Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Palmer

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

Robert Penn Warren

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Donna Stiteler

We are at capacity at all shelters in the county.

Gary King

We started in January 1999 to prepare for the season. We're taking the experience we gained from last year with the knowledge we've gotten from this year's gift-giving holidays and have used it to increase and enhance the capacity of the overall site.

John Carroll

We have seen a narrowing of the purpose of the newspaper in the eyes of its owner. Under the old local owners, a newspaper's capacity for making money was only part of its value. Today, it is everything.

Mark Haddon

Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather jealous of them.

Raylene Ireland

With this technology and this capacity to provide documentation, hopefully we'll make some breakthroughs. We need the railroad people to stand up and react accordingly.

Chris Avery

We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic.

Benjamin Franklin

Cunning proceeds from lack of capacity.

David Icke

There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.

David McKeown

The outbreak remains under control. The good news is that the number of new cases has really dropped off.

Paul Phillips

There are cases where new evidence causes doubt, but this is not one of them.

Rocco Buttiglione

There are cases of waste and privileges that must be seriously restructured,

John Mogg

Where the report has found evidence of market abuse, we welcome the Commission's commitment to pursue such cases urgently and vigorously.

Mark Kennedy

A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.

S. Hughes

We're going to offer them contracts. They are really important players for us, and we've very hopeful in all three cases of getting them signed up and resolved.

Kendrick Meek

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

Maia Carroll

We want the hospital to continue to look diligently for cost-saving measures.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Phil Drosdick

We accomplished our goal this season, which was getting to the state tournament. I'm proud of that. These kids worked really hard this season, and we continued to improve all season.

Fisher DeBerry

We also understand that standards have to be maintained. We have to move on with our preparations for this season, but we'll do all we can to help Marcus continue his education at another school.

Lucas Papademos

A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.

Louis Stokes

In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.

David Boies

The only reason for them to collusively not to sell is to try to continue the scarcity that has driven natural gas prices to historic highs.

Rob Judson

The outcome of the game is important for us to continue to play well. Sometimes seeding for a tournament can be deceptive.

Stephen Baker

The powerful collaboration of industry leaders HP and AMD continues to yield successful results, as demonstrated by the HP Special Edition L2000 Notebook PC. With its rich feature set and distinctive branding, this notebook has proven to be extremely popular throughout the North American retail market.

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Robert Randall

We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.

Dave Minshall

We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.

Jim Smith

We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.

Michael Defensor

We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.

Jack Stahl

We accomplished a great deal in 2005, and we set the stage for a strong year in 2006. Our strategy to re-energize important franchises, while simultaneously developing new products, is working.

Charlie Dowd

We always have the deal that they can leave up until Opening Day. It's a little frustrating. But I'm used to it and the fact that we had Luther who was ready to close. ... He just steps right in and makes it a little more palatable.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. We're going into the Big Ten tournament and we want our student-athletes to have the opportunity to participate in this tournament understanding there won't be any sanctions they have to deal with. ... They can play without that stress.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Steve Perkins

We are proud to earn this award. It represents a great deal of hard work for us, for our suppliers and for their suppliers. We salute our team of exemplary employees and suppliers, and share this honor with them.

Alan Hansen

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

David Walliams

I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's Got Talent,' you're on camera for eight hours, with a large theatre audience watching - and in between you're being filmed for ITV2 as you eat your lunch.

Barry Corbin

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Manu Ginobili

We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too.

Bill Masse

We stole one in the eighth and then we stole one in the ninth with the squeeze. It was kind of nice.

Tim Parmeter

We started off on a spurt, but every time we got up by eight or 10 (points), we let them back into it.

A.J. Jones

We started off all eight together, did some medium turns, then four went over to a jump.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Chogyam Trungpa

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

David Hume

Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience.

Lukas Haas

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

Lorraine Toussaint

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences

Mike Cisco

We've all had experience to this point, which has been good.

