Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Nemechek

I was looking to get back to the front on the next (green-flag) run, but the car got loose -- it was a struggle just to maintain our position.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's sham economic indicator says that our economy was better under Jimmy Carter than under Ronald Reagan, a deception few Ohioans are likely to believe.

Chris McKay

Key would be the detection of carbon and nitrogen containing particles.

Gary Griffiths

Kids need to be connected to the school and they need to feel someone cares about them. In a large school setting it can be extremely impersonal. There's nothing worse than a student in a large setting not being connected to anything. That's the height of loneliness.

Ayn Rand

know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Kids, did the car scare you, huh? We're all scared of the car tax,

Anthony Principi

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan . . . deserve to come back to 21st-century medical care, ... Whatever it costs, we need to incur that cost to provide that world-class care to an extraordinary group of men and women in harm's way.

Dave Forney

I would think that the committee would certainly look at that and say that South Carolina has done well and deserves a chance to be part of this new format. I don't think it would be automatic. I think a lot would depend on how we play in our next couple of games, win or lose.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Ann Veneman

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

Jon Hamm

I realize how talented our hair and wardrobe people are every time I have to get dressed on my own.

Marina Tortorello

It's something people don't see normally. To see people dressed up in that time period and using the tools and techniques is very interesting.

Kishore Biyani

It's not so easy to get people in smaller towns to spend money, but they still come to the store, all dressed up with their families. It's an outing for them.

Thomas A. Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Colin Firth

Something about being given that microphone and if you're dressed right and the spotlights are on you, how can you not play that stuff?

Jimmy Barnes

This is the ARIAs. What am I getting dressed up for?

Monique Lhuillier

Ever since I was a little girl, I always loved fashion. I would watch my mother get dressed and suggest things she should wear.

Michael Tigar

dressed the way he would be when he was selling real estate, when he was the manager of a farm co-op, when he was doing many of other responsible jobs he's held during his life. What you see is who he is.

Green Day

Billie Joe: What do you mean we walked around dressed like girls? They were our own clothes, they just happened to be dresses...

David Gillette

They should not have an embassy here in the United States.

Somsak Kosaisuk

We will return to the embassy on March 9 to hear the response to our appeal.

James Sasser

We are essentially hostages of the embassy at the present time now. We've been here 48 hours without being able to leave,

Desra Percaya

We have been officially informed that the embassy will reopen on Monday.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Sakie Yokota

I survived this hardship for 20 years until I found out she had been abducted by North Korea.

Al Borges

He did a wonderful job considering he found out less than an hour before the game. We tried to keep it as low maintenance as we could.

Aaron Boone

He's a good dude. I found that out right away. Obviously, he's going to be a good player, and he knows how to act, too. I want to be there to help him out. But I don't want to overkill him with Johnny Veteran stuff. We're all men here and we're all teammates here. Plus, I like him.

Peter D. Mitchell

He said, 'I can send you to jail. I know where your mother lives and your brother. How would you like there to be drugs found in your mother's house?'

Emanuel Brown

He's a senior and he wanted to finish, but unfortunately the trainers didn't want him to get up until they found out if it was muscle or bone.

Justin Scott

He's a very good player, a very good player. I found out he couldn't go right, so toward the end of the game I tried to make him go right. We tried to go around screens and help a lot.

Kyle Lowry

He shot horrible -- not horrible, but not as well -- last night, and we still found a way to win. This is what this team is made of. If everything is not going our way, we still are going to find a way to get the win.

Susan Gray

History is all around us. It's still being found today.

Scott Aukerman

I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we got into trouble when they started pressuring us and the five-count was on. Instead of taking them off the dribble, we got tentative. I just think we stopped attacking.

Shawan Robinson

I think we just got tight. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year. Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year, ... Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Bob Johnson

Hopefully, we can have one large one instead of several smaller ones.

Aaron Gryder

He was standing fine. His first step was down instead of in front.

Jamie Kennedy

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

Will Rogers

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory

Vance Havner

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

William Carey

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Ellen G. White

The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.

John Ellsworth

I want to make sure his mission is finished.

Dave Winker

It's nice to have this part of the mission done. It's been a long week.

Sam Altman

It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.

Frank Robinson

They were on a mission to win three ballgames. It's probably the first times this year we thought about sweeping a series before we played the first game, and we got it done.

Terry Pratchett

We're on a mission from Glod.

William Gilmore Simms

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Sarah Fielding

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Joe Browne

Other sports have modeled their drug programs after ours, which has been around more than 15 years.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Roger Lempke

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Gigi Hadid

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

Cai Wu

In just over 100 years, the 'Southern Continent' has sprouted into a modern country.

Eddie Davis

I was very upset. They pulled it Saturday. I thought I was going to USF. But they said that since I moved on they were moving on.

Patti Smith

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.

Jean Reno

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

Rich Falter

He was struggling more because we were playing him so much underneath. When we moved him out, he seemed to start playing the way he had played in the past.

Brian Boyle

I moved out to give Brock an option. I had my back to the net, so I just shot it to an area.

Katherine Harris

I'm actually very sensitive about those things, and it's personally painful, ... You'd have to be a stone not to be moved by these things.

Joe Glowacki

You could see it moved him, there were tears in his eyes.

Coach Bell

The C team played very well and the moved a lot. I was proud of the way they played.

Deb Kapp

The banners can be moved around so if you habitually travel on one street, you won't always look at the same banner.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

I'm only going to play if I'm 100 percent fit,

Dave Thomas

In my class, there were about 50 percent students there.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Sadaharu Oh

I'm 100 percent sure. I spoke to him recently and told him we really want him to be a part of our team.

John Tortorella

I'm getting tired of the 25 percent rule. It's deflating.

Gennady Onishchenko

And 92 percent of them are drug addicts.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up. He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up, ... He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Steve Terry

You couldn't have picked a better day for spring break.

Bill Robertson

The truth is, we have so many potholes, we could have picked just about anywhere,

Tim Camacho

The goalie played outstanding. That's the third-string goalie, and he picked it up.

Joan Rodgers

We still don't know how they picked our house, but it was very scary.

Ricky Sanchez

It's weird. I was surprised they picked me.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Emmeline Pankhurst

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Sophocles

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Yoko Ono

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Gary Barnett

I think I said the wrong thing, the wrong way and at the wrong time,

William Anderson

has the right intentions, but he's going about them the wrong way.

Hank Tierney

He said he just didn't want to play. He was out there for all the wrong reasons.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy, ... Nothing is wrong with me. I'm not sick. I'm healthy.

Tom Davies

investigate aggressively what went wrong and what went right.

Richard Carey

was in the wrong place in the wrong time.

Tim Purpura

Nothing was wrong with the elbow, but it just didn't feel right, ... There were times when it just didn't feel right.

Csaba Csere

It's very exciting, very intense. You have to be tuned in to every vibration, every sound, because if things go wrong, they go wrong fast.

Bobby Jackson

They just wanted it more. We did all the right things in the first 12 minutes, and did all the wrong things from then on out.