Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. The properties of ink are peculiar and contradictory: it may be used to make reputations and unmake them; to blacken them and to make them white; but it is most generally and acceptably employed as a mortar to bind together the stones of an edifice of fame, and as a whitewash to conceal afterward the rascal quality of the material. There are men called journalists who have established ink baths which some persons pay money to get into, others to get out of. Not infrequently it occurs that a person who has paid to get in pays twice as much to get out.

Karl Pilkington

If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

Joseph Prince

Do you clean yourself before you take a bath?

Emilia Clarke

I'm really old-fashioned. An Epsom salt bath, that's genuinely better than any massage.

Al Pacino

The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.

Martin Fischer

Some day when you have time, look into the business of prayer, amulets, baths and poultices, and discover for yourself how much valuable therapy the profession has cast on the dump.

Ben Elliot

When I lived in New York, I discovered these Russian & Turkish Baths in East 10th Street. Great for a platza treatment - plus, you'll run into the world and his wife there.

Anthony Burgess

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Rachel Weisz

I love to take baths.

Bhagavad Gita

Karma does not bind one who has renounced work (by renouncing the fruits of work) through Karma-yoga; whose doubt is completely destroyed by knowledge; and who is Self-realized, O Arjuna.

Khalil Gibran

Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

John Darby

I think with the integrated systems the consumer is more relaxed now that they don't have to make a binding decision. And the knowledge that these systems are designed to work together is a big plus.

John Charles Polanyi

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.

Su Chi

I think by year 2007, if he is blocked, he will simply criticize the LY, opposition, and take (the new constitution) directly to the public and bind it with the presidential election.

Elliott Abrams

In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact.

Mark Richt

If you don't sign those guys on signing day and another team does, they will have a much better chance of having them in one semester from now. It's not a binding situation. It's a relationship thing.

Lamar Odom

I put Kobe in a bind out there. He has to score 40 points just for us to win. I don't blame him for shooting 40 shots some nights. We should be embarrassed as a team. I know I am.

Edward Grey

His Majesty's Government cannot for one moment entertain the Chancellor's proposal that they should bind themselves to neutrality on such terms.

Socrates

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Neil Strauss

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

Bill Clinton

It won't, in the end, satisfy anyone. It will only compound the horror.

Neil Cornish

All the distance covered by the light in the early universe gets increased by the expansion of the universe. Think of it like compound interest.

Neil Herman

Apparently, more Sun servers are sold running Oracle software than anything else. Weak results and guidance from Sun only serve to compound our near-term worries.

Robert Blackburn

There's no reason at a time that you're at an emotional low to compound that with false hopes and expectation,

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Valor is a soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.

Bill Goodman

There are still vast numbers of documents that are concealed and hidden and declared to be secret and confidential.

Richard Shelby

Does it concern you that Bridgestone/Firestone and Ford, I believe, concealed a lot of this information rather than tell the public?

Valerie Plame

taking affirmative measures to conceal such agent's intelligence relationship.

Peter Hamm

It's time for the state of Virginia to grow up and say you can't have concealed weapons in the legislature and offices. You don't have a right to put other people's safety at risk in the state legislature.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

Jerry Sanders

It's just a culture of concealing things from the public, and this is just another sample of it,

Robert South

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Jane Austen

A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Bryan Miller

The moist, flavorful meat is concealed under a thick slab of crisp fat that would make a cardiologist blanch.

Donna Roberts

The people that are still employed are petrified.

Ken Duberstein

I am for Gov. George W. Bush, but it puzzles me greatly that they haven't employed what you would refer to as your thermonuclear weapon,

Ellen Terry

As Romeo Irving reminded me of a pig who has been taught to play the fiddle. He did it cleverly, but would be better employed in squealing.

Christopher Hitchens

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

Katharina Von

Some studies show that while the EU has better social policy than the US, more American women are employed and more of them work in higher positions.

Dontrelle Willis

It was all positive. I'm just happy I'm employed again.

