All Quotes

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
‐‐ Lytton Strachey

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
‐‐ Leland Ryken

In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests.
‐‐ Li Keqiang

In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.
‐‐ Kaui Hart Hemmings

In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.
‐‐ Philippe Falardeau

In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.
‐‐ Floyd Skloot

In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
‐‐ Bill Gross

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
‐‐ Galileo Galilei

In quiet moments, I love to read.
‐‐ Lauren Tarshis

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.
‐‐ Richard G. Scott

In quiet places, reason abounds.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
‐‐ John Selden

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.
‐‐ Bobby Rahal

In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.
‐‐ Roger Staubach

In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I'd really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone's life?
‐‐ Billy Bush

In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
‐‐ Ernie Harwell

In radio, you are the game, so to speak - you have to describe every aspect. In TV, I've always felt less is more, and it's really a question of my setting up the color analyst more than anything else.
‐‐ Marv Albert

In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
‐‐ Ira Glass

In raising children, life brings forth those things where you do what you should never have done and what I taught you never to do. And when my kids have done those things, I just kind of look at them and say, 'Now you know life.'
‐‐ George Foreman

In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.
‐‐ Kimi Raikkonen

In ramp skating, there's this guy Alex Perelson who's really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we haven't seen before. Just different types of spin.
‐‐ Tony Hawk

In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
‐‐ James Fenton

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
‐‐ Archie Shepp

In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.
‐‐ Keenen Ivory Wayans

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'
‐‐ John Tuley

In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,' interested in different things each time - but I did think there were a couple of extra loops in the plot that I probably didn't need. The other thing that sort of amazed me was how discursive the book was.
‐‐ Scott Turow

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
‐‐ Stephane Mallarme

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
‐‐ George Pierce Baker

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
‐‐ Harry S Truman

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.
‐‐ Elias Hicks

In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.
‐‐ Stuart Symington

In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.
‐‐ Jeff Greene

In real everyday life, I don't walk around feeling fat, and if on TV I'm considered fat, honestly, I kind of like it, because I'm a big advocate of positive unique representations of women in media. And so I like how I'm able to represent a curvier body and still be beautiful.
‐‐ Kether Donohue

In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.
‐‐ Randy Cross

In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.
‐‐ Colleen Atwood

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
‐‐ Harlan Coben

In real life, comedians aren't funny.
‐‐ Michael Showalter

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
‐‐ Jessica Savitch

In real life I am a bit of a tomboy. I like the footy and sports. I am more comfortable in running gear than I am in heels, because I usually trip up in them.
‐‐ Anna Hutchison

In real life, I am alarmingly boring.
‐‐ Rob Delaney

In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
‐‐ Adam Levine

In real life, I am trying to save the Steve Irwin wildlife preserve. It's in Australia, up on Cape York, and it's in danger of being strip-mined.
‐‐ Bindi Irwin

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
‐‐ Anne Tyler

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.
‐‐ Stuart Townsend