Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history --which she did with great dignity, many of the prominent citizens of Athens occupying seats on the platform, the meetings being addressed by Messrs. Xenophon, Herodotus and other popular speakers.

Mizuki Noguchi

In making comparisons, in Athens I just ran my hardest to win, whereas in Berlin the key was maintaining the tempo,

Liu Xiang

I hope to be at the starting line of the finals at Athens and win a medal at Beijing,

Paula Radcliffe

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.

Sun Haiping

The World Cup is one of the three most important athletics tournaments only after the Olympics and the world championships. And Athens is Liu's lucky place, so we will try our best to get a good result.

Chris Hoy

The work's done, you turn up on the night and do your best - I'm as well prepared if not better prepared than I was before the Athens Olympics.

Larry Bird

The right guy at the right time after Athens and the World Championships, ... This is the type of guy we need. After 2004 we needed a wake up call and we got ours.

Andrei Markovits

That's like Larry Brown being cited before Congress for only bringing home a bronze from the Athens Olympics. Absurd.

Dave Brennan

We live here; we know how to get around town. Many of these people didn't even know Athens County existed two weeks ago.

E. Helm

I think the citizens of this city are nervous about overdevelopment, ... We want development, yes, but we don't want it all in downtown in one area.

Craig Johnson

What makes us fundamentally different is that we give citizens the tools to become informed, organize themselves and then to take action, ... People can form or join groups, contribute money or time, or dialog with their representatives with just two clicks of their mouse.

Freman Hendrix

It has been a labor of love for me. I have not tired. I am energized when I am around the citizens of Detroit.

Rick Scott

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

Margot Wallstrom

If we want to have the support of European citizens we have to engage with them, but we also need leadership and that's something we're lacking,

Ashley Painter

I'm praying they're going to give him his citizenship.

Mitch Daniels

I'm just here because I'm hopeful of getting citizens of west-central Indiana and all of Indiana excited about it,

Willie Williams

I have no idea yet; I know I'll be evaluating the entire agency. One of the first things I'll be doing is making contact with the citizens of this fine town.

Derrick Spinks

I know they've had some problems with their heavy equipment. The judge has said they're going to repair everything they've damaged. I think they're willing to be good citizens and keep the roads repaired also.

Dan Rottenberg

There are still places where people think the function of the media is to provide information.

Myles Munroe

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

Stephen King

I can function and I couldn't have ever done that before this treatment,

Wassily Kandinsky

The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.

Dr. Ratnathicam

His intestinal function has not returned to normal and we're taking the appropriate steps to make sure that it does.

Louis Aragon

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

John Sicher

These products are sold on function more than taste.

Peter Cosgrove

A part of Kopassus has a unique, military counter-terrorist function in Indonesia, and it's that particular part of Kopassus where we're looking for heightened levels of cooperation.

Quentin Crisp

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Dani Shapiro

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

Lindsey Graham

What would you like history to say about you when it is all said and done,

Alec Reid

history will prove that this is the end of the IRA.

Alison Weir

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

Leonard Teitelbaum

History indicates that less than 10 percent of the meat recalled over a time period such as this is actually returned,

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

History has in different questions laid out some tremendous turnabouts and curves.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

The Eagles

It's been a total headache, ... We had trouble getting officials because the state (LHSAA) ruled New Orleans officials were unacceptable this season because they have not been going to their weekly meetings and they are supposed to be working for other associations in Thibodaux and Hammond.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Robert Houser

The way the (school board) meetings are handled, more should be done in the public.

Lauryn Hill

Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.

Roy Wilson

If this continues, we set up meetings and they don't show, it is going to take a long, long time.

Caterina Fake

We don't have meetings unless absolutely necessary.

Niklas Zennstroem

We had meetings with a lot of companies. We met with News Corp, yes.

Darcy Tucker

We've had enough closed-door meetings this year. We don't need another one - the score said it all.

Tim Gordon

I think what you see is nine very proud parents today because this is our baby.

Michael Owen

He even offered to give up his number nine shirt but I have declined. Number 10 will do for me.

Bobby Bowden

He does that several times during the game, ... And nine times out of 10, he's right.

W. C. Fields

I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine

William Feather

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Rudyard Kipling

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

Ron Robson

I play for six or seven teams in Florida. I sometimes play nine or 10 times a week.

Jalen Rose

In the second quarter we just could not score. We had nine points in the second quarter, and obviously in the NBA, you can't win with that.

Buddy Bell

In the nine games, we're doing everything wrong that we were doing right when we were winning.

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Richard Lewis

You can't really find somebody that has been so prolific, so 'on the scene,' so popular and cutting-edge as Carlin, ... He is the Rolling Stones of stand-up.

Rep. Baxley

I want to tell you something about accountability: It's hard. It hurts. If you're going to do the right thing, it's not always going to be the popular thing.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Shigeki Maruyama

The LPGA is very popular in Japan, ... She will be a big star.

Karen Bell

It's just not as popular as is used to be.

Tina Kuckkahn

It's the most popular place for student activities.

Nicholas Hytner

Even in rehearsals, I didn't realize it would be as popular as it proved. After I read it, I said: 'It's brilliant, but it's quite esoteric.' We scheduled 70 or 80 performances.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Napoleon Hill

You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.