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180000 famous quotes part 167 – 166001 to 167000
166001. By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. – Lao Tzu
166002. Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. – Lao Tzu
166003. From wonder into wonder existence opens. – Lao Tzu
166004. From caring comes courage. – Lao Tzu
166005. Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. – Lao Tzu
166006. Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tzu
166007. Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. – Lao Tzu
166008. If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity. – Sun Tzu
166009. It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. – Sun Tzu
166010. Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. – Sun Tzu
166011. Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. – Sun Tzu
166012. Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. – Sun Tzu
166013. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. – Sun Tzu
166014. Opportunities multiply as they are seized. – Sun Tzu
166015. Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. – Sun Tzu
166016. Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. – Sun Tzu
166017. If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. – Sun Tzu
166018. Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories. – Sun Tzu
166019. The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. – Sun Tzu
166020. It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. – Sun Tzu
166021. Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack. – Sun Tzu
166022. In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. – Sun Tzu
166023. If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near. – Sun Tzu
166024. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril. – Sun Tzu
166025. Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack. – Sun Tzu
166026. He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious. – Sun Tzu
166027. Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster. – Sun Tzu
166028. There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. – Sun Tzu
166029. You have to believe in yourself. – Sun Tzu
166030. When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. – Sun Tzu
166031. Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. – Sun Tzu
166032. To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. – Sun Tzu
166033. To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. – Sun Tzu
166034. Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy. – Sun Tzu
166035. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. – Sun Tzu
166036. There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. – Sun Tzu
166037. Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. – Sun Tzu
166038. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. – Sun Tzu
166039. The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. – Sun Tzu
166040. The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
166041. The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. – Sun Tzu
166042. The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. – Sun Tzu
166043. The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. – Sun Tzu
166044. The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. – Sun Tzu
166045. Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. – Sun Tzu
166046. He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. – Sun Tzu
166047. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. – Sun Tzu
166048. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? – Sun Tzu
166049. Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. – Sun Tzu
166050. All warfare is based on deception. – Sun Tzu
166051. All war is deception. – Sun Tzu
166052. All war is based on deception. – Sun Tzu
166053. All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. – Sun Tzu
166054. For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards. – Sun Tzu
166055. Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate. – Sun Tzu
166056. I’ve always wanted to act since I was little. – Alanna Ubach
166057. I’ve always wanted to act and I can’t think of anything else I’d want to do, honestly. – Alanna Ubach
166058. I’ve never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I’d be the first to have the surgery. – Alanna Ubach
166059. It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don’t think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it. – Alanna Ubach
166060. My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I’m five foot one and I feel feminine being small. – Alanna Ubach
166061. My role in ‘Legally Blonde’ was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I’ve had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you’ll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I’ve played. – Alanna Ubach
166062. Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world’s most deadly and disabling diseases. – Mark Udall
166063. While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment. – Mark Udall
166064. The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines – not to send more troops to Iraq – but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally. – Mark Udall
166065. Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life… The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners. – Mark Udall
166066. On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity. – Mark Udall
166067. It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it. – Mark Udall
166068. I haven’t inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children. – Mark Udall
166069. Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks. – Mark Udall
166070. There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders – but how we go about securing them is also important. – Mark Udall
166071. President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people’s faith in the presidency and in government. – Mark Udall
166072. Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. – Mo Udall
166073. The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. – Mo Udall
166074. One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks. – Mo Udall
166075. If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong. – Mo Udall
166076. I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside. – Mo Udall
166077. For those of you who don’t understand Reaganomics, it’s based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter. – Mo Udall
166078. The ability to change one’s views without losing one’s seat is the mark of a great politician. – Mo Udall
166079. Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission. – Stewart Udall
166080. Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants. – Stewart Udall
166081. The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. – Stewart Udall
166082. Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. – Stewart Udall
166083. We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. – Stewart Udall
166084. They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front. – Tom Udall
166085. It’s a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years. – Tom Udall
166086. Well the appeals happening because we believe the certification process uh, hasn’t worked out the way it should, that there hasn’t been substantial evidence to support their certification. – Tom Udall
166087. Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school. – Tom Udall
166088. As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you’d say. – Tom Udall
166089. Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs. – Tom Udall
166090. The integrity of the game is everything. – Peter Ueberroth
166091. This is America’s Team and we are confident this outstanding group of athletes will make our country proud. – Peter Ueberroth
166092. The international game has changed for bidding cities. – Peter Ueberroth
166093. Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day. – Peter Ueberroth
166094. It’s not, ‘We have a city to bid, now let’s go check in with the federal government’. – Peter Ueberroth
166095. Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. – Peter Ueberroth
166096. A cloud hangs over baseball. It’s a cloud called drugs and it’s permeated our game. – Peter Ueberroth
166097. The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that’s getting deeper and deeper and deeper. – Peter Ueberroth
166098. Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word? – Bob Uecker
166099. In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs. – Bob Uecker
166100. When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me. – Bob Uecker
166101. The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up. – Bob Uecker
166102. Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products. – Bob Uecker
166103. Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist. – Bob Uecker
166104. I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed. – Bob Uecker
166105. I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture. – Bob Uecker
166106. Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat. – Bob Uecker
166107. I had slumps that lasted into the winter. – Bob Uecker
166108. Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times. – Bob Uecker
166109. I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly. – Bob Uecker
166110. When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes. – Bob Uecker
166111. If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter. – Bob Uecker
166112. Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. – Brenda Ueland
166113. The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty. – Brenda Ueland
166114. It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one’s mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next. – Brenda Ueland
166115. Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. – Brenda Ueland
166116. Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing. – Brenda Ueland
166117. All children have creative power. – Brenda Ueland
166118. I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, – happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. – Brenda Ueland
166119. This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. – Brenda Ueland
166120. We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them. – Nobuo Uematsu
166121. I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I’ve just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music. – Nobuo Uematsu
166122. I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I’m jealous. – Nobuo Uematsu
166123. It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era. – Nobuo Uematsu
166124. Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music. – Nobuo Uematsu
166125. So I don’t really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future. – Nobuo Uematsu
166126. There’s some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you’ve never heard that piece of music before. – Nobuo Uematsu
166127. Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister’s husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general. – Nobuo Uematsu
166128. As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time. – Nobuo Uematsu
166129. I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years. – Nobuo Uematsu
166130. The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert. – Nobuo Uematsu
166131. Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music. – Nobuo Uematsu
166132. For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market. – Nobuo Uematsu
166133. I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums. – Nobuo Uematsu
166134. When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert. – Nobuo Uematsu
166135. And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here. – Nobuo Uematsu
166136. However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan. – Nobuo Uematsu
166137. However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically. – Nobuo Uematsu
166138. However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant. – Nobuo Uematsu
