, Answers, Play)
"Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Imagination)
"But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Character, Embarrassment)
"But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Time, Doctors, Mind, Right)
"'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Time, English, Film, Months)
"And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Love, Movies, Being, Entertainment)
"A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?"
- Christian Bale
(Related: People, Desire, Responsibility, Trying, Want)
"I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Talent, Regret)
"A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction."
- J. G. Ballard
(Related: Nature, Pornography, Taste)
"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Power)
"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Power, Talent, Will)
"A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: Wife, Husband, Influence, Ridicule, Woman)
"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Beauty, Talent, Promise, Woman)
"A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk."
- Harry F. Banks
(Related: Enthusiasm)
"Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe."
- Joseph Banks
(Related: EnglEurope, May)
"For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant."
- Russell Banks
(Related: Work, Living, Writer, Writers)
"I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature."
- Russell Banks
(Related: Talent, Thought, Artist, Literature, Reading)
"If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations."
- Ehud Barak
(Related: Age, Right)
"Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: Americans, Congress, Creation, Economy, Tax, Hurt, Job, Jobs, Majority, Will)
"My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: Mother, Brothers, Childhood, First, Football, Old, President, School, Woman, Years)
"When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: First, Income, Taxes)
"There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: Economy, Taxes)
"The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: Decision)
"Big business has no party and never shall have."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: Business, Party)
"I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: Business, Career, Community, Congress, Lady, Labor, President, states, United, Will)
"I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: Leadership, Creation, Job)
"I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: Peace, People, American, Beginning, Country, Understanding, Weapons, World)
"I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: Government, Yesterday)
"The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: History, Time, Policy, American, Congress)
"In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can."
- Maurice Baring
(Related: Talent, Genius, Contrast)
"I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises."
- Bob Barker
(Related: Experience, Talent, Care, Living, May, Surprises)
"The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work."
- Charles Barkley
(Related: Work, Talent, Relax)
"We provide many options in many product areas that they seem to want to adopt, and that's working well for us."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Options, Want)
"Where we can compete on merit, we do very well."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Merit)
"That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?"
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Business)
"The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Success, People, Ability, Internet, Open, World)
"There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Answers, Past)
"We also provide a lot of services with our consulting group that allow people to take maximum advantage of the Net economy. Those all seem to resonate with customers and are providing a good strong base going forward."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: People, Consulting, Economy)
"We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Public, Software)
"Of course, nothing happens until somebody sells something."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Nothing)
"We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Building, Company, Future)
"We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Business, World)
"We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it."
- Jim Barksdale
"Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Technology, Being, Internet, Now)
"Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Sales, Value)
"Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Company, Living, Proof)
"We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Information, Software, World)
"I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: People, Strategy, Months, Past, Software, Want)
"One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: People, Hope, Writing)
"Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: People, Building, Employees, Fun)
"I can't deny that some customers and prospects think it's the key to our future. But it's not. We're certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Action, Future, Justice, Key, states)
"I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Government, Software)
"I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group."
- Jim Barksdale
"After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Business, Communication, Future)
"I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Business, Government, Months, Past, Research, Want)
"I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Truth)
"I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Business, Work)
"In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Business, Technology, People, Internet, Talk)
"It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Time, Thought, First, Job, Saying)
"One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Day)
"I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Power, Choice, Competition, Direction)
"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales."
- John Perry Barlow
(Related: Performance, Living, Musicians, Sales, Writers)
"The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: Country, Customer, Police, Trying, Will)
"There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: Time, Internet, Newspapers, Sales)
"A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego."
- Roseanne Barr
(Related: Mom, Beer, Ego, Favorite, First)
"Fairy-tales are nice."
- Syd Barrett
"My lips are big, but my talent is bigger."
- Fantasia Barrino
(Related: Talent)
"One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance."
- John Barrow
(Related: Talent, Chance, Fortune, Judgment, Luck)
"Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Now, Scientists)
"The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species."
- Dave Barry
"It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Fact, Will)
"People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction."
- Cecilia Bartoli
(Related: Talent, People, Character, Fiction, Man)
"It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color."
- Cecilia Bartoli
"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand."
- Bruce Barton
(Related: Men, Talent, Opportunity, Successful)
"To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them."
- Georges Bataille
(Related: God, Being, Existence, Harmony)
"Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it."
- Jason Bateman
(Related: Christian, Swearing)
"In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl."
- H. E. Bates
(Related: America)
"Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them."
- Kathy Bates
"It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!"
- Kathy Bates
"The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil."
- Jean Baudrillard
(Related: Evil, Extremes, Radical, World)
"The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real."
- Jean Baudrillard
"At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves."
- Jean Baudrillard
(Related: Women, Dancing, Faces)
"I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works."
- Ann Beattie
(Related: Writers)
"At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove."
- James Beattie
(Related: Day, Forgetfulness, Song)
"Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius."
- Warren Beatty
(Related: Marriage, Talent, Genius, Acting)
"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority."
- Simone de Beauvoir
(Related: Society, Inferiority, Superiority, Being, Man, Woman)
"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."
- Simone de Beauvoir
(Related: Women)
"Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male."
- Simone de Beauvoir
(Related: Being, Man, Woman)
"According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world."
- Xavier Becerra
(Related: Heart, African, American, Americans, states, United, World)
"I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy."
- Glenn Beck
(Related: Rain, Sense)
"If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop."
- Glenn Beck
(Related: Justice)
"Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had."
- David Beckham
(Related: Manager)
"I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls."
- Kate Beckinsale
(Related: Girls)
"People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings."
- Kate Beckinsale
(Related: Women, People, Want)
"No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved."
- Kate Beckinsale
"It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me."
- Kate Beckinsale
(Related: Business, Opportunity, Day, First, Now, World)
"It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him."
- Kate Beckinsale
(Related: People, Charm, Losing, Open)
"If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!"
- Kate Beckinsale
(Related: Sense, Sharing, Years)
"If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work."
- Kate Beckinsale
(Related: Work, Job, Jungle)
"I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring."
- Kate Beckinsale
"Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!"
- Kate Beckinsale
(Related: Successful, Being)
"As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress."
- Kate Beckinsale
(Related: Mother)
"If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor."
- Kate Beckinsale
(Related: Humor, Sex, Sense)
"Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Money, Cards, Gambling, Giving)
"The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: History, Nothing)
"The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther.""
- Ludwig van Beethoven
"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Death, Absence)
"When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can."
- Ed Belfour
(Related: Successful, Causes, Help, Support, Trouble)
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."
- Alexander Graham Bell
(Related: Open)
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell
"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."
- Alexander Graham Bell
(Related: Power, Man, Mind, State)
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."
- Alexander Graham Bell
(Related: Men, Success, Successful, End, Result)
"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
- Alexander Graham Bell
(Related: Army, Navy, Protection)
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
- Alexander Graham Bell
(Related: Work, Thoughts, Focus, Sun)
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
- Alexander Graham Bell
(Related: Success, Key, Preparation)
"America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men."
- Alexander Graham Bell
(Related: Men, America, Country)
"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
- Alexander Graham Bell
(Related: Man)
"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself."
- Alexander Graham Bell
(Related: Cooperation, Credit, May)
"The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world."
- Alexander Graham Bell
(Related: Control, Nation, Will, World)
"I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too."
- William Bell
(Related: Military)
"These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt."
- Ahmed Ben Bella
(Related: Countries)
"Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Action, Information, Problems, Visions, World)
"Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place."
- Monica Bellucci
(Related: Men, Movies, Action)
"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."
- Robert Benchley
(Related: Time, Talent, Famous, Writing, Years)
"I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Talent, People, Example, Voice)
"When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Talent, Actor)
"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Ability, Sales)
"In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Key, Sales)
"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: People, Will)
"The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state."
- Craig Benson
(Related: Business, Tax, Sales)
"Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection."
- Alban Berg
(Related: Music, Talent, Knowledge, Enthusiasm, Perception, Composers, Feeling, Reflection, Result, Study)
"Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature."
- Paul Berg
(Related: Nature, Science, Breeding, Concern)
"But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems."
- Paul Berg
(Related: Events, Plants)
"A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Intelligence, Civilization, Weight)
"I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half."
- Michael Bergin
"War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder."
- Alexander Berkman
(Related: War, Blind, Destruction, Murder, Obedience, Stupidity)
"War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood."
- Alexander Berkman
(Related: War, Courage, Spirit)
"Talent is only the starting point."
- Irving Berlin
(Related: Talent)
"The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck."
- Hector Berlioz
(Related: Talent, Luck)
"It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute."
- Howard Berman
(Related: Wrong)
"Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses."
- Georges Bernanos
(Related: Men, Civilization, May)
"Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent."
- William Bernbach
(Related: Creativity, Result, Sales)
"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."
- William Bernbach
(Related: Talent, Idea, Magic)
"I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer."
- Sarah Bernhardt
(Related: Fact)
"In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!"
- Halle Berry
(Related: Women)
"I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress."
- Valerie Bertinelli
(Related: Mom, Now, Right)
"Honesty is very sexy."
- Valerie Bertinelli
(Related: Honesty)
"Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced."
- Valerie Bertinelli
(Related: Emotions)
"It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about."
- Henry Bessemer
(Related: Successful, Difficulties, Nothing, Overcoming)
"But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had."
- Joe Biden
(Related: Authority, Workers)
"I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed."
- Joe Biden
(Related: Financial, Now, Numbers, President, Support, Will)
"Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Quality, Soul, Curiosity, Desire, Mind, Woman)
"As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Science, Discovery, Nation, Office, Research)
"But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well."
- Jason Biggs
(Related: Humor, Balance, Girls, Nothing)
"One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way."
- Theodore Bikel
(Related: Thought, Terrorism, World)
"I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen."
- Buffalo Bill
(Related: Government, Life, Thought, People, Idea, Faces, Giving, states, United)
"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Life, Money, Man, Pleasure)
"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."
- Larry Bird
(Related: God, Goals)
"Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back."
- Tim Bishop
(Related: Americans, Problems)
"In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island."
