Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Addison

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Willie Mitchell

Knowing it's a rival game, we knew they were going to play way above themselves. We just didn't get the job done.

William Shakespeare

Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.

Rachel Platten

I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.

Robert Frost

Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.

Robert Putnam

It can be heard even above the roar of a helicopter, which is important if you want to tell people anything. That's the problem with bullhorns ? over a helicopter, they can't really understand what you're saying.

Dan Shultis

He knows the game so well, he's above and beyond any player on the floor. He's almost like having a college player on the floor.

Richard Butler

What we've got to be certain about above all is whether it came from a country supporting these terrorists as a matter of policy, such as Iraq, which we know has made this stuff, ... And there's a credible report not fully verified that they may indeed have given anthrax to exactly the group that did the World Trade Center.

Scott Smith

Here at KGH we do between 2000 and 3000 mammograms per year, and each year we find five to ten cancers. According to the above national statistics, we can expect to find one - to two additional cancers per year, and find them earlier - in Stage I rather than in stage IV or V.

Guillermo Coria

I was losing feeling on the hand, ... It has been happening for four days. I had a lot of treatment...but during the match, the more I serve, the more it gets tight -- the forearm, the shoulder. I knew it could happen. That's just the way it is.

Robbie Grinestaff

I wouldn't say I'm fully recovered. I'm still kind of feeling it.

Jerry Miller

Jordan was feeling a little flat out there. I'm not sure why. We'll sort that out. We've been working pretty hard.

Keith Jones

I talk to them the way I talk to them. Missy talks the way she talks to them. The way Sam talks ? 'You're going to be OK; this is what you're feeling; this is why you're feeling it.' ? is a little different. Then we send them to the pit bulls. They do what they need to do to get it done.

Steve Foley

Guys don't want to feel that feeling again, ... We just have to make sure it motivates us in a positive way.

Bruce Miller

He's a great one. He really is, ... Sorry. This is too good to be true. Here's a kid that lost everything. And we could accommodate, that we could provide him something that he wasn't going to have, it's just a good feeling that comes over you.

Torry Holt

He said he was feeling better. He has a pretty good spirit about things, and that's the most important thing. That helps us. If he's high-spirited, then we can go out and be high-spirited.

Mamadi Diane

He seemed like he was hitting it from everywhere. After he hit that 3 way off the line with the guy in his face, I knew he was feeling it.

David Towne

I think their feelings were that a deal's a deal. But I think they said they would think about it.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Walter Robb

I would say it was about a month ago and I had an offer in my pocket and I was ready to sell. If I had not been able to find a good parent team, I would have sold. Then we had a meeting with Carolina.

Van Morrison

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. It's all the same. Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. They are interchangeable to me.

Elizabeth Banks

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

Adam Levine

All I needed to do was sing the lyrics that had already been written. I don't know those guys; they seem kind of kooky and crazy. I like their vibe.

Victoria Beckham

We've still got the melodies, we've still got the nice 'strong girl' lyrics going on.

Joe Johnson

Back then ... if you wanted the lyrics to a song you had to play it on the record and stop it, and then write it down, then play it again, then stop it,

Emmylou Harris

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Boris Pasternak

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

David Lodge

Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.

Mason Cooley

Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Nastassja Kinski

Just now, I've been working all the time and I don't have much of a personal life.

Roger Lemerre

It is not a personal thing for me, it is a voyage for the Tunisian team and people.

Dan Bartlett

He doesn't have a personal relationship with him.

Rob Zombie

The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

Tullian Tchividjian

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

Will Smith

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Ryan Stiles

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

Wilhelm Steinitz

I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Umberto Eco

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

All poetry is experimental poetry.

William Butler Yeats

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Jose Marti

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Tupac Shakur

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Tupac Shakur

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

Tupac Shakur

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

David Frank

Nothing's out of the realm of possibility right now.

Neil Harris

It's different, but within the realm of the sitcom still,

Ellen Hopkins

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

Edmund Hillary

I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.

David Bowie

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity...

Hanna Rosin

Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

William Blake

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

Samuel Johnson

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

Max Mosley

The idea could give rise to a commercially successful series, which may stand out from the other one-make series in the world of motorsports.

Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!