Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Wong

We are proud to bring the Scripps National Spelling Bee to ABC for the first time in its storied, 79-year history. It's exciting for us as a network to bring this competition of some of America's brightest young minds to a broader audience.

Mark Palmer

We have no knowledge about the documents in possession of ABC News, nor the significance of those documents, but we do know what we have repeatedly told our employees since October 25 -- and that is in no uncertain terms that they are to preserve all documents and materials,

David Brickman

There is no procedure what so ever in the ABC law for a suspension of a license prior to a hearing.

Robert Iger

We believe that, barring the unforeseen -- a significant downturn in the market -- the ABC network will likely be profitable in '05,

Chris Bailey

To most people, when they drive by, it will be the ABC Columbia building. You get extra recognition. It draws a little more attention to what you're doing.

John Rash

As with last season, it will be a highly competitive year. CBS and ABC are the two probable combatants for the top spot for the first half of the season. But January will bring a new ratings wrinkle with 'American Idol' re-ascending for Fox.

Al Franken

A brief digression on whether that suspicious-looking mole is actually cancer. ... Take this simple test called the ABC test. 'A' is for age. What is your age? Is it over thirteen? If so, it's cancer. That's how the ABC test works.

I. Stone

ABC would not allow that, nor would it give permission for us to edit out the graphic language,

Jimmy Breslin

ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as of 12/20/86.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whether one or many, I must declare my faith that it is better for India to discard violence altogether even for defending her borders

Mike Mularkey

We're going to play more because we need to be in a rhythm on both sides of the ball, special teams, altogether before we come out of this game. Hopefully, it happens early, but we'll just wait and see.

Britt Beemer

With nothing hot to buy in decorations this Christmas, many stores started selling two weeks earlier than ever before, beginning in mid-September. Many stores skipped Thanksgiving altogether and went from Halloween to Christmas.

Allan Sherman

At first I only used the Scotch to flavor the seltzer. Then I left out the seltzer altogether and only retained the ice cubes with the Scotch. Today, I am proud to say, I have emancipated myself from all such crutches. I drink my Scotch straight.

Lyle Gramley

It's entirely possible you could repeal tax cuts without injuring the economy if you did it carefully, over a period of time, while offsetting it in part by increasing expenditures you knew were coming anyway or thought desirable. But you couldn't simply remove the tax cuts altogether right away and avoid significant negative effects to the economy.

Peter Gignoux

Altogether we're on target. The market's behaving very well right now.

Eric Roberts

Altogether about 200 people have been employed, not counting others who had been involved in the construction and development work. We have 60 shops at the moment and there will be around 100 by the time we finish.

Mike Robinson

This document goes right to the soul of our country and the national dream of a railway to bring us altogether - from Atlantic to Pacific - as Canada.

Enzo Ferrari

It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.

Kevin Quinn

We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork.

Robbie Stancil

We started out in a match-up zone. But we've worked and worked and worked on our man defense, and we did an outstanding job with it after the first quarter. I think we got Murdock extremely frustrated, and we kept (Marietta's guards) pretty contained.

Sam Allardyce

Where our finishing was very, very good last weekend it let us down tonight. We really should have put the game away in the first 90 minutes and we haven't done that and have paid a heavy price for it. We are extremely disappointed.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Gene Kimmelman

We'll be extremely disappointed if antitrust officials do not require more substantial divestment of assets.

Kevin Norrish

US product markets remain extremely weak at present, with most of that weakness focused in gasoline markets.

Jan Nash

We're doing extremely well ... it's so exciting.

Jim Sweeney

We're extremely glad to get the win, ... but we're still making too many mistakes.

Scott Shockley

We're extremely disappointed that the governor vetoed an important property rights piece of legislation, and we'll work to override the veto.

Charles Caleb Colton

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

Chris Brown

You are the fans, sit back and watch. That's all you're doing anyway.

David Twohy

I guess you don't make any franchise movies unless the fans are there.

Diablo Cody

For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.

Denis Leary

I'm a huge Kevin Youkilis fan.

Mike Bohn

where our fans come regardless of who we're playing.

William Shakespeare

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

John Banville

When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.

Les Kynett

We want racers, former racers, officials, former officials, crews, press, and especially fans to come out for the farewell party.

Charles Stanley

When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.

Charles Stanley

Wherever you go, God is with you - watching over you, protecting you, and providing the truth you need for every situation. The question is, will you open your heart to His Word, apply it to your life, and allow God to change you so that He can use you in ways far greater than you can imagine?

Charles Spurgeon

I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

Charles Spurgeon

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

Charles Spurgeon

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

Charles Spurgeon

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

Charles Spurgeon

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

Charles Spurgeon

Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Dickens

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you...

Charles Dickens

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Charles Dickens

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Chief Joseph

Big name often stands on small legs.

Edward Gibbon

Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom.

Edward Gibbon

Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.

Eddie Izzard

Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.

David Horowitz

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

David Hockney

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

Bear Grylls

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Chris Colfer

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

Edward Hopper

Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

Arnold Newman

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph.

Alan Sugar

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Charlotte Bronte

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Chester Himes

There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is impregnable to all assaults.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

Chanel Iman

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

Bill Maher

A cult is a cult, and that's what a frat is. A place where they strip you of your personality and rebuild it in their image.

Alan Watts

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Alan Watts

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

Alan Watts

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality...

Alan Watts

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

Alan Rosenberg

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

Alan Moore

The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

Alan Moore

The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality.

Alan Moore

It's pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don't actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what's going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings.

Alan Moore

Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Terry Wogan

All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.

Steve Forbert

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Norman Wisdom

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

Paul Pierce

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

Drew Bledsoe

A win like this shows what we can be when we get out of our own way,

Irwin Shaw

The theater went from just weekend shows to Wednesday and Thursday also,

Judy Gold

I've never been on one of these shows where you have to make alliances and be a team player.

Carine Roitfeld

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.