- Tim Bishop
(Related: Projects, Protection, Safety, Security)
"I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Talent, Possibility, Acting, Freedom, Play)
"I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Beauty, Love, Art, Talent, Painting, Sense)
"You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: People)
"I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Men, Nature, Acceptance)
"The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male."
- Bill Bixby
(Related: American, Comedy, Years)
"It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves."
- Bjork
(Related: Nature, People, Care)
"Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy."
- Bjork
(Related: Movies, Energy)
"The difference with me is that I did inhale."
- Cilla Black
(Related: Difference)
"Really, in a way, I took over the male role."
- Honor Blackman
"Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale."
- Honor Blackman
(Related: Attention, Television)
"In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part."
- Honor Blackman
(Related: Fact)
"Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females."
- Susan Blackmore
(Related: Success, Quality, Will, World)
"The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical."
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
(Related: Being, Sexes)
"What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off."
- Ruben Blades
(Related: People, Fact)
"Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass."
- Mary Kay Blakely
(Related: Divorce)
"The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming."
- Kathleen Blanco
(Related: Day, First, Light, Today)
"Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate."
- Richard Parks Bland
(Related: Time, Genius, Nation, Now, Will)
"To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love."
- Alan Bleasdale
(Related: Love, Age, Heart, Body, Exercise, Frigidity, Mind, Old, Study)
"There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger."
- Alan Bleasdale
(Related: Anger, Nature, Man)
"If you can run one business well, you can run any business well."
- Alan Bleasdale
(Related: Business)
"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."
- Alan Bleasdale
(Related: Beginning, Woman)
"It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Work, Positive, Months, Television, Years)
"I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Age, Manager, Day)
"Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Movies, Film, School, Thinking, Want)
"In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Life, Want)
"I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Job)
"I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Future)
"I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Want)
"I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Love)
"For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Fact, Reason)
"A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Time, Acting, Advice, Girls, Right)
"Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: People, Stress, Writers)
"I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Life, Evolution)
"Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Work, People, Film)
"Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre."
- Brenda Blethyn
(Related: Talent, Actors, Now, Theatre, World)
"Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best."
- Carla Bley
(Related: Talent, Composers, Living, Writing)
"Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well."
- Hans Blix
(Related: Meaning, Problems, Risk, World)
"The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies."
- Marc Bloch
(Related: Lies)
"I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you."
- Joan Blondell
(Related: Beauty, Talent, Longevity)
"For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: God, Christian)
"What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing."
- Nellie Bly
(Related: Body, Madness, Silence)
"Well, Hale was one of the first people who suggested to President Johnson that there should be a commission."
- Lindy Boggs
(Related: People, First, President)
"Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come."
- Lindy Boggs
(Related: Time, History, Nation, President, states, United)
"But Hale's warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn't want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement."
- Lindy Boggs
(Related: Party, President, Stars, State, Want)
"And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so."
- Lindy Boggs
(Related: Assassination, President, Talk)
"Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today."
- Suzy Bogguss
(Related: Home, Life, First, Today, Will, Years)
"Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale."
- David Bohm
(Related: Communication, Feeling, World)
"It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!"
- Robert Bolt
(Related: Soul, Man, Nothing, World)
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: God, Life, Talent, Hope, End)
"How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?"
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Will)
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Leader, Hope)
"Let the path be open to talent."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Talent, Open)
"The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy."
- Kit Bond
(Related: Death, Economy, Tax, Now, Order)
"The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap."
- Kjell Magne Bondevik
(Related: Progress, Burden, Fight, Now, Order, Proof, Terrorism)
"Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime."
- Peter Bondra
(Related: Talent, Goals, Hope, Will)
"It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't."
- Barry Bonds
(Related: Talent)
"We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs."
- John Bonham
(Related: Home, Months, Songs, Writing)
"I have lived through many major hurricanes during my lifetime: Camille, Frederic, and Ivan, to name just a very few. However, never have I seen destruction, panic, and fear on this massive scale."
- Jo Bonner
(Related: Fear, Destruction, Name)
"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."
- Edward de Bono
(Related: Difference, Expectations, Unhappiness)
"To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field."
- Edward de Bono
(Related: Successful, Growth)
"We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero."
- Jan de Bont
(Related: Action)
"Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her."
- Jan de Bont
(Related: Actor, Fighting)
"Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career."
- Alexander Borodin
(Related: Love, Music, People, Career)
"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
- Alex Borstein
(Related: People, Acting, Film, Fun, Project, Television)
"Every comic is really a frustrated rock star."
- Alex Borstein
"I got my degree in rhetoric."
- Alex Borstein
(Related: Rhetoric)
"You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend."
- Caprice Bourret
(Related: Boyfriend, Cheating, Months)
"I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it."
- Caprice Bourret
(Related: Acting, Singing)
"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Talent, Genius)
"Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it."
- Elizabeth Bowen
(Related: Nothing)
"I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents."
- David Bowie
"It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me."
- Susan Boyle
(Related: Singing, Voice, Years)
"You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to."
- Ed Bradley
(Related: Work, Talent)
"He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could."
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
"The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough."
- Sarah Brady
(Related: Victory, Common sense)
"A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart."
