Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dirk Benedict

I wouldn't refuse stardom, recognition, acclaim. I had no axe to grind either way... I wasn't wishing I was somewhere else, somebody else, richer or more famous. I was happy and secure with who I was, what I was and where I was. I didn't have to have what they all had.

Arturo Chavez

I'll use a body spray sometimes if I have to change real quick and don't have time to take a shower. I have Axe Body Spray.

William Shakespeare

And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.

Bible Bible

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

David Ploss

All he says is that he has a one-year contract. They will probably find someone else to take over as CEO. I'm not saying Joe is a guy who couldn't do it, but generally the guy who has to wield the axe is there for a short period of time.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Sleep! I feel the need of it. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!

Albert Einstein

All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Mark Sunner

A lot of companies in the midst of Linux development have put their plans on hold because they don't want to be in a situation where they would have to owe SCO some royalties. So you can see why there's an axe to grind.

Nancy L. Johnson

This bill takes an effective axe to gas prices as we work to get the flow of oil back through the port and to restore rigs, refineries and pipelines,

Clara Mamet

I wrote two plays before I was cast on 'The Neighbors.' They actually got published, which was cool.

Laura Wasser

I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.

Keith Bishop

It casts a long shadow over the integrity of your administration of this case.

Carroll Dawson

It can be fixed two ways. You could just put a cast on it, but it takes forever. The thing most people do is have the surgery.

M. Wolfe

Here at the shop we joke that none of us would know how to cast if the wind stopped blowing.

Pankaj Mishra

I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.

Laurie Levenson

What makes the American criminal justice system different from so many others in the world is our willingness to cast some sunshine on the process, but if you can't see it, you can't really criticize it.

Bible Bible

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear (John 4:18).

Lee Warren

We've even gotten a suggestion from some women to have a 'Designing Women' reunion at The Dixie with the cast from the show coming back, talking about the experience and showing old clips. Miss Dixie loved the idea.

William Cullen Bryant

Go forth under the open sky, and listTo Nature's teachings.

Charlton Heston

Go forth and proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof.

Josh Parker

I think it's good they're having some dialogue. I wish there was a little more back and forth than the university letting us know what they're doing.

Larry White

I think it's too much. It's an inconvenience. It takes most of your money now to get back and forth to work. There's no mass transit out there to go back and forth to work you have to drive.

Keith Stanfield

Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important.

Kathryn Harrison

In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.

Marty Manfredo

If you want to play these are the kinds of things you do. Fortunately I've got a good group of kids who want to learn and are willing to put forth the effort. Hopefully it will pay off for them and the program in the long run.

Sara Gilbert

I flew back and forth and did episodes of Roseanne while I was at Yale.

Christopher Marlowe

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Come Helen, come give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.

Michael Chertoff

We're now starting to see the fruits of seeds that were harvested when we started talking about this strategy a year or so ago.

Walter Isaacson

I think this problem could be solved in 20 minutes. It's low-hanging fruit and not that expensive.

Ray Anderson

It isn't just the low-hanging fruit we go after.

French Proverb

It is only the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones at

Nick Cave

It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live.

Robin Gibb

I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.

Sathya Baba

In order to lead a fruitful and meaningful life, render service to mankind, which will take you nearer to God.

Ed DeChellis

I really wanted our players to have an opportunity to play again. I'm happy for our kids, happy for our coaches, who worked really hard, and hopefully we'll see the fruits of our labor.

William Blake

The Child's Toys and the Old Man's ReasonsAre the Fruits of the Two seasons.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Mark Edwards

I would think they will have some pretty good success at leasing the building, especially with the amenity of on-site parking.

Denny Green

I would think he's going to be out at least two preseason games. We're just happy that it's not real serious -- there's a lot of pain, obviously. And he should be as good as new.

David Jones

He laid down the gauntlet and his credibility is on the line,

Brent Rumble

I was all by myself, screaming at him. He saw me and laid (the pass) right out there.

David Kelly

In many cases, people who've been laid off in manufacturing should not look to manufacturing to replace their jobs. It's not going to happen.

John Tumazos

Their staffing levels are excessive, in my opinion. This isn't the first time they've laid people off, and I don't think it's the last. They are much, much leaner than they were 20 years ago.

Mark Jackson

It was possible ... but it was so much to go through. Here, it's a little more laid back.

Judah Friedlander

Tina Fey is really cool. She's so mellow and laid back.

Bible Bible

And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.

Judith Collins

A student, parents and teachers have all laid a complaint.

Michael Gunter

This can be a win-win situation if done correctly. At this stage, it would still be 10 years before Turkey could be admitted, so it is important to start now so that the groundwork is laid for true reform.

Dale Tallon

I'd like to see more of that. There's no accountability in some of these guys, but all of them are accountable. Everybody's trying to get to the root of this.

John Catsimatidis

I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.

Richard Dawkins

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

Richard Dawkins

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Romeo Santos

I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

Willie Dixon

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

Tullian Tchividjian

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

Sara Gruen

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

Vivian Stanshall

Fear is the root of all courage

Jaime Herrera Beutler

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

Estelle

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Tomas Transtromer

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

Adam Weishaupt

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Bill Joy

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

Capt. McDonough

It could have been worse if the tree hadn't been watered.

William McDonough

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

William McDonough

The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

Woodrow Wilson

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Samuel Rutherford

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

Willa Cather

Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

Wangari Maathai

The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.

W. S. Merwin

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

Robin McKinley

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

John Hope Franklin

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

Bible Bible

And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.

Rush Limbaugh

Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable.

Ivica Dacic

Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.

Anish Kapoor

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.