Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, which is set at $5.15 an hour. After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, (which is set at $5.15 an hour). After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

Jaime Winstone

When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.

Paul Rodio

We're getting there. I thought our players did everything they had to do (Saturday) except win.

Mark Snyder

We're still learning how to practice, like everyone except the NFL,

Charles Krauthammer

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Molly Quinn

With voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read.

Joe Jurevicius

As much running as I have been doing, nothing is going to get me in shape except playing the game of football,

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk him. I hope they don't stop walking him.

Charles L. Allen

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Jack Rio

We're going to keep him out this week, then hopefully get him back as quick as we can, ... This is not a season-ending injury by any means.

Jim McAlpin

We're going to have to find some different ways to score because of that, but we'll still attack. We hope to score as much as we did last year.

Bruce Allen

We're getting some more analysis. He's still on the team. He is wanting to play. We're hopeful that he can. But we're going to get the proper medical opinion.

J. Horton

We're hopeful what we have done to this point is enough.

Wayne Kramer

We're hopeful we'll be able to identify many more.

Jason Tapp

We're hopeful that a much more experienced and talented team this season will have us near or on top at the end of the regular season.

Jeff Hall

We're hopeful ... but realistically we're looking for deceased.

Roger Romines

We've got a really young team this year. If they stick with it, they have the potential to get one of those scholarships that are out there.

Bobby Collins

We feel that the potential is unlimited for Wise County.

Amy Vanderbilt

They're worried about potential under-cutting of the road surface.

Hines Ward

It's tough to go undefeated, but they have the potential.

Jeff Gordon

It's not there yet, but it has the potential.

Paul Tobias

There's a potential for abuse. I'm sure there's been grumbling.

Jeff Ulbrich

sees a ton of potential in every single guy.

Alan Greenspan

rare occasion, warranted because of the potential for serious disruptions to markets.

John Walsh

The very first day there were 80 (violators) in one zone alone. You can see the potential to reduce violations is enormous.

Tom Daschle

As we speak, the Senate is in session,

John Deane

The Senate has the right to look at Roberts' papers.

Richard Lamm

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Mitch McConnell

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.

Allan Bense

Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,

Powers Boothe

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

Gordon Smith

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

Gary Brown

We're not done yet. We know the Senate has to take it up yet. We're a ways away from groundbreaking and a ribbon-cutting.

Edmond Rostand

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

Cal Cochran

It's just another game. The stakes don't change.

George Herbert

It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.

William Hedgcock Webster

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.

Madeleine L'Engle

Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)

Werner Heisenberg

Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.

Bill Cowher

For us to come in here and do what we did, it took a supreme effort.

Russ Feingold

should disqualify you from being on the Supreme Court.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Rand Paul

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Henry Ford

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Christine Pelosi

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Al Jarreau

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

Chris Colfer

I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.

Chief Seattle

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

David Wain

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

David Hoffman

Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

David Hockney

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

David Hume

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

David Brock

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Alan Ball

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Elizabeth Kostova

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Elizabeth McGovern

I have a terrible sense of direction.

Bobby Valentine

Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess.

Simon Schama

A terrible vanity, really, but as you get older...

Jerry Jones

It's just a terrible loss. I'd like to have something to blame, but I don't.

Marlon Byrd

It's a terrible loss. We had so many chances.

Bob Cook

It was a terrible day, ... We just wanted to get off the course.