Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Vavala

It was an excellent ,thought-provoking exercise. I think we all learned a great deal and we have an awful lot to learn.

Ellen Burstyn

It was about this school teacher who went to Jerusalem and started bleeding from the palms. It just didn't make an awful lot of sense to me.

Keeley Hawes

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.

Larry Nelson

We've spent an awful lot of money, but we decided that the number one need was interoperability,

Bill Cheney

Even though it's improving, there's still an awful lot of people who dropped out of work force and are waiting to be pulled back in.

Terry Cornett

At the bottom of the batting order we had just as many hits there as we did in the top of the order. So that's a delight to have that happen. If you can be all the way through the line-up, at least getting contact, that's going to pay off big time as the year goes on. Everyone is going to get more sure of themselves. If you get seven and nine hitting that makes it awful tough. We had some good pokes today.

Stuart Pearce

We think it was a wise investment. He's still got an awful lot to learn but he was a real handful for them.

Kevin Harberts

We just kind of stumbled into it. We made a couple of things, and people liked them. And they're willing to pay an awful lot of money for some of the stuff, so we thinking maybe we can make more money at that!

Dan Montgomery

Is there apathy? At times, maybe. I think an awful lot of it comes down to priority of time, ... We're not talking about parents who don't care but parents who make a living so kids can have basic needs.

Mark Gulseth

Offensively, we've been struggling early in the year. We didn't have a lot of guys on base. When we do get hits, we don't have guys on base. We made a lot of mistakes and there were plays we should have made. We can't blame it on the weather. They made all the plays and we didn't.

Paul Gascoigne

And that way, I don't blame other people. I'm the one that has to keep off the drink. I'm taking responsibility for my life on everything.

Scot McCloughan

The thing that stands out the most is a big-time playmaker on offense. Brandon (Lloyd) has made some big plays, and he has the potential to be a good receiver, but you don't have the guy who's the go-to guy on third down and he's going to make the play. That's the one thing that stands out the most. There are good football players here, but the depth wasn't as much as you'd like. There was a reason they had the record that they had. You don't blame all that on the coaching." ()

Mary Jordan

Sometimes things happen around here and you know, we get blamed for it.

Bill Watterson

The whole pleasure for me is having the opportunity to do a comic strip for a living, and now that I've finally got that I'm not going to give it away. . . . Any time somebody else has their hand in the ink it's changing the product, and I enjoy the responsibility for this product. I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.

Richard Binzel

The winds picked up sooner than expected. Blame the meteorologists.

Ellis Hobbs

The way I see it is, each man has to be accountable for himself. But to sit here and blame everything on him, from an outside perspective, that's wrong. Because it's never one man out there. It's an 11-man game.

Clifford Robinson

That's not my style to blame the officiating, but the game was obviously called a different way than it was in New Jersey. Now it's up to us to make the adjustments.

John Hurt

You've got to shout to make yourself heard in this business. It's unfortunate, but true-if you don't spell everything out in your contract, you've got only yourself to blame for the treatment you get. Otherwise, whether it's having a caravan-a dressing-room trailer-on the set each day, or whatever it is, you don't get it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Marc Schwager

This is our first time out. This is much more like Kitty Hawk than Kennedy.

Shawn Michaels

It's like Hawk used to say, What a Rush!

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Ted Eubanks

People travel for the experience. They want to try on your lives.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Philip Hoffman

People thought they had me pegged because of the way I am, because of the way I talk, ... And they're always wrong.

Doug Myers

People think we're taking something away, but they've never been listed.

Worsie Gregory

People think we have nothing to offer. They'll be amazed.

Angela Leisure

People think they know him, but they don't. I see him only as my child.

Waris Ahluwalia

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

Kay Bell

People think they have even more time, and they're putting it off even further.

Joe Torre

Randy was great, we just didn't give him anything to work with.

Brad Fairchild

Roy ran real well. Running that time with a 20-minute rest after the 400 is pretty impressive.

Dr. Seuss

Sam Ran Over Sand or Sand Ran Over Sam,

Chris Davis

I showed him how to do it, how to work in TV. There's a formula. Richard ran with it.

Andrew Benson

We ran water through it once to see if it worked and then shut it off. It hasn't run since. We're actually going to go about trying to put it on eBay.

Carmelo Anthony

We ran pretty well (Monday night). I don't think we ran as well as we wanted to. But we ran pretty well.

Roger Allen

We ran out of regular unleaded today (Monday). I will not be able to get another truck until Tuesday morning, but we still have the super unleaded gasoline.

Roger Allen

We ran out of regular unleaded today (Monday), ... I will not be able to get another truck until Tuesday morning, but we still have the super unleaded gasoline.

Ricky Ledee

Everything was different, and the way they ran the team was totally different.

Carson Kressley

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

Luke Bodensteiner

We start from scratch - that's good. They made the right call.

Robert Irwin

If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit for 24 hours, then I scratch myself.

Terry Eagleton

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

Franklin P. Jones

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Bill Myers

We used a telephone and a scratch pad.

Scott Podsednik

There are a lot of things that went right for us this year. We start from scratch now.

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

George Andrews

We tried to get foam on it as soon as we could. Any spark and that whole tanker could have blown,

Roy Halladay

We tried to do everything we could to get back as soon as possible,

George R. R. Martin

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Cindy Sheehan

We have to stop it as soon as possible.

George Herbert

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Ella Wilcox

Do you wish the world were better?Let me tell you what to do.Set a watch upon your actions,Keep them always straight and true.

Anne Bishop

I'm not sure I could write a straight urban fantasy any more than I could write a straight contemporary story. I would end up being intimidated by all the small details.

Mike Connors

It went pretty much straight into the ground.