166139. I always begin to compose the melody first. – Nobuo Uematsu
166140. I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated. – Nobuo Uematsu
166141. I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true. – Nobuo Uematsu
166142. I don’t know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se. – Nobuo Uematsu
166143. And it’s very strange, but I think there is something very common – not only in Celtic music – but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries. – Nobuo Uematsu
166144. Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere. – Morihei Ueshiba
166145. The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit. – Morihei Ueshiba
166146. Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. – Morihei Ueshiba
166147. Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher. – Morihei Ueshiba
166148. The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world’s eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land. – Morihei Ueshiba
166149. The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us. – Morihei Ueshiba
166150. The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang. – Morihei Ueshiba
166151. There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. – Morihei Ueshiba
166152. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. – Morihei Ueshiba
166153. To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace. – Morihei Ueshiba
166154. When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way. – Morihei Ueshiba
166155. Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. – Morihei Ueshiba
166156. Your spirit is the true shield. – Morihei Ueshiba
166157. One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. – Morihei Ueshiba
166158. When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. – Morihei Ueshiba
166159. Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. – Morihei Ueshiba
166160. All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love. – Morihei Ueshiba
166161. Mankind’s role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things. – Morihei Ueshiba
166162. All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together. – Morihei Ueshiba
166163. As soon as you concern yourself with the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. – Morihei Ueshiba
166164. Create each day anew. – Morihei Ueshiba
166165. Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer. – Morihei Ueshiba
166166. Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit – love. – Morihei Ueshiba
166167. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. – Morihei Ueshiba
166168. Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. – Morihei Ueshiba
166169. If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth. – Morihei Ueshiba
166170. In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential – do not let your heart waver! – Morihei Ueshiba
166171. Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. – Morihei Ueshiba
166172. It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses. – Morihei Ueshiba
166173. Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. – Morihei Ueshiba
166174. A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind. – Morihei Ueshiba
166175. Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love. – Morihei Ueshiba
166176. The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes. – Walter Ulbricht
166177. When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest. – Walter Ulbricht
166178. This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people. – Walter Ulbricht
166179. The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning. – Walter Ulbricht
166180. The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people. – Walter Ulbricht
166181. The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity. – Walter Ulbricht
166182. The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be. – Walter Ulbricht
166183. The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists. – Walter Ulbricht
166184. The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers. – Walter Ulbricht
166185. Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland. – Walter Ulbricht
166186. May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany. – Walter Ulbricht
166187. Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace. – Walter Ulbricht
166188. Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights. – Walter Ulbricht
166189. It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification. – Walter Ulbricht
166190. The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually. – Walter Ulbricht
166191. Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales. – Walter Ulbricht
166192. In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened. – Walter Ulbricht
166193. Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry. – Walter Ulbricht
166194. If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex. – Liv Ullman
166195. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. – Samuel Ullman
166196. Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. – Samuel Ullman
166197. Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. – Samuel Ullman
166198. I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me. – Tracey Ullman
166199. As I get older, I just prefer to knit. – Tracey Ullman
166200. As you get older, you realize it’s work. It’s that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I’d love to know how to make that last. – Tracey Ullman
166201. Every character I do is based on someone I know. – Tracey Ullman
166202. I don’t get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It’s just wearying. – Tracey Ullman
166203. I hate clowns. – Tracey Ullman
166204. I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I’ve gotten ridiculous offers. – Tracey Ullman
166205. I like going to France, because no one knows who I am. – Tracey Ullman
166206. I like infomercials. – Tracey Ullman
166207. I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin. – Tracey Ullman
166208. I think serial monogamy says it all. – Tracey Ullman
166209. I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped. – Tracey Ullman
166210. I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference. – Tracey Ullman
166211. I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years. – Tracey Ullman
166212. I love John Waters. There’s stuff in it that’s beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that. – Tracey Ullman
166213. Maybe when I’m 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to bitch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood. – Tracey Ullman
166214. Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them. – Tracey Ullman
166215. I’m not a crazy, party-going sort of person. – Tracey Ullman
166216. Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? – Tracey Ullman
166217. There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We’ve gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving. – Tracey Ullman
166218. The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don’t want nouveau cult status, though I know we’ve got that sort of audience in the states. – Tracey Ullman
166219. My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. – Tracey Ullman
166220. You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from. – Tracey Ullman
166221. It’s the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me. – Tracey Ullman
166222. It’s sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in. – Tracey Ullman
166223. It’s funny – if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it’s them. – Tracey Ullman
166224. It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child. – Tracey Ullman
166225. I’ve never looked ahead very much in my life. I’ve never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do. – Tracey Ullman
166226. I’m still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes. – Tracey Ullman
166227. I’m as famous as I want to be. – Tracey Ullman
166228. I’m usually put off by performers when they get political. – Tracey Ullman
166229. Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. – Liv Ullmann
166230. Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit. – Liv Ullmann
166231. Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman. – Liv Ullmann
166232. The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for. – Liv Ullmann
166233. The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again. – Liv Ullmann
166234. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked… not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn’t be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable. – Liv Ullmann
166235. The essence of a general’s job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things. – Walter F. Ulmer
166236. We’ve got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves. – Walter F. Ulmer
166237. The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones. – Lars Ulrich
166238. What’s the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don’t listen to me, don’t listen to James, don’t listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers. – Lars Ulrich
166239. Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death. – Lars Ulrich
166240. Our music comes from our hearts – and it always has. – Lars Ulrich
166241. One of my few shortcomings is that I can’t predict the future. – Lars Ulrich
166242. Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system. – Lars Ulrich
166243. If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun. – Lars Ulrich
166244. I’m just sittin here trying not to be unhappy. – Lars Ulrich
166245. Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can’t deal with the growth. – Lars Ulrich
166246. As long as it says Metallica on the record it’s Metallica. – Lars Ulrich
166247. Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me. – Skeet Ulrich
166248. The more you understand me, the less characters I can play. – Skeet Ulrich
166249. I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield. – Skeet Ulrich
166250. I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He’s incredible. He’s got a lot of hard-earned experience. – Skeet Ulrich
166251. I’m an actor, coming from New York theater. – Skeet Ulrich
166252. I’m not the most talkative guy in the world. – Skeet Ulrich
166253. My mom’s been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn’t really see my dad that much. – Skeet Ulrich
166254. People said, That’s great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself. – Skeet Ulrich
166255. The Native American side was tragic. It’s just unbelievable what has happened to them. – Skeet Ulrich
166256. The whole Indian thing, I always say it’s really the American holocaust. It’s something we need to look at. – Skeet Ulrich
166257. There’s a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It’s still troubling and stressful to me. – Skeet Ulrich
166258. There’s been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism. – Skeet Ulrich
166259. I think you have to refill the well at some point. – Skeet Ulrich
166260. What’s the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it’s not that way. – Skeet Ulrich
166261. In this business, you’re either Brad Pitt right away, or you’re already going down the ladder. – Skeet Ulrich
166262. Ultimately, it’s a pretty confusing moment. – Skeet Ulrich
166263. I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me. – Skeet Ulrich
166264. I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid. – Skeet Ulrich
166265. As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads. – Skeet Ulrich
166266. As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you. – Skeet Ulrich
166267. Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene. – Skeet Ulrich
166268. Everybody else has been seen, been proven. – Skeet Ulrich
166269. Everyone’s really lazy in L.A. – Skeet Ulrich
166270. My problem with interviews, one day I’ll think one thing, and the next day I’ll think the exact opposite. – Skeet Ulrich
166271. I don’t use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore. – Skeet Ulrich
166272. I get to play a killer next. – Skeet Ulrich
166273. Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die. – Skeet Ulrich
166274. I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina. – Skeet Ulrich
166275. Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. – Skeet Ulrich
166276. I guess I’m a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick. – Skeet Ulrich
166277. I had gone to school to study marine biology. – Skeet Ulrich
166278. I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn’t care about education. I don’t know what I cared about. – Skeet Ulrich
166279. I think I’m extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you’re getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that. – Skeet Ulrich
166280. I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that’s impossible. – Skeet Ulrich
166281. I didn’t even go to my prom. I didn’t have one date in high school. – Skeet Ulrich
166282. I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That’s not the way it is today, not even in Sweden. – Bjorn Ulvaeus
166283. The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them. – Bjorn Ulvaeus
166284. The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don’t really know if he existed as a historical figure. – Bjorn Ulvaeus
166285. Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being. – Bjorn Ulvaeus
166286. Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights. – Bjorn Ulvaeus
166287. And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it’s natural that human rights come first. – Bjorn Ulvaeus
166288. I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious. – Bjorn Ulvaeus
166289. I’m so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions. – Bjorn Ulvaeus
166290. Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. – Miguel de Unamuno
166291. Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. – Miguel de Unamuno
166292. That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. – Miguel de Unamuno
166293. The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. – Miguel de Unamuno
166294. The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. – Miguel de Unamuno
166295. The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found. – Miguel de Unamuno
166296. There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man – that is, the more divine – the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. – Miguel de Unamuno
166297. To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. – Miguel de Unamuno
166298. True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant. – Miguel de Unamuno
166299. We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe. – Miguel de Unamuno
166300. We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. – Miguel de Unamuno
166301. What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. – Miguel de Unamuno
166302. Your neighbor’s vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you. – Miguel de Unamuno
166303. Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. – Miguel de Unamuno
166304. To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. – Miguel de Unamuno
166305. Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. – Miguel de Unamuno
166306. Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. – Miguel de Unamuno
166307. A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. – Miguel de Unamuno
166308. Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. – Miguel de Unamuno
166309. Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. – Miguel de Unamuno
166310. Consciousness is a disease. – Miguel de Unamuno
166311. Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. – Miguel de Unamuno
166312. If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing. – Miguel de Unamuno
166313. If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory. – Miguel de Unamuno
166314. It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. – Miguel de Unamuno
166315. It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. – Miguel de Unamuno
166316. Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. – Miguel de Unamuno
166317. Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. – Miguel de Unamuno
166318. Man dies of cold, not of darkness. – Miguel de Unamuno
166319. Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. – Miguel de Unamuno
166320. A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. – Miguel de Unamuno
166321. God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer. – Evelyn Underhill
166322. You don’t have to be peculiar to find God. – Evelyn Underhill
166323. Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day. – Evelyn Underhill
166324. Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I’m tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me. – Evelyn Underhill
166325. There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not. – Evelyn Underhill
166326. The will is what matters – as long as you have that, you are safe. – Evelyn Underhill
166327. The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that. – Evelyn Underhill
166328. Adoration is caring for God above all else. – Evelyn Underhill
166329. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament. – Evelyn Underhill
166330. God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not. – Evelyn Underhill
166331. Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. – Evelyn Underhill
166332. Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. – Evelyn Underhill
166333. All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. – Evelyn Underhill
166334. After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. – Evelyn Underhill
166335. Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination. – Evelyn Underhill
166336. In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I’m often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly. – Evelyn Underhill
166337. So it’s a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could. – Blair Underwood
166338. Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that’s successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode. – Blair Underwood
166339. Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed – so we were all happy with it as written. Then I’d let him play as long as we had time. – Blair Underwood
166340. That is the thing I’m most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage – at this stage of the game. – Blair Underwood
166341. My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It’s about an immortal. We’re shooting for this Fall and that’s been a six year development right there. – Blair Underwood
166342. Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience. – Blair Underwood
166343. Now it’s a fully realized production but for the fact that we’re holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn’t and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don’t have to use them but you gotta hold them. – Blair Underwood
166344. The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we’ll see that’s to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it. – Blair Underwood
166345. The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you. – Blair Underwood
166346. I heard we’ll get you a pass because we know you’re married to a black woman. You’re married to a sister so we’ll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture. – Blair Underwood
166347. My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy’s movie is wack, but they loved it. – Blair Underwood
166348. When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that’s all I want to do with my life and she said if you’re serious then you need to hone every discipline you can. – Blair Underwood
166349. You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I’m very proud of being a part of that. – Blair Underwood
166350. To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can’t even tell you. – Blair Underwood
166351. All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on. – Blair Underwood
166352. I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what’s already been there – like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven’t been that far out of my comfort zone in a while. – Blair Underwood
166353. I haven’t done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me. – Blair Underwood
166354. I haven’t done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership. – Blair Underwood
166355. I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that’s going on around the world right now, it’s just good to go to a movie where you don’t have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy. – Blair Underwood
166356. I won’t go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it. – Blair Underwood
166357. I’d rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn’t feel right; if it’s not the right team of people pulling in together or if the script isn’t right. It could be a great idea but the script doesn’t work. – Blair Underwood
166358. In terms of the black female audience, usually if you’re true to that character but more so in your body of work if you’ve proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they’ll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time. – Blair Underwood
166359. It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it’s got to be a great script and a great character. – Blair Underwood
166360. It’s a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I’d love to come with you and she honored that. – Blair Underwood
166361. It’s about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child. – Blair Underwood
166362. It’s just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I’ve done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon. – Blair Underwood
166363. I’ll tell you what 20 years teaches you – is that if one thing doesn’t last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now. – Blair Underwood
166364. It’s something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others. – Blair Underwood
166365. Throw caution to the wind and just do it. – Carrie Underwood
166366. I’ve never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there’s enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures. – Carrie Underwood
166367. It’s nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed. – Carrie Underwood
166368. My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer. – Carrie Underwood
166369. Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn’t really get a chance to celebrate. – Carrie Underwood
166370. So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I’m going to do it myself. I’m not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that’s a big part of where I came from. I’m not a real prissy girl. – Carrie Underwood
166371. The only other time I’ve been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to. – Carrie Underwood
166372. There’s a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean. – Carrie Underwood
166373. This is the best night of my life. And it’s going to get better. – Carrie Underwood
166374. We don’t have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from – Oklahoma. We don’t ride around in covered wagons, either. – Carrie Underwood
166375. I’ve heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I’ve even heard that I’m pregnant! I’ve become real good about laughing things off – I figure I’d better get used to it. – Carrie Underwood
166376. I got to meet some of the best people I’ve ever met, and we all grew as people and as entertainers. – Carrie Underwood
166377. There’s not ever much of anything going on in my head. – Carrie Underwood
166378. Everybody knows what’s going on. Even if they don’t watch it they know what’s happening. – Carrie Underwood
166379. All of us gave it all we’ve got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We’re just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams. – Carrie Underwood
