Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jhumpa Lahiri

The narrator is not anybody in particular. It's a group of women, so there's no particular identity to the narrative voice. A Faulkner story, 'A Rose For Emily.' I admired used that voice and I wanted to try it out.. It was an experiment for myself.

Johann Koss

I've always admired Joey as a skater. But I admire him even more as a person.

Gary Phillips

Ben was such a special guy. He had the utmost respect for people. That was one of the things we thought and admired about him and the love the kids had for him. The kids wanted to it because of the respect for the person. Watching him teach kids was a privilege. He was always energetic, always intense and an unbelievable teacher.

Ben Brantley

If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.

John le Carre

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.

Faye Dunaway

Warren Beatty's been helpful. He's been a friend for a long time, and I always admired what he did with Bonnie and with many other films after that.

Richard Blumenthal

The reason I love and admire the Bridgewater Land Trust so much is that they're providing a model for the whole state.

Paul Theroux

The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month

Steven Bernstein

What they did, in terms of offering emotional support, was superb. They were sensitive and supportive, and their lawyering was thoroughly professional. I admire them enormously.

Bubba Davis

The big thing about the win is that we fell behind 12-2 early and came back. Especially with these kids, it was very, very big that we hung in and did what we had to do to win.

David Sanborn

The music is going to change anyway, whether or not the record companies get behind it or not. The music is there, and it's happening, and it's going on out there.

Mohammad Khatami

Something that pains me, and for which I pity the American people, is that their leaders have fallen behind the times. They are not living in their times,

Bob Mattison

Someone told me about the house with a shop behind it. We came up and thought it was ideal.

Toba Beta

Sometimes, you feel like being watched from behind by someone. When you turned, it's just nothing, nobody, none, or only someone who's daydreaming and staring right through you.

Tobias Levkovich

Tech has been the biggest factor behind the latest bull run, so the fact that stocks are down seems fairly reasonable. I hesitate to sit back and say this a great buying opportunity.

Roy H. Williams

Quentin had a tough night, but I still believe in him and still believe that he's going to be able to do some good things for us. He's got to put that behind him.

Lee Ferridge

It was a knee-jerk reaction after the reports of an earthquake. The logic behind the move is that a natural disaster in California could damage the U.S. economy.

Dave Vestal

It was a huge play. Playmakers make plays and he got a chance to come back and make one. That's the sign of a very good player, someone who is able to come right back off a disappointment and put it behind him.

Ed Colligan

People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.

Joel Edgerton

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.

Stephen Rand

After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.

Barry Schuler

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Brad Pitt

This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?

Jane Goodall

Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother

James Weldon Johnson

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

Jared Diamond

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

Barry Schuler

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Alexander Lukashenko

Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

Anthony Albanese

You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.

Tom Hanks

If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!

Mason Cooley

Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.

Marc Short

No one is guaranteed to be on the list one year to the next.

Les Wright

We were negotiating very hard for our own position, and from our perspective there was a guarantee of traffic, so that wasn't too much of a concern,

Howard Stern

Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.

Iyanla Vanzant

There are no guarantees in life, but it is a sure thing that you will get back what you give. If you give 100 percent of your attention, energy, and time to a thing, you will get exactly that back. Make sure you give all that you have to make sure you will get all that you need.

Dean Winters

If I ever go onstage at the Oscars, you can guarantee I'll be wearing my motorcycle boots.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Peter Briggs

The students get help they need, and we learn about the rest of the world by being involved with them.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Mike Sanders

The stock numbers and political problems around the world aren't helping pull this market back at all. We've reached last year's peak summer highs and it's only April. That's somewhat scary.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Peter Diepenbrock

They all helped out on (Gordon). From top to bottom, this was truly a team effort.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Shyam Saran

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

Brandon Cruz

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

Augusten Burroughs

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Jane Hirshfield

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints.

Channing Tatum

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Elizabeth Scott

I liked him first, but it doesn't matter. I still like him. That doesn't matter either. Or at least, it's not supposed to.

Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Edward Snyder

People were worried that like Lucent and maybe a little like Ericsson things were softening up for them. But it doesn't look like that.

Michael Strahan

Maybe this upcoming week we will play like the Redskins played, with the same type of win-and-you're-in and lose-and-you're-out type of mentality.

Peter Schroecksnadel

Maybe they were scared of the police, we don't know. They got in touch and we're going to talk about it.

Chris Beatty

Maybe the senator should think about when he was 17 years old.

Bruce Myers

Maybe there were some answers, but they were not in the files.

Frank Sciolla

Maybe there was something today that was different. Maybe it was a momentum thing, but they had us so out of character.

Stephen Merchant

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

Gord Ash

There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.

and City

Don't you want to stand still with me?

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Joanne Wuensch

You know where you stand with him. Nothing is candy-coated.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Glen Taylor

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

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Anna Howard Shaw

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

Anita Roddick

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.

Steve Israel

I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

Mario Balotelli

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

Hillary Clinton

Every call you make, every door you knock, every friend you register to vote could make the difference.

Jeb Bush

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Charles R. Swindoll

Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.

Charles Churchill

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

Charles Darwin

With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms.

Heather Ross

We are here to win the game, not play the game.