Kenneth Cranham

If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is not a time that you walk through the street, when if you employed your senses, you would not learn something worthwhile.

Mark Geragos

We're seeking appellate relief to prevent a lawyer who was employed for the briefest of times from capitalizing on that employment and violating his oath as a lawyer.

William Wright

It's my job ... to facilitate the planning phase and to see that it works properly.

Ricardo Zuniga

We're doing all we can do to facilitate the recovery of the deceased from the city.

Jake Barton

People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.

Kofi Annan

will be to consolidate and facilitate the cease-fire.

Tristram Stuart

Food redistribution is economically sensible, ecologically pressing, and socially responsible; it is high time food corporations woke up to it and governments started funding the organisations that facilitate it.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.

Al Borges

We can always facilitate not having a pure fullback. We'd rather have a guy that can give us the type of productivity that (departed senior) Jake Slaughter did, but if we don't, then we'll go to Plan B.

Forrest Bird

In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Richard Hughes

I think it's going to be a great adjunctive therapy. Patients generally like the robot. Many think of it as similar to a video game.

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Rick Dinse

He is an individual that during our investigation, generally speaking, he never volunteered a lot of information,

Joan Baez

I generally like to get to the point.

Sam Smith

I generally have people stop me once or twice a week about that.

Paul Busse

If you can tolerate it, the trains generally will.

Amy Cuddy

A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across.

Marc Freedman

This investment is generally recommended for higher-income tax brackets,

Lee Wood

Infection had set in, and it was rampant in the frontal bone,

David Brown

The infection rate seems to be going down, ... so obviously we're pleased about that.

Mark Twain

Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon....

Julien Green

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

Irish Proverbs

A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood.

Daniel Handler

...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

Eric Gale

The red ink in the market is no more than expected.

Jewel

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

Bethany Mota

Maybelline’s Precise Ink Pen Liner is by far the easiest liquid eyeliner I’ve ever used. I’m really bad at applying liquid liner and it glides on so nicely and actually stays on all day,

Cy Twombly

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.

Cornelia Funke

Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.

Eric Steinbach

He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes.

Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

Chris Phillips

He's a big part of our team, not to mention that I'll have to play with a different guy.

Malik Rose

He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen.

Sheldon Brown

He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Yoandy Garlobo

We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .

Trevor Doughty

We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.

Mark Fallon

I thought they were great, but I didn't think much about them until this year when another teacher mentioned remembering them.

Edmund White

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Chris Beatty

He'll be making a lot more money than that senator.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Stanley Tucci

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Frank Melton

It occurs to me that I'm not protecting a source. I am the source and I don't need protecting.

Tom Rath

The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns.

Sylvia Browne

Reincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven't learned enough lessons.

Ed Abner

Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered.

Austin Wilson

I now what the same sense of security and safety that I used to preach to others about.

Kevin Hayashi

I haven't played that well in that tournament. And other times, others have played well. It's one I'd really like to win because it's the only 72-hole tournament we have.

Martti Ahtisaari

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

Steve McCausland

It's unclear why the two others didn't jump.

Heather Dougherty

Then, once someone dangled it, others had to ante up.

Steve Johnson

You don't feel superior until you tell others about it.

Phaedrus

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Douglas Roberts

He was being beaten. He paid a price for this.

Joe Gibbs

I think as much as anything it's their character. They keep fighting, and it's paid off for us.

Marvan Atapattu

He's been doing a lot of work on his fielding and tonight it paid off in a final.

Russ Adams

He doesn't talk as much as (Hudson) did. But it's all really the same techniques we're using. It's all about repetition and getting to know each other. We're out there every day before and after practice getting our work in and the work has paid off.

Zig Ziglar

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.

Mary Bennett

I paid $400 for these seats and they are no good.

Kent Nelson

I paid 10K ($10,000) in May and you said, 'Don't worry about the rotation.' And I waited for two months.

Evan Goldberg

I expect to get paid if I do something.

Ron Nadicksbernd

There were times when I couldn't do anything, and when I did, I paid for it.

