Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Corneille

A service beyond all recompense - Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense

John Milton

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye

Herman Kahn

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

Mullah Bakhtiyar

As for the self-determination for the Kurds, this issue did not enjoy the support of Sunnis or Shiites, and we almost gave up this demand,

Robert Gottlieb

As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.

Milton Babbitt

As for the future of electronic music, it seems quite obvious to me that its unique resources guarantee its use, because it has shifted the boundaries of music away from the limitations of the acoustical instrument, of the performer's coordinating capabilities, to the almost infinite limitations of the electronic instrument.

Mike Colter

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

H. Hunt

As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperceptible.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Chinese Proverbs

A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it

Kevin Riley

Flutter spoons are my favorite and usually my most productive presentation. Try tying a spoon on the bend of your dart hook.

Mark Mack

We wanted it to be an updated version of Sinatra and Darin's type of music, ... We wanted to give a little more of a youthful bend to it, because I think there are a lot of young people that would be interested in this music.

Tammy Bruce

Manipulating pop culture is the Left Elite's sure-fire way of forcing society to bend to their depraved view of themselves and this country.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

So I urge the U.N. not to bend to U.S. pressure,

William Congreve

Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

John Greuniesen

(He) tried to bend the bars, couldn't quite get through and lost their drawers on the way through.

Allan Cutler

One of the discussions I had with Stephen Harper is that I wouldn't bend for anybody,

Sharon Kay Penman

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.

John Johnson

As for going on the show, I would not have minded one bit to meet him face to face and look him in the eye, ... But I feel the deck is stacked on that one and the show is Dr. Phil, not Jerry Springer. The title is ?Falsely Accused,? not?Guilty as Sin.?

Jason Pominville

As a player you're kind of nervous all the time. You don't really know what's going on, especially this being my first time around this situation. It is a little bit nerve-racking. But as a fan, it's a fun thing to look forward to.

Ricky Ponting

As an individual, if you are not playing as well as you like, you are always putting a bit more pressure on yourself,

Jake Plummer

As a businessman, it's a chance to go out and explore a little bit and to keep my word with Chicago,

Barry Bonds

As a fan, sure, you might be a little bit disappointed. I owe my teammates first, but, I will give you the common courtesy and respect of showing up.

Rand Paul

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

Robert Sean Leonard

As a kid, the theatre always felt a bit like running away to join the circus.

Courtney Paris

As a kid, that's really what it's about, big tournaments. I'm excited and a little bit overwhelmed.

Victor Shum

The bulls are back in the market with just a little bit of cold weather.

Jools Oliver

People pick up on some bits of the book in particular, like the bit about Jamie's sperm,

Ken Park

The World Almanac' tells about the world. Maybe the little bits are trivia, in and of themselves, but the more you know about that, the more you know about the world.

Ellen Klages

My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.

Tom Wilkinson

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Jenson Button

DR was definitely the front man but we needed a guy that was there 24-7 for the team and not doing other bits and pieces as well. Nick is doing a fantastic job, for me everyone is a lot closer. There is definitely a good spirit.

Joanna Lumley

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

Bette Midler

I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.

Bradley Horowitz

Video is hard to discover on the Internet. Web pages are self-describing. Video is opaque; it is a bucket of bits and doesn't tell you much about itself.

Keith Smith

We want to get bits into the customer's hands as quickly as possible.

Trayce Geddes

Somebody poured a bottle of salad dressing all over my mailbox.

David Menlow

You have to love the company itself. It caught lightning in a bottle and is a tremendous company. But where we have a problem is that emotionalism will now dictate the price of the stock.

Jack Czarnecki

There's no question it's a good thing. Quite frankly, if the people coming here have the money to buy a $50 bottle of pinot noir, they should have a place like that to stay if they choose.

Mick McCarthy

I started on Shrove Tuesday and then by Ash Wednesday something had happened and I'd had a bottle of beer.

Andy Bush

We were prepared for mass casualties and had 60,000 bottles of water brought in overnight.

John Cook

We might not be popping the champagne bottles yet, ... but we're chilling them already.

Stephen J. Cannell

A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.

Stendhal

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

Chris Tarrant

On Louis Theroux: He's quiet, gangly and teases people into saying very odd things. Whatever he's got, they should bottle it.

Dan Quayle

It would be actually foolish for me to spend a big chunk of money in a straw poll,

Tim Dufault

There's probably a 5 to 10 percent premium in construction costs for a high-performance, sustainable school. For a high school that may cost $50 million, that's a chunk of change.

Bob Gainey

I don't think it's reasonable for him to be skating and feeling the way he would need to for next Tuesday. But five or six days after that, which is a pretty big chunk of time, is the window that the doctors are talking about.

Wendy Liebmann

If I put $60 a week into gas, that a huge chunk of my disposable income even for a moderate income household.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Nagasaki is not just a few hazy images. I remember it as a real chunk of my life.

Mary Myers

That's usually a big chunk of the sightseeing itinerary,

Nykesha Sales

I decided to just cover it because she was still right there; she didn't go away and I know how her hands are. I didn't think it was a good idea to chunk it because she's got bionic wrists. I just held on to it and hoped to finish out the game.

Jim Struhsaker

Whenever you have a big chunk of people coming in at once, it takes a while to get everyone on track.

Winona LaDuke

The United States - you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And in those, there are a number of places that are our sacred sites.

Kate Kendall

It was very exciting. I was just delighted. We put a lot of work into collecting those samples, and we wanted to get as much information as we could from them.

Jerry Yang

I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.

Robert Jones

We will be calculating and collecting the exact amount.

Dalai Lama

People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

Bud Selig

The only response I received from the union is that they were in the process of talking to their players and collecting their feedback. Unfortunately, that was more than five months ago.

