Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Shoumatoff

Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Kevin English

Competing in this event is going to raise his confidence level. He got to see what he needs to do to get past some of the best talent in the state. There are no easy matches once you get here.

Allan Schweyer

Companies recruiting for growth can't risk losing their best talent to competitors. They must also remain focused on aligning and engaging employees. This session provides an opportunity to learn how to implement systems that help engage and retain employees--from an expert in talent management.

Rick Carlisle

Detroit is very motivated for a lot of reasons. They're fighting for the best record in the league. They dropped a game to us, which will make them more motivated to win. We have to play our game and play it well.

Roger Farah

Despite our best efforts and the hard work of the F.W. Woolworth team, the business continued to lose money.

O. Singh

Despite our best effort, it is possible that nothing will happen and that getting a permanent seat at UNSC would not be a cakewalk,

Anthony Marra

Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.

David Shove

Despite its best efforts, HCA hospitals experienced weaker profitable admissions, intensifying local competition, higher operating costs and fast-rising uninsured patient volumes. HCA's fourth-quarter performance showcases the hospital industry's increasingly turbulent and tumultuous environment.

John Bradley

That's hard starting your first game flying. You've got all of the distractions, and a lot of rookies haven't had a chance to fly out to a game and experience something like that. This is the time the veterans are going to have to step up, especially the first away game.

Frank Solich

That one was tough on us. Once that pitch gets executed, you hope to have the chance for a big play. But it didn't and it got us in a big hole.

Bill Fetters

That game didn't mean anything to us, other than it's just nice to get the win wherever you're at. Playing doubleheaders just gives you a chance to do some other things.

Rick Stansbury

You've got zero chance if you spot somebody 20 and have to fight back in the second half. I thought our kids fought back and responded, but you can't get down 20 points and come back on a roll.

Chip Ambres

You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. You get a chance to do it and are actually doing it. You see they are just like you, that they put their pants on one leg at a time.

Timmy Bailey

You take it one day at a time (and) you thank God for what you have that day. Now I have a chance to do something I love.

Joe Glenn

You take a chance on hoping that the kids will practice fundamentals in tackling.

Cathy Nonas

You're not going to be able to find one thing that is going to be the be-all and end-all in obesity in kids. I don't think any one thing is going to have a strong effect, but if we don't start to do some of these things now, we don't have a chance in hell of reducing obesity.

John Gibbons

You're never satisfied of course. But I look at the big picture, some of the things that have happened, things that might have happened, have a chance to happen and I feel good.

Rita Ora

I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless.

Craig Roberts

I'd love to pop back into 'Being Human' as Adam. I love the character so much. I've never really played a character like that. I'm always playing the geek, so to play a kid who is very energetic when he wants to be, and who is always trying to get the girls, was really cool.

Jimmy Bennett

I'd like to tour all over the world. I'd like to be everywhere. I've really wanted to tour out of the country. I think that would be really cool.

Kevin Meadows

Ideally we'd like to see a nice cool-down, not too warm and windy, and then it doesn't really warm up until the tourists get here in June. It's tough to watch the water going by when there's no one in town to enjoy it.

Russell Crowe

I can handle this sort of thing ... But it is just not a cool thing to do to a little boy.

Mike Shula

He was very cool for a young guy playing. That was very, very encouraging. I felt very comfortable throughout the year.

Tim Hudson

He's cool, he eats like a pig. He looks like me -- no hair, a little peanut head.

James Blake

He says it is cool to see us play, but for me it is cool seeing him sell out MSG,

Aaron Sarra

He lost his cool. It was very unfortunate. But it had little to do with the outcome. Farmington wrestled better.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Beth McNamara

We gave it a good fight today. Our team hustled and did a few things well and a few things not so well that we will work on, ... We made a few mistakes defensively and they capitalized. They made some really good plays.

Jonathan Cheechoo

We weren't very disciplined; (we) took a few penalties maybe we shouldn't (have). It was pretty one-sided, the (penalty) calling, but at the same time we were putting ourselves in that position.

Jan Egeland

We need more resources to save 2 million to 3 million lives and we need much more resources in the next few days.

Gin Wigmore

That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.

Vernon Smith

I think people (at Butler) put out the word that I was going to Pittsburgh, and those other schools just figured it was a done deal. But I haven't talked to Pittsburgh more than a few times in the last two years. I really don't think those people really thought I was going to make it out of here (academically).

Jason Giambi

We don't get worried when we're behind. We know we're only a few walks and a few swings from being back in the ballgame.

Joseph Wood

I thought it had gotten better, but in the last few weeks there have been more incidents,

Rockie Bork

We played good ball, took them to the wire. You have to be proud of the kids because they're trying real hard and they put 100 percent into the game. We just got off to a way too slow start and we had a few too many turnovers. What do you do?

Dale Easley

Three hundred teams started the season, and we're in the final four. Our goal is to get to 8 o'clock (tonight).

Robert Jackson

We are not unaware that we are not final because we are infallible; we know that we are infallible only because we are final.

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

Donnie Edwards

Marty has been talking about us finishing games. ... He has been stressing about making plays when you have to.

Tim Kessel

It was great to see the senior finish his home season with domination.

Fallon McClanahan

It was neck and neck all night long. We had leads of 24-21 and they would rally back. We just could not finish them off.

Kari Williams

It was a good finish for us. We didn't have trouble with the press and still did a lot of scoring after that.

Jim Allen

I've got about 15 years I still want to work, ... I would love that this is where I finish those 15 years.

Corey Dillon

I've got enough yards to last me a lifetime. Right now, it's just about doing whatever I can to help this team win. I'm just going to finish strong.

Frank Robinson

It was a good comeback. Stirring. We just couldn't finish it off.

Jamie Langenbrunner

It was a great win to finish a great week.

Bill Clinton

It's the American people who sent us here; it's our obligation to meet their priorities. So let's roll up our sleeves, get back to work and get back to work and finish the work we were sent here to do.

Don Stewart

We should have the hearings wrapped up in time to get a vote out of the full Senate in time for the (court's) October term.

Larry Harrison

I think sometimes we rely too much on Kenny alone. We play a much better game when we play a full game, relying on our shooting and contesting other teams shots.

Bill Tribou

That was a little tough, because they're kids, they're 17, they're full of testosterone and they're not going to back down from anybody.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

That's back when I had a full head of hair.

Lonnie Johnson

I wasn't surprised. I knew they were full of speed and had great athletes.

Chris Burke

I wasn't sore today, so I'll give it a shot, ... I have a full range of motion.

Jeff Lee

We need to put a full game together. Today, we weren't there in the first half and that hurt us.

Jack Evans

We need to provide a guarantee in this legislation that the funding will be there for the full modernization of our public schools.

Stephen Perry

We just want to make sure that everything is right as people come back, ... You want them to have the full New Orleans experience.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Robert Williamson

It's not that I'm trying to be greedy. It's the principle of it. If you're injured, the regulations state you're to be given this medal.

John Burroughs

It's nothing she would ever have given away. It's value is really sentimental.

Adrian Benepe

This park was taken away for construction of the tunnel and never given back. We unpaved a parking lot and put up a paradise.

Girish Tyagi

There were no major surprises and that actually is good news, given that the recent surprises for the sector have been of the wrong kind.

Sathya Baba

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

Keith Tucker

They haven't given up, ... That is what I like about them.

David White

Our victim got all but $250 back of the $90,000 she had given him. The other lady got about one-third of her money ($50,000) back - that was all we could trace. It's quite unusual to get money back - it's usually gone but we got lucky.

Frederic Ruffy

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.

James A. Baldwin

Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

George Washington

Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

Henry Miller

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Henri Frederic Amiel

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

Cassandra Clare

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

George Eliot

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

George Eliot

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

George Eliot

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

LL Cool J

Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Honor is what you know about yourself.

Jaromir Jagr

It's a big honor. Just look at all the players that played for the New York Rangers. Obviously, it's a big honor for me.

Jon Wagner

It's a big honor for me and the kids. It should be a lot of fun.

David Taylor

I try to get methodology and practice of law intertwined in class. It's quite an honor to be singled out.

John Tortorella

It was cheap. There is no honor in it.

Al Roberts

It was a real honor to have our leagues recognized in the stadium.

Carolyn Brown

It's a wonderful thing to do to honor someone in perpetuity.

Steve Nelson

It's a wonderful honor. It's humbling. I'm honored.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Douglas Coupland

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

Adam Savage

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

Adam Carolla

The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

Adam Carolla

Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.

Anna Wintour

Go get a job. Whether it’s working as a designer or working in a restaurant and then doing your own thing in your own time, it’s a reality of life. In the end it’s going to be helpful to you and so many others.

Angus T. Jones

Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.

Anish Kapoor

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form

John Noble

I was a very lucky actor.

Mariah Carey

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Ron Moody

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Marie Windsor

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Ted Turner

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Mark Twain

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Mason Cooley

Sensuality takes planning and work.

Robert Gottlieb

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

Matthew Goode

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.