Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Wilson

The breach in the 17th Street canal is about 200 feet (60 meters) wide,

Bob Benjamin

This is not a new levee breach up there. It's just that the old one hasn't been repaired.

Michael Brown

I can tell you everyone involved in that videotape and in my conversations with the president and with the chief of staff, our concern was always the breach of the levees.

Roger Magnuson

The general rubric is breach of fiduciary duty, but I think there's been a breach of a whole variety of promises.

William Scranton

All of the information that we were getting up to that time from the NRC people, from our people who knew something about nuclear power, was that the breach of the core was not a likelihood to happen.

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Robert Lundgren

An old friend of his, Dan Stone, came to us with the idea. He talked to Coach Knight, and from Day 1 he was interested in the concept, and then I talked to ESPN about it.

Joan Rivers

And then my dog came and sat in my lap. I knew I had to hang in there for Spike.

Scot Meeker

The strike zone suddenly shrunk. We battled through it and came back to trail 6-4 but could get no closer.

Robert Goodman

The story of Sept. 11 is the tremendous resilience of the U.S. economy. We took a shot, a real shot, and came back. It shows you the power of this system.

Mary Kaye

The subject never came up, ... Maybe I thought talking about it would jinx the campaign. We were so busy. We had just moved into a wonderful house. Moving to the mansion didn't occur to us.

John Le

The spy who came in from the cold.

Tim Floyd

The shot chart is the story of the game, where their shots came from versus where our shots came from.

Cory Cook

The team overall was ready to play, even after the long trip. It didn't seem to phase them when it came to game time, they still played their hardest.

Brad Goreski

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.

Dean Koontz

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

Bob Dylan

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Diane Keaton

...I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.

Edgar Allan Poe

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

Andy Rooney

No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.

Rita Dove

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

Ransom Riggs

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

Thomas Jefferson

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent to whatever they may choose to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs.

Elliott Abrams

The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.

Henry Link

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

Youssef Ibrahim

They're learning they have many enemies over there.

Don Piatt

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

George Foreman

My friends know that they're my friends - even my enemies know that they're my friends.

Henry IV

I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.

Jules Verne

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

Gloria Steinem

One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.

Marcus Garvey

The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Scott Owens

When I heard this morning, I said 'What?

Ian Hunter

When I heard him, I thought, if he can do that and get away with it, I can do it too. (on Sonny Bono)

Steve Clark

To be honest, I never even thought of it or heard of it.

Kyle Lowry

You heard about it all the time. It was always sold out in here so I couldn't get tickets.

Jan Egeland

We have not heard of any tsunami hitting anywhere.

Kary Moss

We haven't heard of jails taping what should be confidential conversations. That's wrong.

Wilma Bennett

She had a big jolly laugh. If you were in a room with a lot of people and you heard her laugh it made you feel better. It was that kind of laugh.

Penn Jillette

I have never heard her say 'hell' or 'damn,' ... She's not coming.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Dan Kusnetzky

This type of movement is likely to see a lot of momentum. No one wants to be left out of a major trend like this.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

Brendan Taman

We've never been in this situation before where there's a month left in the season and you're living on a mathematical wing and a prayer.

Ray Edwards

My grandmother works nights at Wal-Mart. I want to put a stop to that. That's why I left school early.

Charles Adams

If an S and an I and an O and a U - With an X at the end spell Su; And an E and a Y and an E spell I, - Pray what is a speller to do? Then, if also an S and an I and a G - And an HED spell side, There's nothing much left for a speller to do, But to g

George Reyes

Most of what is left is just organic growth.

Curtis Haggins

Meacham could have won it with 1.7 seconds left on the clock. That would have been something.

Frank Maguire

The take-away from the meeting is we're on the right track,

Sue Parks

Right now we just want to get a meet under our belts. This will give us some output upon what we need to work on, as well as realize where we are at this point of the season.

Michael Vaughan

This is so special to come to the palace, meeting the queen here and being here with all the rest of the boys.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

Jennifer Baker

The reason she stopped by the congressman's office was because I interned there and she would come to meet me for lunch.

David Calhoun

We had the same reaction -- Is this feasible? But realize that whatever we do, it's not going to meet everyone's problems.

Michael Chertoff

Those who got out are fine, ... Meet the Press.

Billy Joel

I don't think of myself as a singer. The only reason I ever got onstage was to meet girls.

Andrew Papamichael

For the rookies, I just wanted them to get the feel for what a track meet is like, but Rebecca ran a nice race and picked up some points for the team, which should be encouraging for the future.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Clarice Lispector

Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Publilius Syrus

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Dorothea Lange

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

Adolf Hitler

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Black Kettle

I have not come here with a little wolf bark, but have come to talk plain with you.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Rich Miller

is suspended the rest of this season and the start of next.

Susan McWhorter

We tried to use more subs and rest our sick players.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

Barry Bonds

Right now, I'm just day-to-day, trying to get through the rest of the season,

Bible Bible

But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

Christopher Shays

More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders,

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Assadullah Khalid

We have sent a team to investigate the matter. If what residents say is true, then the culprits will be punished.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Logan Mankins

You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.

Thomas Davis

Duke, every time I read about you, you're getting in trouble.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Cameron Diaz

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Sylvester Stallone

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

Ratan Tata

If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together

Simon Sinek

No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.

Tom Waits

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together.

Steve Buyer

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.

Ron Paul

The freedom message brings us together, it doesn't divide us.