Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Kate Fox

The British male is either reticent, tongue-tied and awkward, or boorish and crass, and he usually consumes too much alcohol. English male flirting tends to be very circuitous, and involves a lot of insults rather than compliments.

Rhona Mitra

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

Shahid Malik

the most profound challenge yet faced by the British Muslim community.

John Deacon

No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment.

Faith Hill

Thank you, fans, very much. She would say that in a British accent. ... She's a fantastic director, one of the greatest that I've ever had the pleasure to work with. She's in London editing another video for me for a song called 'Stealing Kisses.' It's amazing. It was an honor to work with her, and I know she would ... thank the fans and she would thank hair and makeup. There was a lot of hair. There was a lot of makeup. It was just very exciting to do it.

L'Wren Scott

Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.

John Deacon

Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.

Tom Wright

The Royal Family's popularity in the USA, as well as royal heritage and our historic palaces and attractions, will help us encourage support for British tourism and remind consumers that there is still plenty of reason to visit Britain.

Bill Peters

A fire engine from the 1940s wouldn't have the same pump power. The tank wouldn't hold as much water. It wouldn't provide as much safety for firefighters as new equipment does.

Roland Herwig

It was a Boeing 737 and it was doing an engine run up for a maintenance problem and a person was sucked into the engine.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's the engine that makes our offense go.

John Milton

But that two-handed engine at the door, / Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

Stefan Bielmeier

I wouldn't go as far as to say Germany is the reform engine of Europe, but it is making slow progress.

Herbert Hoover

Engineering is a great profession.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

Jim Olson

None of us have enough engineers to do what we need to do. You get scale on the engineering level by doing alliances and you get scale on the costs.

Brian Phillips

Some of them are just as original as can be, and some of them, people don't know when to quit (with restoration). Even the engine compartments are a lot shinier than a lot of new cars, ... They are operational works of art.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Cassie Schrock

We gave it a great run. We had a great ride for the seniors. This is going to motivate us so much to get back here next year.

Tomas Vokoun

We scored that goal. It's not like they gave it to us.

Bill Clinton

You gave me the ride of my life, and I've tried to give as good as I got.

Tim Hudson

Farnsworth has been nails for us all year, but he gave up the runs tonight. Without him, we wouldn't have gotten here. All the other guys stepped up too.

Yoko Ono

Thank you George, it was grand knowing you.

Charles Breithaupt

This is going to be a grand experiment.

Jan Karon

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

Adolf Hitler

History is as Old as My Grandfather

Andre Leon Talley

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

Sophia Myles

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

Victoria Azarenka

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.

Toby Keith

I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play -- she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.

Nik Wallenda

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

Trent Dilfer

Braylon wants to get better, and he wants to get a sense of timing and rhythm with me. After the one I just missed him down the middle, I went to the sideline and told him we're not there yet but we're going to get there this game.

Brandon Jacobs

On the first one, I missed the guy. He ran right by my face, and that was my fault. But I redeemed myself on the second one, and we took it to the house.

Lars Tiffany

I feel like we missed an opportunity to get better.

Nate McLouth

That's what he threw me before, and they've been working me in. I got it. I just missed it.

Doug Tolin

We really struggled scoring. We missed shots we normally make. We just didn't play as well as we have normally been playing.

Bill Shaw

We really missed Caleb inside. As a team we only had 12 or 13 rebounds, and (Myrtle Point) had at least twice that.

Jon Sundvold

I thought I missed the memo, but there wasn't a memo.

Charli Turner

I don't think that there's been anything that's been said as of yet. But, we've been on the road for a while, so I may have missed a meeting.

Livia Landry

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

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

George Riley

At the moment I don't really know what I'm going to do.

Brian Brohm

We got that momentum going, got in a rhythm, and you saw (that) once we get into it, we can do pretty much anything we want to, ... We've got to get into that rhythm every game.

Alfred Stieglitz

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Alicia Keys

Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.

Aaron Brown

New Orleans dodged a bullet. It was the moment for viewers and in some respects for me that we understood it was not getting better, it was getting worse.

Angela Shelton

I was going to try to get all the Angelas together but that's too costly, ... So we may have a moment during the day when all of us do something at the same time, I'm not sure what.

Erin Lawless

She's here now. The big thing is the time is now and the moment is now and we're all here. We have to play for that. There's no sense in thinking about the future.

Frances Chaney

It would be just too embarrassing if we won again.

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Albert Einstein

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

T. S. Eliot

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

Tom Waits

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

Socrates

Wisdom belongs in wonder.

Socrates

Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is to wonderful to be true