Diana DeGarmo

West Side Story. It's a totally new experience for me. I've always loved theater.

African Proverb

We start as fools and become wise through experience

Greg Simon

The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.

Chris Williamson

As we saw last month, there were signs of increased overseas spending on UK services.

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Taizo Nishimuro

The number of individual investors or shareholders who trade using the Internet has increased significantly.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

Jonathan Lovett

This is the stupidest thing the village could have done. It increased geometrically my client's damages.

Zachary Mann

There's been no specific increased activity. We make detentions and seizures all the time.

Craig Williams

That was 31/2 years ago, and the controversy has only increased over time.

Jane Riley

They have a showcase every year and you get to see snippets of the shows. We saw parts of all of the shows we booked, and they're great.

Alfonso Soriano

It's two different parts of the game. I was doing the same thing when I was playing second base. When I play defense, I play defense. When I hit, I don't think about defense.

Russell Hoban

There were times when it seemed to him that the different parts of him were not all under the same management.

Tuppence Middleton

I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.

Hoshyar Zebari

successes we are making in some parts of the country.

Don Shula

Now he's got the parts to make it all work.

Hanya Yanagihara

So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

Ella Bell

That's what they did in other parts of the city. It's the same formula,

John Lee Hooker

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

Charles Dickens

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

Charles Dickens

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Charles Dickens

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

Charles Dickens

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Bob Woodward

They rise to this office. They want a big-time presidency.

William Congreve

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise

Richard Crashaw

It was Thy day, sweet! and did rise / Not from the East, but from Thine eyes.

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Brenda Hill

Every principal, teacher and paraprofessional has risen to the occasion.

Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Edith Wharton

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

Don Franklin

We spotted them their runs. We were not sharp, not making the routine plays.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

Deborah Fallows

Web surfing has kind of taken its rightful place as a routine activity. It's not necessarily a time killer, but a time filler.

Amy Statz

This is the most superstitious team I've ever been on. Every one has their routine and stuff they like to do.

Victor Martinez

It's a routine that's working for me. I really don't try to do too much. I just try to keep my swing fresh.

Mike Wilson

The routine has pretty much stayed the same.

Jamie Moyer

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

Daniel Goleman

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

Diablo Cody

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Chris Kennedy

It was a little weird at first because we're being taught by a teacher from a video screen and we communicate through a microphone. We're actually interacting with students in a totally different state.

Bruce Vilanch

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Justin Abnee

Everything they did I had seen on film. One of the screens was new. But they didn't have to do anything different because we didn't stop what they had been doing.

Buck Henry

We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.

Scott Trost

We made a little adjustment. We switched off on screens on him. We made him work for all his shots.

Nancy Buirski

If they get to a screening and it's sold out, don't get too discouraged.

Jerry Stiller

We are even better looking on the small screen

Glenn Ford

I've never played anyone but myself on screen.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Matt Rosoff

A lot of the Windows Live services are things that had already been in development by MSN,

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.

Pranab Mukherjee

Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Sundar Pichai

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

Estella Olguin

We're going to try to get him some therapy services right away.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.

Monty Python

Well she turned me into a newt!""A newt?""I got better...

Huston Street

They turned that so quick, I didn't think they'd have a chance. Right there, that's the game.

Eileen Givens

There were some things that went wrong, which made me a little nervous. But things turned out okay.

Suzy Merchant

The story was the turnovers, we turned it over 26 times.

Adriana Cruz

These are all things that can be turned into a brand.

John Morrison

The same person who turned you down before will turn you down again,

Felicity Huffman

I've turned into one of those actresses, and I'm sorry,

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Dennis Wharton

Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting.

Tommy Lapid

until the disengagement ends. It is about to end soon.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look. We'll always look until we get that solved.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Corey Koskie

It's just here until I find a place for it. It's not a donation.

Joe Riley

We're going to try it for two weeks to see if it works.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Lori White

They thought in two weeks it would be in the back of the closet.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.