Toggle navigation
Home
Authors
Topics
Suffle Quotes
Editors Collection
Top 100
Another action
Something else here
Author :
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
12,865,697 quotes searched till now
Limited
Total Quotes : 207
Very
Goes
There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
- Aaron Sorkin
Exploitation
Folly
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
- Abu Bakr
Think
Based
I do think that many Americans have a limited view of what constitutes Japanese cartooning based on what gets translated, so it's great to see an increase in diversity.
- Adrian Tomine
Bill Of Rights
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
- Al Franken
Great
You
If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
More
Our
Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
- Allen Klein
Want
Always
I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.
- Alva Noto
Change
Future
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
- Alvin Toffler
Committed
Pretty
For 'Spartacus,' we've committed 100 percent of our production time to creating great scenes. So all the training I do is on my own time. And that's pretty limited.
- Andy Whitfield
Other
Been
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
- Angus Wilson
Tail
Larger
As demand shifts from offline retailers with limited shelf space to online channels with much larger assortments, the sales distribution is not getting fatter in the tail.
- Anita Elberse
Love
Video
I love playing video games, but I'm regularly disappointed in the limited and limiting ways women are represented.
- Anita Sarkeesian
Always
Roles
I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.
- Anna Friel
Denial
Given
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
- Annie Besant
Understand
Felt
I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.
- Armistead Maupin
Person
Mine
Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.
- Arthur D. Levinson
Forward
Which
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
- Arthur Erickson
People
Possess
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Year
Very
My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.
- Ashwin Sanghi
Only
Institution
The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
- Charles Eastman
Composer
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
- Charles Kettering
About
I Write
So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
- Charlie Kaufman
Fiction
Literary
It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Computer
Actually
We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.
- Chris Adami
Healthy
Fit
I want to have a fit, healthy body and not have to be put in a box. I don't want to be limited by anything.
- Chrissy Metz
Country
Other
I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.
- Chuck Klosterman
Business
Tension
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Created
Designers
If ever a car was created by designers with dreams of grandeur, it had to be the 1958 Buick Limited: the heftiest, highest-priced and most opulent monster ever to hit the street in the '50s.
- Clive Cussler
Chaos
Very
I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.
- Connie Nielsen
Boxing
Set
Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.
- Conor McGregor
Reason
Access
There is no good reason for our cattle producers to have such limited market access. Our beef is the best in the world, and we need to be allowed to reach global markets.
- Conrad Burns
Rooms
Elaborate
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
- Dan Flavin
Head
Options
Head coaching options are limited.
- Dan Gilbert
Believe
Black
I believe in limited government. I know what the welfare state has done to the black community.
- David A. Clarke, Jr.
Nothing
Being
There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.
- David Bailey
Planet
Some
We live on a planet of limited resources - an abstract notion for some of the world's population, but for many of the poorest and most vulnerable, those limits are all too real.
- David Harewood
Data
Very
And never - not in a single case - was the explanation, 'I was pressured to do this.' The explanation was very often, 'The limited data we had led one to reasonably conclude this. I now see that there's another explanation for it.'
- David Kay
Will
Liberties
Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.
- David Limbaugh
Copyright
Within
I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.
- David Shields
Some
Fiction
You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging.
- David Twohy
Biggest
Quickly
The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.
- Debbie Allen
Everyone
Congress
All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Mood
Very
Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.
- Jimmy Iovine
Development
Nation
I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.
- Joe Lieberman
Very
Establishing
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
- Johan Huizinga
Leader
Embrace
It's not easy being number two. As a marketer, you have limited choices - you can pretend you're not defined by the market leader, or, you can embrace your position and go directly after your nemesis.
- John Battelle
Wealth
Country
When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.
- John Buchanan Robinson
Business
Very
With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.
- John Collison
Sad
Metal
Metal isn't necessarily aggressive. There's metal that's contemplative, there's metal that's sad, and there's metal that's exuberant. No genre is limited in what it can express.
- John Darnielle
Implicit
Founded
An Episcopalian military institution when it was founded near the turn of the century, Harvard for years had an implicit quota system that effectively limited the number of Jewish admissions.
- John Gregory Dunne
Dreams
Ideal
Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.
- John Lasseter
Screening
Allow
We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.
- John Pistole
Nature
Need
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
- John Ralston Saul
Fighting
Willing
When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.
- John Ridley
Years
Discovered
I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.
- John Stossel
Think
Divinity
It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
- John Templeton
Constitution
Like
Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.
- John Thune
Will
Very
I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.
- John Travolta
Bakery
Shop
A pastry chef's lifespan in a restaurant is limited. You have to open a bakery or pastry shop. There's only so far you can go in a restaurant.
- Johnny Iuzzini
Be True
Projects
When you go into projects, you can't look at it as limited; you have to dive into it wholeheartedly to be true to the writer's vision.
- Jolene Purdy
Infinite
Concept
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Infinite
Confuses
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Admiration
Though
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
New
Worlds
There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
- Josiah Strong
Mostly
Compulsive
I'm a compulsive sneaker collector, mostly limited edition.
- Jourdan Dunn
World
IQ
The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.
- Astro Teller
Ensure
Sets
Limited series ensure that we maintain the quality of the writing on the sets.
- Barun Sobti
Willing
Finite
Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
- Beau Willimon
Snake
Rope
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
- Guru Nanak
Now
Terribly
Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
- Ben Shahn
Drums
Bass
With guitar, bass and drums, you've got limited horizons.
- Bernard Sumner
Here
Amount
We're all here for a limited amount of time, and life is difficult - not unfair, but difficult. The key is to really confront our fears because when we do, and when we look at them, we really begin to realize that we are capable of handling them.
- Bernie Siegel
Leader
Some
And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.
- Betty Hill
Through
Learned
What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.
- Harry Mathews
Left
Very
Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.
- Harry Mathews
Movies
Never
And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
- Harvey Fierstein
Television
Very
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
- Bill Moyers
Song
Melody
If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.
- Brad Paisley
Better
Always
Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
- Bruce Oldfield
Color
Confined
People are tired of mainstream media's limited and confined portrayal of people of color.
- Issa Rae
Country
Borders
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
- Italo Calvino
Father
Within
My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
- C. L. R. James
Private
Which
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
- C. Wright Mills
Awareness
Country
There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
- Calvin Klein
Girl
Raised
I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of options.' In my community, that was never anything that happened.
- Cam
Children
Nor
Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.
- Carol Bellamy
New
Amend
Limited partnerships are required to amend their filings whenever important changes, such as the admission of new partners, take place.
- Carol Loomis
Play
Offers
Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.
- Jamais Cascio
Like
Unlimited
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
- James A. Michener
Success
Football
Football has limited success in Europe.
- Chad Hurley
Constitution
Which
The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.
- James K. Polk
Sure
Effectively
We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.
- James T. Walsh
College
New
When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.
- Jared Kushner
Office
Incompetent
Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.
- Jared Sparks
Thought
Apply
I never thought of myself as being limited to fashion. I'm a designer, and if you have a vision, you can apply that to anything.
- Jason Wu
Soul
Going
There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.
- Don Cornelius
Acceptable
Opposed
I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.
- Jeff Bingaman
Prove
Sufficiently
There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Recording
Very
I have a very limited knowledge of recording, but the miracle of being able to capture sounds on magnetic tape and the miracle of electricity, and these little magnetic particles, is amazing to me.
- Jeff Mangum
DNA
Longer
If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.
- Drew Endy
Showing: 1 out of 3 Pages
«
1
2
3
»