- Tom Brady
(Related: Talent, People, Heart, Attitude)
"I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary."
- Kenneth Branagh
(Related: Work, Talent, People, Dying)
"I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar."
- Kenneth Branagh
(Related: Actors, Now, Play, Will)
"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."
- Constantin Brancusi
(Related: Body, Eyes, Fish, Reality, Spirit, Want, Water)
"Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female."
- Jo Brand
(Related: Funny, Women)
"So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs."
- Dorthea Brande
(Related: Ideas, Sales, Will)
"I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small."
- Georg Brandes
(Related: Hearing)
"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent."
- Marlon Brando
(Related: Talent)
"I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison."
- Benjamin Bratt
(Related: Love, Work, Wife, Daughter)
"But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction."
- Andre Braugher
(Related: Sacrifice, Direction, Want, Will)
"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."
- Robert Brault
(Related: Time, Friend, Value)
"Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results."
- Phil Bredesen
(Related: Debate, Energy, Focus, Liberals, Results)
"Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Age, Death, Talent, Middle age)
"No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas."
- William J. Brennan, Jr.
(Related: Family, Home, Ideas, World)
"Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue."
- Andre Breton
(Related: Talent, Genius, Virtue, Man, Vice)
"I feel like directing is an innate talent."
- Jordana Brewster
(Related: Talent)
"Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great."
- Jordana Brewster
(Related: Being)
"Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films."
- Beau Bridges
(Related: Wisdom, Americans, Native Americans, Respect)
"I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?"
- Joe Bob Briggs
(Related: Saying)
"You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it."
- Susie Bright
(Related: Time, Idea)
"I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone."
- Susie Bright
"In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens."
- David Brin
(Related: America, Being, Enemy, Glory, Nurses, Rest, Terror, Violence)
"My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove."
- Poppy Z. Brite
(Related: Dad, Winning, Writer)
"True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale."
- Harold Brodkey
(Related: People)
"I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness."
- Harold Brodkey
(Related: Life, Contentment, Moments, World)
"War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult."
- Adrien Brody
(Related: War, Film, Safety)
"'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet."
- Alexander Brome
(Related: Love, Debt)
"I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year."
- Alexander Brome
(Related: Love, Debt)
"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Dreams, Heart, Thoughts, Silence)
"The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets."
- Rupert Brooke
(Related: Kiss, Trouble)
"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."
- Anita Brookner
(Related: Friendship, Love, Strategy)
"If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: God, Mom, Talent)
"Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Talent, People, Ability, Being, Living, Names, Skin, Writer)
"The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Feet, May)
"My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Adventure, Name, Writers)
"I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals."
- Brigid Brophy
(Related: Men, Sex)
"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine."
- Pierce Brosnan
(Related: Children, Environment, World)
"Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale."
- Earl Browder
(Related: Growth, Capitalism, Nothing, Socialism)
"For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that."
- Alton Brown
(Related: Kitchen, Military, Talking)
"The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good."
- Eric Brown
(Related: Names)
"I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could."
- James Brown
(Related: Talent, Years)
"While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught."
- Pat Brown
(Related: Business, Thought, Being, Famous, Justice)
"Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer."
- Pat Brown
"A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller."
- Ray Brown
(Related: Holidays)
"We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building."
- Sherrod Brown
(Related: Finance, War, Building, Mission, Nation, Oil, Sales)
"But either way you cannot deny the sales and what we did."
- Steve Brown
(Related: Sales)
"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(Related: Talent, Discipline)
"Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested."
- Jack Bruce
(Related: Country, Internet, Sales)
"Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Men, Women, Disease, Importance, Longevity, Population, Will)
"Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Time)
"The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent."
- Robert Brustein
(Related: Talent, Theater)
"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Foolishness, Man)
"If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it."
- William Jennings Bryan
(Related: Bible)
"Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?"
- William C. Bryant
"I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts."
- Peabo Bryson
(Related: Talent, Being, Gifts, Light, Spiritual)
"Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
(Related: Policy, Repression, Support, Terrorism)
"How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?"
- Georg Buchner
(Related: Love, Women)
"I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent."
- Young Buck
(Related: Money, Talent)
"I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales."
- Lindsey Buckingham
"The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions."
- James L. Buckley
(Related: Corruption, Court, Media, Talk)
"Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person."
- Tim Buckley
(Related: Talent, Character, Coach, Order, Play)
"Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value."
- Warren Buffett
(Related: People, Nothing, Today, Value)
"It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them."
- Thomas Bulfinch
(Related: People, Favorite, Purity)
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Talent, Genius)
"What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Talent, Purpose, Mankind)
"Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Talent, Genius)
"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Anger, Forgiveness, Revenge)
"Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?"
- Wilfred Burchett
"No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism."
- Michael Burgess
(Related: War, states, Terrorism, United)
"So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together."
- Brooke Burke
(Related: Thinking)
"When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: People, Leaders, Legislators, Popularity, Service, State, Will)
"Plan the sale when you plan the ad."
- Leo Burnett
"A good ad which is not run never produces sales."
