Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Jim Anderson

Bankruptcy didn't 'go easy' for us. Almost one-third of our membership has been furloughed.

Eda Shan

Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things --wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

Chris Barnes

Babies are fun for punting. Even a lousy kicker can get one almost all the way over a football field.

Carol Bartz

Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.

Peter Capaldi

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.

Sam Bodman

As of right now, in Houston, Texas it's almost impossible to buy gasoline,

Tim Lindloff

As long as he stays out of foul trouble, he's been doing a very good job on the defensive end, just hanging around the basket and blocking shots. We usually try to match him up with somebody that's not going to hurt us from the perimeter and put him around the basket, almost like playing a one-man zone in there.

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Michael Leunig

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Lord Stevens

Articles in the press bore no relation to what had been said at meetings they reported.

Douglas Booth

Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.

Kris Kobach

Article II will trump anything Congress tries to do through statute.

Bob Gibbons

Arthur is a McDonald's All-America kid who had some contact with Indiana before. It's possible he could reopen that door, but it might be too late.

Pat Bowlen

Arthur has a point. We have to be careful that we don't have owners put perks on it to help decide where we play the Super Bowl. I don't think it's there yet.

Arthur Ashe

Arthur Ashe Jr. is a true Virginia hero, and he belongs here,

Aman Mojadidi

Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations.

Bracey Barker

Our defense was barely there. We didn't have any rotation.

Greg Reynolds

I got it barely off the ground, and I thought, 'Oh no.' I looked at the two rules officials and I knew it was a penalty.

John Gramuglia

Last year he barely snuck into district. Since then he put the work in. He's a gritty, hard-nosed kid who has really learned to wrestle. He has the confidence now.

Yan Stastny

My mom is the rock of our family. She keeps everyone together, everyone going straight forward. She's an unbelievable woman, raising four kids, moving to a different country (while) barely speaking English, she's a tremendous person. Both of my parents are my real-life idols.

Nyla Milleson

Who could imagine the journey these seniors have taken us on? I can barely find the words to describe them.

Becky Williams

He barely remembers all of this. When we came home, we pretty much had to relearn everything.

William Amos

I barely made it, ... This was just hellish.

Lindsay Davenport

I feel a lot better than I did at the French, when I was barely winning matches and sets.

Jacki Gemelos

I could barely watch. Every time the other team scored, I put my head down.

Ralf Rangnick

After a display like that we can not just go back to normal,

Mike Jones

It is a wonderful gift. All we've got to do is get the room to display a lot of this stuff.

Joe Davis

I would love to see it in the Hall of Fame, display it somewhere where everybody can see it, because it's about the ultimate memorabilia piece you could own.

Joe Mackey

He's got a lot of heart. That was on display tonight.

Bob Johnson

I can get a piece of fruit or a vegetable or produce or whatever and I can find various recipes for that particular item, and it can display that recipe, print it out, take it home, use that recipe, and we're integrating that with the locator system to show where all the ingredients are within the store for that recipe.

Phil Jones

It's just a wonderful display of how well she was liked.

Vikram Seth

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

Granger Whitelaw

The race will be an hour-and-a-half-firework display in the sky.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Gore Vidal

This is not at all bad, except as prose.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Lajos Egri

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Larry Bell

We ran really well, ... We worked them really hard Monday, looking ahead, except for one kid who wasn't there, and it's pretty obvious who it was. She had her legs today, and that was a big part of it.

Hootie Johnson

An invitation to become a member of Augusta National is very special and would never be tied to anything except personal relationships within this club.

David Todd

Everything has gone off pretty well, except for the weather.

Len Wolman

Everything you see is new except the structure of the rooms.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Kalle Palander

I skied like a pussy cat. I didn't take any risks because I heard that Rocca had skied out.

Betty Smith

You should have heard him 10 minutes ago.

William Snodgrass

You still whispered you would not die.Yet in the nights I heard you cryLike a whipped child. . . .

Jessica Robinson

Your question is the first I've ever heard of that.

Reba McEntire

You probably haven't heard of Steve yet, but, after this, you will.

Billy Connolly

If you haven't heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.

Thomas Lee

I visited with every student here at one point or another and none of them have said they feel unsafe here.

Rick Forney

There's none of that just-down-to-the-foundation devastation that we saw out of Mississippi after Katrina.

Kim Hunter

None of this has been done before; all of this is new ground,

Reuven Paz

None of these terrorists shows any remorse. They are proud of what they do.

Charlie Strong

I'm real concerned. No one has stepped up. We have the guys. But none of them has taken the job.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Peter O'Toole

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

Warren Sapp

You know what, none of what he's done has been all that bad,

Charles Kent

You know the Mayor's always talking about quality of life, but there is none around here,

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Dave Chanley

Other people stepped up, and we got enough production to win.

Ben Gordon

Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1.

Patrick Taylor

Other people could come up with different models.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Nick Kamberis

People scoff at that, but they're legit. We sent his tape out and all 122 are on there.

Sarah Waters

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

Carl Willis

Tell me the youngest person you have ever seen play this game.

Felix Sabates

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Claire Foy

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

Robert Williams

I've never seen anything like this in Detroit. It's different for sure.

Todd Pratt

I've never seen anything like that, ... You just sit down and go, 'This is unbelievable that this is happening.'

Doug Graham

I've never seen (a case) where they've taken the vehicles together.

Jesse Jackson

I've been in TV for a lot of years and I've never seen anything like them.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.