Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sandra Tsing Loh

While at a biological disadvantage in competitions, women - who even make trips to restaurant bathrooms in pairs - are at a clear advantage when it comes to grouping together and the activities that accompany it: gossiping, sharing, bonding, assisting, scrapbooking, and building networks.

Cynthia Ozick

Whoever utters 'Kafkaesque' has neither fathomed nor intuited nor felt the impress of Kafka's devisings. If there is one imperative that ought to accompany any biographical or critical approach, it is that Kafka is not to be mistaken for the Kafkaesque.

Terry Teachout

Well into the '40s, it wasn't uncommon for big-budget Hollywood movies to contain little or no underscoring, and many of today's directors, following the lead of Martin Scorsese in 'GoodFellas,' accompany their films with pop records, not original music.

Mayor Slifka

Given the anticipated public interest we know will accompany these applications, we have set other dates aside for further public hearings. We want to make sure we give the public an opportunity to speak.

Jeffrey Schott

Free trade is no panacea -- for Colombia to fully benefit from this deal it will need to accompany the agreement with sound economic policies that boost competitiveness.

Charlotte Whitton

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Dinaw Mengestu

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

Gavin Bryars

My thinking in this was as follows: in all the versions I had made everything that is played serves to accompany and support the old man's voice.

Benjamin Rush

In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.

Gerald Anderson

I was thinking about leaving here, but not because of Fred,

Tom Gonsalves

I was upset because we have been in tougher situations than this, and we lost our composure. They were leaving the person they were guarding, and doing their own thing on defense.

Robert Earl

I think I'm ready. It'll be tough leaving school behind, but I think I'm ready for that phase of my life.

Todd Turner

I wish the legislators would see how much money is leaving the state.

Michael Woods

Give yourself plenty of time to get wherever you're going. If you're leaving at your normal time, you've left too late.

Chris Aguila

He wasn't leaving a lot of stuff over the plate.

Michelle Langsford

I have been with him from day one, and I was not leaving his side when he needed me most.

Lauren Emerson

I didn't want my teammates to feel like I was leaving them because I was injured.

Eduardo Galeano

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

Joe Rowe

The natives are getting restless. It's a tense situation.

Holliday Grainger

I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.

Jonathan Adelstein

I was stunned by the scope. The public has a right to know who is trying to persuade them.

Geoffrey Robertson

He was persuaded that, for Puritans, there could only be one King, now and for ever,

David Horowitz

I wouldn't be persuaded to be here if it wasn't for 20 years of being on campuses and seeing this.

David Horowitz

I would not be here if I weren't persuaded by 20 years of walking around campuses and seeing this.

Action Bronson

I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

Mark Jacobs

They persuaded me to give it a shot.

Paul Vincent

Is there anything the magistrates can do to persuade you to pay?

John Reed

I'm persuaded it can work. Our sense is it's well worth doing,

Mitt Romney

Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance.

Mary Daubert

When the first rescuers arrived, he was still conscious. But then he went unconscious and they were unable to revive him.

William Faulkner

Some things you must always be unable to bear.

Bill Gates

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Kacey Musgraves

Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.

Bill Gurley

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,

Oswald Chambers

We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.

Oswald Chambers

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

Oswald Chambers

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

Neil Young

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Mark Twain

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

Jay Leno

106 [degrees] in the valley... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.