All Quotes

There is such a cliche to certain roles that all I can do is to try to make them realistic and work for the times, and so the audience actually won't see me as a caricature of something, but rather as an actual person.
‐‐ Kelli O'Hara

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.
‐‐ Shelley Berkley

There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

There is such a rich sporting culture in Western Sydney, one that nurtured my sporting aspirations. Having Penrith Whitewater Stadium right at my doorstep was such an amazing advantage. It was a springboard to my success as an athlete, and I feel really fortunate to have grown up in this part of the world.
‐‐ Jessica Fox

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
‐‐ Esa-Pekka Salonen

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
‐‐ Charles Kuralt

There is such a thing as bad publicity.
‐‐ Joyce Brothers

There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.
‐‐ Mike Quigley

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
‐‐ Paul Goodman

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
‐‐ John Henry Newman

There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
‐‐ Meg Greenfield

There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
‐‐ John Lasseter

There is such an advantage to self-releasing. If you can do it yourself, it's the best way to go. In Europe and the rest of world outside the U.S., I have licensed my music to labels. But it's amazing because I still own all the masters. I didn't have to give up any of those rights. I have 100 percent creative control.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling

There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.
‐‐ Shirley Henderson

There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.
‐‐ Adolfo Perez Esquivel

There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.
‐‐ Amanda Eliasch

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
‐‐ Thomas Babington Macaulay

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
‐‐ Yamamoto Tsunetomo

There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are supposed to, instead of saying, 'You're doing very well, so keep doing whatever you are doing.' They should be asking what their patient is doing and pass the information to other patients.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

There is talk that badminton may not make it as a sport in the 2020 Olympics. We must bear in mind that other sports are strongly lobbying to be included.
‐‐ Taufik Hidayat

There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera.
‐‐ Ron Livingston

There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.
‐‐ Viswanathan Anand

There is tension between the values of modern society and the principles of Islam.
‐‐ Pim Fortuyn

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.
‐‐ Helen Mirren

There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors.
‐‐ Timothy Simons

There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people, you know what I mean? There's a certain sort of stigma, a sort of kookiness, when it comes to that.
‐‐ Deborah Mailman

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
‐‐ John Muir

There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
‐‐ Abraham Verghese

There is that potential of the expats coming back to the Philippines. But sadly they are no opportunities, no incentive for them to come back home. Successive governments have, in fact, been training them to export them rather than working on the economy to welcome them home.
‐‐ Miguel Syjuco

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
‐‐ Isaac Goldberg

There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for hopefully years on the air. It's a sight gag, not a story.
‐‐ Johnny Galecki

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.
‐‐ Simone Schwarz-Bart

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.
‐‐ Terence Fisher

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
‐‐ Alan Kay

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.
‐‐ Jack Dangermond

There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.
‐‐ Karolina Kurkova

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
‐‐ Albert Camus

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.
‐‐ Cynthia Weil

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

There is the idea that, when we look at things, it is the yellow light that helps us the most, that we are the most sensitive for. But our circadian rhythms, which are the rhythms that help us to wake and sleep and be alert and relaxed and so forth and so on, they are much more triggered by blue light.
‐‐ Rogier van der Heide

There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.
‐‐ Meir Kahane