Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drew Gilpin Faust

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

Kirk Walters

He's a real vocal guy for us. He's a central part of our defense and our offense.

Alan Greenspan

History has demonstrated that implicit in any removal of power from central planners and broadening of market mechanisms -- as would occur under WTO -- is a more general spread of rights to individuals,

David Resler

It could be a drag on earnings...something that delays the revival of profits so central to the revival of the economy itself.

Yi Xianrong

It is a clear signal to the property market that the central government has the determination and the means to curb investments and housing prices.

Jon Katz

I think the new reality that's converging all this is, you have on the one end this culture of extraordinarily gifted outsiders who have patched together the Internet. And then there's the rest of the world -- business, education and politics -- that suddenly has woken up to the fact that they desperately need the Internet. It's very important. And so they become sort of central while still not being in the mainstream.

Robert H. Connelly

I think that if the tribe can demonstrate that this site is central and essential to its religion, it has a good chance of success in this case,

Kemp Ewing

I think that they've just got some talent going to Lenoir-Rhyne from this area. And to be coming from South Central really means a lot to us. I think that with the young coaches teaching these guys and what they're going to teach, you're going to see some more guys walk through these doors and sign and do some things in the future.

Stephen Colbert

I want to thank Comedy Central for picking up the show, but more importantly I want to congratulate Comedy Central for picking up the show,

Tyler Hansbrough

He left a really goofy voicemail. I can't really explain what he said. He just screamed into the phone.

Source Unknown

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

Todd Pratt

He's dirty. There isn't much to explain when you see the numbers out there and how quickly he went through the lineup.

Jerry Kelly

He seemed like a wonderful guy. It's impossible to explain something like this and what may have gone wrong for him.

Jim Parkman

I think it's more harmful than it is good. Most defendants say, 'Put me up there, and I can explain everything away.' And that doesn't happen.

Mark Boudreaux

We take these issues very seriously. We realized that we needed to do a better job of explaining how the industry works.

Donna Karan

He was really the one man who was the voice of the designer. He understood us as designers, and then he could explain us to the consumer.

Juan Guzman

He has to be questioned ... he has the right to be heard, to be listened to, so that he explains his participation or non-participation in the events.

Brian Snider

If you'd have told me that before the game I would have said you were crazy. But the turnovers pretty much explain it.

Carrie Cunningham

He said he would get a letter out to students seven weeks ago and we have not received it yet.

Abdel Atwan

I think the letter is genuine. We can't verify it because we don't know where he is, he is on the run. I have seen his signature before and it looks like it. I think it is authentic.

Chuck Wright

I think whoever wrote the letter is trying to do the right thing, and I'm thankful,

Cynthia Jeanguenat

I have done those for people who have received those letters and they find out they have a refund.

Greg Strobel

I am going to miss each one of them for special reasons. Zinck, for his maturity and the forwardness in the way he practices; Coop in terms of the way he wrestles, he's just phenomenal in the practice room; Letters with his talent; and Frick with his hard-nosed attitude.

Joanne Cortese

He'd write letters to people he'd feel should be donors.

Virginia Woolf

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

Virginia Woolf

I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.

Salman Rushdie

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

Pete Carroll

Just my game-plan folders (are saved). I have a stack of those through the years. I'm not a big memorabilia guy. My office may look cluttered, but it's not from memorabilia.

Dave Miller

He used my office to make phone calls,

David Goldberg

Lasers are very much like computers. They don't like to get bounced around. And a rental laser is in a van going from doctor's office to doctor's office every day.

Andrew Forman

We may just open our own transition office.

Charlie Leonard

He was in the office at 7 a.m. this morning.

Ryan Holmes

HootSuite never had a big launch. We were lucky to even have office space.

Richard M. Nixon

Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.

Wallace Stevens

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

William Howard Taft

What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.

Stephen Hess

Besides, he's already spoken extensively about the hurricanes.

Horace

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

Nadine Gordimer

Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him,

Nathan Frohling

We've been waiting 10 years for this moment.

Bob Williams

I think we're still waiting for that to emerge.

Mike Trapasso

I think a lot of (pollsters) are waiting to see what we do this week.

Ann Gard

I was waiting for it. At that time, telegrams were so prominent.

Dr. Tsou

I have been waiting 25 years for this time.

Steve Adams

I don't know what's in it (investigative file). I'm waiting to see.

Ibrahim Gambari

He has said what he wanted and is waiting for a response.

Richard Dawkins

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.

Tyler Hoechlin

Some things are worth the wait.