All Quotes

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
‐‐ Charlotte Curtis

The neatest thing about television is that they write for you... They find out what you can do, what you do best, how it works, and how they can use you.
‐‐ Ann B. Davis

The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.
‐‐ Michael D. Higgins

The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
‐‐ Josiah Warren

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.
‐‐ Lucy Liu

The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
‐‐ Samuel Lover

The neck starts to go at 43, and that's that.
‐‐ Nora Ephron

The Ned Kelly is definitely the coolest of all the crime fiction awards, and if you think about it, it's the only one that's given for an entire continent.
‐‐ Adrian McKinty

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.
‐‐ Roy Romer

The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.
‐‐ J. Anthony Lukas

The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
‐‐ Dick Thornburgh

The need for air transport is real, and it's not going to change. The key is to have the right business model and have the right initiatives, in my view, to succeed.
‐‐ Louis R. Chenevert

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.
‐‐ Dean Ornish

The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away.
‐‐ Donald Luskin

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
‐‐ Rose Wilder Lane

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.
‐‐ Estelle Morris

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.
‐‐ Dean Ornish

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.
‐‐ Michael M. Honda

The need for reflection and restraint of power is what led Louis Freeh to order that all new agent classes visit the Holocaust Museum here in Washington so they could see and feel and hear in a palpable way the consequences of abuse of power on a massive, almost unimaginable scale.
‐‐ James Comey

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.
‐‐ Henry Norris Russell

The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006.
‐‐ Doc Hastings

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
‐‐ Matthew Arnold

The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.
‐‐ Jim Brown

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
‐‐ Edward de Bono

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
‐‐ Albert Camus

The need to change our country's fiscal trajectory, including reforming entitlement programs, is an unassailable reality that will define our time.
‐‐ John Delaney

The need to create a new taxonomy that isn't just applying to our own solar system will become so evident and apparent that something will come out of it. I'm sure of it, even if it's not tomorrow.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

The need to deal with pathogens has driven the evolution of the vertebrate immune system, so it should not be surprising that experiments with infectious agents have often illuminated key elements of the underlying mechanisms.
‐‐ Peter C. Doherty

The need to do something about global warming is obvious. And it's also pretty clear that the public understands the need for change and is ready to embrace it. What is missing is political will in Congress to stand up to the powerful energy companies and their well-paid lobbyists.
‐‐ Chellie Pingree

The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
‐‐ Charles Horton Cooley

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
‐‐ Jay Inslee

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.
‐‐ Lily Cole

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
‐‐ Andrew Cuomo

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
‐‐ John Cheever

The need we have for information is great, and we get it from many admirable sources. The need we have for understanding and acceptance is much greater. The arts are uniquely able to help us meet the greater needs.
‐‐ Agnes Gund

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski

The needs of the business sector must be understood.
‐‐ Isaac Herzog

The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones, but it's not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.
‐‐ Douglas Dunn

The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.
‐‐ Jayne Ann Krentz

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.
‐‐ Sebastian Junger

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
‐‐ Ansel Adams

The negative is just as important as the positive.
‐‐ Ellsworth Kelly