Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Perkins

With the increased number of tourists we are expecting as the Historic Trail becomes a reality, Water Avenue needs to put on its best front. At present it is an aerial mass of lines and cables and poles.

Angela Clark

It's just another avenue to promote positive cultural expression.

E. O. Wilson

This a possible route by which the virus could...gain a foothold in the human population. But it's not a doom or gloom story...I find it encouraging. Here's a possible avenue by which the virus can make the switch, and we should look out for it.

Randy Buckner

It suggests a new hypothesis and opens an avenue in exploration. By no means is it definitive.

Ken Richards

It's not new. It's sort of a two-part sword if Hollywood tells us it's cool and Madison Avenue tells us it's cool, then you know what: We believe it.

Jim Carroll

It's one of the more promising avenues of e-commerce. The right balance of cost and service can work well.

Ruby Dee

There was so much meanness in the atmosphere, ... but marvelous things pierce through the darkness of poverty and racism. You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

Dana Cohen

The remaining question now, however, is the fate of the Saks Fifth Avenue division. We believed a breakup was the likely outcome for Saks and today's report confirms our expectation. However, current trends do not suggest much upside from current levels. Instead, upside to current valuation hinges on a turnaround at the Saks Fifth Avenue business, which we consider unlikely under current management.

Charles Jenkins

It's a good tool for us to recruit. It gives (students) another avenue for a career option.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Soule

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

Charles Sturt

The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.

Charles Stanley

Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it.

Charles Spurgeon

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

Charles Spurgeon

I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the pretenders to perfection are better than good maniacs... for while a man has got a spark of reason left in him, he cannot, unless he is the most impudent of impostors, talk about being perfect.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual.

Charles Dickens

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

Alanis Morissette

So many boys, so little time...

Alan Bennett

We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?

Alan Alda

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

Kevin Yates

We want to send as many boys and girls to the district meet as we can and maybe get some individuals and relays to state.

Chick Hearn

I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.

Alan Watts

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

David Hilbert

Begin with the simplest examples.

Liza Minnelli

I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.

Byron Katie

Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without condition.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

Rachel Cusk

A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.

Joe Perry

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

John Edwards

They're trying every way they can to make it work, but they're an example of the struggles that American manufacturing is having.

Ted Denny

They talked with people who knew the victim to find out if he had any visitors recently. The people they spoke with led them straight to the suspects. It's an example of excellent interviewing by our deputies.

Trent Duffy

We are praying for their full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with their families and their loved ones. The White House is offering to help in any way as the government does when any American is injured in the line of work.

Bob Boone

When we deploy soldiers, we deploy the family. And we need to partner with all these groups to give these families what they need.

Shawn Johnson

What about the residential areas? What about my home? What about other families who houses that are still underwater? What are you doing to meet immediately meet our needs,

Adrian Ross

Workers and their families should not have been kept waiting. Payment now should be speedy to prevent further hardship.

Mitchell Hurwitz

What's realistic to me is that families love each other and stand by each other. What's unrealistic is that they would ever say that.

Leonard Boswell

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

As we progress and become more like the Savior, we can strengthen every group with whom we associate, including families and friends.

Dorothy Ellington

They provide a tremendous service for low-income families and the working poor. We're going to help them as much as we can to find a new space.

Warrick Dunn

A lot of guys gave a lot, and all I can do is say thank you. But it's not for me, it's for those families in the southern coastal region that were affected.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Ken Miller

The one thing you will find between all of the employees, particularly the linemen, is that they are willing to go out and help when there is a need like this,

Richard Roberts

The other thing is, when you see somebody smoking and you're trying to quit, you get that urge again. It doesn't help people quit,

Kevin Hall

The positive thing about it is I can use my story to inspire other people, to help them see that they can do what they want to help them pursue their dreams. If I can help one person that would make me happy.

Anne Ward

We are providing a lot of information and online resources to help people who have memory concerns.

Sarah Clapper

We started rushing things on the offensive end and that only helped them get into their transition game.

Andres Perez

We want people to know Latinos help not only Latinos, but the rest of the people.

Cheryl James

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Charles Handy

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Beth Moore

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

Nick Flynn

There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.

Nick Harkaway

I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried.

Jane Arraf

They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines,

Chris Nicholas

They're mostly male and of a younger demographic.

John Benjamin Hickey

So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.

David Hallberg

I sew my own shoes. Other male dancers don't, but I like it one way, and I've learned to do it that way.

Jill Soloway

I've been playing with this idea in my mind that the hero's journey that we're all taught as screenwriters may resonate more specifically for male protagonists and maybe even male viewers.

Karl Rove

Younger, blue-collar males are the soccer moms of this election,

Edward Abbey

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

Kay Henderson

They're role models in their communities, ... These kids, I would take 'em anywhere. They've got so much to share.

Naomi Campbell

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

E. Hicks

As an agency, our model is not really one that works well with one-off projects.

Siri Hustvedt

The third-person or 'objective,' static, reductive models used in most science are important and yield significant results, but they have their limitations.

Donald Trump

I've been told I'm a role model to many women,

Carl Becker

I used to paint model soldiers as a kid.

Paul Kemp

That's what modeling does, it makes something real before it happens.

Jeff Bell

The model is imploding. Why don't we start working on a transition?

Mausumi Dikpati

The model has demonstrated the necessary skill to be used as a forecasting tool.

Alanis Morissette

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Alan Parker

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Alan Alda

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

Chloe Sevigny

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

Chin-Ning Chu

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Earl Warren

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

Denis Waitley

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Denis Waitley

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

Denis Waitley

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

David Morris

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

Scott McClellan

Dick Clarke, in his own words, provides a point-by-point rebuttal of what he now asserts. This shatters the cornerstone of Mr. Clarke's assertions." ()

David Linthicum

What this provides us is a quick turnaround. We get there, we get to go do the tips on the show, and we come back tomorrow.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Caroline Kennedy

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Caitlin Moran

I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of "Dynasty" and "Dallas." And I just found that terrifying.

Cathy Freeman

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

Elizabeth Pena

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

Blu Cantrell

I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women.

Vladimir Putin

U.S. society doesn't want to play the role of international policeman.

Wes Miller

With my size, and I'm not much a jumper, I'm a spot-up shooter. That's been kind of my role throughout the year, and that's what it was tonight.

Golden Bears

When I look at Section 3's preseason scouting report, it's as if Henninger doesn't go 13-0 and win a state championship, it'll be pretty much a down year,

Charles Stanley

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

Charles Stanley

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

Charles Spurgeon

I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.

Alan Watts

Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?

Alan Rickman

Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there’s that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it’s like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it’s rather tedious to fill in the branches…

Alan Hovhaness

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

Alan Greenspan

If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

Alan Bennett

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.