Been Quotes

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

I definitely have been foolish.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.