Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lenny Goldberg

Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings.

Justin Hawkins

There's no way that a fan of The Darkness, based on what we did on the last record, is not going to love this record even more than the first one.

John Galbraith

The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

Walt Jocketty

We signed him with that purpose in mind, based on his past career. It provides more depth to our rotation, more depth to our pitching staff, and that has been the priority of our off-season plan.

Harvey Pekar

I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'know, when jazz was, like, pop music, you know. It had made the charts and everything like that.

Shek Borkowski

Well, that is pretty subjective. It's not like they have seen us play or anything. The ranking is based on last year's championships in the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and the Women's Open Cup.

Alix Smith

What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same time creating my own version thereof; in other words, the reality I present is a reality based upon what I choose to include in the frame and what I choose to leave out.

Michael Woods

What I felt from George is a sense of confidence - he will know the numbers well, talk to people in laymen's terms about those numbers and win people over based on those numbers,

Liane Moriarty

Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.

Liaquat Baloch

We are of the view that Indian movies spread obscenity and vulgarity. These (Indian) movies cannot be watched with family members and as such we will be opposing their exhibition in Pakistan.

Vauvenargues Marquis

We are often dismayed to find that even disasters cannot cure us of our faults.

John Murtha

We cannot win this militarily. Our tactics themselves keep us from winning,

Francis Bacon

We cannot too often think there is a never sleeping eye, which reads the heart, and registers our thoughts

Waisale Serevi

We cannot think of winning the circuit now ? there are still a lot of tournaments left.

William Gaillard

We cannot talk about any punishment until we have the results of the B test.

Timothy Kaine

We cannot take the progress we have made over the past four years and put it in the hands of the most persistent and vigorous opponent of that progress.

Chris Henderson

We cannot take them looking at the table and seeing a last place team. If we do that, we are going to lose, ... If we take them as a team that is fighting and scratching for every point, kind of like we are, we will be successful.

Joschka Fischer

We cannot take a time-out when it comes to our security,

When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmmmmm, boy.

Kamala Harris

My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

Ron Hill

You have more choices on defensive linemen for the 3-4, ... There's such a premium on 6-5, 285-pound defensive ends and defensive tackles. It's hard to find those guys. You don't have to find big, big guys in that defense because it's all movement. There's more movement than toe-to-toe stuff. You can be more flexible with their movement.

Ken Scholen

If you owe money on the house you can use part of your reverse mortgage to pay off your current debt.

Diane Forden

It's got to either be made legal or shut down,

Norman Herren

That machine has sat and hammered away since 1994 with no major repairs, but we've had to repair something every year now for the last few years, so it was time to either get a new baler for $100,000 or try to do some refurbishing.

Lee Cohen

That gives us some time to come up with a plan B - either flying to Nova Scotia, or sailing south.

Kevin Browne

Taxpayers can be victimized at either end of the scale.

Booth Tarkington

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously

Tom White

Swimming is like licorice. You either love it or hate it.

Jon Daniels

It's impossible to quantify David's leadership with the loss of a No. 2 starter. If I had to choose, I wouldn't want to part with either of them.

Rob Gooch

It looked like he got hit in the face by either a knee or a shin guard.

Tom Peterson

It seemed kinda like the time. I thought it was gonna be radical, one way or another. Either he was going to get roofed or he was going to be great.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Anna Quindlen

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Amy Tan

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

Anthony Anderson

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Anais Nin

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

Anne Hathaway

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

Robert Kiyosaki

My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'

John Vines

The problem is, the security mission goes on here and if we take some out, those that are left are at some risk ? it increases their risk, ... Unfortunately, we're not able at this time ? unless someone is known to have a family member wounded or injured or killed ? we're not in a position to make those adjustments.

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.

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.

Renzo Rosso

In New York, I wear dark denim most of the time.