Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

John Davis

Really, we were six or seven years into the AIDS epidemic at that time, and I think it was a move that offered an acceptance. You know, sometimes movies are great because I think they can precondition society for acceptance, and I think when they do that we're really at the statesmanship level of film-making.

Maria Mitchell

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

Bruce Vilanch

When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn't doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one's going to help you, and you have to take care of yourself. That's a great maxim to the gay community, and we took it to heart; we took care of our own.

Ed Clark

Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they'd bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.

Carli Smith

As of now, it's still in the park and they're just trying to put it in a cage and bring it to another location.

James Hitchcock

Once we got to know who he (Nelson) really was, ... he was able to really bring out some extraordinary ideas.

Wayne Thomas

The theme will speak to the complete change God can bring in a person. Where you truly experience grace, you can never grow tired of singing about it.

John Enos

The old township hall was much too small. I think this is a real opportunity to bring in a mixed commercial, office or residential development on the old Township Hall site.

Joe Ridout

The most shocking thing about this is the reforms we were looking for were so modest. They were nothing more than bringing cell phone companies in line with the standards that consumers expect in their other commercial interactions.

Chief Aradi

I wanted to bring it out into the open because it's still a dirty little secret in many households.

Joe Girardi

Sometimes you have some young pitchers who get too fine. And you have to bring them back in the zone and understand that you expand the zone when you get ahead, not before you get strike one.

William Wilson

Some people say it's late, but I always say when God paints his masterpiece, it'll be done at the right time and it will come. We need cold nights, we need some frost to bring it on.

Matt Young

The whole idea of designing a vessel like a sub in my first year of college really interested me.

Derrick Bell

I live to harass white folks.

Dennis Prager

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

Brad Dancer

Duke really had a fantastic crowd and made it tough for us to get a win on the road. It was a great environment for college tennis and I am really proud of the way our guys competed tonight.

Alexander Pope

Die and endow a college or a cat.

Alex Ellis

To be honest, that last month of college was one big party.

Chico Lynch

To be honest, I thought he would be a strong safety in college. But, with his work ethic and his ability, he continued to play offense.

Head Whitlock

We think she's going to be a really good player at the college level.

Rick Pennypacker

Virginia is getting a kid that is a very good football player and a potentially great college football player. I've had some great ones to play for me and went on to the next level. Brent's upside is tremendous.

Scott Borg

The Russians aren't waiting for standards. They have decided to move forward. We have declined to participate (in the drilling). We don't feel it's ready.

Tim Ries

This could have been a very expensive mantelpiece for my shelf, ... But I realized that if I couldn't sell this, I shouldn't even be in the business. Instead of investing the money I earn with the Stones in the stock market, I decided to have faith, leap in and invest in myself.

Pat Brown

We decided to go where the kids are.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Mike DiNovo

We decided that if they said he could go, he was going to go. I think it was a lot just to get him on the mat. He did not want to go down quietly.

Tom Scholz

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.

David Campbell

Five years ago, we decided to take out the vending machines. We had snack machines and drink machines throughout the building.

Brian O'Hara

Following our multinational clients' pace, we have now decided to move into China.

Clifford Smith

We have decided we now want to take programs in Bonita Springs to the next level. We want it to be a meeting place and the hub of the Rosemary Park Neighborhood Association.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

S. Walker

Once you hook them up and they start pulling that sled, they just want to go and go and go. The hard part is to reel them in.

Brian Fanelli

Once you get down by 12 or 13 and you get it all the way back to two it's hard to sustain and keep going.

Clarence Curry

Once you get a taste of making it in the NFL you don't want to go back. I just want to play hard and become part of the organization.

Chris Coleman

Teams don't think he'll hit hard and that he might struggle,

Don Strassberg

Teenagers are moody enough. Their self-esteem is variable enough from one moment to the next. It's hard to identify a clear-cut sign that a person has been abused. There are very few, if any, sure signs.

Mike Canales

Sometimes that is true, but he has become a better practice player and needs to in order to jump up to the next level. I think he is working hard on that. He doesn't want to be just a gamer; he wants to be an all-around player.

Rory Freedman

Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops.

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Michael Newdow

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Buddy Bell

I don't know how serious it is. Hopefully, it is not the kind that will keep him out two or three weeks. We have to be careful.

Bill Cosby

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Lindy Ruff

He's not well. I'd put him in the serious category. He wasn't doing well, even at the end of the game.

John Hodgman

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

Livy

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.