Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maynard Jackson

I look forward to working closely with the DNC under Terry's tenure, ... I look forward to continuing the focus I began in my campaign on rebuilding state parties, election reform and ensuring that no voter and no state is left behind.

Robert Lewis

The group began by making comments that the victim looked like a geek or a nerd.

John Grammer

A bunch of us who are members get together every year at Eddie Pennington's Campground, in Crofton, Kentucky. We call it the Goat Ropin' Festival. It began 10 years ago on my 70th birthday, and this year they plan to celebrate my turning eighty. I've been blessed with good friends.

Randy Hampton

It's far, far too early to jump out there and say there are no impacts. The intense oil and gas development just began in the last one to two years. It's impossible to sit back and say anything with certainty.

M. Wolfe

A lot of the early people who recorded used pieces of junk, ... Later on, they began to realize it was important to have a good-sounding guitar. It was vitally important that Maybelle came up with that one, which really did sound good and recorded well.

Romeo Crennel

They (NFL officials) told us the same thing last year about taunting, ... As guys began to talk more to the opponent, that's where you can get altercations or fights break out. That respect thing happens. The NFL looked at it and said, 'Okay, if we can eliminate some of this one-on-one thing that's going on that causes ill will, then the game will be a better game.' Anything that's directed towards an opposing player is going to be called. There is no excuse.

J. Taylor

This fortunate ... population explosion that was supposedly experienced just before the home-rule process began is a total fantasy, it's pure fiction.

Susan Vreeland

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

Tommy Kirk

It wasn't until the early '60s that I began to hear of places where gays congregated. The lifestyle was not recognized and I was very, very lonely.

Randee Heller

I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.

Mike McKinney

I've been in the business for more than 20 years, and I've never seen the price of gas move up at this speed. We're in uncharted waters.

Dick Cheney

I've been in the business for a long time and never seen a situation quite like this. We've had experiences where the president has been shot. We've never had a situation where the vice president shot somebody.

Bob Harrell

I've been in the business a long time,

Delos Smith

I've been in the business 40 years...almost 40 years. I can tell you the leaks in 40 years and I won't even use all the fingers on one hand.

James Wood

I've been in the business 26 years, and I've never seen it get this bad.

Daniel Radcliffe

Thing is, it's very easy to be righteous from a distance. It's his life. It's not my business to say what is wrong or right.

Dave Thomas

Think about it. Any time you have family and you have people sitting around the table, normally our business should be good.

Kevin Flanagan

(The Wyskivers) have been very unresponsive to the consumers and we just don't want (them) taking any more business that (they) can be unresponsive to.

George Voinovich

One of the requirements I have used during my political career to decide whether we should do something is the issue of fairness.

Jelena Dokic

One of the most disappointing losses probably in my career so far. I was already really happy, and then half an hour later I was the most disappointed.

Brock Zylstra

I was seven for eight on three pointers in the first half. I ended up sitting most of the second half, because we were up so many points. But I finished with a career high 39 points.

F. Schumacher

I was sadder for the actors than I was for me because when you do good work in this industry, you get more work. Colin got a whole career from it.

Sean Casey

I was stunned -- stunned. To tell you the truth, I thought I was going to be that guy who plays his whole career with one team, but that's just not reality. It's not the nature of the business. It was a lesson for me, but it took me a couple days to get over it.

Andy Pafko

I was so proud I could finish my career in the big leagues with the Braves.

Shuler Hensley

I wouldn't want to raise a family in New York. And it's getting to the point where you can have an established career and live in Atlanta.

Jelena Dokic

I would have to say that was one of the most disappointing losses in my career so far.

Mike Smith

I wish Coach Barnes was here for the rest of my career because he's a very good coach and a very good man. I'm going to miss him. But, you know, I just look at this as another learning experience. This is another obstacle and I've just got to get over it.

Bella Thorne

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Source Unknown

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

e. e. cummings

i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any--lifted from the no of all nothing--human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

e. e. cummings

A bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where you're still dreaming but it's slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like. I wish that people didn't always say 'just wondering' when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars. Listen, there's a hell of a good universe next door, let's go.

E. B. White

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

E. B. White

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

E. B. White

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

E. B. White

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

Dule Hill

My dream role would be anything where I get to tap-dance.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Tallulah Bankhead

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

Tom Petty

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

Simone de Beauvoir

Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

Rene Auberjonois

The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.

Roger Miller

Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

Thomas Menino

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

Thomas Carlyle

Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.