Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Wynn

He seems to define himself all the time by saying 'better than Steve Wynn,' or 'better than the Mirage.' We, at first, were amused by this and ignored him.

Nik Kershaw

I was amused to read that they've actually put together a marketing plan, which said I would be touring extensively in the spring. So how was I?

John Hodgman

I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all.

Kate McEnroe

I am always amused by them. They aren't wrong, but they just aren't project- specific enough.

Joseph Hoffman

In some ways, he may be looking down at all of this and be amused by it all. He was a person who liked being anonymous.

Alexander Downer

Their sort of ugly, sneering, amused attitude at the slaughter of innocent people is just horrific,

Michael Leunig

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.

James Thurber

It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The maxim of the tyrant, 'If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused

Roger Tamraz

I was introduced to the president, ... He asked me what I did in life, and I explained my project.

Mike Holmgren

I talk about that a lot. I think if you asked one of my players, they'd probably tell you I kill them with that stuff. Just being careful. It's the last thing I told them Sunday night after we broke from the stadium after the game. After this incident, it gave me another opportunity because they were listening. I mean for the guys who kind of tuned me out before, now I had everybody listening and we talked about it, which, I think, is my responsibility as a coach. You know these guys are my family, and it would be like talking to your own kids, you don't want bad things to happen to them so let's try to help them a little bit.

John Remington

I think it is about both. Not only does it help the financial situation, but it sends an appropriate message to employees that they're not the only ones being asked to bite the bullet.

Geoff Jenkins

He was a great player. We were doing our outfield drills today and I asked Davey Nelson and Gary Pettis to tell us some Kirby stories. They were telling us about some of the good times they had with him. It was nice.

Chris Lynne

He couldn't have asked for much more from his body. He did the best he could.

Sidney Green

He's been raised around basketball since he was conceived. The only thing we've asked of Billy is to continue to nurture and teach him to become the best possible basketball player he can possibly be. Coach Donovan and his coaching staff are doing a remarkable job. I couldn't have put him in a better hand that Coach Donovan.

Nick Knight

He's a very impressive character and has great standing in the game and I'm sure that will serve him well if he is asked to work with England.

Natalie Henderson

He's a very good father. I couldn't have asked for a better father. He loved his kids.

Dustin Riley

He seems to have gotten a lot better. A lot of the things that we were working on with him were mental and technical. He's done a real nice job of doing what the coaches have asked him.

Oscar Goodman

They just need to be able to recover so they can go back and do what the Lord has entrusted them to do,

John Chrysostom

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

Chris Witty

I felt guilty. This was a neighbor my parents entrusted me with. He was a great guy, as far as they knew.

Ali Alatas

I come here this time as the special envoy of the secretary general on UN reform only, not as someone who is entrusted with the task of talking about the situation in Myanmar.

Rep. Andrews

I am prepared to serve the people of our state in whatever position I am entrusted to hold.

Trey Gowdy

Benghazi matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern.

Patrick Surtain

I was just thinking about it yesterday, wondering if I'm going to get fooled or not, ... It's going to help me somewhat because I know what those guys can do and I know some of their releases, but they're in a totally different offense. In one respect, it will (help me), but in another, they run totally different routes now.

Chad Epperson

I'd be a fool to say we don't miss them.

Richard O'Brien

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.

Richard P. Feynman

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

Robert Plant

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

William Blake

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Robertson Davies

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Washington Allston

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Anthony Hsieh

If you own your own home free and clear, people will often refer to you as a fool. All that money sitting there, doing nothing.

Anthony Hsieh

If you own your own home free and clear, people will often refer to you as a fool. All that money sitting there, doing nothing.

Norwegian Proverb

If there were no fools, how would we recognize the wise

Yiddish Proverbs

In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.

Josh Billings

Everyone has his foolishness and mostly those are the most interesting things a person has.

Huey Long

don't be a fool, son. We didn't even have a horse.

Sam Foss

They are good, they are bad,They are weak, they are strong,They are wise, they are foolish---so am I.

Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Thomas Tusser

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Alec Guinness

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

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.

