Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

INSECTIVORA, n.""See,"" cries the chorus of admiring preachers,""How Providence provides for all His creatures!""""His care,"" the gnat said, ""even the insects follows: For us He has provided wrens and swallows."" --Sempen Railey

Abby Aronowitz

If you idolize someone for their accomplishments, and those accomplishments spurn you on to make gains in your own life, then admiring a celebrity can have a positive influence on your ambition, or even your mental health.

Frederick Douglass

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.

Ryan Swanson

It's my Kansas, it's my Duke, it's my North Carolina. Growing up here and growing up as a little kid during the national tournament and helping out in the dressing rooms with my dad, watching all the great teams and great coaches that have passed through this building ... and also coming to Blue Dragon games since I was a little kid and admiring the players ...

Robert Half

Not admiring a mistake is a bigger mistake.

Nick Cannon

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

Thomas Jones

It's a great feeling to have your name mentioned with him, especially. I grew up admiring him my whole life, so as a running back, even to be playing here in Chicago where he played and to see his name all over, obviously to have your name mentioned with him is something special.

Deion Branch

When we got the rings, ... we were just looking at 'em, admiring how beautiful they were. And then one of the guys was like, 'Gotta get another one.'

Bob Graham

admiring of the diplomatic skills that President Bush has displayed throughout this incident. He was able to keep the matter contained, keep it within appropriate diplomatic channels and avoid this incident from becoming a major source of rupture of the US-China relationship.

Matt Ward

Keeping up with your schoolwork is difficult, but coach does a good job of keeping us on task and all the kids here are well-rounded. Good students, good athletes stand up to the challenge.

Jonathan Williams

I think it really opened the door for black athletes at the time.

Steve Shephard

It came down to those last two athletes to do their job the best they could and both Stephanie and Meredith really came through in the clutch.

Denny Green

He'll be one of the best athletes they've got there. He can dunk a ball any way you want to dunk it. Absolutely. He's got exceptional speed, exceptional jumping ability. He'll be a regular gym rat.

Dave Johnson

He is passionate about coaching, he values and develops each athlete's unique skills and leadership abilities, and he challenges both his veteran athletes and neophytes to be better persons in and out of the pool.

Kevin Meyer

He knows we need to get him involved more. He is one of our best athletes and we need to find ways to keep him out on the field.

Hilton Armstrong

There are so many athletes on this team. But everybody gives up a little bit to make the team better.

Van Allen

Having that consistency in the coaching staff has really been helping all of our athletes improve.

Nick Hill

Having this kind of technology available to athletes and coaches helps give us that necessary edge that you need to win on the world stage.

Konstantin Kosachev

I would welcome more flexibility from Tehran in connection with the well-known Russian proposal on joint uranium enrichment, and not place bets on the demonstration of some new types of weapons.

John LaMattina

We're of a size and can do enough different things that we're not putting all our bets on one specific area,

Mark Oliver

When they're no more good for bets and fights, they cut 'em loose.

Daniel Negreanu

He has ace-queen, which really surprised me. He played it the only way he could to get all my chips, because if he bets the flop like he was kind of supposed to, then I would've just folded.

James Paulsen

This was not a year for macro-sector bets whoever bet on sectors, or indexes other than energy, got extremely frustrated. This was the year of individual stocks.

Minoru Shioiri

Investors have taken risky one-sided bets on a rising dollar this year. Some will likely continue cutting dollar holdings through the holiday period. That's limiting the yen's losses.

Stephen Briggs

If you were to have heightened trouble at Grasberg, all bets are off.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.

Daniel Negreanu

I'm like, 'Oh, no,' ... I check. I'm hoping he bets so I can throw my hand away. But he checks.

Aaron Johnson

I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

Tim Thomas

I was looking forward to showing some character by giving a good effort all the way to the end of the year. I thought there was a good chance that maybe we could end the season with a win and feel good about ourselves. But it wasn't to be.

Lyle Overbay

I was looking for a pitch to hit. I had a chance to drive it. When I saw it go in the gap I thought maybe there would be a chance to score. Next thing you know, we win the game.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Buck Showalter

Kevin made good pitches when he had to, but it took a lot out of him. It was a tribute to him that he was able to get through it for five innings and give us a chance there.

Jeff Boogaart

Jacob is a good, young kid. He's got a chance to be real good for us. ...He needs to get a little tougher, and little more physical, but he does a good job with the ball.

Alexander Veshnyakov

I would say that as of today the chance of a second round is fairly high.

Floyd Ciruli

I would say that the 7th right now is clearly the nation's most competitive seat, with the Democrats having a clear chance to win it.

Alan Trammel

Just to even say there's a possibility, wow. But I'd have to say chances are we're going to have to make an adjustment.

Eric Hoffer

It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking

Bill Cassara

He was kind of cheering me on. He has always had an interest in Edgar Kennedy.

Bill Rodgers

I really had fun with the sport but I needed a little time. I would like to get out there but I will be cheering them on, maybe give them water at the finishing line.

Ron Howard

They were cheering every moment, regardless of if it was good or bad.

Alex Stepheson

They were all cheering 'Alex' and stuff like that. That was pretty cool.

Ray Emery

They want to see wins and it was a tough night. It's understood you don't want to get booed but they were cheering when I was winning so that's part of being a fan.

Neil Rackers

They want to see action, they want to see football. With the whistling, I didn't know if that was cheering or booing.

Mike Doss

It was hard going out there and not having Coach Dungy on the sidelines, with his presence and leadership. We knew he was home watching and cheering all the way through. We play hard for him.

James Rahon

It's good that he's here for us. It's real encouragement to know that he's cheering us on.

Robert Jordan

I was like 'We're going to need you, keep your head up.' It was more him getting comfortable. Everybody knows he can play ball.

Charles Rhodes

I was letting everybody know I will be back next year. No NBA for me.

Ronnie Anderson

Kitchens are forevermore an integral part of the home. Everybody wants larger kitchens and they are willing to spend more money on better appliances.

Mark Fulghum

Kids killing kids. Everybody loses: Someone loses a son, someone loses a kid because they're gonna go to prison. Many, many times, totally innocent people are the victims and they don't have anything to do with what's going on.

Dave Meade

Jaclyn had a good game for us. Everybody played well and got a lot of playing time.

James Devlin

I would see everybody outside playing one-on-one, so I went out and started playing. I've been playing ever since.

Judy Rose

I would say to them like everybody else that loses their jobs, look for better employment.

Jason Elam

Just seeing the team chemistry, how everybody got along, how everybody interacted, that was a lot different than it has been the last five, six years.

Lyia Singleton

He knew everybody and if he didn't know somebody, he'd see if he didn't know somebody in that family.

Barry Bonds

Just seeing everybody, all the fans out there was just incredible,

Craig Wilson

I think it's a great step, not only for the club, but for Jason. He's proven over the last two years what he can do. It lets the fans know that Jason will be here for a while. It's outstanding for him and for us.

Adam Dunn

I think it's a great idea. It gets the fans into (the game) and gives us something to look at.

Nikki Burish

I think it just shows how much women's hockey is growing and how good it is to all the fans out here.

Stacey Koerner

Her fans are her fans. Even if they do want to see any of these new shows, they're not going to leave her show.

David McGreal

Here's the thing about dunking, especially at the high school level. One, you don't see it that often. It gets the kid excited, the team excited, the fans excited. Then there is the intimidation factor.

Mike Peterson

There is no better feeling than silencing the crowd, ... When we were walking off the field, fans were looking at us like, 'We know it's not over. It can't be over.'

Gordon Strachan

I have had incredible support from the supporters who I have spoken to and come face-to-face with, the real fans have been fantastic.

Jim Wiedie

I'd be lying if I said this wasn't a game that we've been looking forward to. Our fans haven't stopped talking about it since last March.

