Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Rifkind

Ken Clarke has the popular appeal, he has the experience, he's an obvious person who can handle Gordon Brown who will be Prime Minister by the time of the next election.

Craig Parker

Kareem Brown is probably one of the premier players in the area.

Nancy Becker

Judge Brown wasn't a perfect man, he made mistakes, but he was committed to the court system,

George Stigler

After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

Jalen Rose

Whatever Coach Brown needs me to do to help the team is my focus. I am thrilled to be a Knick.

Bill Self

He influenced me in all areas. Game management and preparation ... we still do drills identical to what we did at Oklahoma State. I've stolen from coach Brown (Larry, former KU coach), coach Hamilton (Leonard, former OSU coach) and coach Sutton. He's impacted me a lot. He stood for class. He's been a positive influence for me.

Courteney Cox

I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'

Kenny Walker

I just knew we were going to the Final Four. I remember (LSU Coach) Dale Brown did a class thing.

Maury Povich

His leads would be: The Redskins came on the field in their colors, burgundy, gold and Caucasian, ... Or Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns integrated the Redskins end zone three times. That's how he would do it.

Charles Lee

In my view it could be a carpet of development from Tampa to Orlando. Without protection and public ownership, it would have happened already.

Melvin Ely

Any time you have a grand opening, have to walk the red carpet and have the commissioner talk to us -- any time that happens you are going to be excited,

Dawn Olivieri

It's funny, one of my most solid carpet moments happened in the very beginning, before I started thinking that I needed all these other people to do my hair and makeup, and pick out my clothes. I wore a cheetah sweater and a red hat, and it's one of my favorite looks, even still.

Robin Wright

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

Michael Rigas

They had no bags, no tubing but this is what they've been stuck with. It's really bothersome to me, what patients are suffering. The carpet that they were standing on has been ripped out from under them.

John Powers

It's all about creativity and imagination. You can take old carpet tiles, wrap them around a 2-by-4 and you've got a cat-scratching post.

Tracy Miller

They're going for the red carpet look, and more for what's in style. They know what it was like to be girls in tight braids, and they don't want that anymore.

Steve Scott

There's a pad underneath the carpet. It would definitely have to be changed it if was wet, no way around it. You can tell if that was new and that would be a sign that the carpet was wet at one time.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Stephen Colbert

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.

Quincy Jones

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

O. J. Simpson

It is inconceivable that French workers at Peugeot would be laid off on this magnitude.

Mary Wittenberg

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon and the Australian, U.S. and French Opens are to tennis.

Voltaire

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

Cara Black

I read French much better than I speak.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Indonesians must understand that there is no Islamic state without the enforcement of Islamic laws. Otherwise it is just talk and nothing else.

Jean Alesi

I'm not sure they understand everything about racing cars. I am not sure that this is wise.

Brad Hintz

I would say they're the weakest trading house on Wall Street.

David Gregory

Kelly O'Donnell at the White House for us this morning. Kelly thanks very much.

David Stanley

He didn't go over to that guy's house for a confrontation, he just wanted to know what was going on.

Mike Nichols

What we've offered is a house where they could all live.

Jerry Shuster

He (O'Connor) can't be indiscriminate. He can't tear down a house here and tear down a house there, because then it looks like it's more for show. But if they can do three, even though they need 30 taken down, if those three are strategic, it's a tremendous plus.

Cecil Roberts

going under your house and taking the support beams out.

Kim Etheredge

He's downsizing. It's 15,000 square feet. That's a very large house for one person.

Fred Siegel

It is a joy to live (on campus), and it is a pleasure to open my house to students,

Stan Turner

We try to get to every house in Keizer.

Joel Klein

has been and always remains open to a settlement.

Tom Driscoll

We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.

Eric Wicks

I thought they'd try to run a lot more outside to open up the field. I think after a while, they were just trying to make a play, anywhere.

Lorrie Miller

It is just as open to me as it is to them.

E. Hicks

I welcome them all with open arms. At least we can get through practice.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Richelle Mead

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Winston Churchill

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.

Ronnie Elmore

I thought they did the right thing walking Tripp. I would have done the same thing in their position.

Jerry Bailey

I want to walk away in one piece.

Robert E. Lee

It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.

Robert De Niro

I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of.

Saint Augustine

Things are solved by walking around.

Wiz Khalifa

Walk it how I talk it, so I talk it how I live it.

Rick Warren

I'd rather have all my questions unanswered and walk with God than not walk with God and have all my questions answered.

Tracey Gold

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.

Robert Creeley

It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

Robert Crais

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Russell Baker

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Rose Macaulay

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

Rose McGowan

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Rick Riordan

Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably: Go! Then he slammed Riptide into the ice at his feet. The entire glacier shuddered. Ghosts fell to their knees. Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay-a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier. Water shot from the chasms and crevices in the ice. As the wave hit, the back half of the camp crumbled. The entire edge of the glacier peeled away, cascading into the void-carrying buildings, ghosts, and Percy Jackson over the edge.

William S. Burroughs

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.

Virginia Woolf

The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

William Wordsworth

I'm not talking about a "show me other walls of this thing" button, I mean a "stumble" button for wallbase.