Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Moore

He's just inconsistent, ... That's understandable because he's a freshman. Matt sometimes kicks it like (former All-America) Harold Alexander and sometimes he kicks it like I do. But he has an extremely strong leg.

Matt Hasselbeck

I'm not worried at all about Shaun because like we've all seen, Shaun Alexander plays his best games in the spotlight. When games are the biggest he seems to play his best. And we've never played a game this big.

Ginny Redington

Alexander Woollcott did say she (Parker) would be Mrs. Benchley if there wasn't one already. We played that up for the show. You do things you feel could possibly have been true but having not been there, we don't really know.

Andrei Illarionov

Alexander Nikolayevich was a defender ? a defender of our country, of democracy, of freedom of people ? of specific people ? and all of us.

George Burley

Alexander is a current Swedish international who is looking to go to the World Cup finals.

Grover Norquist

Alexander Hamilton has been on the ten for a long time and it's no disrespect to him, but in the past when presidents have passed away, they have replaced other people that weren't presidents,

David Scott

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hated each other so much. But that hate that they had for each other did not come before the love of their country.

Ann Hood

Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on.

Luis Valdez

We still have two (vying for regional). That'll be cool (if both Alexander and United can make it to regional).

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Q'orianka Kilcher

I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so... I feel such a deep connection to it.

John Beatty

What we have created is a major resource for our community for years to come. It's a work that will be read 100 years from now. We've given a voice to people largely ignored in previous books African-Americans, Hispanics, women and other ethnic groups.

Dave Shoji

Kari has done such a tremendous job for me. She has been here eight years and quietly gone about taking on a whole lot of responsibilities. She has been a very good and loyal coach. She needed to be rewarded. Now is the perfect time.

Craig Rigsbee

I think it's about 3,300 yards, and he's already got, I think, 2,000, so he's got eight games to get 1,300 yards, which isn't out of the realm of possibility for him.

Chuck D.

I take full responsibility for this organization not winning in my eight years,

Dema Guinn

He could do the work of any grown man by the time he was in the eighth grade.

David Mulder

He'll be out between four and eight weeks. But six weeks would be a good guesstimate.

David Mulder

He'll be out between four and eight weeks, ... But six weeks would be a good guesstimate.

Gordon Strachan

He is on a good run of seven or eight games and we will keep working and speaking to Artur.

Gerhard Richter

I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.

Ricky Barnes

There are still eight events left and you're seeing guys win two weeks in a row here to gain PGA status. Anything can happen.

Barry Zito

I think it was good to get one of these in. Generally you encounter in spring every situation you'd face in the regular season. This was another one of those.

Ryan Kwanten

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

Wayne Dyer

When you meet anyone, treat the even as a holy encounter.

Bob Clark

If you do encounter that, it would be wise probably to swim elsewhere, ... Just be mindful of your and their environment.

Mike Enzi

It's my job to invite all of you to come to Wyoming and Yellowstone Park where we hope you get a glimpse of the grizzly. We hope you do not have an encounter with the grizzly.

John Green

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

Jurgen Habermas

The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.

R. C. Sproul

When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.

Pope Francis

The Internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.

Sam Worthington

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

Michael Keaton

Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting. Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting, ... Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

David Baum

It isn't about how famous you are or how much money you have.

Joe Newman

We looked at the NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL, CBA and NBDL and there were little or no minority ownerships. Unless you were a famous star, all of those leagues were excluding minorities.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

Kim Weston

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

Nayef Rajoub

Have you forgotten that Israel is the occupying power here? Do I need to remind you of an occupying power's obligations under international law?

Walter Benjamin

What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

John Dawson

I just wanted to come back and spend one more night, ... I know I've forgotten a lot in my time, but good memories like staying here stay with me.

Gerhard Schroeder

can only be preserved if the past is not forgotten and not distorted.

Lee Etzler

I hope you haven't forgotten that game, because I haven't.

Andres Obrador

I'm going to respect everyone. But the poor and forgotten of Mexico will get preferential treatment.

Jodi Picoult

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

John Green

Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.

King Albert II

The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten.

Howard Dean

Harry Truman was willing to do things that were extraordinarily unpopular because they were the right things to do,

Jim Lowell

Harry Lange couldn't be a better pick to run Magellan.

Kim Novak

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star. Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

Dick Campbell

I had Harry here for a long time and that will make it interesting tomorrow. He is intelligent and experienced and has done well at Annan.

