Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Lee Curtis

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

David Foster Wallace

That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

Toby Chaudhuri

The president called for ending our addiction to oil but there's no 12-step program in his budget. ... The president's energy policy ... is constrained by lack of imagination, scope, resources and an unwillingness to roll back subsidies to energy companies already enjoying record profits.

Paulo Coelho

MySpace is an addiction.

Marianne Williamson

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

Michael Irvin

More important to me is to help my friends and help my brother and to remove this drug addiction spirit out of my family.

Kathy Davis

That 'from addiction to recovery' tag line is really big.

Keith Miller

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

Pauline Kael

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

Dino Ebel

That was a bad one. Like I've said since day one, this team never gives up. We gave up seven runs in an inning, but battled back. It's exciting. We still have a lot of games left.

Harry Smith

People cannot give up on the city as bad as this looks, ... It's devastating and it's catastrophic, but I have also been around the city and there are pockets of the city that can come back quickly, and I want people to come back.

Heather Stephens

Oh! I feel really bad about that now that I think about that. She's just so good and she's a senior. She's amazing. I've always looked up to her.

Vince Carter

Oh, I can care less about scrutiny and all that. If it was a bad game, it was a bad game. Just because of what people say and what people think, they don't dictate my game and how I play. I've been in the playoffs before and I've had bad games in the playoffs before. It's just one of those things, you shake it off.

Robin Smith

Oh God, fresh air, it's so wonderful. It's the first time I've wanted to breathe all day. When you think what we could've gone through, it's not too bad in there. But it's certainly not as wonderful as this.

Tommy Tuberville

The more games you play, the more chance you have of playing a bad game on offense. Your defense can play good every week as long as they play hard. It's a lot easier to play defense than it is offense.

Jonathan Woodgate

Dr. del Corral helped me in bad times, ... and it was great to celebrate my first goal with him.

Lori Blade

Defensively, we are staying in the game. We had the one bad game where they pulled two gap shots on us and got two runs.

Olin Kreutz

Defensively, they pretty much knocked us around. We didn't do anything. They beat us pretty bad on offense. They play pretty good defense. And they still have Brett Favre.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Irene Toner

We cannot have people just breaking in and taking weapons and ammunition. That's something no one even thought about until we watched the news from New Orleans.

Ken Livingston

Those police were actually breaking the law as they took those banners away. We are not having any of that.

Steny Hoyer

We are breaking a promise, and that is unfair to the people who fought so long and so hard for this legislation.

Jenny Mack

We don't want you to be caught off-guard. The first time you find out about a new law should not be when you're getting a ticket for breaking it.

Dave Mohapp

We tried to run. We have to get better at it. Mitchell got close to breaking one.

Jim Gray

When a good month is just breaking even, there is no making up for the bad.

Jeremy Corbyn

We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information so that we have a multiplicity of sources.

William Stairs

As far as the timing of the budget is concerned, he hasn't made up his mind.

Gary Goddard

The budget is pretty self-explanatory, ... This is a very readable document.

Carolyn McLaughlin

I understand we have a lot of streets to repave and not a lot of money in the budget.

Jim Horney

We had a very serious budget problem before Katrina hit.

Abby Ottenhoff

We see a lot of merit in the bill, but it is a budget issue. It would have to be worked out as part of the budget process.

Susan Collins

FEMA has become a symbol of a bumbling bureaucracy in which the American people have completely lost faith. There are many good people who work at FEMA. But they have lacked the leaders, the tools, the systems, and the budget to be effective.

Lindsey Graham

There's so much opportunity here to go back into the budget and extract some savings to help pay for this hurricane relief that I look at it as an opportunity for the Congress to get back to its roots of being fiscally sound and conservative, ... Maybe something good can come from this hurricane.

Alan Greenspan

There should be little disagreement about the need to re-establish budget discipline,

Jerry Rogers

There's frightening information in there. Our school budget has gone up 140 percent over the 13 years.

Chris Hill

The thing about the committee, and you get tired of telling people, is everything's independent. Every year's different. Every team's different. We go in with a clean slate every year.

Bruce Krall

I spent a lot of money and a lot of effort cleaning it up.

Bob Graham

We should first give the Syrians and the Lebanese the opportunity to clean up their own house, ... That is a more serious threat to the United States in my judgment than Saddam Hussein.

Tom Rathbun

You have a material that can be used as fuel. As soon as you get the material out of the stream, it (the stream) improves. If we can clean streams while creating electricity, and it's not costing the taxpayers any money to clean up these streams, that's a good thing.

Richard Hall

We will also see a lot of white on white. A very clean look.

P. J. Harvey

We try to run a clean program, so we consider any violation 'serious' if it's proven to be true, ... But right now, these are just allegations. The committee will meet with the NCAA to determine the number of possible violations and their nature.

Larry Simns

We gotta start somewhere. The Corsica River is a good place to start. We clean up that treatment plant, plant some oysters, plant some grasses, do some marshland around the sewer plant -- we get that cleaned up, we can start with the Chester River.

Jaren Jackson

We hit some big threes when they made runs on us ... and we hit some shots that were momentum breakers, but they were clean looks and shots we normally make.

Teresa Follmer

We're going to wipe this down and you want to make sure you have plenty of clean water because you're going to be rinsing, rinsing, rinsing.

Rick Lane

There was a hands-off mentality because Congress didn't understand the issues.

Carol Cox

We will spend less money next year than we did two years ago -- not very much less, ... The administration, having lowered the bar, got more of what it wanted out of Congress. At the end, the administration was holding the whip hand because it was Congress that wanted to go home.

