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 ~
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
~By Alan Bennett ~
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
~By George Carlin ~
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
~By John A. Simone, Sr. ~
That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.
~By Steve King ~
For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.
~By Mario Lemeiux ~
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
~By April Winchell ~
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
~By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~
And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.
~By Steve Case ~
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
~By J. R. R. Tolkien ~
But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.
~By John Abizaid ~
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
~By Walt Disney ~
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
~By Peter Abelard ~
Canada is hockey.
~By Mike Weir ~
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
~By Epictetus ~
But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me.
~By Robert Patterson ~
In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.
~By Michael Pollan ~
When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.
~By Brooke Burke ~
The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.
~By Paul Westphal ~
Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.
~By Alan Autry ~
Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.
~By Connie Mack ~
With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
~By Vince Gill ~
You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.
~By Midge Ure ~
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
~By William Henry Hudson ~
The key to your universe is that you can choose.
~By Frederick Carl Frieseke ~
For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'
~By Juan Williams ~
Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.
~By Stan Mikita ~
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.
~By J. Carter Brown ~
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
~By Ralph Marston ~
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.
~By Henry J. Kaiser ~
The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.
~By Adam Rickitt ~
Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.
~By Rex Stout ~
We've played with a lot of confidence and that's been the key so far. Hopefully, we can take more confidence into the playoffs.
~By Teemu Selanne ~
Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.
~By Dorothy Salisbury Davis ~
Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion.
~By Diane Feinstein ~
I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.
~By Stan Getz ~
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
~By David Hare ~
There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.
~By Murray Rothbard ~
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
~By Magic Johnson ~
Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
~By Walter Johnson ~
For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.
~By Kenneth Noland ~
So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.
~By Thomas Dolby ~
As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
~By Barry Gibb ~
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
~By Mario Andretti ~
Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.
~By Merv Griffin ~
The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.
~By Cliff Stearns ~
I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.
~By Paul Coffey ~
Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.
~By Thomas Vilsack ~
I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.
~By Warren Cuccurullo ~
But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
~By Lorne Michaels ~
Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.
~By Jerry Vale ~
What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.
~By Stuart Bowen ~
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.
~By Jan Garbarek ~
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.
~By Margaret Walker ~
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you.
~By Teemu Selanne ~
It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.
~By Guy Ritchie ~
I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.
~By Frederick Reines ~
The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control.
~By Stuart Varney ~
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
~By W. C. Fields ~
I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.
~By Robert Redford ~
The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.
~By Robert Novak ~
After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security.
~By Suze Orman ~
But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?
~By Mick Ralphs ~
Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.
~By Dizzy Dean ~
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
~By Lao Tzu ~
The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.
~By Tim McGraw ~
Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
As long as these blood brothers are our leaders, and as long as your party officials are Jewish lackeys, you will be no threat to the big money men.
~By Julius Streicher ~
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
~By George Eastman ~
I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it.
~By Teddy Sheringham ~
The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.
~By Douglas Feith ~
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.
~By Jinato Hu ~
If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.
~By Eric Braeden ~
Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.
~By Mike Ditka ~
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
~By David Suzuki ~
By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
~By Ted Lindsay ~
The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints.
~By John Coleman ~
I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.
~By Alicia Witt ~
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
~By Al Capp ~
Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.
~By Mario Lemieux ~
There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.
~By Keith Emerson ~
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
~By Gianni Versace ~
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