166380. American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything. – Carrie Underwood
166381. As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that’s why this year was so successful. – Carrie Underwood
166382. I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it. – Carrie Underwood
166383. Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image. – Carrie Underwood
166384. I’m not worried. I’m just so grateful to be in the position that I’m in. I’m just going with the flow right now, and I think my album will come together quite nicely because I think everybody is on the same page. – Carrie Underwood
166385. Everything’s completely different, and it’s been hard. Fortunately, I have a lot of wonderful people around me, and I think I’m handling things pretty well. – Carrie Underwood
166386. I can’t believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it’s actually real. It’s hard to believe sometimes. – Carrie Underwood
166387. I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that’s where I want to raise my kids. – Carrie Underwood
166388. I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But… it doesn’t really make sense for me to try to be something that I’m not. – Carrie Underwood
166389. I’m fighting a losing battle here: I’m trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that’s one of my biggest downfalls. I haven’t gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I’d probably be about 300 pounds. – Carrie Underwood
166390. At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would’ve worked their way up to this position and would’ve gotten a thick skin over a few years’ time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months. – Carrie Underwood
166391. Most of my father’s life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe. – Sigrid Undset
166392. I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years. – Sigrid Undset
166393. I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps. – Sigrid Undset
166394. I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published. – Sigrid Undset
166395. I’m not going to change the world overnight. It’s one person at a time, and hopefully they’re people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting. – Gabrielle Union
166396. I love romantic comedies. They’re for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There’s nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That’s not second nature to me, thank God. – Gabrielle Union
166397. I’m just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I’m having fun, I’ll do it. When it stops being fun, I’ll try something else. Maybe I’ll open up a chain of Popeye’s Chicken. – Gabrielle Union
166398. Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty. – Gabrielle Union
166399. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. – Johnny Unitas
166400. I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don’t who will? – Johnny Unitas
166401. There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. – Johnny Unitas
166402. Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows. – Al Unser
166403. I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anything at any time, and we’ll give them the straight shoot. – Al Unser
166404. I wouldn’t mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race. – Al Unser
166405. I’ve got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I’ve got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is. – Al Unser
166406. If we get in an accident that’s strong enough to break bones, it’s going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I’ve got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good. – Al Unser
166407. The only thing that’s changed is the competitiveness of the series. It’s only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that’s what’s happened here. – Al Unser
166408. Winning in my business is everything. – Al Unser
166409. I feel honesty always works. – Bobby Unser
166410. Yellow usually means it’s not that serious. – Bobby Unser
166411. Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second. – Bobby Unser
166412. Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. – Bobby Unser
166413. Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. – Bobby Unser
166414. The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one’s obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. – John Updike
166415. Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike
166416. Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. – John Updike
166417. Sex is like money; only too much is enough. – John Updike
166418. Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike
166419. That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike
166420. The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. – John Updike
166421. The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike
166422. The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike
166423. The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike
166424. The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike
166425. There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. – John Updike
166426. There’s a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can’t. – John Updike
166427. To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. – John Updike
166428. Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike
166429. Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. – John Updike
166430. We are most alive when we’re in love. – John Updike
166431. We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. – John Updike
166432. When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. – John Updike
166433. Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. – John Updike
166434. Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike
166435. Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike
166436. What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike
166437. Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. – John Updike
166438. We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike
166439. Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. – John Updike
166440. A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience. – John Updike
166441. A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. – John Updike
166442. A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. – John Updike
166443. America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. – John Updike
166444. Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. – John Updike
166445. An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. – John Updike
166446. Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. – John Updike
166447. But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. – John Updike
166448. By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. – John Updike
166449. Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. – John Updike
166450. From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. – John Updike
166451. If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. – John Updike
166452. I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike
166453. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. – John Updike
166454. Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. – John Updike
166455. Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike
166456. Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. – John Updike
166457. For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike
166458. Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike
166459. Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike
166460. Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day’s progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike
166461. Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike
166462. Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike
166463. Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition. – Fred Upton
166464. For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law. – Fred Upton
166465. We’ve heard this before; ‘things are bad, we are gonna fix them,’ and they remain unfixed. – Fred Upton
166466. That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you’re not being spontaneous, you’re just recreating something. – Karl Urban
166467. I don’t see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you’re doing is you’re raping yourself really. – Karl Urban
166468. When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I’ve got those wings on my back. – Karl Urban
166469. There’s only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you’re dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It’s all about the transfer of energy between different actors. – Karl Urban
166470. That’s always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you’re attempting to do. – Karl Urban
166471. It’s such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us. – Karl Urban
166472. I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen. – Karl Urban
166473. I’ll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting “Heaven” it was truly guerrilla film-making. – Karl Urban
166474. It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80’s. – Karl Urban
166475. Now I’m this far up the ladder and I’ve got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it. – Karl Urban
166476. Once we get into the groove, we’re kind of like long-distance runners – that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running – and I don’t stop! – Keith Urban
166477. They’re mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio. – Keith Urban
166478. My father’s record collection was all country. That’s how I was exposed to it. – Keith Urban
166479. It’s something I’ve always loved doing. I’m not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I’m there every second of every day. That’s my hands-on situation. – Keith Urban
166480. It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you’re writing all the time. You’re collecting songs. I’ve had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record. – Keith Urban
166481. I’ve always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven’t had to change my life really at all, I don’t think. – Keith Urban
166482. I’m a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio. – Keith Urban
166483. I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don’t know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It’s vanity because no one does. – Keith Urban
166484. I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart’s in the right place, and I love country music. – Keith Urban
166485. It’s not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you’re looking for songs all year long and you’re writing all year long. – Keith Urban
166486. You’re always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they’re all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn’t done on the first one. – Keith Urban
166487. But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument. – Midge Ure
166488. You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that’s based on religion. – Midge Ure
166489. You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I’ve had it. I haven’t got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don’t get a lot of expression on the keyboard. – Midge Ure
166490. So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn’t want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically. – Midge Ure
166491. I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I’ve done that, the lyrics come last. – Midge Ure
166492. At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard. – Midge Ure
166493. In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters. – Midge Ure
166494. Series work is just grueling. – Robert Urich
166495. There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn’t want to do that. – Robert Urich
166496. I’ve cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career. – Robert Urich