Tom Schatz

Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done.

Rick White

Most of Congress is sort of lost in cyberspace. They know there's something called the Internet out there. But most of 'em don't know how to use it and most of 'em aren't very familiar with it.

Eric Fehrnstrom

If Congress and the President impose new requirements on the project, we'll follow the procedures and guidelines set out in the law.

Michael Crye

The cruise lines cooperated with Congress in gathering these statistics to further demonstrate that cruising is an exceptionally safe vacation.

Steve Alexander

This is a great victory. . . . We heard predictions and from many critics and pundits that Congress would never repeal the Byrd amendment.

Justin Jones

This is a hunting license. It doesn't mean we've bagged the deer, but it means we get to go for the money. And it isn't just any license. It's a license from the president to go to Congress and get the money.

Tom Daschle

This is a Congress that is much more interested in investigating than legislating,

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Thomas Neil

Now is when they have to decide how much they want to continue to play football.

Carles Puyol

Samuel said he didn't want to continue but we wanted to convince him that he should not let them (the racists) get to him.

Duane Grant

The work they do continues to be on the cutting edge of bio-energy.

John Smoltz

This is for all the nay-sayers. This is for all the ones that said there's no way this can continue ... to the ones that are waiting for the next debacle.

Kevin Knight

This is exciting, ... I haven't lived in Colville for 18 years, but I think that there is a positive influence here. I'm excited about helping to continue the excellence in our schools.

Carmen Mirochna

This is exactly what we needed. Their dedication really shows on days like today, and we will continue working hard.

Stephanie Bunker

This is exactly what we had feared. We need to continue to do as much as possible to help mitigate this situation and prevent, insofar as that's possible, any such occurrences in the future.

Nick Davis

There was no drilling involved because it was above- ground. Most of the guys would not even qualify for 250 straight days.

Frances Beinecke

Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

Kirk Hinrich

Something went off in our heads -- maybe we were playing not to get embarrassed. If we started the game the way we played the second half, we're going to be tough to beat. We have to come out with more energy and focus.

James Jones

Ross has been really steady for us. He gave us a lot of energy off the bench.

John Ryding

Energy prices do matter, especially to the public's perception of inflation.

Peter Beutel

Every time energy prices triple we have a major recession in 1½ to 2 years.

Tony Fadell

You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety.

Troy Mattson

We tried today, we just didn't have the energy. We should have won one of these games this weekend. We lost a lot of energy because of our short bench.

Arron Afflalo

We just played with a lot of energy at the end. Obviously, it was desperation time. We were very fortunate tonight.

Jake Krause

We just stressed that the kids had to have more energy. They were a little lackadaisical in the first half.

Rafer Alston

We have to find a way to shoot better at home. We have to have more intensity and more energy and less mistakes.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Craig Sherman

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Kurt Faust

The opponent we're playing this week is the one in the mirror. We need to focus on ourselves and get better.

Al Rauch

We think it might make sense for them to try and focus on what they do well, which is Phase III testing and marketing,

Callie Widel

We just pulled together. We know we are good enough to be here and we just needed to focus. Everyone pitched in a word on how it needed to be done. Things have been great ever since.

Al Thornton

We just never got our offense going. We knew it was going to be tough and we didn't focus like we should have.

Terry Farrell

We just lost our focus for about four minutes and they had a run that we could never make up.

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

George Becker

China's a rogue nation, ... We should hold our congressional leaders accountable.

Bengie Molina

I got a hold of it. I didn't think it was going to stay fair, but it did.

Steve Cummings

If you are going to sit on it, you want it to hold you.

Robert Mahon

I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope.

Mark Bowden

She would talk to patients, hold patients' hands, try to find supplies for us. She would do whatever she could.

Susan Peele

She plays big. Our kids know as long as they score goals, she'll hold up her end of things.

Marlon Devonish

I have been having technical problems with my 200m all year. I am really, really quick now but I am struggling to hold it round the turn.

Alexander Hamilton

I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Andrea Seigel

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

Hilton Armstrong

We don't want to lose to them twice. It was our mistake. We need to come out and play a little tighter 'D' instead of being so loose.

Shawan Robinson

I think we just got tight. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose.

Will Rogers

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory

Bobby Cox

Every once in a while he tries to overthrow out there. He throws 100 (mph) instead of pitching.

Pat Knight

It shows that we can play in tight game, instead of getting buried. But we still need to be able to win on the road.

Phil Williams

It sounds like what you're saying is, instead of the justice system, it's the lottery system.

Joe Macri

It's tough when you lose by three. You get a point here or there and you only have to go for two at the end instead of needing a three.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

William Shakespeare

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

Tom Lantos

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

Seth Godin

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

John P. Kotter

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

Ray Davies

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Rosa DeLauro

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

Steve Chabot

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Thomas Friedman

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

Peter DeFazio

There is no free market in oil.

Sherwood Boehlert

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

Nigella Lawson

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

Miranda Kerr

I will not go a day without coconut oil. I personally take four tablespoons per day, either on my salads, in my cooking or in my cups of green tea.

Michael Moore

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Rich Miller

is suspended the rest of this season and the start of next.

Susan McWhorter

We tried to use more subs and rest our sick players.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

Barry Bonds

Right now, I'm just day-to-day, trying to get through the rest of the season,

Christopher Shays

More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders,

Gary Neville

He won't give me one single second's rest for 90 minutes,

Jim Tutwiler

I would be surprised if it stays on the site rest of the day.

Do Won Chang

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Bob Dylan

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

Bobby Fischer

I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

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.

Douglas Adams

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

Adelaide Anne Procter

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.