Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Kelly

In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards have gone up, so my comfort level is higher as well.

Robin Givhan

In the '50s, women aspired to dress like their mothers - this polished, controlled, formal way of dressing. Then all of a sudden in the '60s, going into the '70s, they stopped dressing like their mothers.

Jerry Gray

Being a head coach in this league is something I've aspired to do ever since I became an assistant with the Titans (in 1997). I've always wanted to be the best at every level. I'm not getting impatient; I'm just determined. I believe I've got a lot to offer if I get that opportunity.

Jonathan Powell

I'm a solid Labour party supporter. I aspired to be a Labour MP, but it's difficult to make the leap from the Foreign Office.

Ashley Jensen

I missed Britain. I'm from here and I never aspired to go to L.A. - it sort of happened by default. I loved being there. I found it a little bit difficult at first, but I found my way.

Jon Daniels

I'm ecstatic about this. This is what I've aspired to be for a long time.

Robert Sheehan

I never aspired to be in a band, but being onstage is a very cool feeling. It's like you're the lord of the room. It's hard to croon and run around doing big scissor kicks while also trying to play, though. I'm still mastering that.

Lien Chan

The Chinese nation is confronted with unprecedented opportunities of development. Well-being and prosperity that the nation has long aspired after will never be a faraway dream.

Jon Daniels

The last four years have just been a whirlwind learning curve for me, and John has made it a lot easier. It didn't take me long to realize my future wasn't going to be on the field. So this is what I have aspired to for quite a while.

John Yarmuth

Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That's our story, and we're sticking to it.

Gary Krein

I wouldn't say it's a slam-dunk, but we've found fish everywhere we've fished. We fished Possession Bar on Sunday morning and didn't get a legal fish, so we went over to Double Bluff and did OK. But I heard Possession did come on at the same time, on the low tide.

Gary Ross

I would think they are setting their bargaining position high, so that when they sit at the table, they can then compromise.

Jill Hickman

Just then, a car was racing down the road. They barely stopped before they hit the U-Haul. God was watching over us.

David Branch

John has performed as most thought he would and set the bar at a very high level, which we are all very thankful for.

Rick Anderson

John had kept the car garaged most of the time, but as with most Model A's, the floor pans and lower three inches of the body were rusted beyond repair and had to be replaced. My brother, Mike, helped me to restore the car as well. He stripped the entire car to bare metal, and then I welded in 13 different body panels to replace the rotted areas. Being 75 years old, the car had many dings and dents that had to be straightened.

Joe Yip

It began here in the barbecue when grease dripped down.

Ralph Goodale

It became quite obvious that the opposition's intention was to prevent the publication of a budget in February, and therefore I felt I had an obligation to Canadians not just to provide the bare bones of statistics, but in fact to give a greater indication of how the flexibility would be used,

Rick Warren

It basically means the bar closes and everything you've got invested is lost.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's sham economic indicator says that our economy was better under Jimmy Carter than under Ronald Reagan, a deception few Ohioans are likely to believe.

Andre Previn

I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.

E. Hicks

I think it's going to be very close. This is one of these elections that there will not be a breakaway winner. Probably in this state we're in for a Gerald Ford-Jimmy Carter race where it may be one vote a precinct. Ohio's going to determine the next president.

Rick Carlisle

I thought we played hard. I thought we rebounded well. (Jason) Kidd and (Vince) Carter are difference makers.

Robin Farquhar

I had heard the Carter Family's music, but I didn't realize how much they were responsible for creating. Their story is quite amazing, filled with humor and heart and emotional roller coaster rides.

Bill White

Chip Carter admits that he's guilty of these crimes, ... Mr. Carter killed Liz Reed, her daughter, Courtney, and Glenn Pafford. ... You don't have to figure out who did it.

Lynn Collins

I will say that Lynda Carter is an awesome woman.

Dwight Schultz

It's a very typical UFO sighting. Carter said it changed color and, in the physical report, described it as being about the size of the moon. And he saw it with about twenty-five other people.

Ronald Reagan

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

John Salley

I went into raw vegan for a while, but I prefer cooked food, the way it smells, the way it feels going through your system.

Mona Simpson

I remember the excitement of finding a great pancake recipe in 'Gourmet.' It felt as if it were mine. And it was Berkeley, of course - everybody cooked together. Cooking is what one did.

Yotam Ottolenghi

In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.

Rose Thomas

The food is cooked and flash-frozen. We don't need all those preservatives.

