Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paula Carney

We started three years ago with 150 people attending the event. This year we had more than 400.

Nathaniel Smith

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

Adam Ross

Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place. The subsequent search that ensues to continually attend to that voice that you hear is what is going to give the story drive.

Gayle Martin

Women who attend support groups and counseling for a reasonable period of time are likely to gain some better coping skills, learn the signs of abuse, become stronger and feel better about themselves and their decisions, so they are more likely to move into independent living and less likely to return to the battering situation. It's a key to their becoming independent and increasing their self-esteem ... so that they can make decisions for themselves and move forward.

Jerrod Lockhart

We're hoping for stellar attendance at the events. I can't say enough about what it means. Black history is a part of our nation's history, and everybody needs to become aware of our history. I hope people will come out and support the events.

Michael Bennet

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.

Ron Suskind

A carefully vetted group of more than 240 executives, economists, and even a few labor leaders was being assembled. They'd seem diverse and independent to the untrained eye. In fact, nearly every one would be a Bush supporter and many were major fundraisers. Attendance was, in a way, a reward for support.

Scott Weiss

It's just not possible to be a real partner if you aren't materially participating. I believe even the busiest business owners must drive a carpool, pack a lunch, help with homework, make a breakfast or dinner, and consistently attend school events.

Charles Herndon

It's a state requirement that students 5 and over have to attend kindergarten.

John Wright

The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre if it were well-acted and imaginatively presented.

Todd Apo

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I married him.

Charlaine Harris

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

M. H. Abrams

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

Andre Holland

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

Rick Moody

writing about the classics is a really important exercise, because you really need to dig deep to do it

Arthur Conan Doyle

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

Birdy

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

Edward Gibbon

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .

David Icke

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

Michael Strahan

You've got to be very conscious of what people see. If I saw somebody every day, I would get sick of them. Most guys think, 'If I can get on TV every day and give that quote, I'm going to be golden.' It's not about that. It's about showing people you can be yourself.

Michael Newton

The people who go geocaching are environmentally conscious and don't intentionally want to harm the environment.

Amy Tan

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

Marian Seldes

I think the first time I was ever really conscious of the difference between people's voices was that my mother's voice was so soft and gentle and her pronunciation was so perfect.

Norman Finkelstein

I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.

Katsuaki Watanabe

Whether Toyota is going to become No. 1 in the world or not is not something that I know. I am not conscious if Toyota is going to become No. 1 in the world or not.

Tami Slowiak

We benefited from consistent serving. We're a thinking team. We're conscious about where we put the ball. I have a lot of players who've played long enough they know that part of the game.

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Robert Anton Wilson

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

Tim Vine

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.

Ray Bradbury

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

Seth Lloyd

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

John Philpot Curran

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

Mason Cooley

Metaphors convince at once or not at all.

Gaston Bachelard

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

Florence King

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Sibel Edmonds

When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization.

Jenni Allen

There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any one organization.

Kyle Williams

At a meet, if you need him in a particular event, he's there to step up and get points for you when you need them.

Tim Johnson

They seem to be targeting this particular group.

Jim Hackett

This particular trail is very heavily used, and the resurfacing is warranted.

Timothy Wu

This particular subpoena does not raise serious privacy issues.

David Strathairn

This movie isn't out to railroad you toward any particular bias, and that's where I think its power comes from,

Phil Klay

There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

Scott Anderson

I try to find time to umpire and referee, but have had to reduce some of that, in particular the basketball.

Charles Stanley

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Daymond John

Make sure you're doing something that you love, that you're willing to do for the rest of your life. If you're doing it for money, that's the only thing you won't make.

Audre Lorde

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

Doug Flynn

We're in inning 2 of the new ballgame. So get in and let it go the rest of the innings.

Jim Tracy

We're not going to say we're not going to see him for the rest of the year, ... We're going to take it day-by-day.

Charlize Theron

My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.

Calvin Trillin

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

Debbie DeCarlo

Word got out. He only got two cookies. The rest went in 20 minutes.

John Fitzgibbons

We're starting to see something out of the restaurant sector now.

Tony Lopez

All my friends think we?re going to get slaughtered. I really do think we?re going to win. I just want to shut everyone up.

Riad Seif

They shut us down before we could even say a single word.

Larry Brown

It's not something where we'll have to shut him down.

Phillip Thompson

It's not on, but at least you can shut the door,

Elias Levy

They're not getting infected, but they're still shutting down.

Mike Maddux

A year ago, you couldn't get the word 'Boo!' out of him. Now, you can't shut him up.

Chris Crutcher

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

Steve Baldwin

And you don't have to feel it has to be presentable all the time. You can shut the door.

Willie Randolph

We'll just see how it goes, ... He isn't shut down.