Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Richman

We slept in Central Park, which is no mean feat- we got there and it was almost dawn when we went to sleep.

Phil Jackson

We slept almost all the way through the third quarter. We're just not able to play a full game.

Scott Thornton

We had the heart and we knew that we could beat them. We showed that in the fourth quarter like that they had that 10-point lead to start the second half. We knew that if we just kept working at it that we could beat them and we almost did. It's just a really tough loss.

Jackson Stewart

We wished we could have held it to town. At least that way you could say you almost made it.

Jeff Hamilton

There are almost always books from each of our imprints that center around the theme of prayer in any season.

Olympia Snowe

The existing program, as it has been developed in the last 70 years, provides a stable monthly income that has prevented seniors, almost 50 percent from falling into poverty. I don't think we want to erode the principles of that system.

Scott Skiles

We'll take the win, but you end up almost feeling a little bit bad about it. They outplayed us for three quarters, handily,

Roger Brown

We'll still be almost 100 percent leased when we're done.

Arlen Specter

What is your thinking on the jurisprudence of U.S. v. Lopez and U.S. v. Morrison, which overturned almost 60 years of Congress' power under the Commerce Clause?

Khalil Dulaimi

We have not been duly informed about any certain date for a trial.

Amy Siedlecki

I would always try to cheer them on at practice. I'll try to get them to do certain things in practice that I know that they can do so that they could see that they could do them.

Carl Bildt

If we can sort them out, I'm quite certain that the others will seem rather minor,

Rose Rosetree

She's very sexy, as though she's reliving her adolescence. A certain kind of heat, that's what she's experiencing.

Georg Christoph

I have so often seen how people come by the name of genius - in the same way, that is, as certain insects come by the name of millipede, not because they have that number of feet, but because most people won't count up to fourteen.

Chino Moreno

I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard as musicians worked making them, I feel like they were really enjoying what they were going through. They weren't just going through the process. You can tell that with certain things that you listen to.

Joe Meno

I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for a hit or to write a certain type of book. You can't do a limited-edition short-story book with drawings unless you don't want to eat anything but ramen.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.

Charlie Trotter

I have a certain point of view, a certain way to plate food, certain ingredients that I like to use.

Arnold H. Glasow

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Burn Gorman

I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Dr. Seuss

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

Dr. Seuss

People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.

Dr. Seuss

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

Dorothy Fields

I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me. Funny, but when you're near me I'm in the mood for love.

Dorothy Dunnett

Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love everybody and wouldn't know what you're talking about. Have a bun.' 'He doesn't love the Turks,' said Philippa. 'He kills them.' 'That isn't hate,' said Kate Somerville. 'That's simply hoeing among one's principles to keep them healthy and neat. I'm sure he would tell you he bears them no personal grudge; and they think they're going to Paradise anyway, so it does everyone good.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Dorothy Day

The only solution is love.

Dorothy Day

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Herb Alpert

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

Jerry Hunt

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

John Trudell

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Lara Pulver

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

Paul Desmond

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

Paul Desmond

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

Joan Baez

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Martin Amis

I sometimes feel I'm a sort of cult writer, rather than a mainstream writer, in that those who like my stuff like it a lot, but the appeal is not that broad.