All Quotes

There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.
‐‐ Randa Haines

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.
‐‐ Ruth Brown

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
‐‐ Louis Aragon

There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.
‐‐ Mustafa Akyol

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
‐‐ Charles Dickens

There are strong reasons for believing that space goes on beyond the limits of our observational horizon. There are strong reasons because if you look in opposite directions, conditions are the same to within one part in 100,000. So if we are part of some finite structure then, if the gradient is so shallow, it is likely to go on much further.
‐‐ Martin Rees

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
‐‐ Xun Kuang

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
‐‐ Bram Stoker

There are supply chains that exist in China and Asia now which the U.S. simply can't replicate.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina

There are teachers in the United States who cry in the daytime because they see a child or children who haven't eaten properly, children who haven't used soap in so long.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

There are teachers' unions around the country realizing they want to improve standards of the profession, improve the quality of their profession, and ultimately attract the best and the brightest to their profession. The vast majority of teachers are dedicated and committed.
‐‐ Antonio Villaraigosa

There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I can't really analyze how I do it, but I am sure of one thing. To write convincing characters, you must possess the ability to think yourself into someone else's skin.
‐‐ Juliet Marillier

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.
‐‐ John Ratzenberger

There are temptations around you all the time. The trick is to work your way through anxiety or your tiredness or whatever, and not let yourself get so hungry that you're going and stopping for the burgers, and you don't view it as reward. You're doing better for yourself is eating better food.
‐‐ Lisa Ann Walter

There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek.
‐‐ John R. Allen

There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do have to make some changes in your behavior, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your happiness.
‐‐ Srikumar Rao

There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson

There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and 'we have more important problems than education' attitudes.
‐‐ James Patterson

There are the countries of the north of Europe taking decisions and the countries of the south of Europe that are living under intervention. This division exists.
‐‐ Jose Maria Aznar

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.
‐‐ Arthur Keith

There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.
‐‐ Fede Alvarez

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.
‐‐ Goldwin Smith

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
‐‐ H. G. Bissinger

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

There are the people who read my horror novels - the first two of them - and they found them scary or whatever, and then there are some people who are maybe not entirely stable who think that they're real, who think that they're being stalked by the same demons or ghosts that are mentioned in the books.
‐‐ David Wong

There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.
‐‐ Tim LaHaye

There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.'
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real world has more to do with what is hidden.
‐‐ Saul Leiter

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.
‐‐ Rick Bragg

There are these creative shows, all on cable, that are just so daring and out there. That's the stuff I really want to be a part of, like with 'Sucker Punch' and 'Hangover 2.' Those movies didn't hold back. They really went for it.
‐‐ Jamie Chung

There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of America. They've sent me videotapes of themselves just eating and talking about Hanson, and a loaf of bread that was really moldy by the time it got here.
‐‐ Patrick Fugit

There are these important things in some people's lives that can make you laugh even when you're going through a tough time or a stressful week.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

There are these moments in the military where you're present at these enormous intersections of history and humanity. I came out of the end of that, and I just wanted to write. If you do it well, you know it will last. It can't get blown away like everything else.
‐‐ Elliot Ackerman

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.
‐‐ Marlene Dumas

There are these showcase clubs where 14 guys will go on in a row and people are laughing at everything, and I'm like - 'I can't laugh that much. That's so weird to me.'
‐‐ Norm MacDonald

There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to volunteer there, doing health and education work when I was younger and living in Egypt.
‐‐ Jehane Noujaim

There are thin girls with infertility issues, normal sized girls with infertility issues and overweight girls with infertility issues. Unless your doctor tells you your weight is affecting you in some way... once the doctor rules it out, that's really not it.
‐‐ Giuliana Rancic

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.
‐‐ Brandon Routh

There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions.
‐‐ Frank Sinatra

There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
‐‐ Hari Kunzru

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.
‐‐ Seth MacFarlane

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.
‐‐ Ana Castillo

There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.
‐‐ Margaret Geller