Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert Burnet

. . . was apt to suffer things to run on till there was a great heap of papers laid before him, so then he signed them a little too precipitately.

Chipper Jones

If a guy who has a personal interest in the Braves buys the team, he's more apt to take the money that he makes off the team and put it right back into the team ? such as Ted did. Time Warner didn't do that. Obviously, selling out to (Liberty Media), I don't see things being any different.

H. Hart

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out of a great many smaller ones

Chris Dodd

I think there is a question of fearing that if we know more, there is apt to be more panic. And I understand that calculation, but I think it is a miscalculation,

Steven Page

I think suing our fans is the wrong path to take when we're trying to nurture our fan base. Studies show that people who share music online are more apt to spend more money on music.

Robert Frost

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother

John Keenan

If his reaction to this testimony or this subject is apt to be as emotional as it just was, ... tell him, he should just remain as quiet and passive as possible.

William Petty

If great cities are naturally apt to remove their seats, I ask, which way? I say, in the case of London it must be westward... If it follow from hence that the palaces of the greatest men will remove westward, it will also naturally follow that the dwelling of others who depend upon them will creep after them.

Jordana Brewster

I went to an all-girls school and then I started working when I was fifteen, so I'm not very socially apt when it comes to dating.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

Steve Whittington

The bottom line is we need to do what we're capable of and swim out best times. If we don't come to swim, it's not going to be good for us.

John Kaleo

The buzz around the organization is that they are putting together the best squad dating back to Buffalo, ... It will be the best squad that the Destroyers organization has ever had. Don't expect a losing attitude, expect a winning attitude, because the players aren't satisfied until they have a winning atmosphere.

Mike Teofilo

The boys team's perform­ance was one of the best we've had in years. It was the first time since 1990 that our boys won the Dodge County meet.

Todd Spanier

The boys ran their best and competed as well as I've seen them. We really look to be improving as the season moves on.

Bob Ward

Alisa is starting to feel more comfortable in the point guard role. She's doing a much better job of finding her scoring opportunities and finding teammates. The big thing was we settled down in the second half after rushing things too much in the first half.

Camila Alves

I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.

C. S. Lewis

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

Arundhati Roy

The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably... in the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.

Bob Dylan

I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

Scott Ritter

We have inspectors on the ground. They're getting compliance. They're doing their job and they're not finding anything that warrants a threat worthy of war,

Bob Bowman

We heard in 2002 that there was no market for it. We kept finding that no one could handle the sheer weight of baseball.

Deepak Chopra

As you take steps to expand your awareness, you will naturally find yourself harnessing your mind's infinite power to create greater health, happiness, and love in your life.

Jeremiah Jeremiah

a pervasive problem in our society of how people look at older workers.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Trey Aby

We'll still play some of the older teams. But with what we did this year, some things are going to change.

Corey Clark

Older women have always been attracted to me.

Keith Richard

Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Joss Whedon

I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.

Casey Self

My partner is 11 years older than me, and I'd like for him to be able to retire.

Kim Weston

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.

Venus Williams

I will always be the older sister. That's never going to change.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Andre Breton

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Tia Carrere

If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.

Vin Diesel

If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Beth Jones

I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.

Orlando Cabrera

There is a lot of talent here, a lot of talent.

Pat Riley

There's not many who have a better or more talented (trio).

Colin Powell

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

Nick Cannon

If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.

Irving Berlin

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

Eminem

I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me.