Michael Angarano

I would say that my favorite action film is the 'Die Hard's. They're kind of perfect, I think.

Abram Himelstein

John Kennedy Toole is one of my favorite writers, but he's not someone who means a lot to the kids I teach. This is all about having other voices.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called 'Silver Snaffles' that my mother gave away.

Quvenzhane Wallis

My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

Eileen Wilson

He (Rowland) is really a favorite in this community. He is performing straight off a tour in Spain so we are really lucky that he can fit us into his schedule.

Sandy Nelson

Her favorite thing to do was walk to the library,

Ryan Costello

I think we're the favorite if we play our game.

Lorena Ochoa

It is my favorite tournament. I have a lot of friends here and my relatives come to watch me from Mexico.

Dan Anderson

He was in his favorite place doing his favorite thing. He was just too young.

Linton Johnson

Keeping our riders loyal and happy pays dividends.

Tori Rosenthal

Just seeing how some of those people lived and how little they had and how happy they are. It put in perspective what's important in life.

Frances Rodman

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Jeff Hawkins

I swear my heart stopped. I was so happy when he was able to come back.

Don Neise

Greg battled to get out of trouble. In the sixth inning, he got out of a bases-loaded jam. We're just happy to get out of here with a win.

Jenny Taylor

Greer is just scrappy. They get after it. They may be small, but they play big. My kids play big, too, and I'm happy with the way they played and the way they've played all season.

Bill Gates

Happy Valentine's Day. My other invitation was to go quail hunting with Dick Cheney.

Phil Savage

Happy New Year. I've really got nothing to say.

John Keats

Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters; / Enough their simple loveliness for me.

John Scalzi

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

Long Qiming

I am just a simple Chinese. I don't think I'm a hero. The real heroes are the ones who sacrificed their lives.

Janusz Bednarski

Greg Howard was one of the heroes on the men's side.

Siegfried Sassoon

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Bob Jackson

I hope they look like heroes and not zeroes and have the lake open on time for this season.

Chuck Hall

There were a lot of heroes in this operation.

Warren Riley

This isn't representative of our department. We had a lot of heroes that stepped up after the storm.

Albert Schweitzer

There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts.

Robert McClure

Many of these corporations are really unsung heroes in the communities they serve," ()

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Megan Smith

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Chris Mennis

I wouldn't be surprised if that $2.10 is the high for the week.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Katharine McPhee

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

Mark Schlosser

He's a local favorite. I'm sure it's selling well because of his hometown ties.

Jenson Button

In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!

Dan Modzelewski

We wanted to give it a hometown theme where local people tell their story through our paintings.

Clementine Paddleford

We all have hometown appetites,

Shane Larkin

I was a hyper kid, so I didn't want to play baseball and wait for the ball to come to me. I wanted to play a sport where I could go get the ball.

Stephen Pagliuca

Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better than Joe Biden to give us a little hyperbole, as we all know.

Ned Yost

He was really hyped up. He never got in a groove. He was overthrowing and he couldn't make the adjustment. It's the first day and it's tough on the young kids.

William Friedkin

The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

Willem de Kooning

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

Zach Braff

I never really understood all the hype, until I got one of my own.

Henry A. Wallace

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Larry Hagman

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

Nina Tassler

The bosoms may not heave as much. There's a lot of hyperbole and there's a lot of melodrama. I think we're going to modify it for our audiences.

Oscar Gonzalez

I would think the probability of a move (on interest rates) would be somewhere around the 40 percent range.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Scott Shapiro

I think it's 18 teams that have shown interest.

George Burley

It can have a snowball effect. With the national side doing well there is more interest in the game, which is great.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Dick Miller

I think it's going to go very well. She's an outstanding talent and a lot of interest has been shown.

Robert Baker

I thought we were interested in saving time.

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Carl Shapiro

I think it's a very thorny issue, ... I didn't feel that I could offer a clear, strong opinion one way or another on it.