166497. I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can’t hide who you are. – Robert Urich
166498. Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can’t always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it. – Robert Urich
166499. A healthy outside starts from the inside. – Robert Urich
166500. While there’s time left, I want to do different kinds of things. – Robert Urich
166501. I’m not ready for another series. I have fun doing other kinds of things. – Robert Urich
166502. My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. – Leon Uris
166503. Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about. – Leon Uris
166504. Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it. – Leon Uris
166505. So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain… and retain. – Leon Uris
166506. Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies. – Leon Uris
166507. You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation. – Leon Uris
166508. It is extremely important to know what you don’t want to find. – Leon Uris
166509. I was a terrible English student. – Leon Uris
166510. I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. – Leon Uris
166511. I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. – Leon Uris
166512. I essentially write for myself. – Leon Uris
166513. I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do. – Leon Uris
166514. I do not write for an audience. – Leon Uris
166515. I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves. – Leon Uris
166516. I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer. – Leon Uris
166517. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built. – Leon Uris
166518. English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can’t buy it no one puts it there you’re born with it. – Leon Uris
166519. Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. – Peter Ustinov
166520. People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven’t got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. – Peter Ustinov
166521. Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique. – Peter Ustinov
166522. Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. – Peter Ustinov
166523. Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. – Peter Ustinov
166524. Monica Seles: I’d hate to be next door to her on her wedding night. – Peter Ustinov
166525. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. – Peter Ustinov
166526. Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them. – Peter Ustinov
166527. Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. – Peter Ustinov
166528. Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved. – Peter Ustinov
166529. The French and the British are such good enemies that they can’t resist being friends. – Peter Ustinov
166530. The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. – Peter Ustinov
166531. The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill. – Peter Ustinov
166532. The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. – Peter Ustinov
166533. The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. – Peter Ustinov
166534. The truth is an ambition which is beyond us. – Peter Ustinov
166535. It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon. – Peter Ustinov
166536. To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. – Peter Ustinov
166537. Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn’t amount to much. – Peter Ustinov
166538. The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us. – Peter Ustinov
166539. Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. – Peter Ustinov
166540. A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. – Peter Ustinov
166541. At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we’re all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. – Peter Ustinov
166542. Books, I don’t know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can’t for the life of me see why people have to write them. – Peter Ustinov
166543. By increasing the size of the keyhole, today’s playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. – Peter Ustinov
166544. Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. – Peter Ustinov
166545. Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. – Peter Ustinov
166546. Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. – Peter Ustinov
166547. I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. – Peter Ustinov
166548. Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. – Peter Ustinov
166549. It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. – Peter Ustinov
166550. I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. – Peter Ustinov
166551. I have four children which is not bad considering I’m not a Catholic. – Peter Ustinov
166552. I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. – Peter Ustinov
166553. I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. – Peter Ustinov
166554. I’m convinced there’s a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. – Peter Ustinov
166555. If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue. – Peter Ustinov
166556. If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done. – Peter Ustinov
166557. In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. – Peter Ustinov
166558. Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. – Peter Ustinov
166559. Corruption is nature’s way of restoring our faith in democracy. – Peter Ustinov
166560. An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration. – Peter Utley
166561. We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess. – Peter Utley
166562. My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord – he wants Milan, and so do I. – Charles V
166563. Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. – Charles V
166564. Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. – Charles V
166565. I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. – Charles V
166566. I came, I saw, God conquered. – Charles V
166567. Iron hand in a velvet glove. – Charles V
166568. To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven. – Charles V
166569. Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. – Alvar N. C. de Vaca
166570. All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. – Alvar N. C. de Vaca
166571. One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet. – Alvar N. C. de Vaca
166572. Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. – Alvar N. C. de Vaca
166573. My life is triage. – Andrew Vachss
166574. No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist. – Andrew Vachss
166575. People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time. – Andrew Vachss
166576. The idea that you’re not a writer until you’re published is a lie. – Andrew Vachss
166577. The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. – Andrew Vachss
166578. Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society. – Andrew Vachss
166579. I don’t take advances for my books. – Andrew Vachss
166580. Journalism is what maintains democracy. It’s the force for progressive social change. – Andrew Vachss
166581. We don’t protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species. – Andrew Vachss
166582. I’m in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection. – Andrew Vachss
166583. A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids. – Andrew Vachss
166584. I don’t understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don’t know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family. – Andrew Vachss
166585. I think people should be consumers of journalism. – Andrew Vachss
166586. I don’t sign contracts for my books. – Andrew Vachss
166587. I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I’m not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure. – Andrew Vachss
166588. Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball. – Andrew Vachss
166589. Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That’s why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist. – Andrew Vachss
166590. I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level. – Roger Vadim
166591. You wouldn’t ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman. – Roger Vadim
166592. There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality. – Roger Vadim
166593. I shudder at the image they would piece together. – Roger Vadim
166594. We’re playing strip billiards. – Roger Vadim
166595. A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody’s head. – Steve Vai
166596. Besides being a guitar player, I’m a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument. – Steve Vai
166597. The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
166598. The UN’s unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
166599. You can change friends but not neighbours. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
166600. We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
166601. There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
166602. The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
166603. Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one’s own culture and social organisation. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
166604. People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
166605. Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
166606. Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
166607. No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
166608. In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
166609. We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
166610. The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world’s poor. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
166611. You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy. – Joe Valachi
166612. You live by the gun and knife, and die by the gun and knife. – Joe Valachi
166613. I’m dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy. – Holly Valance
166614. Whether you’ve done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it’s just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it’s just fictional stories for entertainment. – Holly Valance
166615. The Neighbours cast is like a second family. – Holly Valance
166616. I just want to do something risque for my debut, purely because I didn’t want to make an entrance being the pretty, sweet type that I’ve been seen as for the last 3 years. – Holly Valance
166617. I don’t want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la. – Holly Valance
166618. Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don’t pay too much attention to that. – Holly Valance
166619. I’ll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner. – Holly Valance
166620. I play opposite Beverly D’Angelo, and that was definitely a great time. – Wilmer Valderrama
166621. Mandy because that was the most meaningful relationship. – Wilmer Valderrama
166622. I got hit twice in the face, and that was not fun. – Wilmer Valderrama
166623. Honestly, I’ve been very blessed. Yes, I am cursed with this gift. – Wilmer Valderrama
166624. As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges. – Wilmer Valderrama
166625. The sex with Mandy was good, but it wasn’t like warm apple pie. – Wilmer Valderrama
166626. Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won’t cure a cold. – Jerry Vale
166627. No one today knows what is indecent. – Jack Valenti
166628. The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone. – Jack Valenti
166629. There isn’t anything in the world that can’t be made better. – Jack Valenti
166630. The public’s nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing. – Jack Valenti
166631. The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing… are parents. – Jack Valenti
166632. I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. – Jack Valenti
166633. Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China’s aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films. – Jack Valenti
166634. Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today. – Jack Valenti
