Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Leakey

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Ashley Hanhurst

We've almost been a team that likes to come back.

Becky Christofferson

We usually play full court almost every game. The second half has been ours the whole season. We play better in the second half for some reason.

Samir Haj

We struggled until almost the end. But it will show our kids that if you don't concentrate and play hard from the beginning anything can happen.

Jamie Mauthe

We struggled to put Sarah through college so that she could become a certified X-ray technician. But we are not big spenders and have almost no personal debt. It's all in the farm.

Mike Urich

We are a different ball team than we were almost two months ago. We feel a lot of what we do they may know what's coming, but as long as we execute like we have, I think we will be OK.

Paul Murphy

We are at the point now, for the first time in this peace process, where almost all of the parties are at the table,

Rob Stewart

There are continually mixed messages, and there is almost increasing confusion in the mind of the average Joe.

Jeff Lenard

We're in hyperdrive. These wholesale increases are going to be felt almost immediately.

Akon

I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

Chris Chocola

We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.

Chris Bauer

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

Chris Albrecht

The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It's not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you're gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that's going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought.

Chita Rivera

I have always loved a challenge.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

China Mieville

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

Bear Grylls

The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.

Mike Smith

We always have a number of schools where it's a challenge to fill them. There has to be a school that is selected the least.

Estelle

The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.

Talen Singer

We are looking to turn the corner this year and come out of a losing slump.

Mike Bair

There are customers from every corner of the globe.

Madeline Albright

There is no question that Yugoslavia has turned a corner and is moving in a positive direction toward Europe and democracy.

Craig Thompson

We're going to reach all four corners of the country. We're going to be able to follow Mountain West sports the way no one else has been able to follow Mountain West sports before.

Rick Steves

What little history we've got in this rugged little corner of ours, we want to treasure. In Europe, they don't bulldoze things thoughtlessly. They preserve them.

Monica Tooley

Usually corners are sure goals for us. We probably score on one out of three.

Ken Williams

It's just amazing, the turnaround. We went from not being permitted to even stand on the school's street corner to being permitted to stand on school property and also have a club. It's a total reversal.

Kellan Lutz

A lot of girls in L.A. just stand in the corner wondering 'Who's gonna talk to me? Who am I gonna diss?'

Lorraine Bracco

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

Mike Heffernan

We're in significantly better shape than we were last year,

Gene Stephenson

We're in last place now in the league. Twenty-nine years we've never been in this situation in this league at 2-6, I know that. Right now, we're just not very good.

Bill Trumbo

We're in a much-improved spot from a year ago. At this point last season, we were 0-4.

William Shakespeare

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

Shawan Robinson

When you think of those overtime games, some of the others that were ours to win going into the last minute or so, I know ? we all know ? it would a be a different season if we had him.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Jimmy Johnson

We have to find some speed and turn things around. Thankfully, we had a strong start to the season, so this last month we really didn't have to race our way in. But we've got to find it in a hurry.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Charles Caleb Colton

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

Charles Dickens

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Charles Sturt

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

Charles Stanley

Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.

Charles Spurgeon

Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

Alan Arkin

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

Al Pacino

If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

Chris Coons

I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue

Chris Albrecht

One of the reasons to go to South Africa is because we can create great standing sets, both interior and exterior, and have the opportunity to create an actual water set outside, which will allow us to build a boat and probably part of another ship to be able to really bring that world to life.

Chris Albrecht

Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may have started elsewhere, as Crimson Petal did in the UK. So, our main strategy for Encore is to go through those types of partnership acquisitions.

Chris Alexander

I went into the foreign service because I was interested in politics. But, in 1991, when I joined, I didn't see much of an opportunity to be involved in federal politics as a Conservative. We were at the tail end of the Brian Mulroney era. I wanted to do something non-partisan as a way of preparing for a role in our politics later.

Chris Abani

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

Chin-Ning Chu

Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Bill Maher

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

Bill Bailey

Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'

Adriana Cruz

These are all things that can be turned into a brand.

Tubby Smith

We really got rattled. They really had another gear; they turned it up.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Jay Wright

At the end, he was just exhausted. I turned to him and asked: Have you got one more in you?

Steve Burgess

To be honest, I thought this should be a very comfortable win, and that's how it turned out.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Lori White

They thought in two weeks it would be in the back of the closet.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Cobi Jones

Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy.

Trisha Goddard

I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.