Larry Brown

We've always cooked at the fire department to raise funds. We've probably cooked up a ton of barbecue. We decided let's do it competitively, and here we are,

Shelley Hearne

This is quite the toxic jambalaya that is being cooked down there.

Colleen Ryan

We cooked it for 15 hours and let it sit for 24 hours. It took about two days to make. I was in the lab for about two weeks.

Paul Prudhomme

We cooked for 300 people in tuxedos the Saturday before the hurricane hit. Then we cooked for 1,200 people in National Guard uniforms the Sunday after it hit.

Kate Christensen

There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.

Cybill Shepherd

I would very much like to go on her talk show. Maybe not a cooking show. She's got all the hot grease and stuff.

Rose Macaulay

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

Tyler Florence

I love food, all food, everything about food. I enjoy going to the market and having what's in front of me - what's fresh, seasonal - tell me what I'm cooking.

Truman Capote

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

Rex Stout

Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.

Will Ferrell

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

Rebecca Wells

Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you ...

W. H. Auden

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

Rodney Dangerfield

my wifes cooking is so bad the flys fix our screens

Keith Brooking

Just to be dead honest with you, a lot of it I think was on us, the linebackers.

Cyril Connolly

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Algernon Swinburne

Here, where the world is quiet;/ Here, where all trouble seems/ Dead winds' and spent waves' riot/ In doubtful dreams of dreams.

Phil Garner

He's hot. We all know he's a dead fastball hitter.

Jusuf Kalla

It is predicted -- and it's still a rough estimate -- that the number of the victims of dead may be between 1,000 and 2,000,

Jeff Pustina

I think we might have to extend the deadline tonight.

Steve Trachsel

It had been dead quiet in there until that play.

Rick Minter

I think they were given up for dead last year, and this year, they've been kind of a maligned group.

Irish Sayings

It is no time to go for the doctor when the patient is dead

Stephen Graham

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me.

Ari Fleischer

Kennebunkport has a very strong sense of family for him.

Patricia Johnson

It ain't about the money, it's about the people. I see them more than some of their family do.

Quentin Thomas

I talked to my family back home and my mom and we just prayed on it. It was something I went through and I'm not going to sit here and say it was something I'm glad I went through ? but it's helped me.

Josh Duell

I talked to my family about that, and they're fine with it. They just wanted me to be happy.

Robbie Loomis

I think it's a good time for me to reprioritize my personal life and get things figured out there. In life, for years, I've had racing, God and family. I'm trying to get it God, family then racing.

Pablo Gomez

He was a hero. But I can't let my family go through this again.

Joseph Allen

He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a big soccer coach. His wife and family were number one.

David Morales

He used to make it in large stew pots and then can it and give it away to friends and family members,

Source Unknown

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

Al Jourgensen

You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.

Rick Comer

That's strict. I graduated high school with a 3.3, so I could've come to the game, I guess.

Bill Whyde

Where are all the kids who graduated the last 25 years? There is nothing to keep them here.

Kim Raver

For me, because I've been working out since I graduated college, I have to mix it up. But it's not just working out for health's sake; it's also a whole mindset for me. Yoga is really important for that.

Gaby Hoffmann

I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.

Tad Decker

This guy graduated with honors from Penn State in communications. We were very lucky to get this guy.

Jon Mattheiss

There was a lot of pressure on us tonight. We went up their last year and lost. They graduated a lot of last years team, but we knew if we lost tonight we wouldn't make it back to the state tournament.

Steve Huling

We have to find some high jumpers. We graduated two seniors who did very well.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Jim Fuller

Jake had a great meet. We kind of ran him to death, too.

Joe Archuleta

Jake did a great job. Two runs, we'll take that most days.

Winona Ryder

I remember when I did Little Women, I didn't watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.

Winona Ryder

I've loved making movies. I feel like I've been so lucky because I've gotten to be in movies that are some of my favorites, regardless of my being in them - like 'Heathers.'

LaVar Arrington

I love everything about being in Washington. I know I've said some things that I probably shouldn't have said out of the heat of the moment. I have regrets, but I love being a Redskin.

William Penn

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Morgan Freeman

I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.

Michael Washington

The heat was blazing. From the sideline, you could see the heat rising. It hits you in the nose.

Mark Jensen

The heat units this summer have pushed this stuff along,

Rahul Dravid

The heat is not a problem but the humidity is.

James Hansen

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Megan Smith

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Chris Mennis

I wouldn't be surprised if that $2.10 is the high for the week.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Katharine McPhee

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Greg Jackson

Kids who come here, I see them grow. My philosophy is not winning and losing. When I see a kid like Tracey, it puts this job in perspective.

