Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Dunham

It actually appears to be a pretty good design.

Nancy Pelosi

It appears we will only be given one month for that national debate.

Raymond Kelly

It appears to be a crime of passion,

Cleo Cohen

It appears this child actually ended up under the car, and the car drove over the child without actually hurting it, and without having the undercarriage of the car hit it.

Patricia Crawford

It appears they have a difficult bargaining relationship.

Kelly McCoy

It appears the van was unable to stop due to the icy roads, tried an avoidance to the left ditch and that's when it made contact with the train and was dragged down the tracks." ()

Norman Siegel

It appears the police department this morning was arguing that when Channel 2 put on Captain Eric Adams, all of a sudden magically it transformed him from spokesperson for 100 Blacks into a representative of the police department.

Edward Winter

It appears the parts do match. We are doing further tests.

Capt. Elkins

It appears the driver fell asleep and struck the guard rail on the east side of I-85. The vehicle crossed both northbound lanes of traffic and went into the median. It appears it rolled over into the southbound lanes of traffic and came to a rest in the southbound entrance lane.

Sheldon Souray

I think believing is the first thing because momentum is a funny thing some times. You get momentum and luck and things start happening and you just get that feeling.

Jana Kramer

I have to thank country radio for believing in me.

Jack Rio

These kind of games, when you pull them out, do wonders for the confidence and the guys believing and understanding. It doesn't always go the way you want it to go, but you have to scratch out a win. And we were able to do that.

Alexei Kovalev

Skill and power don't mean anything. You need heart and you need everyone on the team believing that they can win.

Jason Krause

The kids executed. We knew our potential and the kids stepped it up. We have a huge sign in our locker room that simply says 'Believe.' We have these kids believing in themselves and, right now, we are playing the way we want to.

Michael East

It will be a 'loaded' field and a very tough race, but I'm believing in myself,

Malcolm Gladwell

If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

Ted Naifeh

When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.

Thomas Hobbes

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

Chelsea Clinton

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

John Barton

Jake has done a nice job, but all three of our receivers have, but people worry about Jake on the deep ball.

Alan Light

He just digs himself deeper into a hole no matter when he does it.

William Sutton

(There are) so many variables -- the weather, the wave height, how fast the anchoring process goes (and) how quickly we can get rigged and get the Deep Drone in the water.

Van Cliburn

has truly recognized and received my deep love and lifetime devotion.

Mark Schmidt

He's a scoring point guard. He can really shoot the ball. He has deep range with his shot. He can play an up-tempo style.

Ernie Accorsi

I think it's a very solid and deep draft. I really think the top of it is very interesting.

Gerard Kemkers

I think it's as deep as you've ever seen. To win, it has to be a perfect race from start to finish.

Jeanne Salvatore

It could be the smallest pond in the entire world, but if you are a big fish in that pond, you will be perceived as having deep pockets.

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Matt Reeves

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Michael Smith

He had this zest to discover people and in discovering them, if they were in need, he tried to help them.

William Least Heat-Moon

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

Rita Dove

In working on a poem,I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

Patrick Carrie

I guess there's a point when all of us had lost faith in anything that was new, which helped us discover a lot of really good old records. It's kind of a fresh, nice thing for them to do to pull back from those old records and take those influences and make them into something new that is appreciative of the past yet turning a new page.

P. J. Harvey

The irony is we went way out of the world and had to learn worldly skills to survive out there. What people who understand us discover is we have experts is every field of human endeavor.

Jacob Bronowski

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.

James Randi

Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.

Wayne Taylor

I think it may have started as an electrical fire because I started smelling something in the cockpit,

Judy Mazulaitis

In the back, it took the electric pole -- split it in half, and threw it on the roof.

Ian Shepherdson

The headline reflects a 3.2 percent rise in gasoline prices. Natural gas and electricity prices were also much stronger than the PPI suggested. The good news is the 0.1 percent core, which supports the Fed's view that transitory factors have boosted inflation in recent months.

James Woods

You could see all this fire and smoke and electricity flying everywhere. You could see arcs of electricity. It was just crazy.

Kevin Millar

The kid has electric stuff. Let's see how he does here in the Nation.

Dorothy Thompson

The house was a dump. There was no plumbing, no electricity, no bathrooms,

Renaldo Wynn

It's a new era. Guys have that taste in their mouths. Guys are starting to believe. It's an electricity, from top to bottom.

Lou Reed

Electricity comes from other planets.

James Wood

There was electricity just going and going like a wave. It just kept on going wave after wave.

Kristy Curry

We explained to all of them they were going to have to get their feet set, square their shoulders, be fundamental and knock three's down.

Donald Knuth

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.

Bob Woodruff

After I explained that, he recognized his statements don't apply,

Tom Heckert

We talked to him at the combine. We talked to him here. He explained everything. That's all I can say about that.

Janet Reno

I explained I was leaving the matter in Mr. Ashcroft's hands.

Greg Lewis

I explained how it worked. At that point in time, he said 'That's what I want to do.' I thought, 'We got six long years. He needs to go to high school, let his hair grow, be idealistic and that will fall by the wayside.' But it never did. He never wavered.

Dan Monnat

She laughed out loud and explained that was a sunflower.

Joseph Wong

I think I have explained many times that there is no alternative to legislation if we want to implement this year's pay reduction with certainty. And I think it is only incumbent on the government to proceed with this piece of legislation,

Johnathon Schaech

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.

James Graham

I'll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword.

Tom Izzo

I'm only embarrassed that in front of our two most famous alums, we didn't play with that same kind of tenacity.

Anton Corbijn

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

Bertrand Russell

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Martin Freeman

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

Norman Wisdom

When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own.

William Shakespeare

'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love.

Lisa Randall

The stuff we're really famous for was really lucky in a way.

Claude Makelele

The Greeks play very well on the counter,

Oliver Stone

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

Oliver Stone

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

Mario Monti

Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.

Pope Francis

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

Plutarch

Come back with your shield - or on it

Leo Tolstoy

Without Greek studies there is no education.

Edward Bond

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Patti Brooks

I think it's just an honor, but I don't know what Herbie would think of it. He didn't like all that. Like having a street named for him in St. Cloud, that wasn't his way.

Danny Costello

I think it's an honor to win this.

Jack Schrader

I think it was a well-deserved honor. He was a two-time player of the week and the only underclassman on the first team.

Scott Ross

It is my understanding that the parents did not want the police to become involved so we honored their wishes.

Woody Johnson

I am honored to serve on this committee.

Tyler Perry

The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

Willard Libby

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

Willard Libby

You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

Saint Augustine

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

James Rollins

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

George Farquhar

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

Lord Acton

It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State -- ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios -- burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man ... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.

Luis Gutierrez

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

Odette Annable

I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!

Oscar de la Renta

My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'

Publilius Syrus

Where there is unity, there is the victory.

Publilius Syrus

Even one hair has a shadow.

Marc Anthony

What Jennifer Lopez puts out, it's not Latin music.

Frank Wood

He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time.

William Jennings Bryan

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Virginia Woolf

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

Woody Allen

When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.

Robert Delaunay

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Rob Bell

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

Wallace Stevens

The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.

William Howard Taft

I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.

Willa Cather

I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Nariman Behravesh

I think that whole line of reasoning is overdone.

Dale Mitchell

He was lined up straight with the ship canal,

Richelle Mead

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

William Whewell

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

Walter Huston

Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

Mark Fields

Our path is not going to linear and smooth.

Steve Hutchinson

His first thing was to come over to the line and kind of thank us. It just shows you how this team is a little different.

Joe Ayoob

I'm the quarterback -- you are going to get hit. Everyone on our offensive line played well, but obviously we did miss O'Callaghan.

David Clarke

He wants ten inches. Right in the middle of the fillet.

Susan Jovanovic

He'd be out on the track, running on his sled in the middle of the night.

Aaron Nieckula

Going out there I think he was at 76 pitches. I told him he was one over 75, we'll take him up to 80. I told him to work the middle and pitch to contact.

Adam Mueller

We're pretty pleased with where we're at. We're right in the middle of it, and it's going to be a very important weekend for us.

Larry Wortzel

We're in the middle of methodically moving through this.

Henry Winkler

I think this is the most important depository in the Middle West.

Sarah Dessen

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

CJ Adams

CJ is my nickname. It stands for Cameron, and my middle name is John.

Justin Johnson

I'll be back up to about 280 before the middle of the season. I'll probably be about 280-285 ... somewhere around there. I still got my speed and can still be swift.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Colin Cooper

You'll have to wait and see. The team will be named on Friday.

Dave Wannstedt

I could've named several others who were deserving.

Frances Townsend

We've not named them, because, frankly, they don't want to be named. They are partners and we respect that, so we're not naming them.

Joyce Johnson

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

Virginia Woolf

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

Voltaire

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

William Feather

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Karolina Kurkova

Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Aristotle

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Noel Coward

There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.

Donna Leon

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Jose Bergamin

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Jorge Luis Borges

He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.

Jonathan Swift

From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.

Henry David Thoreau

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

John Ciardi

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

Muriel Rukeyser

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Muriel Rukeyser

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Nikki Giovanni

ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter....

William Shakespeare

I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

Udonis Haslem

J-Will is always running. We just have to run with him. Sometimes we just can't keep up. ... If we can run with him, he's going to find you.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Denny Rinehart

Gonzalez will be a factor. Erica Hicks can run anything she wants to.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Al Wolski

We're on our way back. We're going to try to run the table and see what happens.

Andy Johnson

I think we tried to play at their pace, and we can't run with them. It got away from us in the second quarter.

Frank Beamer

We have to be able to run it and throw it,

Keith Ellison

If you can make a movie, make one. If you can sing a song, sing it. If you can write a play, write it. If you want to run for office, run. But do something to make this world a better place.

Larry Hogan

He was open. But we've done that all year. We just run and shoot.

Jude Law

When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.

Pete Wilson

The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.

Ho Chi Minh

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Eric Schaeffer

There isn't a single scrubber in the state of Maryland.

Marsha Sharp

Every single trip down the floor, we're going to take a look at LaToya first and see if we can find her.

Sally Adams

Every single day I think of it, and I always will.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Drew Barrymore

I love being single. It's great. I get to be who I am and do what I want and be with the people I love. I feel like I have everything and I'm very fortunate, and it's very rich fulfilling time in my life.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

William Zinsser

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

William Saroyan

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.

William James

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

William James

The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.

Will Ferrell

I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

Will Durant

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

Sarah Palin

I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.

Sara Zarr

and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business.

Alison Bechdel

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

William H. Gass

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

Seth

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

Homer Simpson

Unlike most of you, I am not a nut.

Patrick Kavanagh

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

Curtis Strange

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

Nikki Giovanni

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

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Richard Wright

There's one word for it -- carnage. It's horrible.