Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Nelson McCullough

A number of times, we had the bases loaded and we'd get that third out. We just couldn't capitalize on it." ()

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Bobby Valentine

Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

Jeff Chown

Right now there's a risk in signing any baseball player, whether or not there's been a rumor about him or not. There's a dark cloud over the entire sport.

John McMillan

It was ugly. I think everybody was shocked that the earnings base got lowered as far as it did.

Randy Kessel

It was very highly successful, not only in our eyes, but in the eyes of the customer base there.

Tom Slater

It was way too many walks and way too many errors. When you're walking that many and making errors, you're not going to win. We had a productive day at the plate, but it doesn't matter how productive you are if you're giving up base runners.

Robinson Cano

It was a changeup, but I was trying to stay right in the middle, ... I was so excited for that, because I was trying to come up with a base hit to put a man on second with no outs.

Gilbert Arenas

It's in a lot of pain. It's throbbing right now. I can't bend over. But you go through the season, you're going to get injured. You're going to play with pain. I've played with pain before.

Alex Berenson

Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Margaret Spellings

The federal government is doing something it has never done before, ... Our 9 percent investment is going to 90 percent. That's my big news.

Omar Pimentel

The federal government has the right intentions, and I do hope they get the job done. It's just a question of will, political will.

Irwin Redlener

The illusion is that help (from the federal government) will be there minutes later, which is really not the case,

Bernie Sanders

The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.

S. Walker

It's my understanding that if we don't meet those federal guidelines then we are at risk of losing the federal funds that were supplied to Indiana to implement this project.

Sarah Flanagan

Even with this change, there will be more Pell Grant recipients and the federal government will spend more money on Pell than it did this year.

Aldo Leopold

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not...

Andrew Young

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

David Chang

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

Daniel Webster

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

Harriet Martineau

[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five times as much as another, without any reason that ever I heard tell.

Halldor Laxness

Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.

Howell Raines

I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

Hassan Nasrallah

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

George H. W. Bush

Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

Isabel Allende

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go out. I'm just locked away, writing. It's a time of meditation, of going into the story.

Dennis Smith

The smoke could be seen from miles away.

Dr. Shannon

These are two very, very important milestones as we progress.

Greg Edwards

Every 100 miles you go, you've got a new arena, ... Everybody's got one.

Kyle Busch

Literally, I swear we could run 600 miles on this tire, I don't think we're going to need pit stops, the tires are going to be that durable.

John Stokes

Its probably 300 miles to the gallon, I guess,

Alan Culpepper

You don't want the race to go without you, but you know you have 22 miles to go. It's a balance.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

Rastislav Spirko

We don't have any more time for some losses. We know where we are. We want to get to the national tournament and play here.

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

Dan Shechtman

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

Brenda Smith

The right tools can really open up Scripture to you.

Richard Daynard

At this point, it's really open season on the industry,

Svetlana Kuznetsova

This year, I've wanted to go out and play like (the) U.S. Open champion. I put too much pressure on myself and tried to be too good.

Peter Graf

We're very opportunistic when it comes to open source.

Steve Owens

Phase four, if we can get it open by the end of the year, is going to be great.

David James

I'm all for open space. But I don't want a dump, either.

Jimmy Carter

free, honest, open and without any violence of any kind.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Jeff Linenfelser

We put a lot of time in to get him ready. He was 100 percent ready for the fight. What are you going to do?

Pat Griffin

I'd say I spend 90 percent of my time in the Terrain Park.

John Smedley

I'd say we're about 70 percent of the way there.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

Ed Jasper

When you're playing every snap, the problem is you can't give 110 percent on every play.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

William Shakespeare

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

Tom Waits

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

Indira Gandhi

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Candice S. Miller

Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.

Henry David Thoreau

Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.

Jeremy Collier

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

Gretel Ehrlich

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

Gregory David Roberts

Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.