Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moe Ammar

Any time I asked him for anything that Pacific Grove needed, any cause, he always pulled his checkbook and wrote a big check. Mr. Chamberlin, as your neighbor, as your friend, I will miss you.

Jimmy Carter

Another thing that we share is a need to earn a living after we leave the White House. Rosalyn asked me to announce, by the way, that our books are still on sale.

Sharon Dawley

Ashleigh was tremendous on Ray Williams. (Williams) is a great post player ... but she doesn't like it when a guard defends her, so that's a switch we made and we were going to keep Ashleigh on her until she asked to come out of the game.

Tadahito Iguchi

As far as being asked to play in the WBC, I am incredibly happy and incredibly honored to be asked. It just didn't work out this year. I definitely wanted to perform here in the camp in the beginning, especially with the change in the batting order.

Martin Freeman

As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.

Nat Friedman

As a programmer, it's sometimes difficult to know how ordinary people with no technical experience are reacting to your software. Linux people tend to know other Linux people. In these usability tests, we selected test subjects who were experienced with Windows, but who had never heard of Linux, and asked them to perform basic tasks using the Linux desktop.

Harry Reid

As bright and brilliant and as good a lawyer as Judge Roberts was, I asked him - he'd never taken a deposition, he'd never picked a jury, never tried a case, ... He never tried a case. She has. We need people like that who have real-life experiences.

Mark Williams

As coach, I could have asked for nothing more from Matthew as a player and as the captain of the Port Adelaide Football Club for the past five years,

Brad Clark

As a player, it's all the hype and running out on the court, the excitement of 15,000 people. As a coach, it's the experience that I've had that I've shared with these guys throughout the whole year. They've asked me many questions since we've won on Saturday.

Reid Scott

As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York.

David Harcharik

Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.

Malcolm Speed

Australia, Bermuda, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UAE and the West Indies have indicated their intention to be considered as hosts for an inaugural Twenty20 event while England, Hong Kong, Nepal and Scotland have also expressed an interest in hosting future events.

Ken Williams

I've always thought it's kind of disrespectful to the guys that have gotten you in the position to consider a move, ... So if you come out and say I need X, Y or Z ... they deserve better than that.

R. Robinson

So often space is wasted, or dead, in a house which the owners consider too small. First, you need to take away the name of the room, and then the space is liberated for a variety of new uses.

Bill Cherpak

I've never seen Nate play a better game - ever. I told him before the game: 'If you want to be considered a big-time player, this is where you do it. I saw Nate take control of that huddle in the last drive. He took over.

Petro Poroshenko

I understand that my presence in the position ... could be considered possible pressure on the investigation (into the corruption allegations).

Dave Gould

They are an icon of the '50s, ... It was considered a friendly, comfortable American sports car,

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

Michel Alaby

The three island projects are already sold out.

Jim Schmidt

Now it looks like nature is reversing the process. I wouldn't be surprised if we have an island again.

Samir Acharya

We also have plans to set up similar systems in Neil and Havelock islands because the oldest recorded understanding of seismic phenomenon is from these two islands as published in a 1928 study in the Asiatic Society Journal.

Dolly Parton

Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

Albert Camus

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

Andre Johnson

I just need to go to like an island or something,

Suzanne Vega

And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

Tom Waits

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

Jean Todt

A new team will race in the New Year.

Elliott Sadler

Now I know why they don't put speedometers in our race cars. It is very fast.

Tom Foreman

Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.

Robert Schwartz

Race is a social construct, not a scientific classification.

Jeff Gordon

It was a long day. I think we had a shot a top 10 with that tore-up race car.

Ken Kelso

I've been waiting to win this race for a long time.

Dave Wiggins

I've been going to the race since 1996.

John George

This is a place for everyone of any age, race or religion.

Gene Pierce

This is a two-heat race. If you don't win the prelims, you don't get to run the finals.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Susanne Bier

Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.

Bhagavad Gita

SAT is used in the sense of reality and goodness. The word 'SAT' is also used for an auspicious act, O Arjuna.

Abraham Lincoln

The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Alexis Herman

This is fundamentally a day about paychecks and reality checks, ... Where's my 26 cents?

Barbara Kingsolver

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Baruch Spinoza

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Azar Nafisi

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Azar Nafisi

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

Ayn Rand

You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Andre Dubus

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Jet Li

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Dr. House

How does someone just start drooling? Chase? Were you wearing your short shorts?

Tom Sullivan

I am not here for the short run. I am a follow-through guy,

John Tortorella

I don't want to be short ... but it's not a big concern.

Chris Taylor

I am making sure everyone sticks to a very short script.

LeAnn Rimes

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.

Halle Berry

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Jack Olsen

We're turning over every rock, so to speak.