Len Totora

Every Tom, Dick and Harry that can work with me is working with me.

Jason Segel

The movies that I love and model after, like 'Annie Hall,' 'When Harry Met Sally,' and in particular for me, 'Broadcast News,' are the tone of life, which isn't a setup punch-line every two minutes.

Eric Morecambe

Sometimes it worries me. I feel something's got to give. I know what Harry Secombe meant when he said he's worried that one day the phone will ring and a mystic voice will say, 'Thank you, Mr Secombe. Now can we have it all back?'

Rupert Grint

Are you kidding? This is Harry Potter! I love every last moment of it.

Ted Cruz

Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

Troy Williamson

I wouldn't say frustrating. I would say more of a learning experience. I learned a lot of stuff.

Michael Wright

Jake has another year. He will learn how to wrestle. To be in the mix with better guys, we need to wrestle them.

Jody Conradt

Just when you think you've seen everything, you haven't. I've learned that during this season.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Gerald Shields

Here's the deal. I want people reading. We are professionals, and we need to be reading and studying. We need to have a life-long learning mentality.

Pat Hill

He said, 'I think you can learn from others,'

Malcolm Deans

I think the lessons we learned this weekend were great, even though we didn't win.

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Bob McDonald

He just had that something, that intangible. You don't know who has it, but he had it. To do whatever it took to meet his goal.

Kate Bosworth

I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Howard Stringer

He's a star. Nobody turns down a meeting with him.

Alison Goldfrapp

I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

George Speight

I think some people are trying to do me over ... and they're going to meet with some very stiff resistance.

Mike Bohn

I'd like the players to have the opportunity to meet him before the game.

Tony Fabrizio

I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.

Joni Mitchell

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Noam Chomsky

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Karl Marx

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

P. C. Cast

Value them; they are pearls of great price

Coco Chanel

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

Confucius

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

Robert Kennedy

I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.

Robert A. Heinlein

Never cast pearls before swine.

J. A. Konrath

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Martha Grimes

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Mark Millar

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Julie Kenner

'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh.

Tim Berners-Lee

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Rick Riordan

My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.

Ron Krumer

There are no rules to how long it could take to go away. It could take one day, it could take two days, it could take two weeks.

Charlie Brown

If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Patrick Leahy

I want an end to this thing. But where are we? Do we know what the rules are going to be?

Peter Ueberroth

The rules have changed, ... The old thing of 'getting in line,' that's gone.

Harry White

The rules have changed, post-9/11. We have seen some real tightening of security and for all the right reasons.

Angela Davis

These are the rules for the mullet hunt,

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Paul Archey

Eligibility rules are still being discussed. It will be similar to the IBAF rules.

John Tory

Even the rules that are in place are not being followed.

Tommy Russell

I think Ward is one of the best-kept secrets in West Tennessee.

Sandra Brown

Even we have secrets here in Middleburg, Florida, even though we're on Wisteria Lane,

Earl Watson

You play so many teams so many times, I don't think there are any secrets about what teams do.

S. Hughes

Everyone wants to know, what's your secret? Nothing! No secrets. I'll tell you what's in my chili.

Ryan Scolpini

She's pitched every time we've played. There will be no secrets there. They'll know she'll pitch.

Bill Richardson

will not tolerate the theft of our secrets.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Tony Jaa

As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It's like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the outside.

Richard Paul Evans

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

Richelle Mead

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

Rex Reed

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

Rose Macaulay

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Rose Macaulay

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Truman Capote

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

All adventure is now reactionary.

Richard M. Nixon

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

Richard Russo

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

Richelle Mead

You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.

Richard Bach

Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.

Samuel Rogers

When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.

Rebecca Wells

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

Roger Moore

Movies such as this remind us that Owen Wilson is nothing less than a national treasure.

Kurt Sanger

In times of yen weakness, Lexus is just a treasure chest,

P. L. Travers

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

Meher Baba

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

Martin Buber

There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place where one stands

Witold Gombrowicz

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

Torii Hunter

I love the Twins, ... I bleed the Twins. That's all I know. If I go anywhere else, I'd be a foreigner.

Ozzy Osbourne

There are no identical twins, or forgivable sins.

Plato

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

Mary-Kate Olsen

A twin knows exactly when the other one is spitting up, but that’s all they know about anything.

Jay Pharoah

I had a twin, and he didn't make it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

Ike Turner

I'm using Fender Twin Reverbs and Fender Blues Devilles on stage.