Eric Swanson

I think in the long run, it'll pay off,

Harry Anderson

What you get when you come here is you pay way too much for my stuff, but you get it signed by me, demonstrated by me,

Josh Thomas

He really works with you and pays attention.

Darren Clarke

He said, 'You do know which TV tower I was talking about, don't you? I said, 'Yeah, the one on the right.' And he said, 'No, it was the one on the left.' It was all my fault. I didn't really pay that much attention.

Bryan Colangelo

He's a thug, and I want him out. He's always been a thug. I'll do everything in my power to see that he pays for it.

Bill Dudley

I think you have to be somewhat skeptical about the payroll number.

Keith David

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

Tyra Grant

He does a lot of different things for me. He pays for me going to camp. He's a very big part of my life.

Woody Hayes

You don't get many chances to pay back what's been done for you. Take them.

Josh Thomas

He really works with you and pays attention.

Bryan Colangelo

He's a thug, and I want him out. He's always been a thug. I'll do everything in my power to see that he pays for it.

Tyra Grant

He does a lot of different things for me. He pays for me going to camp. He's a very big part of my life.

Al Diamond

An individualist is one who pays his taxes with a smile

Ellen Chenoweth

I like spending a lot of time fine-tuning all the small characters. I think it really pays off.

Richard McGrath

We're a reputable organization that pays its bills.

Zell Miller

The president has come up with a bold, well-thought-out plan that will let virtually every American who pays taxes keep more of their hard-earned money,

Matthew Stewart

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.

Vicente Fox

To be united, to be friendly, pays and pays well,

Louise Brown

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Greg Moore

This is a very peculiar year for flu.

John Bankhead

It's very peculiar that he isn't ... We're investigating to find out why.

Djuna Barnes

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

Thomas Ligotti

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

Jeanette Winterson

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

Jelly Roll Morton

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

Gertrude Stein

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

Howard Bloom

Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years.

Walter Salles

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Tupac Shakur

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

Robert Redford

You’re never going to be the same person you are right now.

Sarah Paulson

I am a person who is not mated.

Rick Warren

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.

Robert K. Greenleaf

The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work.

Keke Palmer

I've always been who I've been. I've always been this person.

Jodi Picoult

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

John Green

Because no one thought she was a person, she had no one to really talk to.

Martin Winterkorn

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

John Catsimatidis

I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.

Lydia Lenker

Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.

Patricia Edwards

If they promote this correctly, it could be huge.

Charles Pickering

Mississippi, in trying to promote racial harmony, is on the right track at the right station doing the right thing.

Amanda Sandford

We wouldn't want to see it promoted as a completely safe alternative.

Peggy Moriarty

They just don't get to use it as much as they would like. They have properties all over the world.

Barry Sternlicht

Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

Jim Brown

Basically, everything's for sale, with the right price. All properties are at risk.

Robert Irwin

I always look to see if other properties have turned around, because if you're the first in you may really get hammered,

Jim Simmons

We sell most of our properties in 30 days. What most sellers want is their property sold as quickly as possible.

Pete Erlenbach

We can't tell if it is public or private. So we are going to take those properties out.

Chuck D.

It could have something to do with the coarse quality of their paper.

Fernando Couto

I think we have the quality and the right spirit to get a win.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Jimmy Johnson

I didn't come back and feel like I solved the world's problems. But I spent a lot of quality time with my wife and didn't think about racing.

David Carr

He is a quality guy. If he hasn't taken a step forward, it's because he hasn't been shown the way.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Richard Bach

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Trisha Goddard

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Richard Davidson

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Sandra Bullock

I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."

Tyra Banks

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

Walter Winchell

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

Louis MacNeice

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Eric Kripke

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

Keith Richards

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

Muddy Waters

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

Elizabeth I

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

Lenny Bruce

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

Umberto Eco

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

Rick Danko

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

William Jennings Bryan

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Virginia Woolf

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

William Shatner

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

William J. Clinton

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.

Rod Serling

I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing.

William Albert Allard

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.