Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leon Askin

Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.

Lance Bass

It is very devastating, especially having to watch it on television, when you have family members that are being bombarded by the thing.

Jon Davis

On Thursday morning if it's delayed, we get bombarded (with calls) -- which, to us, sometimes seems crazy. But this has been a very sensitive winter. We try to get it into everyone's hands at the same time.

Ron O'Brien

Officials in the United States have cracked down considerably on spammers by giving out harsh sentences to those convicted -- that's good news for organizations and consumers. Unfortunately, email users around the world are still being bombarded by unsolicited messages.

Trent Reznor

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

Rebecca Fuller

We did lots of free ones for friends and people in church and whoever. They just started performing so many times, and we were bombarded with requests.

Dan Tredinnick

We didn't want to create another opening-day effect, especially for private landowners who might have been tempted to consider posting their ground if they were constantly bombarded with anglers.

Wes Smith

There's no safe place in Iraq. Wherever we went, we were bombarded with artillery, rockets, mortars, you name it.

Daniel Radcliffe

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Al Sharpton

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

Tim Sanders

We want them to have that local commitment to the community, and that's a big part of our request for proposals. We're not looking for Wells Fargo out of San Francisco.

Chris Alexander

I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Together, we must renew our continued commitment to serve and pledge to bring a positive change to our communities.

Denis Waitley

Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

Norman Taylor

The only commitment has been to study the issue.

Peter Feinstein

We have no other intention right now for the property other than to operate it not only as the world's largest gentlemen's club, but as the world's most expensive gentlemen's club.

Tom Parker

Absolutely. It's not an extraordinarily expensive thing. This year, we're getting a late start, but I look for it to do very well in year two and three.

Josie Russo

The most expensive item on the menu is the prime rib at $15.95, but that's a big piece of prime rib.

Robert Artelt

The more round they are, the more expensive they will be and the better quality they will be.

Rick Foster

It's just the technology, but it's expensive technology.

Virginia Barker

It's expensive and it does not offer as much protection as a vertical sea wall during a really intense storm event.

Hideo Mizutani

It seems that foreign selling, partly spurred by relatively expensive Japanese shares, has peaked out.

Kevin Knox

They're still three times as expensive as CRTs, but they're not three times better.

Sherry Broder

They (the Marcos family) always seem to find money to run for office in the Philippines, which is an expensive undertaking.

Joe Madrigal

They did some hammering, but it wasn't that extensive and it wasn't going on the whole day.

Steve Donahue

This break-in was planned by a professional - someone who had to have an extensive knowledge of construction. This is a very serious offense, and I just hope that none of our students were involved.

Robert Erspamer

There was extensive fire, smoke and water damage.

Jim Duquette

It's a fairly extensive restructuring. I don't go into the reasons, but you can infer why.

John Wohlmuth

It's a rather complicated plan, very extensive and it has taken over 10 years to get to this point.

Nan Aron

There's been extensive outreach to senators and their staffs by numerous people urging them to vote no on the nomination.

Marion Blakey

After months of negotiation and extensive review of key issues, they just aren't moving on the issues at the heart of the negotiations,

Andrew Natsios

the most generous and the most extensive in American history for the U.S. government.

Dave Roberts

You're talking about a catastrophic disaster, with extensive damage. Look at the impacts of Katrina: You're going to get that all over again.

Dr. Baxter

A lot of our facilities are old, with no isolation facilities.

Tom Reilly

They've always been a top organization for golf. Now they want to make this one of their flagship facilities and they're willing to do what they can to upgrade.

Robert Horan

This jail has been accredited by the state as a jail that can hold juveniles because it has facilities to keep them separate from adults,

Tim Floyd

There's a reason why this program has not gotten to the level of other sports (at USC). And facilities have something to do with it. This allows us to sell our program in recruiting. You have to go in apologizing, not recruiting. Spending $143 million shows commitment, and that it's not only a football school. And hopefully, it will give us a home-court advantage.

Ryan Daniels

VCA runs freestanding, larger facilities that are probably running a higher level of health care.

Sean Callahan

As our program grows, the facilities are not growing with it. That is really discouraging.

Tom Bauer

It was the right thing to do because I think that there is more opportunity in the township schools in terms of facilities and after-school programs.

Deborah White

The storm's track at the moment takes it through a different patch of the offshore oil production facilities to Katrina,

Don Stewart

I've been to facilities that have had issues in the past, but I've been to good facilities, too.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Tim Short

We've won playoff games before, but not down 18 on someone else's home court. Yeah, this is pretty special.

Mike Pomerenke

We've won more games this year than we'd won all of last year already. And you know, that's a huge improvement.

Chris Bosh

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Chris Bosh

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Chris Bosh

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

David Hoffman

It suggests that he's not particularly hostile to securities plaintiffs and many judges are.

D.J. Shockley

It was a hostile situation and we weren't sure how everything was going to go, but I wanted to play well and get us the win,

Trent Johnson

We're going into one of the more hostile environments we've seen all year. I'm impressed with Missouri State's team, with how physical they play.

Robert Bly

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

Jitin Prasada

I work in a hostile atmosphere, and my voters are the only strength I have.

Felix Baumgartner

The stratosphere is a hostile place.

Trent Johnson

We played in one of the more hostile environments, so, yes, we played with toughness. We were in the game.

Newt Gingrich

Established systems are inherently hostile to change.

Patrick Wang

Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

Greg Rosenblum

There was shouting. There was hostility during the deliberation. There was adamant disagreement, but ultimately everyone respected everyone else's point of view.

Lutfullah Mashal

We know that he has been killed, but do not know whether it was because of personal hostility or because he once had joined the Taliban,

Judy Carter

You go, you breathe, and when you come back, whatever hostility has been going on is usually gone.

Paul Saffo

The problem has not been hostility to technology; the problem has been big egos.

Mara Wilson

I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.

Jon Stewart

I have a lot of hostility.

Ian Mckellen

When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.

James Norton

When I was playing a psychopath in 'Happy Valley,' it was really weird.

Cheryl Cole

We're so inconsistent. That's what's scary about us, I'm sure for anybody's who's playing us, but it's also scary for me because I don't know what team we're going to be tonight.

Tony Harper

We're going to play the same way we've been playing all year.

Chris Plummer

We're seeing more and more playing on it.

Dennis Brooks

We're right where we need to be. We've been playing very tough.

Lora Staveness

We were in a position where we could go out and do it. That's what we were playing for. ... Whether it's a tie or not, that's the way the seniors wanted to go out.

Bob Schulz

We better play better than we are playing right now.

Dick Hunsaker

Weber State is on a two-game win streak. They are playing well and with a lot of confidence.

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Alan Jackson

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

Alan Greenspan

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

Alan Arkin

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

Alan Arkin

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Alan Ball

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

Al Roker

I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.

Al Lewis

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

Akshay Kumar

On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!

Akshay Kumar

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.