Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Boyer

The win was almost perfect. It was our last conference game at home; it's nice to go out on top.

M. Thompson

The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.

Paige Patterson

This is definitely the most demanding role I've ever had. It's almost like a job. I've found myself having to do research and really work at this character. It's much harder memorizing lines when they're all in a thick Irish accent.

David Koo

This is an exceptional period of time for astronomy, because for the first time we are able to combine data from almost all of the important wavelengths.

Bill Gibson

This is really a great prize -- all the bowl games, flying on a private jet, staying in nice hotels. I'm a big college football fan so I'm looking forward to seeing some great games. I still can't believe I won. My sons put me in front of the computer almost a dozen times to register, and luck took care of the rest.

Nancy Kress

Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

Jeff Hester

You're not just looking at shrapnel of the explosion, you're looking at a bubble. It's just this expanse that is filled with matter and antimatter electrons moving at almost the speed of light.

Jesse L. Martin

You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level.

Lynn Trachte

You're been waiting for so long that it almost doesn't seem real, and then, all of a sudden, you have her.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

Debby Ryan

I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life.

Debby Ryan

My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan.

Maya Lin

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

Mae Whitman

I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.

Marc Singer

My brother Joseph is ill. He has leukemia. They say I've shown courage on the football field, but for me it's only on the field, and only in the fall. Joey lives with pain all the time. His courage is 'round the clock. I want him to have this trophy. It's more his than mine, because he's been such an inspiration to me.

Hugo Chavez

Mr. Bush is an illegitimate President. In Florida, his brother Jeb deleted many black voters from the electoral registers. So this President is the result of a fraud.

John Lowe

He always called me Brother Lowe. He was always exceptionally generous to me, kind, friendly, ... He'd always be at the park early and when you looked down at the sign-in sheet it would say: 'Cheek. Radio'. That's all. Looking back, it summed him up.

Teresa Calcutta

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

Rex Walters

You can't build a program in one year or in four years. I want to be here for the long term.

Dan Pifer

We wanted to come in and run the football and establish the run and build off that, and we did that early, and I think that set the tone. We're pretty happy offensively. We knew we would be pretty good. We just had to get caught up, get reps for another week, and we thought we'd be OK.

Chris Fox

We wanted to build up momentum throughout the season. For a lot of people on the team, probably half the team, this is their last meet. This is what we shoot for, to do well in this meet.

Fernando Pisani

We wanted to build some momentum going into the playoffs. We did that tonight.

Don Bugbee

We wanted to build on whatever we could get this year and we kind of exceeded our early expectations. Now that we're here we'll continue to compete and play hard.

Bruce Bochy

We wanted to build on that win. We didn't want to get shut out 1-0 after that big win Saturday.

Jamie Iannone

We wanted to build a shopping experience toward convenience-oriented buyers who wanted to buy new items and make the purchases really quickly.

Alex Schott

We wanted to be able to build an infrastructure; we wanted to be able to make this a permanent industry here. So, when the hurricane did hit, it was important to realize that this is a very mobile industry.

Charles Spurgeon

I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.

Amy Carmichael

Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse ...

Albert Camus

What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.

Anjem Choudary

The Christians and Jews can live side by side with the Muslims, as they did in the heart of Europe for over 800 years in Andalusia.

Rita Mae Brown

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

Thomas Paine

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion.

Thomas Hood

Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!

Timothy Leary

Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.

Robert Montgomery

What if I say that in my view about the least Christian thing you could do is what the Republican party are trying to doing again now, which is try to take charge of the richest country in the world and then deny the people of that country free access to free healthcare and free education and start more wars.

Leo Beenhakker

He's still a great player. Nobody has to tell me that we still have a lot to do. The players can still improve. If it's good enough to surprise some of our opponents at the World Cup I don't know, but they still have a lot of room to grow.

Kiran More

It is a important tour for us as we will be playing at World Cup venues. It is an opportunity for players to experience the conditions.

John Curran

As soon as they switched over, I knew it was Kristi on the ground. They said Kristi Yamaoka, and I was out the door. I didn't lock my door or anything.

Stephen King

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Burn Gorman

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Ellen DeGeneres

I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan opened the door to 50-basis-point rate hikes,

John Groff

It's an exciting thing for us, and I think it really opens the door to even more development in that area.

Clay Aiken

It's very rare that you get to go up and meet fans and especially at their house and surprise them. To come and knock on somebody's door is kind of a neat experience.

Nathan Fillion

It's very Jehovah's Witness. I'm not sure if anyone's actually going door to door, but it's not far off.

Lin Ezell

I want every marine who comes through the door to find something that relates to his or her career.

Alvin Gentry

Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here.

Lao Tzu

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Gaby Hoffmann

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

Anne Heche

You know, so many things get redone -- music gets remade, Shakespeare gets remade,

Herman Edwards

You can see he really studies the game. He doesn't just walk out there and play. He waits for his opportunity to make the play and when you think he's not going to make the play, that's when he gets you.

David Cook

Everyone is praying and hoping that he gets better. He's a good friend. Nobody is going to be the same after this. It's all going to be different.

Joe Girardi

I want to make sure he is ready, that he's where he needs to be when he gets there so he doesn't get hurt.

Ian Schafer

Once in a while you'll get something like the Wedding Crashers trailer. It gets more people to see the trailer and interact with it in a way they've never been able to before.

Toni Harris

It's not always easy. But once you have a system in place, it gets easier. The thing that works for me is to know their schedules.

Patrick O'Neill

It's not about smoking. It's about who gets to regulate it.

Jessie Evans

It's unfortunate that officiating gets intimidated a little bit.

Bella Thorne

I feel like girls always deserve flowers; it's just a nice thing to do. If you want to make your girlfriend smile, send her flowers!

Bella Thorne

I'm not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B.

Bobby Vinton

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.

Adolf Hitler

The black-haired Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end, satanically glaring at and spying on the unsuspicious girl whom he plans to seduce, adulterating her blood and removing her from the bosom of her own people. The Jew uses every possible means to undermine the racial foundations of a subjugated people.

Adelaide Kane

I don't really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff.

Adam Brody

Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

Anna Sui

I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl?

Angus Young

The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.

Angie Stone

I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.

Amy Poehler

Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.

Mary Leakey

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

Patti Page

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

George Herbert

An old friend is a new house.

George Herbert

After the house is finisht, leave it.

J. B. Smoove

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

Isabel Paterson

One genius is about all a house will hold.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Frank Zappa

Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?

Nasim Pedrad

John [Mulaney] likes to say I'm like a district attorney with absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

Richard Edwards

Trading at Next Retail for the past seven weeks was much worse than feared.

Michael Perkins

We don't have any one particular star. It is a team approach. One player can do well one night, and the next night it's a different player. That's what makes it tougher for teams when they play us.

Helmut Jahn

Success on one project does not necessarily mean success in the next project. You've got to be prepared in everything you do.

Alan Trammel

We're not sure if he'll (Bonderman) be able to make his next start. We'll have to wait and see.

Craig Austrie

We're not roommates, but we room next to each other and we know we've got to do this together.

Alex Azar

We are overdue for the next pandemic. None of us, nobody, would have immunity.

Charles Bukowski

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

Michael Behe

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

Max Lerner

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

Max Born

The problem of physics is how the actual phenomena, as observed with the help of our sense organs aided by instruments, can be reduced to simple notions which are suited for precise measurement and used of the formulation of quantitative laws. Experiment and Theory in Physics

Max de Pree

In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.

Max de Pree

The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.

Max Brooks

Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Leonard Maltin

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Neil LaBute

Everyone has a story.

Kate Seredy

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Lili Taylor

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Peter Gabriel

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

Paz Vega

I like small stories.

Phil Crosby

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership,

Rick Baker

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

Reggie Bush

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

Tom Hodgkinson

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

Toni Morrison

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.

Tom Verlaine

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

Scott Adkins

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will

Fannie Lou Hamer

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Jack Nicholson

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

Chetan Bhagat

Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.