Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Martha Stewart

My daughter doesn't allow me to wear fur.

Jim Marks

Multi-lender sites allow you to get a good look at the rate market. (Traditionally), it has taken a lot of time and effort to find out what rates are. You'd have to go to two or three different places and possibly even fill out an application each time.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

must not allow itself to be turned into an instrument in denying a nation of its inalienable right.

Hanna Rosin

Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.

John Thune

my hope would be that the president will allow the process to work.

J. H. Wyman

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

Brian Turner

Now, with those games out of the way, we want to keep watching these players when they return to their clubs and make sure they maintain the standards we expect and that they don't allow bad habits to creep in.

Drew Kesse

Negative things roll right off our family; we don't allow negative things. We're realistic; we understand it could go another direction. That just doesn't help anything.

Nick Swisher

We've had this stretch before, and we've bounced right back. The difference is, there's a lot more riding right now. We've just got to dig deep, keep plugging along and see what happens.

Troy Krause

This team gets along great and handles themselves as good as any team I've had. They put so much work in this summer. We talked about finishing the job here but it didn't happen. It was a great season.

Roger Clemens

When I step away from the game, our game is in good hands. We have some good, young talented players, everyday guys, and definitely pitchers. He's right there at the top of the list. You feel you pass the baton along to the next generation of guys. I think the fans out here will enjoy this kid for a long time.

Doug Burge

We felt all along that Zach would make a good post and, after all, he is the tallest we have. I know he'd probably like to play a little more outside, but he's our guy in there. He's so athletic and he's got a long reach.

Sam Hamilton

We felt all along that the White River was probably the core of the bird's habitat and it was dispersing out.

Martin Frost

We felt all along that there was a serious voting rights violation in the way these districts were drawn, particularly involving the black voters in Fort Worth. I hope they'll throw the districts out.

John Dunn

We felt all along that the process the city used was thorough.

Candice Wiggins

We felt we were along for the ride last year. We had seniors who carried us. This year, it was us in the forefront, having to lead the team.

Bob Stoops

We felt we needed to bolster our team along the offensive line because we had the fewest number of scholarship players returning at those positions. We feel like we met our needs. We recruit the kind of players that we feel can play early in their careers.

Jim Hall

Where I get frustrated is when we use government tax dollars to identify problems, we have developed a solution with our government tax dollars, but we have a reluctance to step in and mandate the solutions. What we lack sometimes is the political will to eliminate some of the risks that are still out there.

Courtney Taylor

I felt like we were right back in it. We had the momentum.

Ken Ashlock

I felt like we tried to give it away. We didn't play our best. I told the girls after the game that good teams win even when they don't play their best.

Kirk Hinrich

I felt like we should have stole that game. We were right there. I see it more as a missed opportunity.

Cindy Cuthbertson

I felt like we really stepped it up a notch. I'm real proud of the kids.

Frank Catalanotto

I felt like we let him off the hook. To his credit, he settled down.

Al Horford

I felt like we had the momentum going.

Beckie Scott

I felt in a lot of ways I was racing for her today.

Greg Brunner

I felt horrible. I've been thinking about this forever. I didn't forget him. I overlooked him.

Tommy Maddox

I felt great (yesterday), really good -- just as good as (Thursday),

Steve Sawyer

The Americans, Saudis and Japanese have got what they want.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Charles Caleb Colton

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.

Bobby Hitt

The new Z4s are not in the market yet. It will be sometime this spring.

Stevie Smith

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Eminem

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Peter Lynch

I think Coca-Cola needs a rest. Some phases of the market, some of the big stocks are in that category.

Jared Leto

I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don't need anybody else to do it for me.

Etgar Keret

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.

Errol Morris

If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.

Ernestine Rose

even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.

Ernest Gaines

Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.

Christopher Durang

I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Napoleon Hill

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

Eric Schneiderman

The scientific community, public health officials, and others have raised serious doubt about the steps taken to ensure the safety and efficacy of the herbal dietary supplements taken daily by millions of Americans, as part of a broader investigation, NYAG is reviewing the sufficiency of the measures manufacturers and retailers are taking to independently assess the validity of their representations and advertising in connection with the sale of herbal supplements.

Epictetus

Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.

Emilio Pucci

American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.

Pattie Boyd

Once I've taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I'm there for the moment - and then that's it. I find little time for reflection.

Noam Chomsky

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'

Michael Jenkins

It's like a trend that's taken over the league,

J. G. Ballard

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Friedrich Schiller

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Friedrich Schiller

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

Peter Abrahams

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

Herman Wouk

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.