Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

John Ryding

There's no doubt there's political pressure on the Fed to do nothing on September 20th. The Fed will allow economics to overrule the politics of the situation.

David Gerber

The Transit Authority makes announcements saying safety matters to them....How come they allow dangerous conditions like this?

Frank Ferraro

What happened is, we got out of our pressure defense. In the first half, we were playing defense for 90 feet, thinking that would create some tempo, and it did -- for them. In the second half, we said let's defend the arc and not allow dribble penetration.

Lindsey Buckingham

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

Mick Cronin

We haven't made our splash in the NCAA tournament. That's my goal coming in here. That's the hump we need to get over to allow us to get more national expect and exposure.

Maya Angelou

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

E. O. Wilson

We allow guns at the Florida Chamber in our parking lot, we appreciate that you let us make that decision. Leave the decision about what's best for someone's property in the hands of the property owner.

Christina Stetler

We allow children who maybe aren't welcome in other groups come in and be around their peers who are developing normally; we don't turn anyone away.

Gary Vaynerchuk

It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

Eugene Jarecki

Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.

Francis Ford Coppola

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

Chris Paul

The least amount of buttons [in suit], the better. If you have to go with three, you can go three. But all that eight-button stuff? Nuh-uh, not a fan.

Ferguson Jenkins

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

Al Mollozzi

By the end of the month, the facility will have somewhere between three and eight residents.

David Ward

But, you know, the kids get hurt more off the track than on the track. Most of the emergency room visits we make are from them just being kids, and when you've got eight of them the odds just increase.

Marty Wiseman

He took time he really didn't have every time we were up there. He welcomed them with open arms. Knowing Haley, he was probably thinking, eight to 10 years from now, I may run for governor, and I will need these folks.

Gaby Hoffmann

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

Herman Edwards

You can see he really studies the game. He doesn't just walk out there and play. He waits for his opportunity to make the play and when you think he's not going to make the play, that's when he gets you.

Bill Guerin

To score first is big. It gives your team confidence. Gets it out of the way. We can relax, get in your system and start to play.

Ryon Acey

We have been partnered with them for years, and the relationship gets stronger with each year.

Veronica Roth

I don't know if you know this," Tobias says, "but Edward is a little unstable." "I'm getting that," I say. "That Drew guy who helped Peter perform that butterknife maneuver," Tobias says. "Apparently when he got kicked out of Dauntless, he tried to join the same group of factionless Edward was a part of. Notice that you haven't seen Drew anywhere.

Vanessa Mae

To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

Vanilla Ice

I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.

Uta Hagen

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

Usher

I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

Usain Bolt

I swim when I am injured. What the best guys do is so hard. Michael Phelps is the best.

Taylor Swift

Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

Stephen King

Definition Of A Wanderer: A guy who's always looking beyond

Stedman Graham

I'm a lucky guy. No question.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Anne Sexton

There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom of Age? Religion bids the tempest cease, And, leads her to a port of peace; And on, the lonely pilot steers Through the lapse of future years.

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now

Gloria Mills

I just hope it's people who are willing to look at transit in an even way.

Ron Gardenhire

I just hope it's not a lingering thing.

Scott Drew

I just hope it's a situation that no one else ever has to go through.

O. J. Simpson

I just hope I don't have to testify.

Amy Carmichael

We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound in the body, go forth in the spirit; spirit is not bound. Give Him time and, as surely as dawn follows night, there will break upon the heart a sense of certainty that cannot be shaken.

Ally Condie

Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.

Anthony de Mello

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

Anthony de Mello

Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.

Annette Funicello

Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

Cristina Saralegui

I'm a royal pain in the behind.

Conor Oberst

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

Clarence Darrow

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

Daniel Dennett

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.