Jay Campbell

or any other humanitarian service organizations because it's vitally important to the people of New Orleans and the surrounding parishes who need food, shelter and clothing.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.

David Wagner

They don't have much New Orleans to come to right now.

Paul Tagliabue

I told our owners (while planning the event) that this would be a true celebration of the New Orleans Saints, and, before you know it, they'll be America's team.

Jim Campbell

This is strictly for the New Orleans Police Department.

Brendan Gaughan

We got Steve a win this year so the Orleans team has won,

Evan Bayh

What we are seeing in New Orleans is the result of a series of misjudgments and misdirected priorities, that have all produced an increasingly tragic result.

Joe Horn

But it's not about the New Orleans Saints now. It's about all those people on those cots trying to find their kids.

Christine Mitchell

Now, parents will start to return to the city. I think this symbolizes to a lot of people that, yes, New Orleans is back and will accommodate families.

William Wilberforce

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

William Wilberforce

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

Randal Jr

I'd just like to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers, and I think that's it.

Sylvia Morel

He will talk about folklore, alternative and herbal medicines, and the tradition of praying for healing.

Richard Paul Evans

As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known." As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself." How true of us.

Richard Jenkins

But I loved making Eat Pray Love, and I loved working with Julia Roberts.

Richard J. Needham

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Richard Baxter

I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker parts than many others, but yet did profit me more than most; because he would never in prayer or conference speak of God, or the life to come, but with such marvelous seriousness and reverence, as if he had seen the majesty and glory which he talked of.

Richard Baxter

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Mark Gottlieb

The development rights of the ... property predate the ordinance.

Carlos Gutierrez

Theft of intellectual property is not tolerated and will not be tolerated.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Bill Swanson

Each property seems to be independent of the other.

Publilius Syrus

The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.

Dan Quinn

I told my wife this would be the only lakefront property we'd ever have,

Suzanne Kuehn

It would be a property tax rebate program.

Bill Giles

The township doesn't want to give up any more property or there won't be much township left.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Shaharyar Khan

The ECB should not feel insecure. They have strict security at all the grounds.

Paul Sarbanes

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

Gerhard Schroeder

Serbs who live here and who want to live here have the right to security and protection, not only for themselves but also for their property,

Bruce Schneier

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

B. F. Skinner

The security for this is incredible. It's taken me by surprise, actually.

Juergen Peters

We wanted security and security is what we have got.

Fatih Birol

We think security of supply will be a big problem.

Tom Rogers

The value of stand-alone subscriptions is much more important to us than DirecTV,

Johnny Depp

There are 4 questions of value in life..

Roy Blunt

This report's only of value if we use it in a positive, forward-looking way, and not try to get into meaningless blaming, who could have done what when; now that it doesn't matter, ... American Morning.

Christine Callies

We think there's a lot of value in semiconductors.

Dusty Baker

He can't put any weight on it right now,

William S. Burroughs

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Rob Bell

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

Robin Gibb

It's hard for me to put on weight.

Warren Buffett

I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

Zadie Smith

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

Tiara Cook

I need to get in the weight room. She is good.

Milan Kundera

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

Harvey Keitel

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

William J. Clinton

The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth.

Sue Moores

Partially hydrogenated such-and-such oil,' which is kind of the kicker word for trans fats.

Curtis Strange

I know he doesn't like the word 'ceremonial,'

Eric Byrnes

It's not even close. I can't get that many words in that quickly.

Rick DiPietro

It's frustrating as a goalie. I can't even put it to words right now.

Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Jerry Sloan

I would think it would be something that would be worthwhile for him.

Sean Sommeran

I think it's worth it. These days, it's a war.

Eric Greenberg

I'm worth $300 million, and I'm 34 years old,

Vivian Covard

It was over 30 years worth of problems.

Mike Berry

The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile.

Mark Twain

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Mother Teresa

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

Paul Taylor

If dance wasn't in my life, it wouldn't be worth living.

Eddie Einhorn

All the frustration, it's been worth the wait. It's a generation-long wait. I mean, that's a long wait.