Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Gregory Craig

I would urge the relatives in Miami, if they truly want to get back together with Juan Miguel and his family, that they give me a call and let's talk about timing. Let's discuss this in a civilized way, rather than having national press conferences where demands are made.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Brian Finnerty

I would still call it a trading-range market. It's nice for today and the short term, but I doubt it's sustainable.

Ron Gatewood

Juan Jose Alfonso now flies with God -- I am sure.

Bob Holthus

He flies to Kentucky Monday morning. Odds for the Kentucky Derby? I think he will be no worse than second choice. Of course, I might have a bias.

Danny Devito

This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I'm like in one of my own pictures.

Brian Vaughn

You see scooters on Stratford Road all the time now. They look like little flies buzzing.

William Shakespeare

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

P. J. Harvey

He's very low-key and flies under the radar screen.

Ric Sperling

He's the pitcher on their staff that really flies under the radar. We know him well because he pitches American Legion. But he's really underrated. He's tough, competitive and he's a winner.

Drew Miller

He's so fast. He gets that puck, and he just flies with it.

Michael Hirst

The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and 'Downton' just flies past, when it's completely made up.

Ronald Reagan

It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work -- work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. This Administration's objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy.

Hunter Hillenmeyer

I think that they do more to get Foster on the outside a little more. He's great in space, a make-you-miss guy who spins out of tackles.

Kuniko Inoguchi

In my view, at this point, it is probably more important to foster a structural reform of mindset.

Robin Tunney

I remember reading a review that said Jodie Foster was screaming so loud to be given an Oscar, you wanted them to give it to her just so she'd stop.

Gary Kleeblatt

It is vital that foster parents can perform that role in a very vulnerable time in a child's life. Making sacrifices is something foster parents do every day and we are very grateful to them for their services to children.

Jessica Abel

It's an incredibly supportive and friendly field. Older people want to foster and help younger people. Which is not true of all creative fields, but it is true of comics, and it is true of radio.

Wendy Evans

That's also fostered a willingness to wear pink.

Tim Smith

Foster is a tough little guard. She's the motor of our team.

Shelly Main

Foster has been a great addition. She has contributed with her skills and her (positive) attitude.

Andrew Clark

If you're not a gambler and are truly risk-averse, the speculative portion of your personal investments should not be more than 10 percent.

Pete Rose

They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.

Nasir Khan

I don't Understand why People become Farmers, Gangsters & Gamblers when they join Facebook...

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Megan Smith

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Chris Mennis

I wouldn't be surprised if that $2.10 is the high for the week.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Katharine McPhee

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

Kamika Smith

Rocks were landing right on the viewing area.

Michael J. Massimino

In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the moon landing was right up there with the Mets in the World Series. So it made a, a big impression on me as a little kid.

Sam Mendes

I froze for a bit, in truth-for about six months after the Oscars... There were lots of scripts landing on my desk.

Lauren Worsham

After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

Richard Zuschlag

We won't go into the Superdome landing zone until security is restored.

Pattie Boyd

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

Jim Peters

The planes they have there are all low and slow. A safe landing rests solely with the pilot.

Linda Relis

I was so nervous, I couldn't watch till the landing was over.

Sally Ride

I did not come to NASA to make history.

Robert Zubrin

the first rational plan in any sense that I've seen from Nasa in decades.

Bart Gordon

should not be done by cannibalizing other NASA missions.

Mike Griffin

NASA has been favored by the administration, but it's still a very tough environment.

Christopher Russell

NASA did not react well to that news.

Jim Lovell

I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

Tycho Brahe

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.

John Carroll

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

Robert Redford

I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring.

Martin Fleischmann

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.

Dolly Parton

I will never retire unless I have to.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

Rene Auberjonois

I'm never going to retire.

Michael Palin

I will die, but not retire.

Michael Caine

You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.

Werner Heisenberg

Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.

Madeleine L'Engle

Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)

Cal Cochran

It's just another game. The stakes don't change.

Edmond Rostand

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

George Herbert

It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.

William Hedgcock Webster

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.

Michelle Gomez

Jack wasn't my type at all. I thought he was too young and too posh, and I told him that. Plus, I couldn't deal with his dodgy bowl-cut. But he wore me down.

Shaquille O'Neal

Whenever I see a celebrity that comes to watch me play, I'm going to do for them the same thing they've done for me - bring them some type of joy.

Nick Cave

I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy.

Daimon Shelton

He'll come back and get better, ... Being around him for so long and being the type of person he is, he'll respond. We'll all respond.

William Shatner

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

Venus Williams

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

Robert Stone

I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

Winston Graham

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

Zach Duke

I'm not unhappy or anything. It's a business. It's kind of a rite-of-passage type of thing.