166635. Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it. – Jack Valenti
166636. If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. – Jack Valenti
166637. Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through. – Kathy Valentine
166638. When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We’re having a new record out in the Spring. – Kathy Valentine
166639. We only get together when there’s a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn’t really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52’s tour was a good opportunity. – Kathy Valentine
166640. We always have a good time playing, and I’m glad it shows. – Kathy Valentine
166641. The new material fits very comfortably with the older stuff. – Kathy Valentine
166642. Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction – that’s when you can see people really getting excited. – Kathy Valentine
166643. It’s very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship – whether it’s a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend. – Kathy Valentine
166644. It’s kind of like family. I can’t say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone’s fully grown adult women with lives. – Kathy Valentine
166645. If you have to do it, then you’re doing the right thing. – Kathy Valentine
166646. I’ve struggled just as much as anyone else. – Kathy Valentine
166647. I’m friends with Carla Olsen and she’s doing a lot of producing these days. She’s getting quite a little collection of records that she’s produced. She’s real busy. – Kathy Valentine
166648. I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it. – Kathy Valentine
166649. I think it’s a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented. – Kathy Valentine
166650. I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I’d say 20 years. He’s the eternal teenager. – Kathy Valentine
166651. I haven’t been approached to do anything, but I would certainly make room for it. It was a really fun time. – Kathy Valentine
166652. Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once. – Kathy Valentine
166653. But the Go-Go’s are a very original, kind of organic thing. – Kathy Valentine
166654. Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did. – Kathy Valentine
166655. A lot of people don’t realize it, but I’ve a lot less success than I’ve have had success. – Kathy Valentine
166656. I’m hoping that with the high profile that the Go-Go’s are going to have over the next year, that if anybody is interested in what else I do, I’ll have something I can say that I do. – Kathy Valentine
166657. The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does. – Kathy Valentine
166658. A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me. – Rudolph Valentino
166659. Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams. – Rudolph Valentino
166660. I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators. – Rudolph Valentino
166661. To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse. – Rudolph Valentino
166662. God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part. – Eamon de Valera
166663. Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago. – Eamon de Valera
166664. When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end. – Eamon de Valera
166665. We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished. – Eamon de Valera
166666. We hope that the plain people – the labourers and small farmers – will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme. – Eamon de Valera
166667. We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency. – Eamon de Valera
166668. We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course. – Eamon de Valera
166669. Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven’t used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country. – Eamon de Valera
166670. The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people. – Eamon de Valera
166671. The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated. – Eamon de Valera
166672. By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme. – Eamon de Valera
166673. From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality. – Eamon de Valera
166674. Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict. – Eamon de Valera
166675. Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain’s stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War. – Eamon de Valera
166676. If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food. – Eamon de Valera
166677. If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night. – Eamon de Valera
166678. It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards. – Eamon de Valera
166679. It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and… we need a quarter of a million men. – Eamon de Valera
166680. I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. – Eamon de Valera
166681. Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. – Paul Valery
166682. That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. – Paul Valery
166683. Politeness is organized indifference. – Paul Valery
166684. Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery
166685. Power without abuse loses its charm. – Paul Valery
166686. Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery
166687. Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. – Paul Valery
166688. That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. – Paul Valery
166689. The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. – Paul Valery
166690. The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. – Paul Valery
166691. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
166692. Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. – Paul Valery
166693. To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts. – Paul Valery
166694. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. – Paul Valery
166695. War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other. – Paul Valery
166696. We are enriched by our reciprocate differences. – Paul Valery
166697. The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. – Paul Valery
166698. An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. – Paul Valery
166699. The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery
166700. Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. – Paul Valery
166701. A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. – Paul Valery
166702. A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas. – Paul Valery
166703. A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. – Paul Valery
166704. A man who is “of sound mind” is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. – Paul Valery
166705. A poem is never finished, only abandoned. – Paul Valery
166706. A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. – Paul Valery
166707. At times I think and at times I am. – Paul Valery
166708. In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery
166709. Man’s great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. – Paul Valery
166710. Love is being stupid together. – Paul Valery
166711. A man’s true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. – Paul Valery
166712. Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. – Paul Valery
166713. History is the science of things which are not repeated. – Paul Valery
166714. God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. – Paul Valery
166715. God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery
166716. Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. – Paul Valery
166717. There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration. – Boris Vallejo
166718. You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school. – Boris Vallejo
166719. You can’t do a machine without knowing something about how it’s going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don’t enjoy doing period clothes. – Boris Vallejo
166720. I find that acrylics dry very fast – which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don’t blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils. – Boris Vallejo
166721. Manuel Rosales is being unjustly persecuted. He won’t return to Venezuela under these circumstances, because Peru will never expel him. – Javier Valle-Riestra
166722. Modeling isn’t boring. – Amber Valletta
166723. We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings. – Amber Valletta
166724. I am a kid. I’ll always be a girl at heart. – Amber Valletta
166725. It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It’s not the body-the body will change. – Amber Valletta
166726. If you can be funny, it means you’re intelligent. Your brain is working fast. – Amber Valletta
166727. I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening. – Frankie Valli
166728. I’m not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off. – Frankie Valli
166729. Jazz was my first love. – Frankie Valli
166730. You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can’t take the neighborhood out of the guy. – Frankie Valli
166731. Well, for us, it’s always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it’s always a big plus no matter what happens. – Ville Valo
166732. Music’s always been really cathartic. It’s the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song. – Ville Valo
166733. So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don’t think all those things shut each other out. – Ville Valo
166734. Some genres I’m not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention. – Ville Valo
166735. Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there’s nothing wrong with it. – Ville Valo
166736. That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens. – Ville Valo
166737. The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I’ve almost stopped using make-up nowadays. – Ville Valo
166738. There’s always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they’re beautiful mistakes. – Ville Valo
166739. Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn’t run into any rednecks. – Ville Valo
166740. We’re trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath. – Ville Valo
166741. Women are always beautiful. – Ville Valo
166742. Yeah I’m still writing. I’ve got about 14 tracks now. But we’ve been on tour so we haven’t had time to get back to a rehearsal place. – Ville Valo
166743. Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It’s not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It’s about the fact that I really do enjoy it. – Ville Valo
166744. We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn’t really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don’t have the money. – Ville Valo
166745. I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully. – Ville Valo
166746. Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don’t know what to expect from the music business. – Ville Valo
166747. Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion. – Ville Valo
166748. Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I’m hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we’ve done. – Ville Valo
166749. I have never acted in one and I’m not at all interested to do so either. – Ville Valo
166750. I haven’t travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I’ve never even been to US. – Ville Valo
166751. I love Johnny Cash but I don’t love country music that much. – Ville Valo
166752. Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame. – Ville Valo
166753. I’m a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds. – Ville Valo
166754. I’m a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day. – Ville Valo
166755. I’m living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel. – Ville Valo
166756. I’ve always been a huge reggae fan. – Ville Valo
166757. I’ve got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I’ve taken better care of my illness. – Ville Valo
166758. It’s like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation. – Ville Valo
166759. It’s the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more. – Ville Valo
166760. I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music. – Ville Valo
166761. The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is. – Marguerite de Valois
166762. A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself. – Marguerite de Valois
166763. The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. – Marguerite de Valois
166764. Tears may be dried up, but the heart – never. – Marguerite de Valois
166765. It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. – Marguerite de Valois
166766. No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures. – Marguerite de Valois
166767. Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving – we had no proper food or anything – no proper shoes. – Ninette de Valois
166768. You can’t stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can’t stop it, you shouldn’t, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone. – Ninette de Valois
166769. Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can’t give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful. – Ninette de Valois
166770. There’s nothing in the world that isn’t good, bad, and indifferent. – Ninette de Valois
166771. There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence. – Ninette de Valois
166772. The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method. – Ninette de Valois
166773. Classical ballet will never die. – Ninette de Valois
166774. Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. – Ninette de Valois
166775. So it takes years to make a solid company. – Ninette de Valois
166776. Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you’re paying so much attention to the new thing. – Ninette de Valois
166777. It’s either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops. – Ninette de Valois
166778. Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. – Ninette de Valois
166779. God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand? – Ninette de Valois
166780. Exactly the same with dancing, you can’t dance until you’ve learnt steps, the things your feet can do. – Ninette de Valois
166781. As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves. – Ninette de Valois
166782. And then you have the classical ballerinas, they’re like sopranos. Applied to the dance. – Ninette de Valois
166783. Also, if you have an accident, you can’t start to dance again at the top, you’re too weak; you start with the easy things – the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then. – Ninette de Valois
166784. Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours. – Ninette de Valois
166785. All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they’re doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps. – Ninette de Valois
166786. First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad – and throw it out. – Ninette de Valois
166787. We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important. – Jim Valvano
166788. I’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background. – Jim Valvano
166789. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special. – Jim Valvano
166790. My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. – Jim Valvano
166791. No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won. – Jim Valvano
166792. Now I’m fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how’s your day, and nothing is changed for me. – Jim Valvano
166793. Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others. – Jim Valvano
166794. Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too. – Jim Valvano
166795. I can’t tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever. – Jim Valvano
166796. People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too. – Jim Valvano
166797. I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going. – Jim Valvano
166798. I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em. – Jim Valvano
166799. How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it. – Jim Valvano
166800. Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up. – Jim Valvano
166801. Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. – Jim Valvano
166802. But try if you can to support, whether it’s AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease. – Jim Valvano
166803. Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead. – Jim Valvano
166804. And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too. – Jim Valvano
166805. And I’m going to work as hard as I can… for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we’ll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I’d like to think I’m going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year! – Jim Valvano
166806. I talked about my family, my family’s so important. – Jim Valvano
166807. I will thank God for the day and the moment I have. – Jim Valvano
166808. A slighted woman knows no bounds. – John Vanbrugh
166809. Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her. – John Vanbrugh
166810. In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations between our two countries, as their destinies are intertwined. – Cyrus Vance
166811. My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations – not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations – is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center. – Cyrus Vance
166812. You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it’s against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting. – Cyrus Vance
166813. I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough. – Jack Vance
166814. Right now I’m so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don’t know what I’d do with it. I don’t travel anymore. I don’t need anything, don’t want anything. I’d give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it. – Jack Vance
166815. It seems to limit you; when you’re working in an office, you’re a creature in a small cell under somebody’s supervision and surveillance. – Jack Vance
166816. In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you. – Jack Vance
166817. I’d never been published when I was young. – Jack Vance
166818. I worked for half a cent a word. I’m not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things. – Jack Vance
166819. I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. – Jack Vance
166820. I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do. – Jack Vance
166821. I don’t read other science fiction. I don’t read any at all. – Jack Vance
166822. I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast. – Jack Vance
166823. So I’ll write it, and then I’ll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can’t use it in the story and it doesn’t fit. So I just throw it away. I’ve done that countless times. – Jack Vance
166824. I never worked in an office in my life. – Jack Vance
166825. A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone’s written the story. He’s supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment. – Jack Vance
166826. I haven’t sold to the movies. In other words, I haven’t gotten any enormous checks yet. – Jack Vance
166827. I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book. – Jack Vance
166828. I do read books. I suppose it’s more or less the same thing, but at least I’m alone and I’m an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do. – Jack Vance
166829. But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. – Jack Vance
166830. But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction. – Jack Vance
166831. But I’ve sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection. – Jack Vance
166832. But I’m so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it’s just so slow, I’m so terribly slow using it. – Jack Vance
166833. As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time. – Jack Vance
166834. I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. – Jack Vance
166835. I haven’t been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to. – Jack Vance
166836. This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I’m getting some credit for what I’ve done. Which is gratifying, but it’s kind of a little late. – Jack Vance
166837. There was a writer in the ’20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn’t tell you what it was. – Jack Vance
166838. Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn’t a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful. – Jack Vance
166839. The story was such that I couldn’t make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn’t want to. So, it isn’t the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I’m pleased with it anyway. – Jack Vance
166840. Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere. – Jack Vance
166841. These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything. – Jack Vance
166842. Well, I think everything I’ve ever read contributes to the background from which I write. – Jack Vance
166843. Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze. – George Vancouver
166844. The sea has now changed from it’s natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land. – George Vancouver
166845. A British declaration be taken against Martinez for ‘capturing and robbing us. – George Vancouver
166846. Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. – Amy Vanderbilt
166847. I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. – Amy Vanderbilt
166848. The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone. – Amy Vanderbilt
166849. We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man. – Amy Vanderbilt
166850. What do I care about law? Ain’t I got the power? – Cornelius Vanderbilt
166851. I don’t care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead. – Cornelius Vanderbilt
166852. You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you. – Cornelius Vanderbilt
166853. If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. – Cornelius Vanderbilt
166854. I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life. – Cornelius Vanderbilt
166855. And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong – to belong to my mother. And in return – I wanted my mother to belong to me. – Gloria Vanderbilt
166856. I’ve always believed that one woman’s success can only help another woman’s success. – Gloria Vanderbilt
166857. The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you. – Gloria Vanderbilt
166858. The public be damned. – William Henry Vanderbilt
166859. Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer’s head. In fiction, you just hope you’re precise enough to convey the intended effect. – Jeff Vandermeer
166860. So many differing opinions and philosophies… are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine. – Jeff Vandermeer
166861. I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary. – Jeff Vandermeer
166862. I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or “convulsive” beauty – beauty in the service of liberty. – Jeff Vandermeer
166863. History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all. – Jeff Vandermeer
166864. I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. – Jeff Vandermeer
166865. When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I’ve lost weight, they say I died. – Luther Vandross
166866. The best part is still ahead of me – I haven’t experienced my ‘good old days’ yet. – Luther Vandross
166867. I’d like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period. – Luther Vandross
166868. All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that’s a journey – that’s an old journey. I’m tired of that. I know that road. – Luther Vandross
166869. I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I’ve experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke. – Luther Vandross
166870. People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. – Raoul Vaneigem
166871. Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete. – Raoul Vaneigem
166872. We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. – Raoul Vaneigem
