I got the honor of traveling some with Kerry Von Erich. He was as close to a rock star as I’ve ever seen. He had a presence that when he walked into a room, it was like Elvis walking into the room.
The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer has seen something unusual in the sky that he interprets as probable evidence of alien presence.
I lost both my parents young – but I have felt their presence throughout my life.
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he’d be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I’m sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
I’ve got a Facebook page, but I’ve never put anything on it. I’ve got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I’ve never once sent a message. I’m there because, otherwise, someone’s going to pretend to be me.
I just love Madhuri Dixit. Her presence fills me with positive energy.
Kasabian are wicked. They’ve got the hit songs, but it’s the presence in the performance and the attitude with it that I love.
In the bathroom, having taken my make-up off and opened my eyes, I always think there’s a ghost behind me. It feels like there’s a weird presence. Maybe it’s my brain reacting to me without make-up.
You must pre-bake the bottom crust of a custard pie, but this is a tricky step in the pie-making process. Without the presence of filling the crust can slump down into the plate as it bakes, necessitating pie weights to help keep its shape. Then, once you remove the weights to blind bake the crust, the bottom puffs.
Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don’t need communications.
Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
Car horns were invented to warn other drivers of your presence, not to express displeasure or greetings.
Icy and earthy, Helen Mirren is a rare, regal presence in a movie age that values the plebeian over the patrician and mass over class. Lauded with an Oscar and an Emmy for playing both Queen Elizabeths, Mirren has matched her cool aristocracy with a boldness of performance and display.
Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.’s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence in Indochina and was reluctant to increase it.
Rather than being an impediment, NASA can and should be the driver of commerce, the provider of the technology necessary to make some big money in space. The truth is that private enterprise already has a huge presence up there.
By the time I was a sophomore in high school, it had become routine for me to be sent home for wearing dresses. My mere presence in a skirt became an act of protest that would get me called out of class and into the vice principal’s office.
M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.
The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone – whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs – is welcome.
Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
You know you don’t have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.
Does the entry of Indian H-1B worker augur a change in the relations of production in the world of cybertechnology? No, but the presence of such workers – their skills and their histories – introduce contradictions into the system that are not always easily absorbed or dissolved.
Me being a veteran presence, I want to see all my guys be successful.
I love writing comedy and being a part of it, but as a visual, physical presence in a story, I probably am more impactful in drama. It’s not really a tribute to my dexterity and wide-ranging talent so much as it is a person finally getting to where they should’ve been from the start.
Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
Making my presence felt in Bollywood was one hell of a journey.
Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn’t really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.
No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it’s there.
When our neighbor’s personality possesses harsh qualities, we show our love by not voluntarily provoking those qualities in any way. Past experience shows us what upsets a person, so in their presence we are careful not to do or say those things that cause anger. We are self-effacing.
I have never seen a ghost. But yes, I believe because I know too many people who have had experiences. When I lived in Notting Hill, I shared a flat with a mate who was convinced that there was a presence in our house.
A baby’s existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you’re actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that’s a big deal. A very big deal.
I’ve always been a strong presence on social media. That’s how I’ve connected with my fans, and in doing that, I’m allowing them to win.
I’ve started most of the time I’ve been in a Knick jersey, so I just think they want me to bring a certain energy every night. They want me to bring that defensive presence because they know I can make something out of nothing on defense, and I think they just want me to bring that defensive presence every day.
The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament.
The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view… The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this… We’ve muted the analysts and their presence in the system.
What we should notice is that studies show that fathers’ presence in their children’s lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren’t we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?
For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.
God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.
You don’t have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.
I know that I have a face, a look, people aren’t used to seeing. A presence.
The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn’t need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
When I was young, in my early films, the freshness, and the raw element in my presence on-screen was coming from my youth, and that naturally goes away with time. But the challenge of an actor is to retain the wonder and innocence alive.
While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.
LeBron carries a certain weight. You feel him all the time. On the court, off the court, in the organization. I don’t say ‘weight’ in a bad way, but his presence is always felt. He is striving for greatness at all times. Because he’s such a magnetic personality and such an incredible basketball player, people follow him.
The ‘Evening News’ is going to have a long run, both as a broadcast and as a presence online and on cellphones. It is a franchise with a very rich tradition.