Travis Moyer

Jordan did a very nice job out there. He pitched excellent. He only made one mistake.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

John Caudwell

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Glen Smith

He viewed it as a job that had to be done.

Allard Baird

He comes into Spring Training where it's his job to lose.

Bob Lilley

Joey and J.J. matched up well up front. We were unlucky not to get a second and third.

Patrick Sparks

Joe was in there mixing it up. That's what we needed.

Al Horford

Joe was all over the place. He was terrific.

Dave Joppie

Joe Scott, that's another quality start for him, and he got in the win column.

Bobby Bowden

Joe is not with us and that's all that I can say about it.

Phil Collen

Joe has been wanting to do this for 20 or so years,

Paul Kane

Joe Barnes was the racer. If they want to do a one year memorial, that's great, but Joe would've just wanted us to go out there and have fun.

Udonis Haslem

I threw my mouthpiece at the ground. Looking at it on TV, I could see how Joey would think I was throwing it at him.

Ramel Bradley

I think we've all been waiting for Joe to come out and show what he can do. In the past, sometimes me and Joe have questioned what we're supposed to be doing on the court, but you can see him getting more comfortable.

Mike Robinson

Jose looked like he was in state placer form. He's wrestling really well.

James Bond

He just stayed there . . . no one looked at him to see if he was okay.

Elian Gonzalez

He just looked so relaxed and so calm, it's just something I ... have been thinking about since that day.

Jennifer Byrd

He just looked like he was sleeping, honestly.

Danny Aiello

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

Wayne Allen

Have we ever looked at something like that?

Jim Murphy

He's a special kid. He's someone to be looked at down the road.

Mike Price

He's just running around a little bit. He looked good, though.

Jeff Mittie

I thought for our first practice we looked solid,

Caterina Fake

Had we sat down and said, 'Let's start a photo application,' we would have failed. We would have done all this research and done all the wrong things.

Richard Avedon

i'm beginning to feel like this. caught the incredible sunshine just in the nick of time today on my walk. the wall of rain approaching from the west desert was pretty spectacular, too. along with being gorgeous, it was sooo muddy. which made driving home in no shoes so very fun :) if only i could post photos here! a picture is worth a thousand words, yes? If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

Richard Avedon

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

Richard Avedon

I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure he doesn't remember it either. But this photograph is here now to prove that no amount of kindness on my part could make this photograph mean exactly what he.. or even I.. wanted it to mean. It's a reminder of the wonder and terror that is a photograph.

Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

Richard Avedon

There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates a character. She understood photography, and she also understood what makes a great photograph. She related to it as if she were giving a performance. She gave more to the still camera than any actress-any woman- I've ever photographed.

Richard Avedon

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Ryan McGinley

I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

Umberto Eco

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

P. T. Barnum

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

Lawrence Bender

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

Sheryl Sandberg

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.

Edith Stein

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur.

Robert J. Shiller

Each profession has its own toolkit.

Mason Cooley

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

George Papandreou

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Steven Saunders

He wanted to know why he couldn't remember things.

Walter Price

He remembers I took him to Carmichael two years ago. I don't remember.

Rosaleen Tallon

It is all wrong in its symbolism. I look up to the sky to remember him. I will never go down.

Lofa Tatupu

What do I remember about that play? That it was long.

Rick Moore

We've got to remember who got us here.

Rekalin Sims

He was rubbing it in our faces. We remember that. We've got something for him.

S. Truett Cathy

I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

Denise Moore

He never remembers us together. This is the only time he remembers me is in prison.

Richard Paul Evans

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

Colleen Nave

That's the first triple play I've ever seen. It was very exciting.

Manal Fakhoury

See, we even got a triple A from the mayor.

Gary Fuller

To take that $187 million, more than triple our five-year average, is very significant,

Estelle

I will never say I am committed to somebody unless I'm serious about that person.

Rod Thorn

Unless we get very fortunate, ... we are not going to be a championship contender.

Hal Vogel

He wasn't going to give it up willingly. He didn't want to give it up unless he had to.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Gore Vidal

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

Joe Morgan

You can't win in the postseason unless you can manufacture runs.

Dean Ornish

There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

Thomas Goldstein

The nomination, unless it makes substantial progress, is in jeopardy,

David Justice

They can't get any rougher on us unless they show up with Uzis.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Carol Alt

I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.