166873. There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man’s life than in all the philosophies. – Raoul Vaneigem
166874. The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. – Raoul Vaneigem
166875. The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. – Raoul Vaneigem
166876. Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. – Raoul Vaneigem
166877. To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. – Raoul Vaneigem
166878. Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? – Raoul Vaneigem
166879. Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it. – Raoul Vaneigem
166880. Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. – Raoul Vaneigem
166881. Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. – Raoul Vaneigem
166882. As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. – Raoul Vaneigem
166883. Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. – Raoul Vaneigem
166884. In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. – Raoul Vaneigem
166885. In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. – Raoul Vaneigem
166886. Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. – Raoul Vaneigem
166887. Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. – Jean Vanier
166888. Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness. – Jean Vanier
166889. Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want. – Jean Vanier
166890. Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper. – Jean Vanier
166891. Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity. – Gerald Vann
166892. Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud. – Gerald Vann
166893. To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope. – Gerald Vann
166894. If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth. – Gerald Vann
166895. We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons. – Mordechai Vanunu
166896. I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos. – Mordechai Vanunu
166897. And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb. – Mordechai Vanunu
166898. The main points were: one, the amount of Israel’s nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200. – Mordechai Vanunu
166899. That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes. – Mordechai Vanunu
166900. So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel. – Mordechai Vanunu
166901. Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb – the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people. – Mordechai Vanunu
166902. My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb. – Mordechai Vanunu
166903. I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building. – Mordechai Vanunu
166904. I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn’t like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public. – Mordechai Vanunu
166905. I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash. – Mordechai Vanunu
166906. I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb. – Mordechai Vanunu
166907. From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British. – Mordechai Vanunu
166908. But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I’m not so happy. – Mordechai Vanunu
166909. I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour. – Mordechai Vanunu
166910. But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom. – Mordechai Vanunu
166911. Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist. – Agnes Varda
166912. I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images. – Agnes Varda
166913. I had flops, I had success. – Agnes Varda
166914. I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness! – Nia Vardalos
166915. In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece. – Nia Vardalos
166916. When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn’t want to see the magic. – Nia Vardalos
166917. You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that’s why I tend to just jump into things. I’m sort of a fearless idiot that way. – Nia Vardalos
166918. You’re not ethnic enough. You’re not fat enough. You’re not thin enough. You’re not blond enough. You’re not dark enough. You’re not young enough. You’re not old enough. – Nia Vardalos
166919. I’m the best and I’ll thank you to remember that. – Harry Vardon
166920. Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. – Harry Vardon
166921. More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause. – Harry Vardon
166922. To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain. – Harry Vardon
166923. A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world. – Harry Vardon
166924. I don’t want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music. – Edgard Varese
166925. Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. – Edgard Varese
166926. An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. – Edgard Varese
166927. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. – Edgard Varese
166928. There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces. – Edgard Varese
166929. Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. – Edgard Varese
166930. Music is organized sound. – Edgard Varese
166931. I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. – Edgard Varese
166932. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm. – Edgard Varese
166933. I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments – augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial – especially in the high range. – Edgard Varese
166934. I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman. – Chavela Vargas
166935. When you like something, you should do it all night long. – Chavela Vargas
166936. We’re way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs. – Elizabeth Vargas
166937. I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you’re in Nashville. It’s part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time. – Jim Varney
166938. I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it’s lonely work. You die, you die alone. It’s you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time. – Jim Varney
166939. I’d like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic. – Jim Varney
166940. The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control. – Stuart Varney
166941. On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat. – Remedios Varo
166942. For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life. – Marcus Terentius Varro
166943. Nature made the fields and man the cities. – Marcus Terentius Varro
166944. The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine. – Marcus Terentius Varro
166945. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. – Marcus Terentius Varro
166946. What, if as said, man is a bubble. – Marcus Terentius Varro
166947. Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. – Marcus Terentius Varro
166948. Every actor will tell you it’s so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them. – Michael Vartan
166949. I hate gold. I’m sort of a sterling-silver guy. – Michael Vartan
166950. I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one. – Michael Vartan
166951. I would rather do movies because I’m very lazy and the hours are much easier. – Michael Vartan
166952. I’m not a bling-bling guy; I can’t pull it off. I just look like an idiot. – Michael Vartan
166953. Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form. – Victor Vasarely
166954. Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. – Giorgio Vasari
166955. These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off. – Giorgio Vasari
166956. In our own time it has been seen… that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. – Giorgio Vasari
166957. Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. – Giorgio Vasari
166958. I don’t particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that’s cool, but I don’t do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life. – Jhonen Vasquez
166959. I don’t want little kids reading my comics. – Jhonen Vasquez
166960. I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably. – Jhonen Vasquez
166961. In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn’t for kids. – Jhonen Vasquez
166962. I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20’s and 30’s. – Jhonen Vasquez
166963. Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show. – Jhonen Vasquez
166964. I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life. – Jhonen Vasquez
166965. I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation. – Jhonen Vasquez
166966. I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider. – Jhonen Vasquez
166967. Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture. – Jhonen Vasquez
166968. I’m just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now. – Jhonen Vasquez
166969. Ever since I’m done with Zim everyone thinks that I’m going to go back to comics. I’ve been flooded with emails asking me if I’m working on the new Johnny over and over again. – Jhonen Vasquez
166970. It’s sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something. – Jhonen Vasquez
166971. Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic. – Jhonen Vasquez
166972. I’m definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it’s just what sinks into a person’s brain. – Jhonen Vasquez
166973. When I’m writing the book I’m laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn’t get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home. – Jhonen Vasquez
166974. After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn’t say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny. – Jhonen Vasquez
166975. All the power to them but I’m not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show. – Jhonen Vasquez
166976. As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn’t use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page. – Jhonen Vasquez
166977. At this very moment I’m behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day. – Jhonen Vasquez
166978. Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren’t traditional comics buyers I don’t think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I’m very used to it. I’m not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines. – Jhonen Vasquez
166979. But I couldn’t draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy. – Jhonen Vasquez
166980. But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television. – Jhonen Vasquez
166981. I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant. – Bill Vaughan
166982. Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. – Bill Vaughan
166983. Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. – Bill Vaughan
166984. Muscles come and go; flab lasts. – Bill Vaughan
166985. Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. – Bill Vaughan
166986. It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. – Bill Vaughan
166987. Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. – Bill Vaughan
166988. If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. – Bill Vaughan
166989. Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college. – Bill Vaughan
166990. By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it. – Bill Vaughan
166991. An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. – Bill Vaughan
166992. A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. – Bill Vaughan
166993. A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. – Bill Vaughan
166994. A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election. – Bill Vaughan
166995. In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. – Bill Vaughan
166996. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine. – Bill Vaughan
166997. Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. – Bill Vaughan
166998. We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. – Bill Vaughan
166999. To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. – Bill Vaughan
167000. The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas. – Bill Vaughan