Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hearst

I don't have the umbilical cord Pop had with each paper.

George Tenet

I am greatly saddened by the death of Cord Meyer, a passionate defender of freedom around the world,

David Brown

If you have a spinal cord injury you don't want to wait four hours,

Bill Frist

If your daughter has diabetes, if your father has Parkinson's, if your sister has a spinal cord injury, ... your views will be swayed more powerfully than you can imagine by the hope that a cure will be found in those magnificent cells, recently discovered, that today originate only in an embryo.

Margo Dewkett

I know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem, an inconvenience is losing a job. A problem is a spinal cord injury.

Douglas Coupland

I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away.

Billy Bush

Thirty-nine million people watched last night. It's the most watched episode ever in Idol's history. Here we are in season five. How do you explain it striking a cord now?

Pat Wood

They're just too different. You can't say throw me a cord so we can stay on,

Mekhi Phifer

With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.

Thomas Love Peacock

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

Greg Evans

Hard-work is the cure for everything except disease

Matthew Green

To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen, / Some recommend the bowling-green; / Some, hilly walks; all, exercise; / Fling but a stone, the giant dies. / Laugh and be well.

Larry King

I am going to get out of this chair, throw it away and walk, ... We are on the threshold of a cure -- maybe in five, seven, eight, ten years.

Guru Singh

I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are the virtues of the Guru, who has eradicated evil, and instructed me in virtue.

Ameen Rihani

In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.

Rick Berman

If obesity is a disease, it is the only one that I am familiar with that you can cure by taking long walks and keeping your mouth shut,

Daniel Kraft

The integration of exponentially growing technologies is beginning to empower the patient, enable the doctor, enhance wellness and begin to cure the well before they get sick.

Latin Proverb

The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is

S. Walker

I would see her and her daughters on the front porch and in the back yard. I was shocked. I was just talking to her. We had gone to the Hometown Flea Market and when we got back everyone was saying your neighbor's dead. It was like being hit by a hammer.

Michio Kaku

I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric.

John Milton

God so commanded, and left that command/ Sole daughter of his voice; the rest we live / Law to ourselves, our reason is our law.

Jim Bollman

What do I remember the very most? Trying to find my wife and daughters in the melee on the field after the game, and how great it was when I did find them.

Charles Dickens

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

Katie Gearlds

It is like a family atmosphere. You have your mom, you have your dad. It does trickle down to all of us because we are like their daughters in some little way.

Danny Aiello

Like most people, I would sing in the privacy of my home. I'd also sing for my daughters or at a guest at somebody's function. I loved doing it.

Irv Slosberg

I will always remember the day I got old. It was the day my daughter died.

Gladys Pozza

I went to three other parishes, but I really felt comfortable at St. Lawrence. I went to one liturgy and I felt that's where I belonged. My daughter was little at the time and she also felt at home there. There was so much warmth and comfort. It was a very welcoming community.

Bruce Larner

Joe's a good player, but he's only a sophomore. His father used to teach at Okemos, so I had a feeling he'd have a big game for us.

Randy Price

He was a father figure to all of us.

John Cornyn

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

Keith Gilbertson

He comes from lineage of tough people. His grandfather was a great football player at Idaho. His father was a great player at Boise State. He comes by this naturally. He's the next generation of tough guys.

Galeazzo Ciano

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Steve Wallace

Her father managed the officers' mess and Gloria was the cashier.

Yiddish Proverb

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble

Michael Brown

His whole life was his family. It's a tragic situation for everyone involved. These two young children, they have no mother, no father and no grandma.

Brent Nelson

Whatever Heavenly Father wants us to learn from this, we'll do it and we'll do it with a smile on our faces.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Sakie Yokota

I survived this hardship for 20 years until I found out she had been abducted by North Korea.

Al Borges

He did a wonderful job considering he found out less than an hour before the game. We tried to keep it as low maintenance as we could.

Randy Monroe

He can score, and he found ways to score tonight.

Joanne Rowling

>in Divintation< Lavender: >squealing< Oooo! Professor look! I found an unknown planet! Professor Trelawny: That is Uranus my dear. Ron: Can I have a look at Ur anus too Lavender?

Mohamed ElBaradei

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

Kathryn Minshew

Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job.

Louie Yang

What we found was that these plants are actually taking up nitrogen that comes from cicadas.

Jane Harman

What we found was some successes, lots of good people, but real gaps in performance,

Neal Hersh

Kim is respectful of what the judge did and she's pleased with today. We're hopeful this will be the end of it.

Craig Biggio

Just seeing it in spring training was something that was pretty special. We wanted the winning one, and hopefully we can turn that around and maybe get one.

Dana Quigley

I taught her everything she knows, ... She played with me last year, and look what's happened. I hope I have the same impact on Tim as I did Paula.

Felipe Alou

He is the only pitcher I went (behind the cage) to see. I hope he didn't mind that.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Thomas Perry

I do hope to bring Jane Whitefield back before too long.

Terrence Howard

And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to the brain.

Sonya Hartnett

I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.

James Augustine

We are going to need a little help. We need Ohio State to lose but I hope (we can repeat). I need another ring.

Ian Mckellen

There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.

Joaquin Phoenix

I was an actor because the work was rewarding. I never imagined that it would all lead to this moment.

Russell Simmons

Whatever they can imagine for themselves they can accomplish.

John Schuerholz

I think it's obvious. If he doesn't do what he's doing for us, I can only imagine where we'd be. I can't imagine a player on a winning team being more valuable to his team than he's been.

William Rhodes

I'd imagine over time you'll see more moves,

Al Franken

I don't know why they did it and I don't know where the money went. I don't know if it was used for operations, which I imagine it was. I think he was robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Marlon Anderson

I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a wreck.

Vaclav Havel

I can imagine this is something that will last quite a while,

E. Helm

I can imagine no better qualified person to serve as the first U.S. secretary of state in the 21st century,

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Jayme Braasch

I'd do about anything for her, she is pretty much the sister I have never had.

Rose Schneiderman

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

Richard Gere

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Willa Ford

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

William Blake

England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

Ryan Phillippe

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

Washington Irving

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

William Joyce

Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

William C. Bryant

Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?

Matthew McGrory

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

James Park

Today is a very directionless market, ... It is really quiet. There's not much going on.

Donald Tusk

Today I must tell myself I did not make it.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Rachel Kyono

I think that I wouldn't be where I am today without going through the program.

Graeme Smith

He had a re-scan today and it doesn't look good. It would pretty much look like he's going home.

Richard Holloway

The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right to a hearing by the value of what they say, and not by virtue of who is saying it. Today, authority has to earn respect by the intrinsic value of what it says, not by the force of its imposition.

Ruben Hinojosa

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

Romola Garai

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Tyler Oakley

I remember having 100 views on a video and being like, "I don't have a hundred friends." So that was a moment.

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.