Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessie Evans

Just looking at the guy walking around, I thought his potential was limitless if he learned a few things. As they say, even Ray Charles could have seen it.

James Rowe

He used to be bigger. It's kind of like Charles Barkley. If you can play with it, don't mess with it.

Dan Auerbach

When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

Quincy Jones

I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

Phil Colicchio

We thought we were quicker than they were and I thought we could wear them down. Defensively, we just had five kids coming at them the whole time. Offensively, Darrell is instant offense, L.J. stepped up tonight and I thought Charles Miller was outstanding.

H. Hunt

He's been a great friend to the St. Charles Singers.

Robert Gottlieb

'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.

Jon Gruden

I look at Charles as a football player. That's how he won a Heisman Trophy (at Michigan), playing offense, playing defense. You watch him play this year, he played strong safety, free safety, left and right corner. He's a football player.

Bob Rue

I know how to do this. I'm fine. I've got food until Christmas. I've got water until Carnival. You can tell everybody's that out there that's from News Orleans, that I've got my spot for the Bacchus parade right here on Saint Charles Avenue. I'm all ready, and I expect them back.

Diane Swonk

I think the market is tired of Christmas. We've already seen the Christmas reports. As far as the market is concerned, that's old news.

Julio Ziegelmann

We're on the eve of the millennium, right between Christmas and New Year's when things should be dead, but liquidity just keeps holding out.

Marcus Trescothick

It is pretty nice to end the tour with a win. We will think of the Indian tour after Christmas.

Joe Wojtkiewicz

I thought we played awfully well together, especially coming off Christmas break.

Stockard Channing

I think we'll be gone by Christmas, ... The West Wing.

Houston Nutt

He has made a real sacrifice and commitment to staying in shape over Christmas and spring break. He looks real good.

Mark Siegel

He has this Christmas party every year in New York.

Tom Ford

He (Morales) said he did not have a girlfriend. He said he stayed up there (in New York) Christmas because of money and he would take a vacation in the summer and be able to stay longer when he returned to De Queen.

Richard Paul Evans

The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable tapestry.

Terri Johnson

Kirby is playing really well for us. We expected him to play at this level, he just got a late start with football. That three at the end of the third quarter was huge.

James Sullivan

Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

Jim McDonnell

Kids come and they have no expectation that there's anything like that when they're feeding the ducks, ... You can imagine what could occur.

Lynn Gray

I would think you would expect a lot more than (1,000). They may have 10,000 people out there.

Brian Fuentes

I would not say I was surprised with the success I had. I have worked hard and I expect to do well. I would never have expected to be in an all-star game. That was not a goal going into the season. That was something extra.

Paul Kim

I would say it was a shock. I think a lot of people expected him to remain in tenure for at least another two or three years.

Fernando Clavijo

Keel is one of those kids, we didn't expect much, and every day he keeps improving.

Stone Gossard

J was open to our style from the get-go. They weren't expecting us to do something that was unnatural for us.

Dave Redden

Jon doesn't realize how good he is. He could've finished higher up in the pack. I liked that he finished high up there, but I really expect a whole lot more out of him.

Sathya Baba

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Timothy Ramey

There is a lack of innovation, lack of reinvestment, and lack of news in the category. We're not recommending any large-cap food names.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

Gilbert Arenas

We've got to realize that these people lost everything they had. For some people they didn't have food or water for days. I'm just trying to do my part and help out as much as I can.

Sara Schmitz

We substitute foods that are on the menu with a doctor's excuse. With 20,000 kids, it's impossible to be short-order cooks.

Mario Batali

I think that the rise of a group of people called the slow food movement is doing a lot to try to protect and preserve traditions.

Thomas Armstrong

When they see the Spirit of Connecticut coming, they'll know they're going to get good food coming.

Kenneth Williams

I'd like to thank the people of Lufkin for donating money, food and their time. People have really stepped in to help the evacuees.

Dan Anderson

I was watching the news a lot on TV, and was just kind of struck by how, it seemed like every hour, something worse was happening,

R. Ingram

I watched the news and read the newspaper with my dad,

Richard Dawkins

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Russell Baker

Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

Rian Johnson

When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for the pleasure button and I click it. But then, when I see the movie, it's like, "Oh, I would have enjoyed the movie that much more, if I hadn't known that."

Shaun Alexander

I really don't pay attention, because I don't really ever watch the news or anything like that.

John Carpenter

I have news for him. They turned me into a movie director.

John Lindsey

I like C-SPAN because I like getting news that isn't filtered,

Stephen Colbert

I'm a big fan. I've always been a news junkie,

Brice Boling

I want to be in the parade of champions.

Pete Townshend

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

Frank Gendreau

They take part in parades all over the Northeast.

P. J. O'Rourke

Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.

Phil Durocher

Sometimes, when there's a parade forming, you have to be able to see that and get in line.

Jerry Mitchell

I think he thought he was going to get a parade when he killed Medgar Evers.

Liz Huff

We would like to see the parade re-energized with more entries too.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.

Whitney Houston

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.

Robert Southwell

I wealthiest am when richest in remorse.

Saint Francis de Sales

Mount Calvary is the academy of love.

Saint Francis de Sales

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

William Gurnall

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

Winston Churchill

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Reggie Bush

I want the Saints to be one of those teams where when other teams see us on the schedule, they know they're in for one hell of a game.

Oswald Chambers

A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Riccardo Muti

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Sarah McLachlan

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

Vincent Cassel

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

Harvey Fierstein

I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.

NeNe Leakes

I have arrived, and the spotlight is on me, honey!

Nelson Mandela

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

Kirsten Dunst

I don't live in the spotlight, and I don't live my life in front of the paparazzi. I live very comfortably and quietly as possible.

Marion Cotillard

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

Lindy Ruff

He just doesn't feel right. Until we get him through that, he won't be skating.

Chrissie Fit

I was afraid of the dark until I was, like, 15 and slept with a nightlight.

Saku Koivu

We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Kathy Bennett

I always wanted to know what was wrong. They could never find anything wrong with her until this.

Stephen Dodd

I am just more focussed. He had got me not to give in, to keep going until the last,

London Fletcher

I really didn't know if I was going to be able to play until right before the game,

Craig Roberts

I never wanted to be an actor until about three years ago when I realised it was what I liked doing.

Rick Riordan

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Rick Riordan

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Sappho

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Satish Kumar

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

Wallace Stevens

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

Walter de La Mare

It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.