Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Plater

Green sturgeon are on the brink of extinction, and we have a moral obligation to ensure that this ancient creature survives for future generations to enjoy.

Shari Arison

For most of my life, I have received messages - images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language - that came to me from above.

Edward Hirsch

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

Margaret O'Brien

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

Abraham Cowley

We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in the field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms

Robert Owens

We may look through ancient and modern history, yet scarce find a sovereign to whom God offered the privilege of bestowing on humanity a boon so vast.

Markus Persson

I already have it, but a good keyboard is invaluable when you spend a lot of time typing. My favorite one is the ancient IBM Model M I have at home.

Jack Gleeson

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.

Eugene Ionesco

Idiom is larger than geography; it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.

Chris Tucker

Jackie come to me and says, 'We gonna do a fight scene.' I said 'What?' He says 'We got to do a fight scene in the next scene. I have to teach you.' I say 'How you gonna teach me in three seconds?' ... What we did, we did the fight scene with our arms connected.

Bobby Baldwin

He was a legendary character. He dwarfed the other guys (noted whales the Sultan of Brunei and Adnan Khashoggi , the arms dealer). Kerry played higher, and he played for 40 years.

Stephen Rodrick

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.

Mikhail Gorbachev

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

Chris Mangum

Guy is an attacking wrestler. He is tall and long and creates match-up problems for other kids in his class. Most of the kids are three to four inches shorter and he uses his arms and legs to his advantage.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Here's to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands

Julia Allen

He said I'm so proud of my daughter, and I love you and dad so much. That was the last conversation I had. I didn't get to hold him in my arms before he left. It just hurts.

Jason Christiansen

He's just now figuring that out? ... Of course our arms are weary. We're run through like a turnstile.

John Wooten

He showed me those who came back without arms and legs. Sometimes, I was so depressed they couldn't get me out of bed, so he would pick me up and swing me around. He would taunt me and tell me to quit feeling sorry for myself. My focus was on being mad at him. It got my mind off my disability.

Warren Buffett

If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.

Benjamin Franklin

Where carcasses are, eagles will gather, And where good laws are, much people flock thither

Niall Horan

I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.

Terry Pratchett

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Link Wray

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

Peter Scott

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

Lou Reed

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

Lou Reed

There were lots of things that I recognized from my experience with Eagle Claw and Wu Hao, and here was the combination of the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole tamale in one.

Eric Thomas

An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.

Chuck Darby

He was a good kid. I'd see him on the practice field. He would ride on the team planes. This is a tough situation and my heart goes out to the family.

Dick Vermeil

He wants to play. I trust him because I know how unselfish he is. If he didn't think he could step in and run our game plan, he would tell me. As you saw on the practice field today, he's very sharp. He knows what he's doing.

Jose Gonzalez

He keeps getting better all the time, and today he was sharp. It was a good field and this was a good win.

Willie Randolph

He knows his body, he knows what he has to do to get ready. He might not have been on the field a lot (in Florida), but I trust him. And when he tells me he s ready to go, I give him the ball.

Hines Ward

He laid it on the line. He's lying there hurt on the ground, and he said to me, 'At least we're in field goal range.

Tim Cleland

This was one of the toughest, if not the toughest, fields we've had.

Michael Vick

Guys are four and five yards down the field and I'm throwing bullets. You can't do that.

Kelly Clark

He's a great quarterback. He's fundamentally sound and sees the field well.

A. Hodge

He's a great player. He's athletic. He's very versatile. He can make plays all over the field in the run game or the pass game.

Tim Cleland

This was one of the toughest, if not the toughest, fields we've had.

Ron Atkinson

For me their biggest threat is when they get into the attacking part of the field.

Troy Polamalu

On the field is a place where you can just let it loose and react to everything with violence.

William James

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

Sara Sheridan

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

W. Richard Stevens

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Robert Southey

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

Ty Cobb

Most collisions out on the fields are needless.

William Goldman

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

Jake Plummer

I didn't do much I just guided them down the field.

Jake Plummer

I didn't do much but just guided them down the field.

Karen Kain

Our marvelous musicians will be ably guided into the magnificent new theatre under David's leadership.

Tim Heekin

They had an opportunity to get tech really rocking if they said something positive, but instead, they guided lower.

Peggy Brown

They guided us through the hoops and circles.

Eddie Murray

This man here has taught me so much, and he guided me through a lot of things. He was just special.

Marina and the Diamonds

I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me.

Heath Ledger

Working in Venice was like a four-month guided tour of the city. It was like shooting a film inside a museum.

Fabian Nunez

Antonio doesn't do politics for the purpose of political expediency. His thinking is guided by what's in his heart, gut, and head.

Greg Davis

I don't know enough about Roy's numbers to be disappointed. I don't watch enough Lions games. I think Roy will be an All-Pro. If he stays healthy, he'll be an All-Pro before he's through.

Robert Jordan

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

Henry Rollins

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

Epicurus

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

L. Frank Baum

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz

Elizabeth I

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Patrick Stewart

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

John Hanning Speke

The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

Queen Elizabeth II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

Wallace Stevens

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

Ronald Reagan

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

Paul Gauguin

There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

Sebastiao Salgado

If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture... “If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.

Joshua Chamberlain

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

Leo Tolstoy

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

Lewis Carroll

By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.

Buck Showalter

I would say there were some unknowns about him. I've been pleased with the progress he's made.

Barbara Jones

He said he's going to be pissed if you all come. Please don't come.

John Ferguson

He's here and we're pleased to have him.

Richard Carpenter

We're pretty pleased with the services that were rendered.

Paul Armstrong

It is one of the things that I am most pleased about,

Gayle King

It is just really exciting. I have always been pleased (with the care), but now it will be even easier.

Tyrone Willingham

I have been very, very pleased with the play that we have received from Isaiah,

King Fahd

I am but one of you; whatever troubles you, troubles me; whatever pleases you, pleases me.

Samuel Richardson

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Georg Petersen

It confirms what we have thought for a while, that the H5N1 virus is widely spread in Indonesia.

Tommy Tuberville

It is full-speed tackling, and we want to see them compete. But we're not going to go out there and do a lot of things that's going to get spread around.

Tracy Morgan

I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.

Winston Churchill

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

John Vaji

If you let them get up on you, they?re going to spread you out.

Greg Smith

We spread things around pretty good, especially in the first quarter.

Joe Sims

We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,

Dr. Nabarro

Avian influenza is a big threat. It is spreading throughout the world.

John Jones

Offensively, I thought we penetrated to the basket. We got them spread out and got some seams to the basket.

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

Mario Theissen

I talked to him (Ralf) on Friday, he was very positive, he wants to get back in the car.

Curtis Martin

I talked to him a lot. I showed him around. I showed him where he would probably want to live. I told him he could have my place if he wanted it. I told him I'd do whatever it took to get him here.

Ginalyn Ofamin

I talked to her yesterday, and she is doing better.

Tom Oswald

I talked to her about things like how to take notes. We weren't flirting, though. At the time, I didn't know she was going through a divorce.

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Beth Combs

It can't be about wins and losses. We've talked about it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

Willie Randolph

He wants to be the best. We've talked a lot about his approach.

Kevin Garnett

He just talked to me briefly, and I could tell right away that we were going to get along.