Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Atlas

He describes himself as a mild depressive, and he goes through just terrible suffering, much of it self-generated. And yet he's also an extremely buoyant person who finds a great deal in life to entertain and instruct and amuse him. He has a kind of vivacity about him. He's very funny, and he's very obsessed with certain themes.

Samuel Johnson

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

Will Rogers

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

Steve Millburg

I love this boardwalk, even if it is one of the 'board-less' varieties. Actually, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk refers to both the seaside amusement park and the concrete path that runs through it. Here, find everything from a classic wooden roller coaster, a 1911 carousel, arcade and video games and an extra-wide beach with volleyball nets to free concerts, great surfing and windsurfing and a half-mile-long pier lined with seafood restaurants. Coastal nirvana.

Brooke Adams

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Samuel Johnson

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Marguerite Gardiner

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Ken Jennings

One guy had this can't-miss idea to go dig up old coins at the site of former disused government mints, and he just needed a bit of money to get started ... some guy had an idea for an indoor amusement park.

George Herbert Mead

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

Craig Thompson

I think you can still look to Jesus' word for guidance in your life. It's just not the guidance that it seems like most Christians are applying to their own lives.

Todd Akin

I will continue to work in Congress to reign-in the federal judiciary and return it to its constitutional function of applying the law, not legislating from the bench.

Howard Shapiro

If you're applying for a loan, and there are mistakes on your credit report you didn't know about, it's going to take time to get that information removed.

Richard Dicker

In the face of provocative outbursts, the judge has to be firm but not trigger-happy in applying sanctions if fairness is going to be respected.

Michael Mills

Highly credentialed kids are applying with greater frequency to the same set of schools.

Matt Drudge

I'm not sure I'll ever hit that level and to the level of official stature that Bob Woodward had for his Nixon coverage, simply because I'm an outsider, ... But to the degree that the story now threatens a president, I do think it's on the same level as what Woodward and Bernstein did with their coverage and applying the pressure.

Simon Langford

In 2002, we were involved in the early implementation of RFID readers as part of the Auto-ID Center field trial. Those early readers took hours to install and minutes to destroy. But we learned a lot, and we have been applying that knowledge.

Wu Yi

The 'green card' simplifies the procedure of applying for a Chinese visa and renewing it over and over again,

Brian Gionta

He carries the play. He makes things happen and obviously when he's at the top of his game, the whole team's going.

Jamie Dixon

He's a great player. He's been a winner from the day he got here. The guys know that. They can sense it. It carries over with his competitiveness. The guys are watching, and I think Carl enjoys it. He relishes it. He's proud of what he's done here, and he should be.

Zach Wamp

Golf carries with it the comity and goodwill that are very rare in politics,

Nikki Burish

He's always looking out for his teammates, his friends, his family. He's a little over-protective. It doesn't stop in the locker room. It carries into the outside world.

Michael Sheldon

Historically, the three-month period before the Fed goes on hold in the rate hiking cycle, stocks have performed well and that carries on for the next 12 months,

Mark Martin

There is no driver in the sport who carries the size of stick that Dale Earnhardt carried. Every sport needs its heroes and we have our heroes here, but there are heroes who are very much different than Dale Earnhardt. There just won't be another one.

Stefan Willich

Chronic noise exposure carries an increased risk of heart attack,

Freya Stark

Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

Ricky Williams

I really don't have an expectation. I found that expectations really get in the way. I don't make that choice. I don't decide how many carries I will have, therefore it's pointless for me to have expectations about it.

Jeff Holland

Joe has matured. He is playing for the team instead of himself and he has been terrific.

Tony Benshoof

He did a video of himself wishing me luck. It was pretty cool.

Terry Wilson

He just tried to wedge himself in where there wasn't room.

Dusty Baker

He knows himself and how much he needs.

Jim Tracy

He is on a mission to pitch himself into this rotation, and right now he is succeeding.

Hank Sheinkopf

He showed himself to be a wartime leader. He rallied the people and he didn't buckle.

William Hazlitt

He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

Lao Tzu

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

Judith Collins

He is a man who has shown himself not to be the Minister for Social Development or actually a minister at all.

Jim Fischer

We're probably going to get several more inches of rain on this side of the mountain.

John Barrett

The laptop market is a mile wide and an inch deep.

James Roche

It was a 16 inch line, they make big holes, lot of water pressure washed it out.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Nick Park

You need to find things like having your actors move 2 inches in a day pretty exciting.

Mike Hill

Every inch of that thing is taken up with electronics, and hydraulics.

Unknown

Love is a thousand miles long but comes in six inch installments.

Tommy Williams

From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then until 8 a.m..

Charlie Brown

If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Tom Daschle

I haven't ruled anything out or anything in at this point.

Antony Starr

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

Patrick Leahy

I want an end to this thing. But where are we? Do we know what the rules are going to be?

Peter Ueberroth

The rules have changed, ... The old thing of 'getting in line,' that's gone.

John Tory

Even the rules that are in place are not being followed.

Kevin McGrath

We all have to live within the rules.

Carlos Castillo

We're simply saying we need to stick to the rules that we've all outlined.

Jim Gallagher

give everyone a sense of equilibrium and ... of where the rule is going to wind up.

Rex Harrison

Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian.

Roald Dahl

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

Samuel Richardson

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

Ashley Madekwe

The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

Lil Wayne

Swallow my words. Taste my thoughts. And if it's too nasty, spit it back at me!.

Pearl Bailey

You can taste a word.

Frank DeSalvo

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

Willie Nelson

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.