Famous Quotes & Sayings

Becky Wilson

People are well-intentioned. They hate to see an animal starve.

Alex Honnold

The simple facts of Chadian life - what it takes to survive in that kind of climate with nothing but a hut and some animals - stunned me. And this made me realize, perhaps for the first time, how easy my life was compared to those of people in less privileged societies.

Jan Smith

Something must be done to prevent more homeless puppies. All animals rescued by Second Chance are spayed and neutered, but it is very expensive.

Barbara Kingsolver

The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.

Russell Baze

There are very few horses that can go with this horse for the first half-mile. He runs the second quarter as fast, if not faster, than the first quarter and he can finish from there. He's an exceptional animal, and it is really going to take an exceptional animal to beat him.

Brian Blessed

I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.

Jane Goodall

I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.

Jane Goodall

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Jane Goodall

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.

Jeff Mangum

The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end.

Mary Johnston

The work of the day being over, I say down upon my doorstep, pipe in hand, to rest awhile in the cool of the evening.

Omar Jacobs

Ben is a great quarterback. If I have to sit for awhile ... I have to be patient to some degree; I want to be patient in Pittsburgh. If my time comes, it will.

Tom Smart

I believe that this person is not a bad person at all. Our family has felt strongly for a while -- and there's been some comfort here for awhile -- that this is just somebody who actually likes Elizabeth.

Nick Saban

My last conversation was awhile back and was really about our heritage, trying to figure out where we came from and what we did,

E. Hicks

That was definitely something we talked about during our whole bowl preparation. After being off for a month, timing is the biggest thing for us, especially in this offense. It took us awhile to get in tune.

Anthony Robbins

That was our first charge and responsibility. It's taken awhile to buy pieces of property and get landowners interested in upgrading their property.

Loretta Young

Listening is more than just a very rewarding habit. After awhile you discover what a world of information you can gain from hearing what others say, and If you're interested, you're interesting. All the most popular people are good listeners.

Jason Isringhausen

I stink right now. You get booed when you do bad in my job. You're either the hero or the goat every day. ... I've been the goat pretty good for awhile here.

Andy Reid

Offensively, I have to do a better job on my side of getting this thing a bit more balanced up with the run-pass ratio, ... I'll go back to the drawing board and work on that and see if we can't do a better job offensively.

Marsha Sharp

The more balance you can have in the Big 12 and the less they can pick on people, the better off you are.

Dave Phillips

The team showed a lot of heart tonight. We're 11-2 in dual meets, so I think that gave us a lot of confidence coming into the tournament. We're a very balanced team and they all gave their best, so I'm very proud.

Ed McClanahan

The teams are pretty evenly matched. What it came down to is they got more balanced scoring and they got the shots they needed in the fourth quarter to pull away from us and get the win.

Eric Tyson

I've long loved balanced funds, especially for skittish investors, because the bonds mask the volatility of the stocks. When I was doing financial planning, I saw that people often had a hard time keeping in mind the overall portfolio, and a balanced fund kind of forces them to do that.

George Scalise

The worldwide market for semiconductors in 2001 is expected to decline 31 percent due to excessive inventories and price pressure on a wide range of products, ... However, recent data indicates inventory is now largely in balance and prices are rebounding in some product categories.

Cathy Kapica

This is an open window on McDonald's food. The math tells the real story -- that McDonald's has the balance consumers are looking for.

James Awad

You're looking for a growth company in a growth industry with good management and a good balance sheet,

Roger Entner

You need to find a balance between minimizing the support costs and making your people happy and cooperative.

Frank Kelly

This part of the cemetery doesn't look as barren as it did.

Tom Barnes

People are trying to go higher quality -- but maybe not spend as much money -- and being more personal with things. This is making it harder on promotional-items people, because they do better when they can sell a bunch of stuff.

Mike Birbiglia

Sometimes I'll go to the grocery store and buy a bunch of groceries as though I knew how to cook, which I don't, and as though I was going to be home for the next six days, which I won't.

Kevin Klette

This is a special group of guys. They are a tight bunch of guys that love to play together.

Tom Sanvik

This is really something special. This team has so many positives and has really developed over the years into a mean bunch of girls that do not back down.

Ronde Barber

You never like to think you're rebuilding. But if you have a bunch of young guys who have to play? Yeah, you're rebuilding.

Kevin McHale

In San Paulo I went to the movies and by the time I left the theater there was a mob at the exit. I had never been in that kind of situation when we weren't on tour and there was a whole bunch of security. I'm a little dude, and out of nowhere to have 50 or 60 people come running towards me when I'm jut with my friend, it was kind of scary.

Bill Fennelly

We won the game a bunch of times, we lost the game a bunch of times but we made some plays when we had to.

Bill Bunch

Every single one of the petition signers signed an affidavit swearing that they watched the person sign their own personal signature on there. If there were any irregularities, we want them found out, we want that person prosecuted, but we know that also we had a whole bunch of extra signatures.

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Lori Cope

They gave us less than a 2 percent chance that he would survive. They wanted us to sign papers if we wanted a burial or to donate the body.

Ben Johnson

People can put things in your food and drinks to sabotage you, like they did to me in Seoul in 1988. I'm not a cheat - I do what I am supposed to do to win.

