Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Hanson

He is very lucky to be alive. We were told he was lucky to be alive and his face had severe trauma.

Nyoman Kandun

He is alive and so far is in stable condition.

William S. Burroughs

No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.

Samuel Beckett

I am still alive then. That may come in useful.

Ursula K. Le Guin

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

Roberto Bolano

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.

Tom Johnson

Playing at Gulf Coast kept my recruiting buzz alive in the state, ... By staying in Mississippi, I got publicity and immediate playing time at Gulf Coast and Southern Miss.

Hussam Ayloush

Reform is alive and well within Islam, but it will only happen by those from within Islam and not those who hate Islam.

Mark Madsen

I know it's going to be emotional for everyone, because Fred is such a great friend and such a great teammate. Aside from the emotion, it's going to be happiness. Because circumstances were such that, hey, the organization made a decision and that's just the way it goes. There's no hard feelings, either way.

Jamie King

I hadn't swum very well and had been entered into a race I didn't want to swim. He pulled me aside in front of the whole team and had a 10-minute rant and rave and told me I was the worst swimmer he had ever worked with. A lot of people were scared of Bill but no one would really stand up to him. He's caused a lot of people to give up.

Skylar Astin

I like that 'Pitch Perfect' is one of my first forays into film and just being seen in that kind of light, aside from some people who know me from 'Spring Awakening' or the other things that I've done. I think in so many ways it's kind of like my own 'Glee' or 'Smash'.

John Maine

I'm not bad at it, but I'm not great at it, either. Aside from their unbelievable stuff, their concentration is what sets them apart. They go about things in a business-like way.

Patrick Stump

I'm really glad I put aside whatever ego I had and just let (Wentz) be free,

Zuill Bailey

The cello is the most perfect instrument aside from the human voice.

Craig Anderson

A hard slap shot from 15 feet. It caught me on the shoulder, but you have to put that aside in the moment of the game.

Robert Mintz

The key for the defense is to put aside the baggage that is Enron, get the jury to see their clients as individuals and show why each of these transactions was business as usual. The longer, the more technical this gets, the more it hurts the government.

Claire Ebel

The goal of this bill is important and laudable. Don't put it aside because some people's lives will become harder because they don't have my social security number.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Richard Boucher

has eroded Russia's reputation as a place to do business and eroded confidence in Russia's legal and judicial institutions.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Greg Brenneman

The whole concept of treating people with dignity and respect is a concept that isn't a business concept, it's a life concept. It's who you are at the end of the day.

Seth Godin

I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.

Mark Adams

This was a good thing. Whether a restaurant is smoking or non, it should be left up to the business owner.

Matt Bitonti

There are sites that are pretty well-known sites that are subscription based. That's a business model that people tend toward when their site gets success. But we're never going to do that.

Donna Mollet

What we have discovered is that it is very hard to survive as a little Mom and Pop winery. And we knew we had to come up with a lot of different ideas to make the business successful. You had to get bigger.

John Sims

The investment will take place in three stages - $155 million, 185 million and $180 million.

Joe Gibbs

It's smart. If you are going to make an investment of millions and millions of dollars, you would research them.

Mike Winer

It went from a terrific value investment to a terrific arbitrage.

Brian Harrison

It's in response to a very strong investment return last year.

Mitt Romney

I did not direct any of my investments nor did I know of these investments.

Mark Bartelstein

The Jets have made a big investment in Chad. Once he is healthy, he is the guy.

Rick Baker

I told them I would support their move to do that, ... I thought it was an investment in goodwill.

Steve Swasey

It was derided by a number of people in the investment community.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Rick Riordan

I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

Sarah Caldwell

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Bryan Miller

It took a nosedive for the time being and we did note that we have received no public inquiries in reference to the subject,

John Green

..there she is, and I am watching her through plexiglass, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two–this girl who was an idea that I loved. And it is only now, when she closes her notebook and places it inside a backpack next to her and then stands up and walks toward us, that I realize that the idea is not only wrong by dangerous. What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.

John Green

Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.

Paul Auster

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

Nicole Krauss

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

Nicholas Sparks

You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that.

Nicholas Sparks

So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him- go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again, if I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.

Richie Ashburn

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Richard Dawkins

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Rhea Perlman

Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits.

Rex Stout

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Raymond Chandler

The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

Meg Browne

Just like a pendulum, ... the current-account theme is back in the market.

John Maynard Keynes

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

Barbra Streisand

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

Charles Kennedy

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Alex Flinn

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

Timothy Leary

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others...

Robert Bresson

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

May Sarton

life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

Fay Weldon

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

George Soros

Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected