Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. Hart

The people on both sides of the water were accustomed to an orderly government, in which laws were made and administered with regularity and dignity.

Tony Floor

I heard it lit up pretty well this last weekend. I know of a 27-pounder from Lopez Pass and heard the usual and accustomed spots were producing fish: Humphrey Head, Thatcher and Spring Pass.

Roberto Carlos

In Brewster, when one of us causes a problem, we all pay. We're not accustomed to mixing with Americans. They base their opinions too much on appearances.

Curt Schilling

I left some balls in the middle of the plate again, in situations that you can't, ... I let them feel like they were in that game the whole way and not shutting the door is not something I'm accustomed to.

Baron Davis

Derek Fisher and myself, we bring a lot to this team, as far as winning, ... When you want to win, when you experience winning streaks, you get upset when you lose. It feels bad. When you're accustomed to losing, then you really don't have any feelings towards it.

Trent Green

It was a different kind of pace for this offense, ... With the defense playing the way that it was and with a big lead, it was more of a grind-it-out attitude. That's not something we're accustomed to.

Jim Bianco

The volatility that we've had in the stock market is higher than we've been accustomed to over the past several months. We've now finally broken into the range where the moves are greater than 1 percent, but as long as they're not 2 percent or 3 percent, we're not in that range where you would start to call them extraordinary.

Chip Burrus

They just become accustomed to that lifestyle. You can't consent to be a prostitute at age 14. That's just an impossibility.

Keith Wilbur

It was a good game at home. We came out strong and stuck to our game plan. They run a different offense than what we are accustomed to seeing, but we did a good job defending it.

Joel Fuhrman

The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.

James Allen

Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a heap of unsightly ashes, so are men consumed by the flames of passions, and their deeds and works fall and perish.

Keiichi Sano

The current high inventories will be consumed during the maintenance. Gasoline demand remains strong in the U.S..

Jack Nicklaus

It was great for me because it felt like I actually had done something well and I hadn't prepared for it. I hadn't prepared for it like I did 10 years earlier when I would just be consumed by it.

Julie Raeder

Water, milk, juices and even some foods contain a lot of fluid. Any foods that will melt, such as gelatin or flavored ice treats, or foods that contain a lot of liquid such as soup are measured as part of your fluid intake. For most people, the foods consumed count for about 20 percent of one's fluid intake.

Rosecrans Baldwin

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

Bible Bible

Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

Alex Rodriguez

That's the only reason I play baseball. It's what I'm consumed to do right now.

Marcus Samuelsson

I am a chef through and through. Everything I do - whether it is cooking for kids in Harlem or cooking in a fine dining establishment - all my days are consumed by food.

Christine Ebersole

'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I'm not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family.

Larry Hagman

I drank my liver out.

John Hurt

The drink was effecting me badly. I was feeling lousy especially in the morning. Now I have a much fuller time with people. The more you don't drink the more you find you can be high as a kite anyway. I had huge fun when I was drinking. But towards the end I was not genuinely enjoying it. I drank mainly for enthusiasm, to prolong the night and the laughter and the conversation.

Anton Chekhov

It's a long time since I drank champagne.

Sam Torrance

What a team. I led them to the water and they drank copiously.

Billy Joel

Went off to school, and learned to serve the state.Followed the rules, and drank his vodka straight.The only way to live was 'drown the hate'.The Russian life was very sad, and such was life in Leningrad.

Rose Rougeau

What I'm hearing is that more and more we are topping the $3 a gallon mark in Texas.

Todd Perkins

What was $1.99 a gallon is now $2.70-something a gallon.

James Cordier

Gasoline at $2.50 a gallon isn't going to keep people from going on their spring and summer vacations.

Simon Schama

History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.

Rich Collins

There aren't a lot of white vegetables. We have a unique product and it's grown in a unique way.

Barry Zito

I just know that Macha is great, he's grown and learned so much since he started in 2003,

Kim Edwards

I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

James King

The hardest thing is when you go home and realize that you've grown 10 years in 2 days.

O. Singh

All have grown weary of performing such actions.

Karla Sempsrott

Every week, they've improved and grown more confident. They did so much, especially considering how young they are. I couldn't be more pleased with them.

Tim Ehresman

A big key is we have to finish. I think these guys have grown up a lot over 19 games.

Winston Justice

It's not that difficult. I like telling my side of the story. . . . I think I've grown from that.

Mike Darnell

I swear, it must (have been) 13 hours a day, ... And I still do. It's on all the time. I was sort of hypnotized by it as a kid, I think. I just loved it.

Roger Bedford

I think it's an outrage that these hours would be billed on a state holiday,

Brian Mehler

The purpose is to pay them for their work. They worked 20 hours per week -- it's like a part-time job.

Felix Bloch

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.

John Tracy

Well, you should be, ... You've been saying 'Yes' for three hours straight.

Maxwell Anderson

He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.

Mark Tyndale

I don't know what hours he likes to go, but whatever hours he comes up with, I'm willing to work for him.

Michael McKinney

I could sit and talk to them for three hours if I have the time,

William Bolar

He loves for it as I do. We can talk on the phone for hours about it.

Emanuel Steward

He'd lean over and whisper to me that this is never going to leave Detroit. He made me promise.

Teddy Dyess

I really think he's just about back at square one. I don't think he's leaning one way or another right now.

Josh Silver

I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

Terry Mattingly

You could tell he was leaning toward Buddhism.

Vanessa Friedman

For women you would not want to leave your shirt undone, so that if you lean over you reveal something you did not want to reveal,

Gino Guyer

From here on out, we've just got to lean on each other and push each other and be there to support each other.

Mike Garcia

If we're not there on the routine basis, some will get relaxed a bit. They'll lean toward getting away from (meeting standards). We just don't have the manpower to be there as often as we should.

Michael Barrett

He's someone I lean on and go to when I need help,

O. J. Simpson

I am not a lean mean spitting machine

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

David Filo

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

Frank Lampard

It was a big step towards winning it today. We got the result, we're nearly there.

John Joyce

Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Ada Yonath

Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Steve Jobs

Oh, I never realized that those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped!

Brian Silverman

It's like a dream. I never realized how big it is.

Nancy Roman

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

Michael Newdow

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

Jesse Spencer

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Roger Wicker

Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?

Rick Riordan

Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations.

Larry Hagman

But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

Orhan Pamuk

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.

Orhan Pamuk

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

Nick Hornby

It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.

Khloe Kardashian

When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it.

Peter Kenyon

Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither Moscow nor the West wants a Russian NATO conflict to erupt.

Peter Lerangis

Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish.

Robin Gibb

It's hard for me to put on weight.

Harvey Keitel

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

Eric Bana

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

Joely Richardson

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Ashlee Simpson

Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under?

Teresa Heinz

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.

John Knox

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

Cathy Guisewite

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.