- Leo Burnett
(Related: Sales)
"Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad."
- Conrad Burns
(Related: Home, Men, Women, Freedom, Military, Today)
"Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents."
- Conrad Burns
(Related: Education, Leadership, People, Difference, Gifts, Self, Students)
"Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others."
- James MacGregor Burns
(Related: Leaders, Play)
"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Focus, Heroes)
"History's just been made for sale to an inside deal."
- Ken Burns
(Related: History)
"Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale."
- Marian Burros
(Related: Theater, Today)
"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
- John Burroughs
(Related: Nature, Order, Senses)
"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
- William S. Burroughs
(Related: Sales, Talk, Will)
"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."
- Leo Buscaglia
(Related: God, Talent)
"My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Favorite, Mail)
"The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Actor, Responsibility)
"While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything."
- Octavia Butler
(Related: Books, Country, Direction, Fiction, World)
"The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them."
- Rocco Buttiglione
(Related: Family, Women, Care, Children, Order, Protection)
"The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead."
- Jane Byrne
(Related: Business, Chicago, Credit, Labor)
"I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses."
- Rose Byrne
(Related: Women, Competition, Solidarity, Support)
"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail."
- Lord Byron
(Related: Men, Wrongs)
"Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences."
- Vince Cable
(Related: Business, Financial, Balance, Banks, Consequences, Gambling, Investment, Years)
"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking."
- Julius Caesar
(Related: Men, Fear)
"God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box."
- Abraham Cahan
(Related: God, Day, Example, Fire, Holiness, Man)
"The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Talent)
"I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Talent, Actor)
"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect."
- Alexander Calder
(Related: Artist)
"My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six."
- Alexander Calder
(Related: Mail)
"I paint with shapes."
- Alexander Calder
"In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places."
- John Cale
(Related: Music, Cities)
"All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers."
- John Cale
(Related: Selling, Audiences, Careers, Result)
"Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure."
- John Cale
(Related: Work, Knowledge, Successful, Fact, Will)
"Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion."
- John Cale
(Related: Experience, Religion, Growing up, Pretty)
"I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession."
- John Cale
(Related: Future, Obsession, Thinking)
"I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past."
- John Cale
(Related: Future, Past, Thinking)
"When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course."
- John Cale
"I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist."
- John Cale
(Related: Want)
"I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time."
- John Cale
(Related: Time, Content, Want)
"I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen."
- John Cale
(Related: Feeling)
"I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels."
- John Cale
(Related: Reading, Writing)
"If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go."
- John Cale
(Related: Love)
"Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time."
- John Cale
(Related: Time, Attitude, Decision, Decisions)
"I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football."
- John Cale
(Related: Life, Football, Teenage, Years)
"I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need."
- John Cale
(Related: Love, Word)
"What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance."
- John Cale
(Related: Being, Freedom)
"If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it."
- John Cale
(Related: People, Will)
"We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance."
- John Cale
(Related: Idea, Performance, Trying)
"The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank."
- John Cale
(Related: Computer, Value)
"The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience."
- John Cale
(Related: Reason, Sight)
"The avant-garde makes more sense to me."
- John Cale
(Related: Sense)
"That's what my life is, writing songs."
- John Cale
(Related: Life, Songs, Writing)
"People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did."
- John Cale
(Related: Music, People)
"We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could."
- John Cale
"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."
- Italo Calvino
(Related: Talent, Genius, Inspiration, Nothing, Right, Road, Romantic)
"Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory."
- Giraldus Cambrensis
(Related: Consideration, Quantity, Value)
"Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth."
- Giraldus Cambrensis
(Related: Day, Earth, Examination, Language, May)
"There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith."
- James Cameron
(Related: Dreams, Faith, Thought, People)
"I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Death, Life, Cause, Friends, Motive, Necessity)
"Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Friends, Man, Mind, Usefulness)
"But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Life, Society, Progress)
"Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Change, Attitude, Past, Years)
"From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Money, Power, Strength, Values, Living)
"However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Spiritual)
"I am glad to go with my wife and baby boy."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Wife, Baby)
"I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Body, Difference, Future, Will)
"I believe in God and immortality."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: God, Immortality)
"I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Change, Life, Wife, Baby, Wrong)
"I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Peace, Wife, God, World)
"As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Power, Quality, Progress, Excellence, Productivity, Profit, Prosperity)
"I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Trust, God, Heart, Hope, Guilt, Infinite, Worship)
"My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Death, Will)
"My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Wife, Day, Friends, Man, Mind, Now, Spirit)
"Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Society, Direction, Meaning, Past, Question, Years)
"Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Change, American, Culture, Environment, Party, Past, Years)
"Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Change, Time, Perception, World)
"The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Business, Life, Wife, Companionship, End, Reason, Usefulness, Want, World)
"To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Nature, Effect)
"We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Alienation)
"We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Change, Life, Time, Quality, Will)
"We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: American, Beginning, Disguise, May)
"We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon."
- Alex Campbell
"What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Beginning, Enjoyment, Fulfillment, Now, Pleasure)
"I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Heart, Will, World)
"With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue."
