Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gianni Agnelli

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I'm in the eighth grade and am not the height of the rest of my class. But I don't worry about that. I'm just me!

Barack Obama

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

Woody Harrelson

You know, I was on 'Cheers' for eight years, and I couldn't get another job, and I thought, 'I'm going to be Woody Boyd forever.' Which is not bad, but I really thought I was capable of more.

Steve Fisher

That was huge. We turned it over 24 times in our last game and eight times in a 10-possession stretch. Without a doubt, it makes a big, big, big difference.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.

Jake Palluzzi

That was a huge win for us. It is nice to take some of the pressure of getting eight wins off our back. Now we just have to worry about playing well and getting healthy.

Denny Green

We could go play eight or nine more weeks. The guys have not lost their enthusiasm for playing. Some of those games we let get away, they wish we could get them back.

Jose Vidro

We can't let this go on. I know it's early. It's only eight games, but we have to make this change.

Amin Maalouf

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

Edmund White

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

Mamata Banerjee

Our feedback says that there is a silent revolution taking place in West Bengal. The people are on the verge of writing history ... A new epoch will start from May 12.

Samir Geagea

This is a shiny epoch in our history.. an era of re-foundation,

Gennady Zyuganov

His epoch is finished already, and it finished a long time ago.

Kenneth Tynan

Forty years ago, he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since.

William Shakespeare

Forty thousand brothersCould not, with all their quantity of love,Make up my sum.

Skip Rimer

Forty is not bad. It means you are still growing.

Joe Thornton

We've been trying to set a tone for last forty games. We've been hunting teams down the last forty games. We know what is at stake. We have to win every game to be in the playoffs. Really, every game has been a playoff game for us for so long, and we've been playing real well lately.

Eugene Delacroix

To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet

Jerry Slocum

They just physically manhandled us for forty minutes.

Vivian Stanshall

Once I was a forty pound weakling. Now I am two separate gorillas.

Cynthia Payne

In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.

Bill Dreher

We're not out of the woods yet. Forty percent of holiday sales are wrapped up in the week before Christmas.

Yoko Ono

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

David Steinberg

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

Bill Cosby

I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.

Rick Pitino

I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.

Bill Burr

You're not chasing syndication any more. It used to be a big thing. "Let's make 100 episodes and we'll get paid for life". You know? And what does the sheer amount of content that's being made do to syndication after a while? It just seems like there's more content than there is hours for everyone to watch it. But it's some of the best content that's ever been created.

Jason Green

Well, really it was a huge waste of time, when we got here we just sat around for two hours doing nothing.

William Shakespeare

We strut and fret our hour upon the stage and then are no more.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I count only the hours that are serene.

Paul Tagliabue

You can go back and look at whether we'd have a team in L.A. had we done something different in 1994-95. But I think if you look at the big picture, it's one of strong accomplishment. There are only so many hours in the day.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Billy Graham

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Bonnie Tyler

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Scott Nelson

We have also seen large operations that think hosted model makes more sense.

Robert Owen

We have very large classrooms, ... And we're already under-resourced ... the school is overwhelmingly poor.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Henry J. Heinz

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

David Graham

On paper,we should be fifth, sixth or seventh. The reality is, they have the potential to be a pleasant surprise.

Dan Hartleb

He is so successful because he's such a competitor. I can't say I'm surprised he's doing this, but it's pleasant to see.

Tyler Walker

(Friday) has been a pleasant day all around.

Caryl Chessman

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

Charles Bukowski

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

Karl Pilkington

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

Dave Beeler

I was actually pleasantly surprised with how well we did (in cold, wet conditions).

Dr. Seuss

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

Emma Bunton

We've kind of been out of the public eye, even though we haven't stopped working.

Pete Rodda

We are not putting anything out that is not public record.

Kathy Nelson

Those are the things that reporters do for the public on a regular basis.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

Bikram Choudhury

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

V. S. Naipaul

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

C. S. Lewis

What do they teach them at these schools?

Cathy Rigby

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

Carrie Preston

Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.

Carrie Brownstein

Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.

Carrie Underwood

I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.

Carrie Underwood

I'm about the only person in my family that's made it to 24 without being married. That's the way it works where I'm from. Most people, if you find someone to marry in high school, you do that, and if you don't find that, then you find someone in college.

Bill Burr

I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.