Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Harkaway

I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was relaxed and casual about her well-being during this tender time - and the novel clearly has its center in that panicked parental desperation that accompanies a first child and in the admittedly comedic extremes to which it drives us.

Steve Schmidt

John Kerry is right to say that this moment is a moment of truth, but that truth must include John Kerry admitting that he offers no credible alternatives to the policies in Iraq, and admitting that his suggestions are proposals that the administration is already doing: involving NATO, involving the U.N. and training Iraqi security forces.

Mark E. Smith

It can be quite difficult for an adult to admit to having poor basic skills and many would be too ashamed to go to college. But if they study through the medium of football, and go into a friendly environment like a football stadium, it takes the stigma out of it.

Cindy Klassen

It can be hard to get motivated after the Olympics but once you get to the line you're in race mode. I have to admit though that I've been feeling a little homesick as well.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too

Min-sik Choi

I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.

Michael Taylor

I admit I was thinking home run all the way in that situation. But, I had to calm down a little bit and just go with the pitch I got to hit.

and City

I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss - the perfect parent - or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.-Carrie (Sex & the City)

George H. W. Bush

I admit it, I am not one of the great linguists.

Don Seibert

It burned completely through down to the water.

Valerie Marcel

There is much more investment in Europe and the Middle East and generally the Muslim world. They are trying to diversify so they don't get caught. Many were burned by 9/11.

Rivers Cuomo

Rock guitar has been around for decades now, and there are so many strong traditions, and so much of it is just burned into my fingers. So, nine times out of 10, when I pick up the guitar to jam something, it sounds pretty cliche.

Mark Gottfried

In the time outs, there was a ton of determination in those guys. That comes from being burned once or twice.

Eric Ross

Inventories were getting burned down heavily in January and February and that should continue into March. Chip shipments should be reflecting true demand in the second quarter.

Mary Lewis

If their home burned down today, they'd have to put a double-wide up. Those lots are not big enough to put a double-wide there.

Michael Gennaco

I'm hopeful that this maelstrom has burned itself out. But would this happen in two years? There's no reason to be confident that it wouldn't.

Mike Ghielmetti

I have that quote burned into my head.

Josephine Baker

I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Pat Harris

Knowing the circumstances, I was extremely proud of her for refusing to lie.

Mark Kaplan

I think it is fair. I think it makes sense under the circumstances.

Lech Kaczynski

I taught for 30 years at university but never in circumstances like this.

Jill Abramson

Her spirits seemed remarkably good, given the circumstances,

Ontario Liberal

He's done the right thing under the circumstances, ... If he's cleared, he will be returned to cabinet.

Bruce Arena

His stock has risen considerably, and given the circumstances in our entire pool, Kerry is going to be in there right until the end when we're looking to finalize our roster.

Dick Advocaat

I think the first half was very good, the way we played in difficult circumstances.

David Gorosh

I think this is never a crime under any circumstance. This is a consensual issue. It's an issue of self-determination and self-autonomy.

Matthias Platzeck

It is not a love relationship, that is clear. But it is appropriate to the circumstances.

Tasnim Aslam

It is a fabricated story and motivated by vicious intentions.

Kelly Cutrone

If we get a girl who is bigger than a 4, she is not going to fit the clothes. Clothes look better on thin people. The fabric hangs better.

Stella McCartney

I hope that each season, we get tighter and tighter and we get a little more refined and the fabrics get richer. And I hope it gets better and better.

Neale Donald Walsch

You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. Nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.

Clay Aiken

All the stuff, curtains, fabrics and whatever else is coming, too.

John Malkovich

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

Denis Waitley

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Anne Stillman

We want to preserve as much of the historic fabric as is possible.

Charles Ives

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

George Clooney

What you learn after you're 40 is it's just about plugging up holes in the boat,

Tuesday Weld

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

Larry Parker

I realize that for the last two years, we have taken money out of every hole we could find.

Carlton Fisk

I'm a six-handicap but those two holes scare me every time,

Anthony Drejaj

I really don't think we were ready to play. You can't get into a hole like that. You can't start slow like that.

O. Singh

I'm just not playing well enough to win on Sunday. There are too many mistakes. I play two or three holes that really put me down. That's what's been happening.

Seve Ballesteros

I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I hole it.

O. Singh

The first hole played downwind. No. 4 played downwind . . . and 11 played downwind.

Stuart Appleby

You can't run away from the pack if you aren't running away from it. Running away would be six shots up with six holes to play. That would be pretty much a run away. There is a lot of golf, 25% of the tournament still left out there.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is limited; but imagination encircles the world.

Kate Winslet

'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.

Damian Breaux

It could be anything. It's up to a person's imagination of what they can make a Colonel.

Joe Colwell

We've been very lucky, but we're not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination.

Antoni Gaudi

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

Richard P. Feynman

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

Richard P. Feynman

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Rebecca West

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

Bill White

He wanted to know where he stood in this relationship. That's the only reason he went over there, ... He will tell you he had no intent to kill anyone.

Susan Hill

We're pretty stubborn. Their intention is to run us out; our intention is to stay.

Denise Layne

We're playing with technicalities, and the intent of what we tried to do is not there.

O. Singh

It is not my intention to put people on tenterhooks but that is how it is because of the weather.

B.J. Upton

I don't have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.

Tom Hall

I don't feel (Sparks) had the intent to do what he did when he walked up to the yard.

Tom Gavin

He has every intention to seek re-election. But I'm going to let the senator make his own announcement.

Kathleen Walsh

I know his intent of the speech is that we all work together. And I know we will.

Tom Renney

I'm leaning toward Henrik, but we'll see. Those are my intentions at this time.

John Crowe Ransom

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

Rian Johnson

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

Robert Toombs

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

Tove Jansson

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

Robin Morgan

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

Veronica Roth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Bob Taylor

I'll probably be working. To the ordinary run-of-the-mill person, I think this will just be another day.

Narciso Rodriguez

For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

Rick Vanhoy

Darius is stocky. And he's not an ordinary fullback because he can run right by you.

Nelson Mandela

The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk