Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohsin Hamid

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

J. Hoover

We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time.

Terry Kennedy

We started out at a level below my expectations. But now it is there. Some players have come into the league who have made it better. It's a high-Class A league, maybe even better than that.

Asif Kapadia

We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.

Chris Meyer

When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday.

John Banville

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

Nell Newman

When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.

J. M. Roberts

We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.

Joyce Foreman

When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

Bill Seltenheim

The point is inventories are building over the ideal 60-day marks. They've maybe reached a point where the market is getting saturated.

Chris Boone

The plaza is a culmination of about two years work designing, raising funds, and the building the plaza. Originally we had planned to do this in the fall, but because of the hurricane it was sidetracked.

David Bahlman

Until a building is known for its architectural importance and for the threat that exists to it, it's very hard to galvanize public opinion. Once people understand that's happening, it's a different story.

Denise Garcia

We are pleased to see this building develop into a new opportunity for the Pueblo community to grow and prosper.

Fred Thompson

We are pleased to be one of the teams on the NCAA Most Improved List. The process of building the program back to National prominence will take some time and it is always good to see indications of growth and progress.

Shannon Fritcher

We've already walked around the building to figure that out.

Michael Capellas

We started thinking about licensing of intellectual property, and boom, it (the discussion) got bigger, ... It just started snowballing, building momentum. It just made logical strategic sense.

E. B. White

There are buildings that some of your children are in that are older than Joe White. That's unacceptable, those buildings needs to be renovated.

Josh Stiles

We still need to keep the inflation pressures from building or there will be a problem in the future.

Todd McFarlane

A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that.

Trenton Lee Stewart

I think when I started to write 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.

John Griffin Carlisle

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.

David Smith

The Sullivan properties are well run television stations that hold enormous strategic importance for Sinclair.

Dick Cheney

Texas has had an enormous success story, ... They are all very thankful for where they find themselves now.

Robyn Archer

Quite often, if people don't want to listen to the message they will say 'Oh, but it's so musically inferior', but when you have songs that are musically sophisticated, with enormous heart and expertise and a message, that's when its hard to resist. It's great to see people of exceptional musical talent, like Paul and the musicians he works with, contributing to songs like these.

Maryanne Ingemanson

The ruling here helps us overall by leaps and bounds. The judge said the assessor did not use the rules - it's an enormous win.

Marin Alsop

It was an enormous surprise when they called me last Wednesday.

Keith Brown

It was an enormous loss, that is the one that eventually killed us.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Alan Bennett

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

Ed Begley, Jr.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

Dean Acheson

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Audre Lorde

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

Cat Deeley

I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet.

C. S. Lewis

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

Don Walchuk

We were trying to get on our feet before we lost it.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Bill Maher

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.

Richard LaBounty

We bounced back after a tough loss to Gulf Breeze. I'm very proud of our approach.

John Herrlin

Unless the winter is polar, Gulf of Mexico natural-gas output will be back.

Jeb Bush

As Rita moves into the Gulf of Mexico, we are looking to ... make sure that people can get back into their homes as quickly as possible in the Keys.

Roger Simon

A lot of the ice ... floated out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Bill Parsons

You can't just watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I have seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable.

Diana Nyad

The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring.

Norman Schwarzkopf

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.

Doug Leggate

Any storm going through the Gulf is going to slow the pace of the recovery from Katrina.

Paul Johnston

We want people to know we are on schedule, that June 1 (the start of hurricane season) is obtainable and it is our intention to do that.

Charles Rangel

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

Alex Penelas

worse than what we experienced last year with Hurricane Irene in that the water has come in a much shorter period of time.

Mike Trevino

We've got another 800 (adjusters) or so standing by waiting to work Hurricane Rita.

David Joy

We'll see what impact, if anything, the hurricane had on them, and it may be a harbinger.

David Beasley

Unfortunately, it looks like Hurricane Bertha is making a major turn for the worse,

Brad Cotter

With the hurricane and all some people wondered if the show was still on,

Mitch Frazier

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

Bruce Bainter

This looks like shades of Hurricane Katrina down there right now.

Nancy Heaton

We would stress to all of them that these are preliminary notices only.

Wayne Davis

They don't notice a whole lot, especially with it being just a penny.

