Famous Quotes & Sayings

Teju Cole

I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is someone out there embittered enough to carry it out.

Joe Evans

I think it's awful that because of a personal conflict, Mr. Spinks thinks it's necessary to do something that may have the effect of disrupting the whole festival and the whole county loses.

David Kennedy

It could be false, but an awful lot of it gels. Unless the guy's been much more surreptitious than these guys usually are, it's probable that law enforcement is on his trail.

Joseph J. Lhota

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

Dave Wannstedt

I think what you saw out there today is really no different than what you saw in the preseason. He breaks an awful lot of tackles and the guy has an awful lot of desire.

Tony Judt

I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

Brian Coulton

There are no numbers, there are very few deadlines and not an awful lot of ownership of these plans, and so it is a disappointment.

Andrew Douglas

There is an awful lot of change being foreseen and implemented in a very short period of time, which is causing some issues for the people who have to make the changes.

Andrew Marr

There is a market for pictures like this. Diana sold an awful lot of newspapers one way or another. But look at the result. We all have to think again.

Mike Lonergan

I've got to watch the film. I'm still not sure what happened. It just hit me like a ton of bricks throwing the game away.

Linda Hogan

We had these heavy chunks of concrete and bricks falling on us. Timbers and what-have-you, and my wife was, unfortunately, struck with flying debris,

Eminem

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Anselm Kiefer

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

David McCallum

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

Colin Williams

When you do landscaping, it's really expensive to buy old bricks like this.

Jimmy Tillette

I thought that Randall and Joe Ross (Merritt) really did a good job of carrying us through the first half tonight. Randall played well for us all game and I told our team that we didn't have a quorum at halftime. We only had two of the five players show up in the first half.

Ian Macdonald

Investigations revealed the vessel was carrying 143 tonnes of Patagonian toothfish,

Bartolo Colon

I pitched from the heart. I felt I was carrying the whole country on my shoulders and that I couldn't let my people down.

Grady Sizemore

Cliff was great, and really our whole starting staff has been great. They've done a great job of carrying us all year. It seems like they keep us in every game.

Mike DuBose

I'm walking down three flights of stairs carrying furniture, trying to talk on the phone about the job. I've never been involved in one that was done exactly that way.

M. C. Gainey

I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late '70s they took one look at me and said, 'Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun,' and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I'm angry and dangerous, and in fact, I'm loveable and kind.

Charles McGee

I'm proud they're in a unit carrying our name. That's very meaningful from the heritage point of view.

Robert Horry

I had never seen him so quick before. He took off one time, and I was like, 'Gosh.' He's been carrying us for a long time down the stretch here, but he was amazing.

Kris Clark

I guess his nature is just trickling down to us that this game is just as big as the Vanderbilt game or the Troy game. Everything starts at the top and flows on down, I guess, and that's how we're carrying ourselves.

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

Hwang Suk

I take full responsibility for the papers and offer you my apology.

Todd Christensen

He said he woke up and the room was full of smoke.

Bill Durham

He said he had listened to some clips of my song and, if I wanted to get airplay, to send him a full CD.

Martin O'Malley

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

Dave Annable

Hollywood is full of beautiful people - but who knows how many are beautiful inside?

Randy Pfitzer

I thought he did well. He's a sophomore, and he does a good job at what he does. He has more potential, I would like to see him realize his full potential. I would have like to have seen him move on.

Dan Klores

I thought getting into steroids wouldn't work. I thought hard about the Sosa images in the end. If I got into it, it would have been in full force. I didn't skirt anything.

Rhonda Jefferson

I think (the break) had something to do with us starting off flat. We did have practices during the week off, but Monday was the first full practice because we had the whole team there.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Mitchel McLaughlin

John Hume has, I think, demonstrated great sensitivity and judgment throughout this peace process. And I think it's hard to imagine a more inappropriate moment to make that suggestion.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

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.

George Jennings

It is a little unsettling to be the first wave. It's going to be a rough deal. Nobody wants to go on a strike on Christmas.

Rena McCullough

We're pretty much the redheaded stepchild around here. Nobody respects us." ()

Ron Fussell

When he's on, there's nobody who can touch him.

John Salmon

When he's in a groove, he's in a groove. Can't nobody stop him, can't nobody stop him.

Mick Koczersut

I thought one run would win it - especially at that time, because nobody had done a whole lot of anything.

Bob Harrington

Later, I don't know when, they pushed in the walls and made it a pond. Nobody has a record of why.

Kelly Price

There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New York, too thug or too whatever! Nobody ultimately had the say over whether or not I was going to make it.

George Jones

I don't know why nobody thought of it earlier.

Michael Hearst

We can keep them from stinging people. But because nobody else is doing it around us, eradication is probably not likely.

Mike Gold

I've been pleasantly surprised by the credibility, seriousness, and capabilities shown by these entities.

Tyler Walker

(Friday) has been a pleasant day all around.

Cassandra Clare

It won't be pleasant." "Nothing ever is.

Al Groh

He's probably come on a little fast, ... That probably was the pleasant surprise of it.

Kofi Annan

Mr. Volcker has said that 'the findings do not make for pleasant reading,' and I agree.

Howard Fineman

I think in the end, we were fair. He was riding a wave that overtook him. I don't think that was our fault.

Laura Melisi

He couldn't get her out of his life. She wouldn't leave. She wanted everything, and he didn't know how to get rid of her because of her threats.

Nicole Scherzinger

We're on a wave, ... And we're going to ride it as long as we can.

Patrick Surtain

We told him to get out, but he wanted to ride it out. He was a little stubborn,

Walter Savage Landor

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.

Kevin Mahaney

If you're going to ride a bike, the ultimate ride is the Tour,

Joey Graham

I'm not going to be nervous, it's just like riding a bike,

Michael Winter

The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'

Tracy Anderson

The trick this year is the '1080'. If you can't do that you won't get on the podium. Riders are airing much better.