Rock 'n' roll... but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza. ~By Angie Everhart ~
Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor. ~By Alanis Morissette ~
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. ~By Claude Bernard ~
I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street. ~By James McAvoy ~
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home. ~By Og Mandino ~
There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made. ~By Michael Nesmith ~
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings. ~By Henri Bergson ~
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. ~By Claude Debussy ~
Events like this mean we can give something back to the people that support us, and hopefully everyone will have a great day and we can put on a good show for them. ~By Nelson Piquet ~
I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year. ~By Oksana Baiul ~
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. ~By Ernest Hemingway ~
Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can. ~By James D'arcy ~
Events are not a matter of chance. ~By Gamal Abdel Nasser ~
Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them. ~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities. ~By Dorothee Solle ~
News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows. ~By Jessica Savitch ~
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it. ~By Fran Drescher ~
I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses. ~By Yitzhak Shamir ~
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. ~By Tony Robbins ~
I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be. ~By Bob Schieffer ~
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. ~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ~By Marcel Proust ~
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. ~By Edward Gibbon ~
That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on. ~By Bernhard Langer ~
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly. ~By Harry Reasoner ~
The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South. ~By Omar Bongo ~
For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way. ~By John Burns ~
Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course. ~By Gustav Stresemann ~
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops. ~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions. ~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan. ~By Richard Curtis ~
But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy. ~By Liam Fox ~
By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate. ~By David Rockefeller ~
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. ~By Andre Gide ~
Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes. ~By Craig McCracken ~
So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there. ~By Phil Lesh ~
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear. ~By Marilyn French ~
Headlines twice the size of the events. ~By John Galsworthy ~
You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost. ~By Mary Lou Retton ~
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events. ~By Georg Simmel ~
Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events. ~By Matthew Ashford ~
I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public. ~By Matt Damon ~
I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood. ~By John Perry Barlow ~
I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events. ~By Dixie Lee Ray ~
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. ~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. ~By Peter Cooper ~
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment. ~By Martin Van Buren ~
I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs. ~By Ed Pastor ~
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ~By Jean Cocteau ~
Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things. ~By Story Musgrave ~
The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time. ~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. ~By Josh McDowell ~
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. ~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute. ~By Jessica Savitch ~
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. ~By Tony Robbins ~
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ~By Denis Diderot ~
I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes. ~By Rob Mariano ~
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events. ~By Barbara Olson ~
If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact. ~By Jurgen Habermas ~
Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic. ~By Richard Stallman ~
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary. ~By Peter Agre ~
The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events. ~By Henry Reed ~
I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects. ~By Barbara Hershey ~
Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters. ~By Elizabeth George ~
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. ~By Archibald MacLeish ~
The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days. ~By Alan Cranston ~
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images. ~By Christopher Lasch ~
I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up. ~By Kato Kaelin ~
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story. ~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken. ~By Catherine McCormack ~
The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time. ~By Dana Snyder ~
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. ~By Matthew Simpson ~
You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love. ~By Sri Chinmoy ~
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. ~By James Earl Jones ~
The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him. ~By Jon Stewart ~
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life. ~By Raymond Queneau ~
Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me. ~By Mary Wesley ~
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. ~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. ~By Adrienne Rich ~
Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain. ~By John Desmond Bernal ~
I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea. ~By Jasper Johns ~
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. ~By Cleopatra ~
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. ~By T. S. Eliot ~
Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation. ~By John M. Ford ~
The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death. ~By Stanislav Grof ~
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. ~By Robert Kennedy ~
There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. ~By Edward Zwick ~
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life. ~By Franz Boas ~
A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household. ~By Anthea Turner ~
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. ~By Christian Lous Lange ~
For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible. ~By Dustin Hoffman ~
I have always been honest about my recollection of events. ~By David Blunkett ~
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives. ~By Vincent Canby ~
What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve. ~By Tom Brokaw ~
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ~By Sidney Altman ~
News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy. ~By Maria Bartiromo ~
The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that. ~By William Greider ~
You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily. ~By Harry Browne ~
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want. ~By Doug Coupland ~
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