Tommy Bowden

They ran a lot of pursuit drills. If you noticed they ran a whole bunch. They ran their tails off pretty good. That's while they're dragging.

Robin Wright

As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.

Jack Clarke

Rats are much more noticeable and destructive than mice.

Dave Brown

(Officer Paul Holey) pretty much took notice of this as it was happening.

Doug Jones

The suspect told him he was out of gas. The victim noticed a red Chevrolet S-10 pick-up truck on the shoulder. The suspect told him it was his truck.

David Neal

The thing that our viewers will immediately notice each day is the strength of the U.S. Olympics team. It's the most accomplished Winter Olympics team that the U.S. has ever fielded.

Frank Poirot

The most noticeable work is being done now and should be over by mid-summer.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

Ray Allen

It seems the referees take these preconceived notions about what he's going to do. It's ridiculous some of the calls.

David Fish

This is the notion of personalization at the intermediary level.

John Doe

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Dolly Wells

Essentially, we wanted to be in one of Azazel's films, so the notion was we'd simply write an Azazel Jacobs movie ourselves, and then give it to him and be like, 'Right, here's you next film, now direct us. Go.'

Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

Ricki Lake

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

Sun Ra

It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.

David Wagner

They don't have much New Orleans to come to right now.

Wayne Gandy

You can't just be thinking about yourself now. Watching what's going on back in New Orleans just makes you thankful you're not in that situation.

Robin Milano

There was no water in it. We're in the 10-20 percent of New Orleans that was not flooded.

Paul Tagliabue

I told our owners (while planning the event) that this would be a true celebration of the New Orleans Saints, and, before you know it, they'll be America's team.

Wayne Gandy

Our situation is uncomfortable. But for the people in New Orleans it's catastrophic.

Mike Tidwell

The same levees that made New Orleans inhabitable have now made New Orleans uninhabitable.

Shawna Graham

I've been going there since I was 6 years old. But they're going to have a whole new New Orleans than what we did. It will never be the same.

Jim Campbell

This is strictly for the New Orleans Police Department.

H. Hunt

As soon as we can get back, we're going to New Orleans .

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Jim Wilkinson

We're not going to sit here and say that all the plans are perfect.

Joe Dumars

We have no plans to do anything with Derrick at the moment.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Gil Reyes

It's just not in our plans yet to retire.

William Edwards

We printed 10,000, and we've got plans for the other 2,500.

Dianna Agron

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

David Pleiss

As of now, we don't have any plans for layoffs.

Mike DeLorenzo

Now is the time for residents to prepare and make sure they have their (disaster and evacuation) plans ready.

Charles Dickens

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

Charles Spurgeon

Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

Alan Watts

You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

Al Pacino

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

David Hockney

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

Arthur Ransome

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

Arthur Ransome

There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.

Arthur Rimbaud

Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea

Arthur Rimbaud

It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Rob Hartman

It's been several years since we've had this widespread of flooding, and we're not done.

Bryan Clifton

This has been going on now for several months. It has been going on for a while.

Ron Parks

They still have several things in their name.

Russ Cooper

This is a very sophisticated worm with several new twists

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Bob Newhart

The show went through several stages before it went on the air,

Jack McDevitt

I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.

Joe Gibbs

I should have said, 'Hey, we've got several things we're going to turn in and want to look at with them,' ... 'We see it one way, and we'll see how they see it.' That should have been my comments, but I went specifically . . . I went over some things there that you can't.

Steve Blake

As we put them in outlying areas, contamination has been more of a problem. We are still experimenting with different situations and locations.

Carol Majeske

It's just a stressful situation for wildlife who are already stressed out in the winter.

Joe Gibbs

It's a situation where it's tough for Tom and tough for us, ... We think the world of him.

Michael Irvin

It's a situation that is not as it seemed.

Janice Kruger

A lot of things do stay the same over the years. But there are also a lot of things that are different, and those things keep a real special situation here every year.

Bobby Bowden

They need to be in a game-like situation and play as a unit and see how they respond. Because you can't do it much in the fall.

George Hudson

It's more about the situation that the team will be in,

Kelly Holcomb

It's not my decision. You're competitive. You want to play. But you also have to know the situation and I do.

Shlomo Dror

They are going because they want to leave. The situation is dangerous.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Audrey Tautou

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Carolyn Porco

Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charlotte Lamb

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

Charles Lamb

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.