Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Margaret Spellings

As children across America get ready to start classes, our thoughts and prayers are with the children who are living along the Gulf Coast and who may not be able to return to their schools for weeks or months. I'm working with the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response in order to find ways that we can help these children in any way we can. We will stick with these communities for as long as it takes to get them back on their feet.

Nicola Sturgeon

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.

Johann Lamont

As a youngster, I travelled every year across the sea to Tiree. On occasion, we ventured to Skye on the Kyleakin-Kyle of Lochalsh ferry, where there is now a bridge.

Mitch Golub

As dealerships move more of their advertising online, they are choosing partners that deliver the highest quality of shoppers and that have the greatest impact on their bottom line. We are proud to be a premiere choice, and will continue our commitment to quality across several new online products we launched at the National Automobile Dealers Association's 89th Annual Convention and Exposition in Orlando.

Ken Cassar

...As consumers increase their use of the Internet, the opportunity for the Web to influence their online and off-line shopping behavior grows. Simply put, businesses must integrate across channels.

Rashid Johnson

As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show.

Lynn Coady

As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.

Rupert Murdoch

As a broadcaster, he had an uncanny knack of knowing what people across the country were thinking.

Dave Wannstedt

No question, we've seen it all. There's nothing in there we won't have seen. But as a defensive coach, you can't worry about defending ghosts. You can talk all you want about a team and the way they do things, but it comes down to what gets done on the field,

Rebecca MacKinnon

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.

Jacques Chirac

defend Europe, the economic, financial and social interests of Europe.

Doc Sadler

The strength of their team is that they are able to shoot the basketball. They've got three guys averaging in double figures. The key to the game is that we have to defend the perimeter and keep them off the offensive glass.

Rasual Butler

I want be someone that they know will defend them, ... They're all one-on-one players who come at you every night.

Ariel Sharon

The most important test the Palestinian leadership will face is in fulfilling their commitments to put an end to terror and its infrastructure, ... Until they do so, Israel will know how to defend itself.

Bob Hofman

So, we've got to defend that post play.

Josh Dollard

I've never had to hold on to one that big before. I really don't know how we're going to defend him in the paint.

James Rubin

It would be a grave mistake for people to test their willingness to defend themselves.

Stan Heath

Auburn is a difficult team to play because they have so many different defenses. We wanted to make sure we had a high energy level. I thought we responded pretty well in the second half.

Rene Portland

Our energy was not the same. Ohio State pressured us defensively and made it difficult for us. Our offense never got going.

Charles Duelfer

Other people on the team had other obligations, so logistically it would have been difficult to keep them there much longer.

Pamela Dix

People find it difficult to understand that when you are on the receiving end of such events, you take on the responsibility to ensure that others do not go through the same ordeal,

Alex Jamieson

People become parochial when it is in their patch. It will be extremely difficult in the foreseeable future to go down the line of closures in rural communities.

William A. Ward

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.

Mike Trapasso

Of the tournament field, they've played the most difficult schedule early on, when you look at the teams they've played.

Kathleen Gurney

often have the most difficulty because they put everything into their businesses. These people often find themselves misplaced a bit.

Conard Fowkes

Actors don't do a good job worrying about their finances. It's difficult because you do not work consistently week after week. You may be very well paid for a job that lasts 10 weeks. Then you're unemployed and you haven't put any money aside.

Tim Powell

The BRAC issue is as important as it has always been, but things are fast and furious here, ... We are fully engaged and sustaining lives.

Ira Sorkin

As I understand the law, all the jury has to do is find is that somebody at Andersen engaged in illegal conduct. They don't have to be unanimous as to who at Andersen is the agent.

Kenzaburo Oe

During the last few years I have been engaged in writing a trilogy which I wish to be the culmination of my literary activities.

Marcus Williams

So much so that who he really is and the world around him has sort of passed him by. He lives in the past and he's not very engaged at all.

Joseph Biden

The American public must become engaged on this issue,

Joseph Castelo

I can't wait to start working on something else. You make a film. You are very engaged and insolated. And you come out on the other side, it is over and everyone wants to know what do you mean by this and that?

David Kirk

I'm passionately interested in the media and want to be engaged in it,

Tom Kehoe

I hope the village gets engaged in it because there's a lot of serious things going on.

Jim Clark

It was a very touching service that engaged the hearts, the minds and the souls of the participants, ... It made us feel like we're glad to be who we are and to be able to be of some help. God has given us something to share with other people because there are a lot of people who don't feel they have something to share. We need to help them feel like they can be full participants at the table again.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Kathy Miller

Originally we were going to find a home for him, but people would look at him and go, 'Ooh.' He looked so terrible.

Jim McGowan

Of course, we're retired, so we're usually home -- if we're not volunteering.

Horace Horace

Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying

Andrew Baird

Normally we think of our home ... as a safe haven. (The suspect) made it a mausoleum for Mr. O?Malley.

Dan Parker

No sir, we don't have a home left.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

John McPherson

Do you want your home to be a museum, or do you want to live in it? ... We're not trying to do a museum.

Sam Harris

Como's probably never going to stay the same. This is home though. And I can never say that I'm going to a better place. We'll survive.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Shaul Goldstein

On this square meter that I am standing on, Jews will not be able to step in the future,

Rabbi Katz

First we are to do, even if we don't understand. So many times, people want to understand first, but Jews are to do first, then understand.

Carl Sandburg

God, let me remember all good losers.

Joann Johnson

We wanted to come here to remember those who died.

Pam Baker

Everyone was in a real dither, but we made it through fine. I was only a little girl, but I remember how upset everyone got.

Rudy Duran

You have to remember that Tiger is not Earl's only child. He had three other kids. He wasn't a rookie at this.

Deborah Espinosa

You have to remember he wasn't trained. He does make some mistakes.

Doris Lessing

You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.

Craig Newmark

Follow through with basic values, and remember to provide good customer service.

Douglas Horton

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Douglas Coupland

Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.

M. Wolfe

The more participants we have, the better we can be. I think we can have a real strength in numbers.

Jeff Carnazzo

The strength of our team has been our defense.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Benjamin Bratt

My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.

Jane Goodall

I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time.

Bruce Lee

Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.

Bruce Lee

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Bruce Lee

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Stanley A. McChrystal

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

Jim Parsons

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

Brett Lee

If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life

Aravind Adiga

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Jane Campion

The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.

Ben Fountain

You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.

Carson McCullers

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

Alan Dershowitz

The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

Al Gore

All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Vanna Bonta

What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.

Elaine Chao

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known,

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

David Byrne

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?