Famous Quotes & Sayings

Art Hogan

As fearful as investors were nearly seven weeks ago, they're afraid of missing the bottom, so that's why you see the violent moves to the upside. But we still have to get through October,

Natalie Peters

Autumn did a nice job today. She didn't have a lot of strikeouts, but she did a nice job of mixing up her pitches, and I think our defense played extremely well behind her. Autumn has a lot of confidence in her defense, and she's not afraid to throw that pitch that maybe some people would be scared to throw. She trusts in her defense.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A Woman is home caring for her children! even if she can't. Trapped in this well-built trap, A Woman blames her mother for luring her into it, while ensuring that her own daughter never gets out; she recoils from the idea of sisterhood and doesn't believe women have friends, because it probably means something unnatural, and anyhow, A Woman is afraid of women. She's a male construct, and she's afraid women will deconstruct her. She's afraid of everything, because she can't change. Thighs forever thin and shining hair and shining teeth and she's my Mom, too, all seven percent of her. And she never grows old.

Randy Newman

a throwback to the players of old. They are not afraid to play with pain.

Bobby Bowden

That was about the maddest I've ever seen Joe. I didn't say anything to him though; I was afraid he'd slap me.

Josh Turner

Raising three boys is a huge responsibility for me, especially in this day and time when I look around and there's a lack of good, strong, upstanding Christian men who are not afraid to be men and just own up to their responsibility.

Jay Wong

Productivity is the issue. If you have people that are sick or afraid to leave their house, I don't know how you can get around that. Semiconductor manufacturing plants are in China and it's not as if there are many back up plants around the world.

Drew Bledsoe

People try to pigeonhole Bill and make it out like he just wants to run the ball and play defense. I've been with him before, and we threw it more than anyone in the history of the league. He's not afraid to take a chance on a trick play here and there. He felt that would give us a chance, and it obviously did. Those plays turned into points for us.

Rob Babcock

Other point guards in his range are not likely to want to come in here and compete with Rafer and Calderon, ... He wasn't afraid to come in here knowing what we had.

Chuck D.

The Bush administration, with its doctrinal commitment to unfettered deregulation, has insisted that this situation can be resolved by allowing the states and utility industry to deal with it by themselves,

P.M. Forni

Our defense saved us. After the first quarter, we weren't scoring, but we weren't allowing them to score either.

Paul Thurrott

On Tuesday, September 13, 2005, Microsoft announced to its employees and that it was reorganizing the company into a simpler organization in which executives much further down the chain would have direct decision-making capabilities, allowing the company to move more quickly in this ever-changing market and compete better with companies such as Google and Apple. The reorg was announced publicly a week later, with Microsoft also announcing that group vice president Jim Allchin would retire once Windows Vista ships in late 2006. Succeeding Allchin is Kevin Johnson, who will oversee the new Platform Products & Services division. Jeff Raikes, the head honcho of the unit previous responsible for Microsoft Office, was named president of the Microsoft Business Division. And Xbox's Robbie Bach was named president of Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division, which will combine the Xbox with Microsoft's other hardware products,

Judd Gregg

After years of allowing spending to grow unchecked, I am gratified to see the Senate take a step in the right direction toward serious fiscal discipline.

Cheng Siwei

The money we worked hard to earn is lent to foreign countries, allowing them to earn more money. This is not as good as us using the money to buy U.S. goods directly, which can effectively reduce the (trade) deficit.

Mike Castle

draws a strict ethical line by only allowing federally funded research on stem cell lines that were derived ethically from donated embryos determined to be in excess.

Terri Schrishuhn

Defensively, we started allowing open looks from 3 and if you let good varsity basketball players get their feet set, they're going to make that shot.

Andy Stephens

Defensively, they are only allowing about 100 yards rushing per game.

Brian Gammage

Dell is trying to change the culture of the market by changing the structure of PC selling. It is going directly to the customer or small businesses or allowing them to order over the phone or via the Internet, which it is benefiting from.

Quentin Clark

The broadest audience we can reach right now is going to be on Windows XP. What we do longer term is a function of where the market is.

Rich Gordon

An individual person building an audience and a business through self-created content ? that's not been possible before.

Jennifer Lopez

I see this opportunity as a way to connect to the Spanish-speaking audience in a different and more profound way than I've been able to do in the past. I want to tell the stories of Latinos who grow up here and live the American Dream.

Eduard Hanslick

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

James Wan

I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.

Kate Smith

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

Tom Bissell

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

Tracy Chapman

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

Barry Levinson

It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

Charles Mason

any time someone new comes to a school board, they bring with them a unique viewpoint; and that often causes discussions that have not happened before.

Sean Comber

Any sign of softening will see markets bring forward expectations of rate cuts. Tough talk on interest rates may provide further opportunities to sell New Zealand dollars.

Guido Buchwald

Another reason I wanted to stay here was to build a good team for next year. I have my eye on bringing in one or two more players.

David Tom

As far as a guy leaving town with a million bucks, he's still going to pay some taxes to go to the city, so it will be good. It's going to economically bring some dollars in that they would not otherwise have if we would have pulled the plug on the golf tournament. So I think it's a very, very important week.

Tom Buchanan

As envisioned, the proposed energy school will bring together the scientific, engineering and economic disciplines at UW to focus on teaching and research related to the state's energy infrastructure,

David Power

As a team owner I couldn't be any prouder than I am right now, ... Our crew chief Lee Beard, tuning consultant Rob Flynn and all the guys have come together to form a really exceptional team and I feel we are going to bring a lot to the table in Indianapolis.

Junior Seau

As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.

Kevin Hawkins

As China remains the greatest hope for bringing unbeatable value to our high streets, we trust the EU will keep its word on defending the rights of consumers and not just a handful of uncompetitive European producers.

Miriam Toews

The British are actually a lot more appreciative of the comic. In Canada, if you're perceived as a comic writer, there's a real snobbery, and you can't be serious. You're not a big hitter.

Randeep Hooda

During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.

Frank Miller

I've always wanted to do crime stories. That's my favorite thing to read, ... I grew up reading Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. I always thought they would make excellent comic books.

Chris Morris

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.

Maggie Peterson

Don was a comic actor. He wasn't a wisecracking, loud sort of person always telling jokes - nor is Andy.

Ben Katchor

In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.

Kevin Kwan

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

Dick Gregory

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

Dave Attell

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes.

Mary Coleman

As educators, we are inspired by the possibility of sharing these important works with people around the globe. Think of the doors it will open for students; geographical distance will no longer hamper research.

Dale Romans

That part of it may be tough for us, but his pedigree says he should handle the distance, and he trains like it, too. He'll gallop 2 1/2 miles and never get tired. What I'm really hoping is the distance will make him that much better.

Brian Anderson

Anything flying that distance should have a pilot.

Daniel Goleman

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

Charles Darwin

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree...The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered subversive of the theory.

bell hooks

Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

Craig Ferguson

Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over long distances. They were like ancient Slim Jims.

Brennan Manning

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Baruch Spinoza

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Brian Tracy

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.

Jane Campion

I fell in love again (laughs).

Busy Philipps

For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.

Catherine O'Hara

I'm afraid to laugh out loud, because there's so much information.

Carrot Top

My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.

Carrot Top

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

Dean Koontz

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Craig Ferguson

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

Steffen Schmidt

There are moments when people have to realize their credibility, which is the only thing politicians have, is hurt.

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

David Arner

There are moments in the music that are really talking about the violence, as a society, that we do to our water.

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Brennan Manning

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Eckhart Tolle

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

Deepak Chopra

The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Annie Parisse

Reading a play, you view yourself as part of a whole. You see where the whole thing is going, and so you're willing to go to the very ugly place that your heart may go in order to serve the whole.

Wilma Askinas

Sometimes you have to be silent in order to be heard.

Jessica Raine

I've been thinking recently about all the qualities you need in order to be an actor. First and foremost, you've got to have a thick skin and give out an 'I don't give a monkey's what you think' kind of vibe, while at the same time really caring what everyone thinks. You've got to be tough and sensitive at the same time.

Haan Phelps

This is not a restaurant. They can't come in here and order New Orleans shrimp, because I don't know I'm going to get reimbursed for it.

Bill Griffith

Zippy has no problem with the irrationality of the universe, whereas most of us are desperately trying to make order out of the universe, and our lives.

Kevin Jackson

You should not have to pay in order to win or collect.

Arjun Makhijani

This is being transparently done to promote a very poor site . . . in order to accommodate the industry,

Ashwin Sanghi

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

Baruch Spinoza

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Gloria Allred

Some were told that the reason they had to stand in a particular spot was to make sure that construction workers passing by the trailer would not be able to see them.

Betty Cuthbert

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

Barry Unsworth

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

Ronda Rousey

Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.

Tom Sneddon

We have a cooperative victim in this particular proceeding.

James Allen

We say use a program that is appropriate for the particular situation.

Martin Lee

There's one particular woman who does a lot of cooking.

Dave Riggins

We've been working on this particular program since November.

Mike Slive

What I think you should know is that I'm not wedded to any particular format.

and City

the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.

Paul Stoddart

And we were only seeing, at best, the sort of mid-30s.

Bruce Sevy

We all kind of get to go to Italy. Sometimes you just need a break, and that's sort of what this play is about.

Before Veeder

When it did, it really hurt, and that's when I started getting trouble. It was like $280,000 we lost. I sort of got stupid.

Robert Manne

You have short-term winners and losers, and that's the toughest thing to sort out.

Pat Gillick

more of a staying-in-touch, passing-through sort of thing.

Thom Browne

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Helen Espy

It was an accident, a very tragic accident.

Arthur Ashe

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Calvin Coolidge

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Anton Chekhov

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

Adolf Hitler

All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

Aesop

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Trust me not at all, or all in all.

Alexander Hamilton

A promise must never be broken.

Alex Haley

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.