Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Gideon Argov

The business and industry environment during the quarter was generally favorable. Our sales results reflected stable trends across our product lines and a modest ramp in demand for fluid handling equipment through the quarter and into December.

Todd Braisted

The British needed a stable, local supply of wood and that was just across the river in Bergen County. Ships were broken up for firewood and it was extremely difficult to get wood from Long Island.

Charles Powell

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

Diane Rath

The brightest news for the year is significant job growth across every industry sector. When employers add jobs as they did throughout 2005, more opportunities are available for Texans in the workforce.

Brian Bauer

The breakthrough across all products is being able to reach new heights in gain while maintaining strong noise and distortion fundamentals.

Kofi Annan

The breakdown of health and education services, the obstruction of humanitarian assistance, the displacement of whole populations and a high infection rate among soldiers -- as in other groups which move back and forth across the continent: all these ensure that the epidemic spreads ever further and faster.

Mal Pancoast

A new lens to look through. Hear the pain in people's speaking. People who have an ear to hear can hear. You will no longer tolerate what you used to tolerate. A second point of reality. Declare a new future. There are no right answers. There is no is. Give people breakdowns. It's the loving thing to do. What's being revealed here? Dogs don't have things wrong. Wrong disempowers people. Upsets indicate a ''right'' that's been violated. Notice when you are angry that you are the only one around. The only constant thing is you. Business is made up. It's invented. We invent our world through language. If it really turns you on, you may want to inform your face. There is no ''right'' way. A chair is only a chair because we say it's a chair.

Satchel Paige

Avoid fried meats, which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble aint restful. Avoid running at all times. Dont look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Brian Becker

People are very angry at the Bush administration.

Bill Smith

People get really angry if I take that off the menu now.

Bernie Williams

I used to get angry at my body when I was younger, when it was supposed to respond to every command, but now I don't,

Mel Torme

There are musicians in my business who are very dour people, who are angry for one reason or another, who are malcontents or whatever.

Sarah Stoesz

The people of South Dakota are so angry about this ban. And our phones have been ringing off the hook and our e-mail is just jammed.

Richard Holbrooke

We should commit ourselves to use the U.N. for positive purposes ... and not for inflaming already angry people,

Pam Tambini

There's no explanation for that. After the game, we were really angry with the way we played. It wasn't up to our potential.

Jeff Agoos

I've come to the time in my life where I'd like to step back and look at different avenues of life and see where they lead.

Jackie Spafford

I've been a waitress since I was 15 years old. I started at what used to the Dutch Kitchen at the corner of West Grand Avenue and Fourth Street.

David Paul

We do not own the mobile home site on Shields Avenue yet, but we have an option.

Jane Anderson

We all make Madison Avenue to be the big, bad wolf, but Evelyn and those women who had inner lives were not manipulated by the advertisers.

Marilyn Miller

What I don't get is: When you have two interstates running east and west, why do they work on both of them at the same time, for three years in a row? And then, you try to use Michigan Avenue and Ford Road instead, and they're working there, too.

Richard Duncan

When this project comes in, Western Avenue will go back to what it was before (the opening of the Route 3 bridge in north Augusta) and Capital Street will become another Western Avenue. If you have the power, deny them the use of Capitol Street.

Sathya Baba

God has given enough avenues of joy in creation. But they have to be shared and enjoyed. You are entitled to just your share of it.

Jack Dunn

Last night two Boston College students who were visiting students from Loyola University in New Orleans were stabbed on Chestnut Hill Avenue about 1:30 in the morning.

Jack Dunn

Last night two Boston College students -- who were visiting students from Loyola University in New Orleans -- were stabbed on Chestnut Hill Avenue about 1:30 in the morning,

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Paul Davis

People have always doubted us and questioned our intensity. We've gotten used to it. They didn't think we had a chance last year when he had to play Duke and Kentucky (in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight).

Tony Russa

(Opponents) still think he's a dangerous hitter, ... I don't think clubs look forward to facing him. If you think there's somebody who gives you a better chance to win than Larry, you put that person in there. I don't see him.

Jim Christian

On Thursday, all eight teams that walk through the door know they have a great chance to win it. That's why it's always tough.

John Bunting

Offensively when we had a chance to go out there after it was 14-14 at the half, I thought we would start moving the ball, but they snuffed us. They just stuffed us and stuffed us, and we couldn't convert anything.

Bryan Colangelo

Of course, we're disappointed, ... But to Michael's credit, he didn't just take the money. He talked about a chance to win, and in this case, he chose to play for the NBA champions.

Jerry Aldrich

Of course, they're spending the money to get more people in the gate, but, more importantly, they want to keep them in the gate longer. If you lengthen the experience, you extend the chance for an extra meal or a sweatshirt.

Jeremy Reed

Off the bat, I thought I had a chance on that ball. It may have been the wind, maybe not. Sometimes that wall there comes into play more than most.

Chris Guess

No question we'll have to play better. We are looking at this game as an opportunity. Not too many teams get the chance to play the No. 1 team in the state, so this is a great opportunity for us to show what we can do and avenge a very disappointing game last Friday night.

Kurt Vonnegut

This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.

Jan Egeland

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

Bob Dylan

The one who is not being born is dying.

Ann Brashares

Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

Albert Einstein

Once you stop learning, you start dying

Alfred Jarry

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

Alexander Pope

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

Alexander Pope

No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

Don DeLillo

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Mark Haley

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Carlos Silva

That's kids, and sometimes they don't know what to ask, so they repeat a question five times. Really, those are the types of things that makes it fun.

Nicola Sturgeon

Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Jane Siberry

'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.

Martin Rees

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Louis Reigel

After 9/11 there were some of these sites. It was much greater after the tsunami, and it's even greater after Katrina,

David Williams

Once you understand your inventory, then you can start integrating at a greater level.

Francesco Cossiga

Perhaps, my dear, young Mr. Gates, before putting your new products on the market with so much publicity you should have them tested for longer and with greater care.

John Curtis

The Rockies, by all estimates, will play a much greater role in natural-gas production over the next 25 years.

William Goldman

The infant is ten and he stays,

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Darrell Bryan

A number of us are very upset about this slogan. By having too little money you come up with poor ideas.

John Gannon

The older you are, typically, the more money you have.

Robert Kiyosaki

Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Patrick Major

Some people were charging money to use their boats,

Ross Perot

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world

Chris Corrigan

Now it turns out that this is considerably more money than these ferries actually make,

Neal Wade

Sometimes you have to step out and spend some money to win a project.

Dean Koontz

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

Tim Collins

completely full. There were no more parking spaces.

Greg Smith

Victory Park has been a sore spot for a long time, and we have made that one of our priorities,

Andy Stanley

The sermon begins in the parking lot.

Tom Waits

using parking meters as walking sticks.

Peter Rohde

But it was really only a walk in the park for him.

Eric Myers

Now, we take RVs and park right on the ranch.

Jeff Ross

South Park called...they want their everything back.

Joseph Lowery

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

Ben Okri

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...

Baha'u'llah

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Ashton Kutcher

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Bertrand Russell

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Benjamin Disraeli

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Brenda Ueland

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

Jane Campion

I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go awfully wrong.