Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madhur Bhandarkar

Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

Sean Duffy

The other team is trying to set up a straw man with Tim, but I doubt anyone here is going to be running around talking about Dr. Dobson, and his name ID is higher. I'm hoping we can talk about the issues and not have this dueling.

Al Goldman

The performance of the major stock averages didn't make anyone happy in 2005. But when you consider what the markets had to contend with, treading water is not so bad.

Susan Levy

We appreciate anyone coming forward to helping us get my daughter home.

Chris Donlay

We applaud law enforcement for bringing this man to justice. We think this case will send a strong message that we will pursue anyone who tries to do something like this.

Doug Scott

We've accumulated more than 40 awards for F-150 over the past two years. We simply know truck customers better than anyone else.

David Sowerby

We started the year at $42-a-barrel oil - that was a concern, but we could get past it. When we crossed $60, I don't think anyone could question what $60 is going to do to retail sales.

Keith Harrington

West Rutland's defense is excellent. I thought we played pretty well in the second half but our shots just weren't falling. They did a better job than anyone has on Marcy.

John Hoch

We struggled early in the year, there's no doubt about it. But we've been as hot as anyone in the tournament. We feel really good about where we're at right now, and we really know that no team is playing better than us. When you're playing really confident, that's a big weapon to have.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

Caren Scoropanos

We always have Latin teachers calling about it, but we can't draw any conclusions.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

David Rosenberg

The only reason I'm calling for a rate hike is because that's what they told us they are going to do.

Jack Germond

Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.

Jaret Wright

We're in a race to get to the playoffs, so I'll do everything I can to get back out there, ... There's no calling in sick now. You've got to get out there.

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

Carl Hiaasen

and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.

Jeremy Jackson

We've ultimately come to the conclusion with the help of Ennis Knupp, is that the factors that they used were incomplete and that the numbers were somewhat inflated,

Cyrus Vance

U.S. Policy toward the establishment of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories is unequivocal and has long been a matter of public record. We consider it to be contrary to international law and an impediment to the successful conclusion of the Middle East peace process.

Source Unknown

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Hans Blix

This does not necessarily mean that such items could not exist. They might. There remain a long list of items unaccounted for, ... But it is not justified to jump to the conclusion that something exists just because it was unaccounted for.

Ann Donahue

This exclusive Web scene between Ryan Wolfe and Erica Sikes contains a dramatic revelation about someone in our lab -- a revelation that threatens to tear the team apart, and will lead to a shocking conclusion at the end of our season,

Marilyn Tavenner

This initial experience has not lived up to our expectations... and it is not acceptable. While these problems will require a lot of hard work, the bottom-line conclusion is this HealthCare.gov site is fixable.

Murli Deora

There was no conclusion in the last meeting. We will meet Finance Minister next week or so.

Nick Kounis

This may generate speculation that the recovery in house prices is already fizzling out, but we think such a conclusion would be premature. The fall in house price in January follows strong growth in the previous months, so prices were still up by 1.9% three months-on-three months in January.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Alan Watts

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

Chinua Achebe

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

Will Blalock

We're not going to settle for jump shots because they say they are going to stop it. They still have to stop it. We're going to run our offense.

Charles M. Schulz

I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.

Bill Walton

If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?

Catherine Bell

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff

Bill Russell

A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.

Lenny Jefferson

We're ready to play when we come up from the locker room. We jump on teams and sustain it.

Carl Crawford

It's just one of of those things you have to program yourself to not worry about. It's no reason to jump on our starting pitchers. We just have to go out and score more runs.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Al Jarreau

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

Chris Colfer

I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.

Chief Seattle

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

David Wain

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

David Hoffman

Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

David Hockney

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

David Hume

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

David Brock

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

Candice Wiggins

It's all about going out and being as competitive as you can and wanting to win.

Pat Riley

I've been wanting him for a long time. Now that I've got him, I can't take him off the court.

Al Gooden

You never get used to it. It is a traditional thing wanting to get down here.

Brad Meltzer

The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?

Bobby Womack

Leave them wanting more and you know theyll call you back.

Jarome Iginla

We're about wanting to be in your face. We want to be aggressive. That's how we play this game.

Viggo Mortensen

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

Michael Taylor

I'm always wanting to score. I want to win the game.

Ron Gardenhire

I can't see Rad not wanting to go out there.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Eden Sher

I will have a largely happier week if I get to do a physical stunt.

Bobby Cannavale

The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations.

John Powell

Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Chris Dickson

They know as of a week ago what we've done.

Lori White

They thought in two weeks it would be in the back of the closet.

Terrence Roberts

It really wasn't a surprise. He's been doing it all week long.

David Sedaris

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.