(465 quotes found)
“A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.”
Milan Kundera
“I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.”
Ralph Vaughan Williams
“Nobody was ever meant , To remember or invent , What he did with every cent.”
Robert Frost
“Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.”
Richard M. Nixon
“He misses what is meant by epigram - who thinks it only frivolous flimflam”
Marcus Aurelius
“I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more grey”
Shawshank Redemption
“By the Way of the warrior is meant death. The Way of the warrior is death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. It means nothing more than this. It means to see things through, being resolved.”
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
“Hunter meant a lot to me. He was another hero and someone that I got to know very well because I played him in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.' We got very, very close,”
Johnny Depp
“They are our storytellers - our elderly are meant to be those who share the secrets of wisdom and knowledge and life with our youth,”
Cameron Diaz
“Mr. Big has been sticking to me, and that makes me uncomfortable. I know it's meant well when people stop me in the street and say, 'Hey, Mr. Big!' But I don't ever want to be identified by any part I've played once it's over.”
Chris Noth