Ben E. King

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

Caprice Bourret

You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.

Al Goldstein

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

John Dryden

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat yet, fool'd by hope, men favour the deceit

Allan Sherman

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

Don Shula

The ultimate goal is victory. And if you refuse to work as hard as you possibly can toward that aim, or if you do anything that keeps you from achieving that goal, then you are just cheating yourself.

Christopher Paolini

besides, how can you cheat a cheater?

Ambrose Bierce

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Terry McAuliffe

the whole country has been in play, all the different groups of the Democratic Party have been involved in this process, and we need to narrow this down.

Gary Bauer

This country can be better than it is today, and I intend to make it better,

Brett Eldredge

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

Boris Spassky

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

Argus Hamilton

Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president.

Argus Hamilton

The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Aravind Adiga

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

Ruth Ross

A ''should'' is a ''have to'' with no teeth; it is dead energy.

Siri Hustvedt

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

Hugh Orde

Officers were shot at last night. We are very lucky we do not have dead officers this morning.

Robert Reid

Dead trees are hazardous, and they will fall in the period of a storm.

Eric Fry

Dead money that springs to life will die again.

Jessica Raine

After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important.

Victoria Wood

Thanx for all you did and said, i'm so grateful dad's not dead

Pras Michel

Sometimes people say things because it sounds cool. But when I say I'm with the revolution, especially now, I'm dead serious about it.

Chris McKay

The work is very relevant to Mars because we know the surface of Mars is as dead as a doornail and any life there -- if it exists -- would live underground.

Julius Rosenberg

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Clark Gable

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Bob Dylan

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

Blaise Pascal

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Blaise Pascal

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

Blaise Pascal

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Blaise Pascal

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Richard Harris

These programs are hurting me more than helping me. I think we were just doomed from the get-go.

Tom Brokaw

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Marcus Antonius

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Jill Soloway

Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, 'That was fun.' That will make them want to come back and do it again.

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Ted Turner

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Sharon Stone

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Frank Zappa

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Giorgio Armani

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

Roger Lempke

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Cai Wu

In just over 100 years, the 'Southern Continent' has sprouted into a modern country.

John Buchanan Robinson

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Eric Allin Cornell

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Epictetus

You lose only the things you have

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Jeff Bonde

She's always had a lot of natural speed. We're still trying to rate her.

Ross Lynch

I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob. I've got a lot of brothers, and there's a natural competitiveness between us when it comes to girls. If I said something about being a heartthrob, then they would bring me straight back down to earth!

Michelle Turner

I didn't think homosexuality should be taught as something that is natural or the same as heterosexuality.

Meseret Defar

My speed is natural and I have been training very hard.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Mike Greene

Well, if you have a goalie like Colin, it's a natural choice. We don't plan on high-scoring games. It's just not what we plan to do.

Homaro Cantu

Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural.

John Gibson

We've got about 300 members. We ought to have about 3,000.

John Stossel

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

Susan Vreeland

I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization.

Robert Morrison

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Dave Gomo

If you've never done it, they ought to try it.

Paul Simon

As you look at the vote returns, I think the Senate this time ought to be able to pass a Constitutional amendment.

Christopher Dodd

This ought not to be a controversial proposal,

Brent Thompson

It ought to be done in a content-neutral fashion.

Evel Knievel

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

Vince Young

Thanks for coming. But we're going to the Rose Bowl.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

Edward Abbey

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Edward Abbey

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Amy Lowell

Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

Alex Karpovsky

Relationships are definitely not a road paved with roses.

Christopher Moore

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

Anna Julia Cooper

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun ...

Anne Lamott

Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

Bible Bible

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

Edward Fitzgerald

And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass.

William Blake

Father! father! where are you going? / O do not walk so fast. / Speak, father, speak to your little boy, / Or else I shall be lost.

Dolly Parton

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Gayle Korczyk

It is was a "GOD MOMENT" that I shall never forget.

Ronald Reagan

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

David Hilbert

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

Ryunosuke Satoro

Extend a hand whether or not you know it shall be grasped.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Sarah Lowe

When I stepped up there, I just told myself that I had to relax. I had to put myself in a different place and just not even worry about the score, not worry about anything.

Ernesto Hernandez

We stepped on American soil, we shouldn't be here.

Brian Rolston

We stepped it up tonight, and if we do that we can be in it. We can make the playoffs.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Dan Barber

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

Tim Tebow

I rely on a lot of green drinks to get my vegetables.

Sheena Iyengar

I used to go to this store called Draeger's and you had a little bit of that same feeling because this was a store that offered you so many varieties, things you'd never contemplated before, you know like 250 mustards and vinegars and over 500 different kinds of fruits and vegetables, or over 2 dozen different types of water.

Martin Sheen

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

Bill Bryson

Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of adjustments, adaptations, modifications and providential tinkerings stretching back to 3,8 billion years. Remarkably we are even quite closely related to fruit and vegetables. About half the chemical functions that take place in a banana are fundamentally the same as the chemical functions that place in you. It cannot be said too often: all life is one. That is, and I suspect will ever prove to be, the most profound true statement there is.

Arsene Wenger

Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.

H. G. Wells

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

Frank Zappa

Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.

Lesley Nicol

I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.