Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stewart Brand

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

Shawn Michaels

Shawn Michaels has left the building.

Chris Buck

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

Stu Barnes

I think we were better start to finish. It's a building block.

Skeet Ulrich

I had built stuff my entire life, so I was designing and building and taking drafting. I would watch plays and got real interested in performing.

Instead of building newer and larger weapons of mass destruction, I think mankind should try to get more use out of the ones we have

Chris Johnson

The new building will be primarily for hay storage,

Dave Freer

It's good to see that you have a rudimentary grasp of the design inference. I was not making a design inference when I employed the building analogy.

Sarah Phillips

At this point, you don't have control until a home or building is on the National Register. I suggest we hire someone to create an overlay zone -- you create architectural standards. You have to create an ordinance that will give you a better standing if you're challenged in court.

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Drew Pearson

Now, we've got a good group of juniors and seniors, and they seem to be committed to doing the right thing.

Alan Ackerman

Next week will be very tense, full of sadness and recollections about Sept. 11 ... Prudent investors may not want to commit money until after we cross that date.

Eddie Compass

I had two officers commit suicide because they were worried about their families,

Willie McGowan

I can't say enough about Ashton, he works hard and is a very committed player.

Owen Heimer

He stole. He committed fraud. He committed perjury,

Ab Argent

Hopefully, we'll have some guys step and hit who haven't been hitting as much and we don't commit any errors.

Charles Baker

How can a user turn around and sue for this? They're the ones who decided to commit copyright infringement.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Don Herold

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

Yusuf Islam

Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.

Jeb Bush

Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,'

M. Wolfe

Quarterback is a position that people try to put too many things into it,

Norman Mailer

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

Octavio Paz

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

Jodi Picoult

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.

Kirsten Dunst

If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.

P. D. James

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has got so expensive. Drugs are too chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time.

Ozzy Osbourne

Suicide is the only way out.

Ozzy Osbourne

The Jesus freaks were the worst. While the ‘Suicide Solution’ case was going through the courts they followed me around everywhere. They would picket my shows with signs that read, ‘The Anti-Christ Is Here’. And they’d always be chanting: ‘Put Satan behind you! Put Jesus in front of you!’ One time, I made my own sign – a smiley face with the words ‘Have a Nice Day’ – and went out and joined them. They didn’t even notice. Then, just as the gig was about to start, I put down the sign, said, ‘See ya, guys,’ and went back to my dressing room.

P. G. Wodehouse

This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page three hundred and eighty, when the moujik decided to commit suicide. . . . Cuthbert was an optimist at heart, and it seemed to him that, at the rate at which the inhabitants of that interesting country were murdering one another, the supply of Russian novelists must eventually give out.