Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

Miley Cyrus

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Bobby Fischer

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Stephen Jay Gould

I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal.

Stephen Jay Gould

Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.

Ray Neidl

To a large degree it (the cut in commissions) is helping offset the fuel prices. You're talking about some big bucks there. That's 3 percent of revenue to people who book 80 percent of your flights.

Arturo Sarukhan

Vicente was the sort of comic book hero, the guy who was going to bring down the regime. There was a certain mythical aura.

Ken Masuda

If there are more protests in China, the market will fall, without a doubt.

Henry Cavill

Everyone doubts themselves. It's just a matter of admitting it or not.

Leo Buscaglia

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

Paul Tillich

There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.

Llewelyn Powys

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

John Green

I'm not embarrassed by my faith, and I'm also not embarrassed by my doubt.

John Gielgud

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

John Ford

When in doubt, make a western.

John Flavel

Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting

Willie Smith

It feels good; I'm just real proud of myself. I felt like I had a great senior year to put me into this position.

Sierra McCormick

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore.

Dana Plato

Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are times when we need to be nurtured.

Marcelo Enriquez

South is a very good team and I knew they were going to be much more competitive the second round.

Joe Linta

Special teams will be his meal ticket. He's got good speed and good hands. He's a real good 51, 52 or 53-type guy on the roster who can do a lot of things for you.

Kyle McLaren

Special teams was good tonight, especially the penalty kill.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Deion Sanders

I like what I see. I think the league is heading in the proper direction.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Michael Franti

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

Philip Mote

In the last year or so, this has really taken off like a freight train without brakes.

Danny Sullivan

In the last year and a half, (A9) hasn't skyrocketed in popularity.

Eric Skrum

In the last two years, we're seeing more and more communities saying, 'We just don't want to use the technology.

Pat Teeters

This is the next step in our ongoing efforts.

John Smoltz

It's a frustrating way to lose, because you'd always like to win that first game. Now we have to win the next two.

Kari Lyles

I tried to get as many administrators and principals as possible and sent out 20 to 25 e-mails. The next day I had at least 10 responses and everyone was so positive.

Ricardo Patton

It . . . really bodes well for our program. But right now, we just need to worry about the next game.

Herb Levine

I trust Marty, but, by George, I don't know who the next one is going to be.

Bud Selig

It's all in place. It's something we have to look at next year.

Daunte Culpepper

It's all about the next time we get the ball, what we've got to do.

Vijay Singh

I told the guys, 'Good, good, good. Let's go to the next tee box.

Derian Hatcher

This is what it's going to be like. You better get ready for the next one.

Judy Davis

It's like you're getting ready to go to Cinderella's ball, and then, when you lose, it's like you wake up and realize you're not Cinderella.

Jim Calhoun

It's one loss. It's nothing more, nothing less. It's not going to stop us from getting ready for West Virginia.

Greg Marsden

There's a long tradition of rivalry between our two programs, and I know they'll be ready for us.

Jeff Horner

They're going to be hungry. We have to be ready for anything.

Scott Andrews

It's a tight schedule to get two units ready in six months.

Troy Walters

It's a road game, so that's what you kind of expect. It kind of got us focused, like we've got to get ready to go.

Daniel Briere

It wasn't very hard. It was just to keep the timing and make sure we're ready to go.

Tomas Vokoun

On Wednesday, every play, every minute, every shift counts, ... That's what we're trying to get ready for.

Willie Randolph

Pedro will be ready. I trust Pedro that he'll be ready to go. That's what I go by.

Pierre Lafontaine

We're not really competitive yet, but we're sure getting there.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.