- Anne Campbell
(Related: Money, Hope, Concern, Difficulties, Football, Land, Now, Will)
"People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with."
- Bruce Campbell
(Related: Talent, People, Horror, Sleep)
"I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people."
- Tony Campolo
(Related: Time, People, Israel, Justice, State)
"My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians."
- Tony Campolo
(Related: God, Israel, Nation, Theology, Want, Will)
"Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Children, Man, Needs)
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Evil, Harm, Ignorance, Intentions, May, Understanding, World)
"I'm on the cover of the lingerie football swimsuit calendar this year."
- Trishelle Cannatella
(Related: Football)
"And I have a couple swimsuit calendars I did that are coming out."
- Trishelle Cannatella
"McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales."
- Jim Cantalupo
(Related: Being, Old, Pretty, Sales, Years)
"We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates."
- Eric Cantor
(Related: Bureaucracy, Will)
"It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian."
- Robert Capa
(Related: Talent)
"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
- Al Capp
"What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Creativity, Abundance, Efficiency, Energy)
"I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Children, Israel, Security, Treatment)
"But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy."
- Claudia Cardinale
(Related: Hollywood, Italy)
"Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused."
- Claudia Cardinale
"It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life."
- Claudia Cardinale
(Related: Life, Living)
"But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity."
- Claudia Cardinale
(Related: Work, Identity, Personality)
"But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic."
- Claudia Cardinale
(Related: Eyes)
"And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie."
- Claudia Cardinale
(Related: Opportunity, Brooks, professionals)
"And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director."
- Claudia Cardinale
(Related: Italy)
"Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood."
- Claudia Cardinale
(Related: Movies, Hollywood, professionals)
"The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing."
- George Carey
(Related: Suicide)
"Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death."
- Donald Cargill
(Related: Death, God, Fear, May)
"But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them."
- Donald Cargill
(Related: God, Saying)
"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose."
- George Carlin
(Related: Purpose, Defeat, Self)
"The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Talent, Heart, Intellect, Temperament)
"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Intellect, Trade)
"Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes."
- George Carman
(Related: Cancer, Disease, Help)
"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."
- Andrew Carnegie
(Related: People, Content, Mediocrity)
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: People, Fun, Succeed)
"The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
- Dale Carnegie
"The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Argument)
"The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?"
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Ideas, Rules)
"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Clothes, Expression, Woman)
"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Art, Giving, Pleasure)
"Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said."
- Dale Carnegie
"Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident."
- Dale Carnegie
"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Happiness)
"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Work, Fatigue, Frustration, Resentment, Worry)
"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping ."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Happiness, Applause)
"We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Dream, Possibilities)
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Happiness, Success, Want)
"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Heart, Man, Road, Talk)
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Successful, Man, Mistakes, Profit, Will)
"There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave."
- Dale Carnegie
"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: World)
"There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Want)
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Nature, Garden, Human nature, Living, Roses, Today, Windows)
"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Life, Enthusiasm, Today)
"If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Act, Want)
"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: People, Emotion, Logic)
"When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Fate)
"You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Business, People, Months, Trying, Years)
"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Fear, Mind, Will)
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: People, Friends, Months, Trying, Years)
"You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Success)
"Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Opinion, Will)
"Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Habit, Energy, Feeling, Present, Waste)
"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Life, Chance, Man)
"Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Purpose, Detail, Language)
"Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Act, Will)
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Fool, Fools)
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Applause)
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Happiness, Work, Thought, Heart, Life, Will)
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Success, Failure, Discouragement)
"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Care, First, Jobs, Will)
"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Fear)
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Time, Care, Jobs, Will)
"Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Patriotism, Nation, Nations)
"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Want)
"Fear not those who argue but those who dodge."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Fear)
"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Courage)
"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: First)
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Success, Quality, Enthusiasm, Persistence, Sense)
"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Happiness, Attitude)
"If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: People, Worry)
"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Work, Nothing, World)
"If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Lying, Sleep, Worry)
"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Home, Fear, Want)
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Home, Fear, Action, Courage, Confidence, Doubt, Inaction, Want)
"Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Time, People, Trying, Will)
"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."
- Dale Carnegie
"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Age, Business, Home, Men, Success, Adventure, Content, Mediocrity)
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: People, Hope, Trying, World)
"Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Fear, Mind)
"Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Life, Attention, Talk)
"Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent."
- Alejo Carpentier
(Related: Faith, Music, Success, Struggle, Years)
"I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century."
- Alejo Carpentier
(Related: Music, Being, End, Popular, Result, World)
"I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner."
- Alejo Carpentier
(Related: Harmony)
"I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die."
- Caleb Carr
(Related: People)
"Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror."
- Caleb Carr
(Related: Terror)
"I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason."
- Caleb Carr
(Related: Being, Key, Mankind, Reason)
"I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face."
- Caleb Carr
(Related: Artist, Fiction, Nothing, Writer)
"Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses."
- Caleb Carr
(Related: Friend, Being, Job, Loss)
"I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from."
- Caleb Carr
(Related: History, Anger, Focus, Military, Pretty, Trying, Violence)
"I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born."
