Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Fitzgerald

I would say that she was an intelligent woman who had a great personality and a great sense of humor. She was an outstanding nurse when she was still practicing. She adored her nieces and nephews.

Dan Fogelman

I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.

Marisa Berenson

I adored my father - I was more attached to him than anyone.

Christiane Amanpour

We thrived as I said on the pioneer spirit of CNN. We adored being the little network that could.

Martin Sheen

He was my brother; that is the most I can say. I just adored him. It's too big a hole.

Julie Andrews

He is adored and adorable. He was a calming, grave, gentle man who remained a tremendous friend to me all these years.

Allison Anders

I had always felt deep down that I owned the characters. Much as I adored and cherished the work of my actors, I felt that they were cast to do and be what I could not physically do or be.

Jon Favreau

I just adored 'Shaun Of The Dead.' That's a true mashup. That's a real Romero-era zombie movie and a real Gen X indie comedy. That was before zombie movies were cool, before 'Zombieland' and 'I Am Legend,' and now it has become a whole sub-genre.

Samantha Winch

The elephant was adored by Katie. It's very plush and soft and she just couldn't stop squeezing it.

Julian Barnes

I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force.

Cesar Conda

Josh will be a policy-oriented chief of staff. I think that will be reflected in his hiring decisions.

Terry McAuliffe

He'll be back as a United States senator, or he's back as chief justice because he can run again. Or he'll be back as governor,

Matthew Szulik

Hal is an talented chief financial officer who has made valuable contributions to the company, and we wish him well in the future,

Teju Cole

Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.

Larry Wall

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Peter DeLorenzo

Heroic in scale and impact, the Super Chief was what concepts should be all about: 'blue sky' thinking combined with an unmistakable foundation in reality. Take a long look at that front end, pickup fans, because that's what the next generation of the F-150 is going to look like.

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

Zainab Salbi

Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.

Terry Thompson

I think it makes a big difference, ... Especially going a distance and on fillies, it helps fillies out a lot.

B. R. Hayden

Hogs are extremely sensitive to hunting pressure, and they can move quite a distance in a short time. If hogs receive a lot of hunting pressure, they'll pick up and move, often a mile or two away. So when you have hogs on your property, all your neighbors soon will have hogs on their lands too, whether they want them or not.

Mike Klembara

I thought we would be okay if we stayed within striking distance in the first quarter and we did. We were able to take the lead in the second half. This will be such a great learning experience for the younger girls on the team.

National Center

It is a long distance that the seismic waves have to travel before they reach Mexico City, ... and that reduces the amplitude of the waves. It is very much reduced at this distance.

Rob Blake

We just have to hope we're in striking distance near the end (of the season).

Harry Shearer

I think it's the distance between what we're supposed to think their job entails and what their job really entails.

Steve Rice

It has been a long time since a shot putter has thrown that kind of distance for Lead-Deadwood.

Graham Motion

I think this is more this filly's deal. The distance is what she's going to appreciate. We got away with it last time because she was very fresh.

A. Hodge

I don't feel a real distance from people, so I don't think that there is a lack of links. I do sense, at least where I live, a lot of rudeness.

Richard Branson

It is a distinct possibility and it is not just to the States.

Asha Bhosle

There is a distinct lack of efforts on the part of the singers, as a result of which the songs being rendered are sans tone and emotions

Graham Cluley

In some ways it makes sense, since it isn't really distinct from other types of crime.

Rebecca Makkai

I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.

Mahatma Gandhi

When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

Mahatma Gandhi

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

Kevin Powers

There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

Raghu Raghuram

They've been offering that over the last two years, and we haven't seen any distinct traction.

Jason Bay

It's more flattering than anything. You have fun with it. It's pretty cool, but I don't really have any distinct features. Pretty standard issue. But I've seen some that look pretty bad, so at least they didn't mess it up.

Joe Moore

Knowing what they have to pay for the next four years would be a luxury for their budgeting.

Ricky Woods

I wouldn't be surprised if we don't (make up) this game. They might not have school down there for three or four weeks.

Mark Tiby

I yelled out to her that the fourth quarter was hers, and she took it.

Chris Higgins

Just wanted to let you know your wife is four weeks pregnant' -- those were the first words out of the doctor's mouth.

Terry Roberts

keep the next group down to four or five.

Buzz Peterson

Joseph and Moses got four fouls each. That completely takes us out of what we want to do defensively. So the game plan was thrown out right there.

John Dunning

I think it's a good way for all four teams to start the year,

Ivan DeJesus

It can't be just three or four guys, it has to be the whole lineup to do the job. That's the only way we can win.

Rick Carlisle

He (Redd) was phenomenal with his shot making, especially in the third and the fourth (quarters). Then all of them were hitting threes after a while. The third quarter did us in.

Lauren Conrad

I was like, 'Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson's here!

David Piercy

I was like, gosh, because knowing my luck this would happen. I guess God works in mysterious ways, and we'll see where he takes me.

Tomas Kaberle

I talked to Jeff right away between periods. Thank God it got his helmet first.

Terry Gilliam

He didn't do anything to become president!, ... Well, thank God for Karl and Dick.

Gary Sheffield

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

Yiddish Proverbs

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Samir Geagea

God willing we may be done with this issue before the (March 14) deadline.

Mark McNulty

Golf is a very humbling game. I just hope the golf gods will be good to me again.

Marcello Giordani

God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.

Charles de Montesquieu

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

Robert M. La Follette

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Laura Dern

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

Ovid

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

Greg Sterling

This is mobile e-mail for the rest of us, who have normal or tiny screens.

Greg Long

Programs like SPIN provide an important opportunity for students with mobility impairments to offer each other peer support. These programs can also be important vehicles for advocacy.

Chris Gent

Spain is one of Europe's fastest-growing mobile markets.

Greger Johansson

The mobile systems side is doing well, but Marconi and the fixed-line side are weighing heavily.

Paul Miller

The results show that there is a lot of outdated thinking in terms of mobile technology security.

Mark Elliott

The unique thing about the mobile phone is it's always with you wherever you go, but you don't always know how to get where you're going.

Scott Kerstetter

We had a lot of turnovers, but Hannah Tobin was the MVP of this game. She was really mobile in this game.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Rob James-Collier

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

William J. Clinton

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

W. S. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

David Makovsky

This is a consequential election, with monumental events. It's all about one idea: borders.

Michael Ramsey

This is a monumental problem. It overshadows all the other problems we have.

Huston Street

That says everything right there. That's how monumental that win was.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Richelle Mead

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.

Richelle Mead

My name's Jet Steele.

Richelle Mead

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

Umberto Eco

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

Rick Riordan

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Raymond Chandler

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Plutarch

Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone.

William Robertson Smith

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

P. G. Wodehouse

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

Terry Tempest Williams

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

Madeleine L'Engle

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Shailene Woodley

I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.

Sherman Alexie

Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.

Mark Russell

The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.

Mike Purcell

He really wouldn't stand out in the crowd.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Glen Taylor

I do not see that as a possibility. As I stand here, I just don't see a possibility that makes sense.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Robin Williams

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Wavy Gravy

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Walter Scott

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

Mike Lynch

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.

Randolph Morris

It wasn't a pretty game, but it's not about how pretty you look, it's about surviving and winning.

Michael Scott

You are not living, you are surviving.

Jamie Brown

It touched the ceiling, ... They don't look as big on the farm.

Frank Iero

When the water touched my balls, that's when I got scared.

Rumi

You transform all those who are touched by You.

Asfandyar Khan

We are touched by this gesture. We will always remember.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

John F. Kennedy

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,