Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the 'extended order' of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.

Anne Schwartz

We are looking for any contact we can have to get these kids' pictures out there.

Niranjan Shah

We are looking at proposals for more contact between the two countries but we haven't made any decisions.

Heather O'Reilly

I think that a lot of players and a lot of teams don't think of contact lenses as being a part of that essential gear but it truly is. You want every competitive advantage you can find and obviously having great vision is one of those advantages.

John Grahame

We are not sure how to get funding, and we encourage people to contact us by e-mail with fund-raising ideas. Our eventual goal of course is to perform.

Mike Holmgren

Usually, when there's contact like that, it's a no-call. But they called it and that's that. That's the way the day went.

Natalie Hemmer

We really don't even want to see customers get to that point. They're far better off to contact us to see what can be done as opposed to putting off the inevitable.

Juergen Lukasser

What we need right now is earnings growth, and some sort of weakness in the retail sector is a threat to that.

Troy Percival

I feel very fortunate for everything I've had. I worked hard to get it. I feel I earned it. I just wish it would have ended a little differently. I don't have any negative feelings about it at all at this point.

Mike Albring

He's made a lot of progress. He's earned his playing time.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

Gilles Combarieu

Life returned to normal last night around 8 p.m. As soon as the word was given, they left very, very quickly.

Brandon McArthur

Last year opening day was quite an experience. This year I was a lot more relaxed.

Gavin Floyd

Last year, I would probably have worried about what I'm going to be doing. I just go start to start now.

Hernan Crespo

Maybe we have put an end to this Premier League.

Scott Skiles

Maybe we could have taken more fouls. He just powered us.

Bob Greenly

Maybe we can wrestle in our own gym.

Margaret Goodman

Maybe we can't find the answer, but it's something that has to be done and done very quickly,

Clint Hurdle

Maybe we can give him some things to work on over the winter that will make him a little more fundamentally sound on offense.

Robert Aventajado

Maybe we can get the Malaysians this afternoon.

M. Thompson

Maybe we are going back to the '50s.

James Stewart

Maybe we are already seeing strong sterling impacting on the sector.

Chris Farley

My first vision for this race was that maybe 500 people would show up. So thank you guys. This is awesome.

Ron Artest

He played good. He played real smart tonight. He's probably one of the better players on the team right now.

Colby Armstrong

He played awesome. You see his reflexes, on little tips in front, gloving them. He's a big-time goalie.

Retief Goosen

He ran away with it. He played unbelievable.

Al Harrington

He played well. He got all the big shots.

Seth Payne

He played very well. We tried to unsettle him and we didn't get it done.

Carroll Dawson

He played very well for us this summer,

Pete Leslie

He played very well, but we still have a lot of things to fix.

Mike Messina

He played varsity for two years. He was a pleasure to coach.

Igor Andreev

He played too well. I also had some problems with my knee. But tomorrow it's going to be a different game.

Gary Snyder

That's the part most of us can remember being part of homeroom,

Henry David Thoreau

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

Henry David Thoreau

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

Henry David Thoreau

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Henry David Thoreau

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

Henry David Thoreau

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

Henry David Thoreau

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

Henry David Thoreau

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

Harper Lee

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Ryan Herrs

I think having Tommy back makes us a much tougher team.

David Stewart

It's going to be tougher in the rain,

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.

Albert Camus

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Annie Besant

When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.

T. S. Eliot

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Susan Sontag

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Scott Adams

I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers. The writers are in it for other reasons. Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn. All you get is the pleasure of a completed task.

Ray Davies

Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.

Ray Davies

I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.

Ray Davies

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.