GM Howson

We submitted another offer and we'll see where it goes.

Lute Olson

He's doing fine. He called to offer us his congratulations. He's upbeat.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Robert Duvall

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

Warren Buffett

The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.

Ryan Lochte

I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.

Shintaro Ishihara

If the Olympics are going to be hosted in Japan, it has to be Tokyo, considering the capacity,

Paul Hamm

I'm sure these Olympics will feel a lot different. There is not only more pressure on us as a team but more pressure individually.

Britani Dunbar

I want to go to the Olympics and play hockey.

Lindsey Vonn

The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.

Eric Heiden

Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.

Roland Rust

There's a lot at stake for the Winter Olympics now.

Blanka Vlasic

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Jeremy Foley

It had nothing to do with the outcome of the game.

Thomas Penfield

I think this is probably as propitious a time for any possible negotiated outcome as you could have,

Curt Miller

I think that's what you're going to see down the stretch, that each and every possession is important to the outcome of the game.

Cathy Allinger

If she didn't have that sort of access, the outcomes could have been different as she went through the Games.

Paul Burke

The first outcome from this review is to update the certification required of the tender process by project managers.

Neale Donald Walsch

Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It's okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly inside. Ask life itself to lead you to your best outcome. There's nothing you have to do, really, except get out of your own way.

Mahatma Gandhi

You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

John Anderson

Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance.

James Cook

The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

Paul Allen

I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.

Margot Robbie

I make my friends pull up their profiles and I'm like, "Show me everything."

Jim Turner

It raises our profile all around the state.

Clint Zandt

A profile is an investigative tool. It is not science, it is not DNA, it is not latent fingerprints. ... It is just one more tool investigators have. But a profile does not tell you who did the crime.

Deng Xiaoping

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Donald Trump

Like the whole concept of profiling, you know, I mentioned the other day profiling, everyone goes, profile and profiling. Well, profiling is you know, in Israel they're doing it and they're doing it well.

Howie Carr

The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Zac Sandvig

To come up here and shut out a ranked team like this is really something.

Don Shuler

Christiansburg's ranked nationally in the top 10. They don't have many weaknesses. They're strong from top to bottom. Fortunately, there's only one of them in each weight class.

Jason Shelton

It's a situation where we'll have to play very well just to stay in the game. There's a reason why Union is ranked so high. They're very, very good.

Sam Young

They're a nationally ranked team, just like us.

Bill Richards

Northwestern is always very good. They are ranked 51st in the nation.

Bill Castle

We've got a bulls-eye on us. I think we're ranked because of tradition and our past. Everyone comes after you.

Regina Rogers

We were pumped. They're ranked third in the state, so it was a big test for us.

Rodney Tention

Give them credit. They compete. That's why they're ranked No. 5 (now 4). They toughened up when they got down.

Richard Davidson

Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

William S. Burroughs

The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement.

William J. Clinton

When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

William Congreve

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.

Robert McCracken

We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

Henry Rollins

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Henry Rollins

I don't get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a far more restrained performance than music. It requires a lot of skill and discipline. I'm not any good at it but I enjoy trying to be good at it.

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

Retief Goosen

I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

Rube Goldberg

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

Ruben Studdard

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

Rose Leslie

I now LOVE archery, I find it a very therapeutic sport. I would be taken away for a couple of hours before we started filming to get back into the rhythm so that it was a fluid movement of picking up the bow and then the arrows and just being able to make it look as authentic as possible.

William Sanderson

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

William Safire

When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

William Safire

The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Jeremie Cook

I was disappointed. He was unbeaten. I didn't do what I wanted on top in my final.

Paul Malone

I think that will put us over the top and make the story simple,

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Robert Townsend

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Tyra Banks

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

Henry Rollins

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Laurence J. Peter

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

Dan Mclaughlin

It's probably the most broached topic we have at our town meetings.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

John Bruton

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.