Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Leakey

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Ashley Hanhurst

We've almost been a team that likes to come back.

Becky Christofferson

We usually play full court almost every game. The second half has been ours the whole season. We play better in the second half for some reason.

Samir Haj

We struggled until almost the end. But it will show our kids that if you don't concentrate and play hard from the beginning anything can happen.

Jamie Mauthe

We struggled to put Sarah through college so that she could become a certified X-ray technician. But we are not big spenders and have almost no personal debt. It's all in the farm.

Mike Urich

We are a different ball team than we were almost two months ago. We feel a lot of what we do they may know what's coming, but as long as we execute like we have, I think we will be OK.

Paul Murphy

We are at the point now, for the first time in this peace process, where almost all of the parties are at the table,

Rob Stewart

There are continually mixed messages, and there is almost increasing confusion in the mind of the average Joe.

Jeff Lenard

We're in hyperdrive. These wholesale increases are going to be felt almost immediately.

Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stanley

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Alan Guth

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

Alan Greenspan

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Chip Kelly

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

DeForest Kelley

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

Emily Coombe

We are looking to be more controlled. We hope to play smart, controlled games. We hope to cut down on our errors. Last year we averaged just over four a game. We want to cut that in half to two or less per game.

Joe Battista

We are a very average team when we try to go by ourselves -- when we move the puck; we're awesome. I don't know what happened, if they see the big crowd and decide they're going to go Hollywood on us.

Sue Bailey

There are customers that will love it. My biggest concern is: Can we teach the average cook how to use it?

M. Night Shyamalan

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

Ken Warwick

Why should you take a drop in money?

Laurie Metcalf

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

Gavin Grant

We have to have a strong ACC Tournament. We were supposed to be like a 3 seed (in the NCAA), but I am pretty sure we are going to drop down from there. I think we have to go into the ACC Tournament like we did last year, knowing we had to win to get in. We have to win games. We don't want to be an eighth or ninth seed.

Ahmad Khatami

We want our rights and nothing more, and we will resist until our last drop of blood.

Matt Lanter

I honestly try not to eat a whole lot of fast food, so it wouldn't kill me to drop it all together.

Guillermo Cole

We're monitoring the situation. We have an inspector dropping by every day.

Katie Aselton

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

George Machado

When we dropped to 2-4, we knew we needed to win our last three games to qualify. We won the first one last week. But this week we're playing a better team, so we have to play even better.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

Ozzy Osbourne

I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

Princess Margaret

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.

Robert Plant

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

Walt Disney

There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Hit-Boy

I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.

Herbert A. Simon

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

Madeleine Stowe

As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated.

Jane Levy

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

Mark Richt

about as pretty as I've seen. Maybe we should do that more often.

Juan Felipe Herrera

The more we engage in society, the more firsts we have, then there will be a moment when we have no more firsts. Or maybe there will always be new firsts.

Sheryl Skolnick

It seems to be of some concern. Maybe you don't need the headache.

David Lipe

They played well. Maybe this will give those two some confidence.

Sean McCarthy

They should be very proud of what they've done. Maybe not satisfied, but proud.

Nancy Mitchell

This happened, so maybe something else can happen.

Ron Rivera

They thought they were better than we were and in some instances, some positions, maybe they were better.

Louis Stokes

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

John Maynard

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

Eleanor Cook

They ought to be ashamed. They're the ones who let a pedophile go.

Christopher Dodd

This ought not to be a controversial proposal,

Ben Nelson

I told him (Bush) he really ought to suggest a compromise, ... I don't think their plan to get 51 votes for his plan is out there.

Brent Thompson

It ought to be done in a content-neutral fashion.

John Starnes

They're going to be short, but they ought to be pretty powerful.

Andrew Young

There's another side of the story that ought to be told.

Thomas Kean

People ought to stay out of our business.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Bitsie Tulloch

I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

Bill Keller

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.

Danny Irmen

They have nothing to lose. It's scary to play a team that has nothing to lose.

Shaun Micheel

It was a scary moment, ... It shook me up.

Michael McGuire

The scary part is long term, 20 or 30 years out,

Jameer Nelson

It was unbelievable. It's scary because he's only going to get better.

Rob Marshall

It was wonderful and scary at the same time,

Derek Jeter

It was a little scary when he starting throwing punches, ... I was scared. I didn't want to get hit.

Dr. Gershman

The stories are very scary and very unsettling.

Geno Auriemma

They need like a 10-second shot clock. Thirty seconds is way too long for them.

Tom Cavanaugh

Thirty seconds later, it just went up in smoke.

Jeff Kasko

This is so complicated for the voter to understand. And you only have 30 seconds to make a pitch.

Brian Bickford

You have two or three seconds to get someone's attention. What we look for is those kind of attention-getting devices.

Ray Walston

I have 30 seconds to tell you I have been waiting 60 years to get on this stage.

Chris Travers

I thought if we could get it down to three with 40 seconds left, we would have had a shot.

Jim Court

I thought about it for 10 seconds or so.

Sue Donohoe

When he wanted to know what time it was, you had to get down there. You didn't tell him that it was 30 seconds left.

Jim Calhoun

We've got to take away 3-point shooting and not get fatigued by the shot clock. They make as many shots under 12 seconds as any team you're going to play.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

Gregg Bishop

(The sequel) would span its own time period. You wouldn't have to see the first one to get it.

Michael Chang

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.

George Herbert

He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

Dan Wakefield

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Chris Faidley

I know how to say 'faster' and 'defend' in Bosnian, Spanish and Creole.

Baltasar Gracian

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Lawrence Welk

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

Rocky Hager

It's even tougher when you watch the tape. We had our chances. We made some plays.

Bob Henriquez

I truly have never, ever had a tougher kid. His toughness is, for me, legendary.

Sergei Udaltsov

The harder they resist us, the tougher will be our response.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Brent Norberg

We did a lot defensively. We made them take some tougher shots.

Daniel Gibson

We want an up-tempo game. When we go out and we're the aggressor, we're tougher to handle.

Gary Shourds

We just made more big plays, and we were tougher defensively.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I don't know if there's a tougher place to play.

Billy Mayfair

Nah. It's tougher to travel with. Besides, they're dorky.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.