Clive Barker

The problem is they have played too many home matches already without collecting enough points. I also forewarned them that they may need to go into the market for a couple of players,

Yuuki Sakurai

My favorite is Sumitomo Metal. They have a good seamless pipe technology. I was wondering about 5 to 7 years ago why this had not been evaluated in the market. They are finally collecting the fruit of this technology.

Everett Tucker

Now we are a lot more efficient at collecting and aggregating spend information by supplier, by commodity, by customer, by product.

Mike Doyle

For Robb, it's a lifetime endeavor. He's been collecting ever since we were kids.

Mike Greene

I wanted to jump over the glass but I couldn't so I just stayed composed. It was a good feeling.

Guy Clark

I see you're wearing glasses. I never saw you play with glasses before.

Aimee Mullins

At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

Janet Frame

[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.

Damon Lindelof

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

Boris Yeltsin

The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time.

Anthony de Mello

My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.

Davy Jones

I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.

Simon Pegg

Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.

O. J. Simpson

It was tough. Some of the greens hold well and then some of them release. I think the greens are tough to putt, at least for me. I made my short ones, but those 15- to 20-footers are tough.

Terry Murphy

Boulder Station, Santa Fe Station, Green Valley Ranch all have similar numbers.

Frank Darabont

Even in The Green Mile, towards the end, there were moments where I was moved and the water still turns on.

Rich McKay

Because I remember Saturdays sitting in my dad's room, and we'd be at the one-story Holiday Inn in Green Bay, or wherever we were, saying, 'It's going to be ugly.'

Greg Smith

What it's going to take to get retail back in is for the screen to turn green for a while. It keeps looking like we're going to see it, but we just haven't seen it.

Ross Roadman

We think it's reflective of the Green Hills market.

Raul Lopez

We saw the red, white and green ... and had to stop.

Glenn MacNeill

There's not much green on my screen right at the moment.

Mark Levin

we went from a green head with red eyes, to a red head with green eyes.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

George Robertson

a remarkable moment in the history of Macedonia.

Mike Jones

These letters are like touchstones in history to me. I really want to put them out.

Mark Blondin

the smallest percentage increase in the history of the pension plan.

Gene Stephenson

After Kris Johnson, all our pitchers pitched like they were scared. I don't know why. We were quite an embarrassment tonight, to the whole program and the history and tradition of our program.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

String theory has had a long and wonderful history. It originated as a technique to try to understand the strong force. It was a calculational mechanism, a way of approaching a mathematical problem that was too difficult, and it was a promising way, but it was only a technique. It was a mathematical technique rather than a theory in itself.

Bernie Sanders

Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.

Mark Schneider

Preval has to turn history upside down in Haiti.

Tyler Cowen

Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Rob Hayward

Predictions that pubs will be open for 24 hours were wide of the mark.

Greg Oden

It was two hours of that, ... Pizza and Nickelodeon.

Nancy Sudduth

These were people working hours each day, who'd never done anything like this before, and then hurrying back to do their jobs.

Jeffrey Archer

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

Roland Herwig

Things are back to normal after about two hours of special security activity.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Bob McKenzie

Crews will be working 24 hours a day.

Margaret Murphy

Crews were able to get that back on within two hours and that's really the only weather-related outage we've seen,

Felipe Alou

People overlooked him because he doesn't throw hard. They didn't know the kind of man that was inside that body. They know now.

Larry Sabato

People don't react to all these things like they are inside the Beltway.

Barry Trotz

Defensively, we were real good. We had inside position. We battled one-on-one. We limited their chances.

Mike Patrick

Defensively, we need to keep the rebounding in a position where we can keep them to one shot and out. For us to have success, we have to get contributions from all three of our inside players.

Dave Marsh

The song sounds like it was recorded inside 'Animal House.'

Terrence Tumpey

Once you get the plasmids inside the cell, the virus assembles itself.

Jack Cloonan

Now how do you do that unless you've got support inside the building? How do you do that? It's impossible.

Alan Wiggins

I've been working out a lot and doing all kinds of work on my perimeter and inside games. It's all paid off.

Brian DeJong

Things wouldn't be where they are without our inside game. Kristin makes it all go for us.

Anton Chekhov

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

Dean Koontz

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

Arthur Young

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Abraham Verghese

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Alexander Pope

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

David Perlmutter

Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.

Thomas de Quincey

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

Thomas Sydenham

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

Thomas Sydenham

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

Mike Grier

Roy kind of jumped their defenseman. I don't think the defenseman saw him. He was able to pick his pocket and he just threw it out to me. It was kind of just a bang-bang play.

Ozzie Guillen

I've said before that if we make it to the playoffs, I'm going to pick with my brain, not my heart,

Nick Young

It was tough without him. Without him, it seemed like a big part of the team was missing. There was no one to pick me up.

William Hatcher

I shouldn't have picked up my dribble. I'm a better player than that.

Mike Maroth

I've been getting a lot of runs. They've been scoring a lot of runs for me. They picked me up several times,

Carla Gallo

I've never had someone pick outfits for me. Almost everything I get is from Goodwill.

Roland Kampmeier

They all picked on me. It was survival of the fittest.

Frederick Barton

This is a turbo-charged moment. If we don't pick it up, there's a real risk of not succeeding here.

Danny Ardoin

That's just one to throw away in the trash, pick it up tomorrow and play solid baseball.

Michael Fisher

That's going to be a big piece of (the lawsuit).

W. S. Gilbert

We feel we have all the pieces of the puzzle here.

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Grant Koford

There's no silver bullet, there's no silver lining. But it's another piece of the puzzle we're trying to put together.

Frank Garcia

We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.

Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alfred Kazin

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....

Alexander Herzen

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

David Lowery

Whoever did this spent a long time igniting anything they could find.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Hunter Hayes

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.