Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juanita Johnson

I was just blessing God. As a mother, I was terrified. But now, instead of weeping and thinking that could have been my daughter, now I'm weeping to thank God she's with me and praying for the others.

Matt Hasselbeck

Had I been a first-round pick -- which never would have happened -- and they made me play, I wouldn't have done any good. I would have been bad. So I wasn't ready. So it's kind of a blessing in disguise for me.

A. Johnson

I thought something like this wouldn't happen until maybe next season, ... I know how hard it is for offensive linemen to break in on this level. Getting back to my natural position has really been a blessing for me. I'm much more comfortable now.

Joe Mesi

I think that, as crazy as it sounds, the two-year layoff might be a blessing in this situation.

Marvin Oliver's

I think it was a real blessing for all of us. It's not always going to be sunshine. Even in a rainy situation, you can still prevail. Sometimes, you just have to see what modifications you can make.

R. Robinson

Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.

Joan Anderson

When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish my blessings.

Aghason Paul

He will give his blessing to the whole of Brazil.

Jim Wilkes

He had to be hungry. And I look over, and he's saying the blessing before he eats.

Keith Haring

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

Adrian Belew

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Ken Mehlman

Kerry's political attacks are not supported by reality, which shows rising employment and higher wages, and his policies -- higher taxes, increased regulation and bigger government -- would move America backward.

Amy Walter

Kerry's focus and his message has really been middle class, middle America, 'I'm standing up for the little guy' and middle class investors respond to that, but that raises the question of how do you go back and talk to the business community after that.

Colleen Atwood

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Judith Krantz

Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience.

Carol Foreman

Kids are healthier these days... more kids are in school around the world, and partly that's because Australians have been willing to invest in aid.

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Brett Johnson

It is a journey of discovery - artistically, sexually, socially.

Richard P. Feynman

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

Richard P. Feynman

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

Richard P. Feynman

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Russell Baker

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

William Wordsworth

We murder to dissect.

William James

(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.

Trevor McDonald

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.