I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
~By Harold Ramis ~
A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.
~By Evan Parker ~
I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
~By David Hockney ~
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.
~By Juliette G. Low ~
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.
~By William Labov ~
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.
~By Tommy Shaw ~
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
~By David Chalmers ~
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
~By William Trevor ~
I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.
~By Mitch Hedberg ~
To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.
~By Courtney Thorne Smith ~
I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.
~By Kathy Bates ~
And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today.
~By Michael Burgess ~
So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?
~By James Woods ~
I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.
~By Nile Rodgers ~
With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.
~By Pat Roberts ~
I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.
~By Tyra Banks ~
I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.
~By David Cross ~
Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.
~By Guillermo del Toro ~
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.
~By Jimmy Cannon ~
I love a lot of reggae, but I've never had the opportunity to play with any reggae guys.
~By Billy Sheehan ~
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
~By Henry Fielding ~
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
~By Marcus Valerius Martial ~
I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
~By John Cleese ~
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
~By James Madison ~
The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
~By Neil Young ~
Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle.
~By Bill Cullen ~
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.
~By Danny Bonaduce ~
We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
~By Barney Ross ~
In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.
~By Jason Schwartzman ~
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
~By Horace ~
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
~By Miguel De Cervantes ~
I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.
~By Linda M. Godwin ~
About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!
~By Sharon Olds ~
Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences.
~By Meg White ~
Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
~By Harold Coffin ~
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
~By Robert Southey ~
Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.
~By Hedda Hopper ~
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
~By Ricardo Montalban ~
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
~By Samuel McChord Crothers ~
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.
~By Shane MacGowan ~
Certainly from the rehearsal process with Elizabeth I think it was very clear. Well let me start again. We were initially supposed to be more combative.
~By Jennifer Beals ~
There is no art without Eros.
~By Max Frisch ~
You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.
~By John Redwood ~
I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.
~By Anjelica Huston ~
I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.
~By Robin Day ~
We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.
~By Benmont Tench ~
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
~By Sam Raimi ~
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.
~By Ron D. Burton ~
I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.
~By Vladimir Horowitz ~
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.
~By Mark Rydell ~
I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.
~By Steven Hatfill ~
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
~By Kate Chopin ~
Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.
~By Patty Murray ~
Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
~By Wayne Coyne ~
From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.
~By Eliza Dushku ~
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
~By Martin Luther ~
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
~By Sean Bean ~
Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
~By Kim Weston ~
Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
~By Daniel P. Moynihan ~
Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long.
~By Alex Chiu ~
A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.
~By Kent McCord ~
Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.
~By John Schlesinger ~
Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.
~By Ann Macbeth ~
I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
It was like fighting with the MPAA... to me it was like this is an R easy... but it was NC 17 over and over and even with this cut they were like, you are right on the edge buddy, one more thing and it's NC-17.
~By Rob Zombie ~
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
~By Philip Levine ~
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
~By Xun Zi ~
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.
~By Islom Karimov ~
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
~By Bill Pascrell ~
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.
~By Benicio Del Toro ~
You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
~By Chuck Close ~
The past several months I have been able to meet with people across this country. One thing is clear: America craves for real solutions to the problems we face. That's why I'm running for President of the United States.
~By Herman Cain ~
With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year.
~By Jon Porter ~
Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.
~By Bruno Bettelheim ~
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
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