- Emily Carr
(Related: Language, Learning, Sound)
"'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great."
- David Carradine
(Related: Play)
"I've always had difficulties with female characters."
- John Le Carre
(Related: Difficulties)
"Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Power, Belief, Desire, Logic, Pride, Thinking)
"Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Science, Knowledge, Reality, Sense)
"The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Libraries, Reality)
"The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Society, Possibility, Destiny, Duty, First)
"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Beauty, Love)
"Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Peace, Religion, Strength, Light, Man, Spiritual)
"The quality of life is more important than life itself."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Life, Quality)
"Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Life)
"To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Act, Man)
"The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Day, Night, Results)
"All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: People, Advice, Help, Moments)
"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Man, Suffering)
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Men, Intuition)
"Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Life, Forbidden, Hatred, Jealousy, Laws)
"Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Enemies, Mankind)
"Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: People, Effort, Help, Hurt)
"Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Life, Personality)
"In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Man)
"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Perception, Intuition, Reality)
"A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Truth, Error, Observation)
"I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass."
- Tia Carrere
(Related: Funny, Play)
"If you've got a talent, protect it."
- Jim Carrey
(Related: Talent)
"Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?"
- Frank Carson
(Related: Car)
"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are your ready?""
- Johnny Carson
(Related: Success, Time, Talent, Being, Question, Right, Will)
"The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick."
- Angela Carter
(Related: Experience, Confidence)
"It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time."
- Angela Carter
(Related: Time, Age, Mind, Tragedy, Woman)
"My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day."
- Angela Carter
(Related: Family, Time, War, Mother, Talent, Day, Magic, Realism, World, World war)
"Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile."
- Helena Bonham Carter
(Related: People)
"All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark."
- Helena Bonham Carter
"With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb."
- Howard Carter
(Related: Mystery)
"Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway."
- Howard Carter
(Related: Sunset)
"Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us."
- Howard Carter
"After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first."
- Howard Carter
(Related: First)
"Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Love, Fantasy, Lies)
"It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think."
- Johnny Cash
(Related: Talent, People, Sense, Writing)
"My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that."
- Nick Cassavetes
(Related: Dad, Mom, Work, Actors, Pretty, Project)
"How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?"
- Rene Cassin
(Related: Victory, Promises, Years)
"And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale."
- Barbara Castle
(Related: War, People, Socialism, Talk)
"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless."
- Willa Cather
(Related: People, Kindness, Moments, Reason, Security, Shipwreck)
"Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen."
- Willa Cather
(Related: Country, Lies, Old, Winter)
"All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens."
- Willa Cather
(Related: Intelligence, Talent, Voice, World)
"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."
- Willa Cather
(Related: Talent, Character, Artist, Lies, Limitations, Writer)
"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."
- Willa Cather
(Related: God, Women, Talent, Wonder)
"I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale."
- Kim Cattrall
(Related: Women, Life, Play, Wives)
"There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh."
- Gaius Valerius Catullus
(Related: Nothing, Silly)
"I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters."
- John Cazale
(Related: People, Wonder)
"My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?"
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Father, Wife, Successful, Being, Law, Now, Practice, Questions, School, Wine)
"Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: May, Reason, Terror, Weight)
"The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire."
- Michael Chabon
(Related: Love, Time, Books, Fire)
"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."
- Marc Chagall
(Related: Life, Love, Art, Artist, Meaning)
"On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men."
- Whittaker Chambers
(Related: Men, Time, Communism, Freedom)
"This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it."
- Adelbert von Chamisso
(Related: Eyes, Feeling, Horror, Man, Manners)
"On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom."
- Adelbert von Chamisso
(Related: First, Gold, Nothing, Senses)
"Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5."
- Margaret Chan
(Related: Information)
"All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia."
- Margaret Chan
(Related: Countries, Illness, Now)
"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace."
- Margaret Chan
(Related: Business, Change, Health, Actions, Community, Now)
"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable."
- Raymond Chandler
(Related: Law, Mystery, Solution)
"I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D."
- Iris Chang
(Related: Work)
"All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat."
- Michael Chang
"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself."
- John Jay Chapman
(Related: Talent, Benevolence, Learning, Teaching, Will)
"Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?"
- Prince Charles
(Related: History, First)
"Memory is the thing you forget with."
- Alexander Chase
(Related: Forget, Memory)
"When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government."
- Alexander Chase
(Related: Government, Time, Machine)
"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."
- Alexander Chase
"To remain young one must change."
- Alexander Chase
(Related: Change)
"There are few successful adults who were not first successful children."
- Alexander Chase
(Related: Successful, Children, First)
"The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible."
- Alexander Chase
(Related: People)
"The banalities of a great man pass for wit."
- Alexander Chase
(Related: Man, Wit)
"More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion."
- Alexander Chase
(Related: Religion, People, Care, Religious, Tolerance)
"Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death."
- Alexander Chase
(Related: Death, Travel, Fact, Immortality, Illusion, Lovers)
"All generalizations are false, including this one."
- Alexander Chase
"A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed."
- Alexander Chase
"A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily."
- Alexander Chase
"A man's home is his wife's castle."
