Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Stan Magee

There is a lot of wisdom at this table and we all bring something good to the table that will allow us to made a decision amongst ourselves without committing taxpayer dollars to do it.

Paul Bubb

We will begin an immediate search to fill the head coaching position. The timing of this announcement will allow us to move forward with expectations of having a new head coach named before the college basketball season concludes.

Laura Bush

We will ask not only what is legal but what is right, not what the lawyers allow but what the public deserves.

Larry Jones

We had to jump the fence and pass my brother's body over the wire fence , and even then the nurses and guards refused to allow us into the Health Centre saying that there were no doctors on duty. It was only when we started to misbehave that they looked at my brother and said he was dead.

Olympia Snowe

To allow this program to lapse could potentially jeopardize thousands of dairy farms throughout the United States,

Maria LaHood

To allow the Bush administration to evade accountability and continue to hide behind a smoke screen of 'national security' is to do grave and irreparable damage to the Constitution and the guarantee of human rights that people in this country could once be proud of.

Bill Wade

To allow that kind of thing just because a set of recreational users want to take snowmobiles and whatever else into Yellowstone is crazy,

John W. Snow

to allow market forces to set exchange rates, to let the fundamentals of the marketplace drive exchange rate changes.

Barbara Castle

Now a company's power is becoming bigger and less accountable than it ever was before. It was bad enough when it was just a big, national industry.

Gary Apodaca

Sometimes younger girls are a little easier to teach, because the older girls have developed bad habits that are harder to break. But we've made a lot of progress.

Rodney Harrison

Sometimes, ... you just have bad days at the office, and you just have to chalk it up, continue to work hard and look at how each and every guy in this room can get better.

Marty Roos

Sometimes, you just don't have it. Nothing went right for us today and they played better. We made two bad mistakes in the first period and when they scored the third goal that made it a straight, uphill fight. We just have to forget it and get back to work.

Kevin Mawae

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and have a bad day. Sometimes you wake up and have a great day. Today I had a bad day.

John Travis

Sometimes you go on a bad call and wonder why you're doing it, but you're always looking forward to next time you might be able to help. I might hang in there for another 10 to 15 years.

Mike Grier

Sometimes you get the word out there and the game's called differently. I've seen it before where coaches have been in the media and games have been called differently the next night. It's not a bad idea on his part. It's all part of the gamesmanship that goes on in the stretch drive.

Reggie Jackson

Sometimes, you get into bad habits, ... He has what we call a nice behind-the-ball swing, a nice inside move. We're just trying to get him to work more on that. If we can get him to co-sign that, we'll be all right.

Keyon Dooling

Sometimes you don't think, you just react. I wish I could take it back. I feel bad for the fans that participated in it and for the kids that had to see it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Alison Lohman

I like to take a character and develop it

Alfred Molina

Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.

Alex Borstein

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.

Aldous Huxley

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Albert Einstein

It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

Albert Einstein

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

Albert Einstein

An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. All are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life. Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God.

Albert Einstein

Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.

Donnie Edwards

Marty has been talking about us finishing games. ... He has been stressing about making plays when you have to.

Corey Dillon

I've got enough yards to last me a lifetime. Right now, it's just about doing whatever I can to help this team win. I'm just going to finish strong.

Frank Robinson

It was a good comeback. Stirring. We just couldn't finish it off.

Don Cooper

Its like a horse race and we see the finish line. Were gonna use the whip and ride our horses hard. These guys have what it takes to win the race.

Keith Pearson

(It) looks like we're on the target to do that. We just need to finish up stocking the store.

Chere' Moore

The ladies showed some real resolve to finish the race hard.

Stan Stout

The match today was different in that we usually get off to a strong start and finish poorly but today we started poorly and finished strong.

Mike Smith

They still taste the same, still great. And they give you a ton. I had to struggle to try and finish these fries.

Dave Baseggio

They put it in the paper. Just because you have skill, you don't finish checks, doesn't mean you don't have grit. Our guys go to scoring areas. Our guys make plays.

Alice Walker

Resistance is the secret of joy!

Philip James Bailey

Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.

Philip James Bailey

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

Peter B. Lewis

The joy of juxtaposition is endless.

Penn Jillette

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

Paulo Coelho

Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all.

Paulo Coelho

Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.

Paulo Coelho

It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed, you lose the joy and meaning of the rest. And you risk being shaken to your senses by God.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Start walking. When you hit a spot where you’re gasping for breath, that should tell us our limitations. (Xypher) Oh, joy. I can’t wait to be the guppy. (Simone) Glub, glub, little fishy. Start walking. (Xypher)

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.

Rihanna

To me makeup is a major accessory. It can change an outfit, it can make the outfit, it can be the outfit, and that's why I like to play with it.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Don Herold

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

Yusuf Islam

Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.

Jeb Bush

Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,'

M. Wolfe

Quarterback is a position that people try to put too many things into it,

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Rudolf Arnheim

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Vin Diesel

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.

Vijay Mallya

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view,

Stephen Covey

The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

Stephanie Leonidas

The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day.

Suzanne Collins

If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.

Suzanne Collins

It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.

Suzanne Collins

Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Mark Brunell

If we don't win this one, we're done.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.