Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Waters

Had partition not occurred, or had it proved less controversial and problematic, there would be no sense of discomfort now about remembering the beginnings of independent Ireland.

Jay Grymes

Parts of the state have been suffering for quite some time. In the southern third of Louisiana, the dry spell goes back to the beginnings of 2005, and even sections of northern Louisiana have been dealing with dry weather over the past 12 to 15 months.

Ozan Akcin

Investors are edgy and nervous. That tends to mark the beginnings of rotation.

John Dryden

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

John Krasinski

I had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun.

Norman Foster

In Britain the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable.

Ben Okri

The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one.

Ben Smith

You could probably tell from the early beginnings maybe a tenseness and the pressure that was on the home team. We never have that luxury.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The majority of men are bundles of beginnings

Ken Ham

Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Matt Carle

I was joking with Chris and Brian up there, how all three of us were just glad this thing was coming to an end after all the hype in the last three months. Now they're both competing for a national championship tomorrow (today).

Julie Martin

Kingma is just a phenomenal player, both offensively and defensively. She really got into Dunbar in the second half and was a great leader for them.

Don Williams

Kim woke up to hearing some people screaming. We smelled some smoke and we both walked out on the balcony and saw these embers flying by.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Kevin is a big guard who can defend both positions on the perimeter, ... We liked the effort he put forth during summer league play and wanted to take a second look at him.

Ed Steadham

Keystone was a very important part of our business. We build helicopters, they did the completion that finished our helicopters. We knew the company and were impressed with the company. The marriage has enhanced the both of us.

Bob Cortelyou

Kiev will be the latest destination in Delta's expansion into the key business and leisure markets of Eastern Europe. Delta will be the only U.S. carrier to serve Kiev, and business travelers on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as friends and family of Ukrainian heritage in the United States, will look forward to this new non-stop service between New York-JFK and Kiev.

Peter Warrick

Kit and I talked about this a long time ago. He said it would be a great system for the both of us. I never really thought it would happen. Then, once I got here (for a visit), Kit told me about the coach and how he is such a great guy. Here I am.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

We will submit this motion (to dissolve parliament) shortly so that elections could take place before the Pope's visit to Poland (on May 25-28).

Jeffrey Benjamin

Making promises you can't or won't keep is an effective way to dissolve relationships.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Felix Rodriguez

He was awesome. He is one of the greatest pitchers, ... and I'm happy for the way he performed tonight.

Lance Williams

He knew he was better than Mark McGwire. It offended him when people said Mark McGwire might be the greatest player who ever lived.

Dontrelle Willis

He's already got it down to where he's telling guys when they're pitching. That's the greatest honor for any individual, to represent their country.

Ken Dunham

Historically, risk is much higher with Windows operating systems than Unix/Linux. How can I say that, look at all the major attacks. Which ones had the greatest likelihood and impact for 2005? Windows hands down.

Donald Every

I think it's his greatest accomplishment, one that has the potential for the longest-term impact.

David Osborne

I think the greatest security measure is pre-pay, period,

Jim Mandich

I think it's the greatest rivalry of them all,

Richard Childress

I think some of NASCAR's greatest inspectors are the other race teams.

Richard P. Feynman

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.

Vincent Van Gogh

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Terence McKenna

Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.

Lewis Thomas

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

Kenneth Branagh

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

Don Crawford

It is shocking, mysterious and devastating and I don't understand it!

Bill Nye

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

Gail Godwin

...Some things...arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Tim Scanlan

It really resonates with our fans. They can't see it enough.

Magic Johnson

When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Will Gluck

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.

Sarah Addison Allen

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.