Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Vasser

I think it shows in PKV, with myself and my teammate Cristiano da Matta on the second row, it shows a lot of hard work has paid off, at least for qualifying. I do know also we need to do a lot of work for our race setups tonight. We weren't all that happy in today's afternoon session. But, you know, all credit to the guys in the shop, they did a great job.

Martin Brassil

He is going to run as the ground is yielding, soft in places, and it has been raining there this afternoon - it wasn't expected but it has arrived.

David Briggs

It has been quiet in general. We say some money go into mutual funds this week, so there was some buying this afternoon on the morning dip.

R. L. Stine

I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

Scott Turow

By lunch or early afternoon I'm pretty much done for the day as a writer.

Dick Vermeil

I'm very, very concerned. I've been trying all afternoon to get information. I haven't heard from anybody.

Clay Walker

If there are no changes in the forecast, by Friday afternoon we will mobilize,

John Hayes

I just got the folder this afternoon and briefly reviewed it,

Retief Goosen

I played terrible. I think I was over-par this morning and much the same this afternoon so I deserved to lose. I just didn't make a putt, was wayward off the tee and missed a lot of fairways.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Robertson Davies

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending

Mark Foley

We track library books better than we do sexual predators.

Ray Manchuk

We're optimistic that the new Harry Potter will bring more foot traffic to stores and perhaps become a catalyst to drive sales of other books as well.

James Hogg

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

Pierre Fermat

I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.

Matt Reeves

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Michael Steger

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

Trent Reznor

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

Tristram Stuart

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Janis Joplin

As a matter of fact, as we discovered on the train, tomorrow never happens, man. It's all the same f***ing day, man.

Wolfgang Ketterle

After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitation of Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen and helium hydride. I also succeeded in analyzing all the emission spectra of helium hydride, which I had discovered during my Ph.D.

Rig Veda

Sages discovered this link of the existent to the nonexistent, having searched in the heart with wisdom.

Vince Young

I was enjoying it. I'm at home. I'm always relaxed.

Tomas Vokoun

It is not every night you are going to have a 40-shot shutout, ... It is fun to play and I am really enjoying playing right now. It's an unbelievable feeling.

Al Dardis

He was retired, and he loved the lake. He had sold his boat, so he figured this was a way to be out on the lake and enjoying it.

Augie Garrido

He says he's enjoying watching it on TV. That doesn't mean they won't.

Bob Brown

I'm just taking it one year at a time. I'm enjoying the kids and enjoying the game.

Joe Thomas

I'm kind of enjoying being able to relax, because I know it's a real stressful time for a lot of these guys. Being able to have one more year where I don't have to worry about it is kind of nice.

Roger Williams

I'm playing better than ever, ... I'm very disciplined but I'm also very relaxed. I'm really enjoying it. I'm as good as I've ever been.

Jason Pyle

I'm just enjoying it right now. I don't even know what to say. It's like a fairy tale. I never thought this would happen.

Mario Cipollini

I'm very surprised I won but I'm also very happy. People keep telling me I'm too old to win at 38 (later this month) but I'm enjoying proving them wrong,

Lenora Fulani

he voiced his disagreement with me, and then kept right on going.

Robert Russell

He just kept me prepared. I was ready for anything to happen.

Tony Danza

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

Eddie Jordan

He's kept working on it -- and he's still got a way to go, but it's coming. It's a work in process, but he's willing to work hard.

Tom Martin

He's kept to his priorities, which is religion, God.

Ralph Edwards

His third-grade teacher said he knew every rock and rill in the Rockies. And he said, 'Yeah, and I knew every saloon, too,' ... The rating kept going up during the show as people called their friends to tune in.

S. Walker

I think that her name made the magazine stronger. That's why they kept it,

Aaron Cook

I went after them with my sinker and mixed in some sliders and changeups. I kept them off balance.

Stuart Creason

I didn't really see what happened, but some people said Stephan was fouled. Really, we should have never been in that position in the first place if we had kept our turnovers down.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up. He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up, ... He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Steve Terry

You couldn't have picked a better day for spring break.

Bill Robertson

The truth is, we have so many potholes, we could have picked just about anywhere,

Tim Camacho

The goalie played outstanding. That's the third-string goalie, and he picked it up.

Joan Rodgers

We still don't know how they picked our house, but it was very scary.

Ricky Sanchez

It's weird. I was surprised they picked me.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Hanna Salonen

I really want to go out there and take pictures of what I find interesting and not like, these set-ups of life.

Jessie Boylan

I know you from somewhere. I've got pictures of you.

Donald Rumsfeld

I indicated in my remarks that there are a lot more pictures and many investigations under way,

Julian Schnabel

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

Scott Ian

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

Willie Smith

Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.

Jake Paltrow

'La Notte' is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, who also shot '8 1/2' for Fellini.

Ken Zipovsky

We received reports from many sources that inappropriate pictures were being taken.

Wayne Dyer

I was asked on a radio interview what my mission is, and I immediately blurted out, "God realization."

Randy Jackson

You were right where you were supposed to be, singing the right song that could be on the radio right now.

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

Juan Williams

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

Sean Hannity

When I started in radio, I worked for free. I lived at the radio station. Then I worked for very little money.

Shelby Lynne

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

Marc Maron

I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.

Thomas A. Edison

The radio craze will die out in time.

Linda Ellerbee

The new national campfire - radio.

Marcel Proust

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Nikki Giovanni

I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

Benjamin Franklin

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings and help them build reserves for a rainy day.

Mark Ruffalo

You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

William Wilberforce

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.

Vance Havner

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

Sara Paretsky

And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.

Sara Paretsky

When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.

Rodney Dangerfield

I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push.

Rose Wilder Lane

Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater proprietyand stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.

Toots Thielemans

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

Wendell Berry

The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of sabbaths.

Zoe Kravitz

I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.