- Alexander Chase
(Related: Home, Wife, Man)
"People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction."
- Alexander Chase
(Related: Leader, People, Direction, Right, Sheep)
"They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase."
- Chevy Chase
(Related: Actors)
"The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property."
- Salmon P. Chase
(Related: Being, Freedom, Law, Man, Property)
"The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant."
- Brandi Chastain
(Related: Country)
"Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more."
- Linda Chavez
(Related: Modesty)
"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
- Anton Chekhov
(Related: Writer)
"There is nothing new in art except talent."
- Anton Chekhov
(Related: Art, Talent, Nothing)
"Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it."
- Anton Chekhov
(Related: Faith, Fact, Spirit)
"My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport."
- Joan Chen
(Related: Life)
"Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: Writing)
"If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: Finance, Time, Banks, Corporations, Investment, World)
"When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill."
- Gary Cherone
(Related: Time, People, First, Mind, Play, Singing, Songs)
"Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie."
- Gary Cherone
(Related: People, Extreme, Play, Talking, Want)
"Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years."
- Gary Cherone
(Related: Thought, Years)
"I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff."
- Gary Cherone
(Related: Mistake, Old, Research, Want, Years)
"If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record."
- Gary Cherone
(Related: Chance)
"It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen."
- Gary Cherone
(Related: Fun)
"When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me."
- Gary Cherone
"You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype."
- Gary Cherone
(Related: History, People, Extreme, Will)
"How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared."
- Caryl Chessman
(Related: Facts, Light, Man, Police, Wrong)
"My soul is not for sale."
- Caryl Chessman
(Related: Soul)
"A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Apology, Hurt, Insult, Party, Want)
"And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Men, Feelings, Being, Perspective, Talking)
"A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Men, Women, Perspective)
"With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed."
- Judy Chicago
(Related: Women, Work, Disguise, Impulses)
"I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book."
- Lydia M. Child
(Related: Lady, Woman)
"It's been like a bad dream I never woke from."
- Alex Chilton
(Related: Dream)
"Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right."
- Alex Chilton
(Related: Love, Right, Words, Years)
"The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?"
- Alex Chilton
(Related: Music, People, Ideas, Fun, Trying)
"If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction."
- Alex Chilton
(Related: Conviction, Expression, Song, Spirit, Writing)
"I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have."
- Alex Chilton
(Related: Life, Business, First)
"I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well."
- Alex Chilton
(Related: Thought, People, Being, Pretty)
"I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember."
- Alex Chilton
(Related: Country, Will, Years)
"Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did."
- Alex Chilton
(Related: Drugs, Liquor, Pretty, Quitting, Years)
"I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers."
- Giorgio de Chirico
(Related: Talent, Moments)
"The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it'll benefit the sales."
- Melanie Chisholm
(Related: Success, Hope, Being, Question, Sales)
"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
- Shirley Chisholm
(Related: Society, Talent)
"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl."
- Shirley Chisholm
"Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black."
- Shirley Chisholm
(Related: Being, Obstacles)
"Then you must look for a new body. That's what we call reincarnation."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Body, Reincarnation)
"If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Party)
"As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: People, Immortality)
"But if USA has 1.3 billion people, USA would have the same human rights problem just like China."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: People, Rights, Human rights)
"But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Idiots, Now, Parents, Reason)
"Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: People, Being)
"I am proud to be Chinese, and I do not tolerate any traitor."
- Alex Chiu
"I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Work, Invention)
"I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Care, Now, Party, Right)
"I just think that most of the people are very close minded."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: People)
"I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Theories)
"I show people how to build their own immortality device."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: People, Immortality)
"I support population control. I think USA should do the same."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Control, Population, Support)
"I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money?"
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Money, People, Research, Waste)
"When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: School)
"I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Government, Job, Now, Right)
"You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: People, Freedom, Land)
"If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Bible, Beginning, Immortality, Prophecy, Will)
"Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Medical, Time, Immortality, Post, Results, World)
"In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Fact, Popular)
"It might feel good to be out of your body for awhile. But you can't stay like that forever."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Body)
"Most of the food imported to Russia came from China."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Food, Russia)
"None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Day, Invention, Neighbors, Will)
"Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Medical, Doctors, professionals)
"Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Body)
"So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Business, Will)
"Souls are designed to fit inside a body."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Body)
"Souls are not designed to float around in thin air."
- Alex Chiu
"Testimonials are enough to convince people for now."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: People, Now)
"Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: People, Friends, Immortality, Help, News, Relatives, Want)
"Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States."
- Chris Chocola
(Related: Business, Being, Congress, Manufacturing, Sales, states, United)
"The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Power, Meaning, Symbol)
"Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?"
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: God)
"If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?"
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: God)
"I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Religion, Women, Work, First, Religious, University)
"I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues."
- Clayton Christensen
(Related: Power, God)
"I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me."
- Clayton Christensen
(Related: Eternity, Events, Future, Visions)
"Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Soul, Attitude, Actions, Crime, Habits, Mind, Will)
"I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Talent, Acting, Nothing)
"I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Talent, Athletes, Meetings)
"The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Peace)