Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Patrick Shanley

I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.

Mary Gauthier

I was adopted when I was about a year old. My adopted parents tried, but their marriage was doomed. Music saved my life. I couldn't relate to things in Baton Rouge, but I found songs that spoke to me.

Ed White

I think what happened is we all adopted each other.

Richard Thompson

Intelligent design is now being adopted by a number of credible scientists. If the Dover school district wins this case, you're going to see intelligent design popping up on school board agendas all over the country.

Ann Wilson

I'm a single mum and my daughter came from a really potentially tragic situation. If I had not adopted her she was kind of like a lost lamb.

Dave Walker

I'm pleased to receive this award, ... I have been a constant with this organization for many years now, but we wouldn't be here today if I wasn't surrounded by many other talented people along the way. I'm extremely proud of the Burlington community's dedication to professional baseball as evidence by the fact the Bees have survived and now prospered as the smallest full-season market in the Minor Leagues. I'm also pleased with the response we've gotten on a regional basis from the baseball fans all over Southeast Iowa and Western Illinois that have adopted the Bees as their hometown team.

Ed Smith

I never heard people speak about segregation as some great cross that they were bearing. They just went on about their lives. Some of them had good contacts with white people that they were serving in someone's home. Sometimes those white families almost effectively adopted you.

Steve Johnson

In legislation that became effective in 2005, Congress adopted a uniform definition for most people. It won't change what they can take, but it'll make it easier for them to understand.

Pat Toomey

The F.E.C.'s claims and legal theories are a bizarre interpretation of the club's mission, the Constitution, the laws adopted by Congress and their own regulations,

Mary Pierce

If all goes well and my body reacts well, and I feel I have a good high level to compete amongst the best then I'll come back and play.

Jack Peter

We look forward to learning the results of this year's class so we can begin the process of their induction and most importantly, begin preparing to preserve their legacies amongst the game's greatest players and contributors.

Christa B. Allen

I'm dying to go to India... because the culture seems so vastly different from what I'm used to in the States. I would love to do some yoga there. And be amongst people who are so different than myself. There's so much you can learn from people who grew up in a different environment.

Heather Dougherty

E-commerce is gaining ground amongst consumers during the holiday season due to its convenience, product selection and lower prices.

George Foster

It takes a lot of communication and talking amongst the different positions, but if you can communicate, you'll be OK.

Chris Pool

When you stick out amongst 500 kids in the Alamo Dome, you're doing something right. You could see why North Carolina offered a scholarship early.

John Barry

We are all the same page, striving for the same goal. There is great team unity amongst this bunch.

William Cowper

A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge: / He says but little, and that little said / Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. / His wit invites you by his looks to come, / But when you knock, it never is at home.

Mark Thompson

Ronnie Barker will be numbered amongst a select band of comedy greats who shaped British comedy in the 20th century.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Pat Brisson

Jack thought long and hard about it. It was very flattering for him that Carolina was so interested but Jack just feels his development is best served by staying another year at school. It was a tough decision but Jack feels good about it.

Chris DiMarco

Jack's the best, the best of all time, and to make that putt for him is what it's all about, ... We wanted to get a win for him so much. Last night, we had a great, emotional dinner. Everybody got up and talked, and I think everybody said they wanted to go out and win this for Jack. And to do that is unbelievable.

John Bogle

Jack Brennan is the best person I could possibly have found,

Ed Oakley

I would say it's in his best interest, at this stage of the game.

DeMario Williams

I would say this was my best game. I've had better games playing 'D' than I did tonight. This was one of my best shooting games. But as a team I don't think we played defense as hard as we should have.

Sean Coffey

Our clients were quite impressed with the vision of Nortel's new management and the plans for the future.

Gerald Shargel

The jurors are crying, our clients are crying and the lawyers are trying to keep from crying.

Arthur Conan

And now, Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.

Jim Barksdale

The fourth quarter was a pivotal one for Netscape, as we underscored our focus on the enterprise market with the introduction of our next-generation client and server software suites.

Robert Hartwig

The clock is ticking loudly. Insurers are about to enter negotiations with commercial clients to renew their policies for 2006.

Paul Mills

This is normal with McKenzie Scott clients to see such a compensation package.

Bill Singer

The next time one of my clients gets named in a regulatory complaint, the resolution should be that the penny-stock company should spend millions on furniture and liquor for the company, and we'll settle the case,

Bonnie Poindexter

That helps our clients actually get more butts in seats.

Jeff Hanson

All the construction commodities - lumber, copper, aluminum - everything is going to be impacted by the rebuilding of the Gulf, ... It's something we're watching very, very closely. We've got a lot of clients who could be impacted by this.

Stieg Larsson

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

J. Horton

He's a big-time point guard. You don't have enough text in your newspaper to describe how good he is.

Don Morrow

I think you could probably describe our play for the whole season as skittish; that's the word I've been using. We have moments of doing spectacular things, and then we have moments where we turn around and shoot ourselves in the foot pretty good. We're trying, I swear, to get over that.

Stephen Breyer

I have to, of course, describe the views of those who disagree with my approach.

Bow Wow

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here.

Bob Sanders

I guess 'harassing' is a good way to describe us.

Wes Jr

I'm emotionless right now. It's hard to describe how I'm feeling.

Keanu Reeves

I liked his richness of feeling. I don't know how else to describe it. No matter what he was doing, he felt it. He just seemed so open.

Aaron Eckhart

the highest regard you can receive. That photo can describe an entire life, just an honor, as well as a fun moment.

Alan McCoy

This is not chest-thumping. This is not done to intimidate. It is about serving our customers." ()

Clarence Fountain

And when you are serving the Lord, you go where he takes you without fear.

Bob Woods

We always want to work on our serving and serve-receiving.

Susan Strasberg

There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.

James Blake

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

Dana Rohrabacher

I'm aghast at what American corporations have done in terms of trading American technology.

Sepp Blatter

These are not 'minor concessions' as you term them.

Tim Henman

It was much better today, in terms of the result,

Joshua Harris

Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.