Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Wesley Hill

What I try to emphasize more than anything else is don't be afraid to make a mistake. That's how you learn what you can't do, and what you don't like to do.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Tom Moore

Rich Hamilton and Kevin Freeman were roommates and both had large contingents of family members. I was hesitant to check their room, afraid they might break curfew and still be with their families. ... When I knocked, Kevin answered the door; he had his uniform on. ... Rich also was wearing his uniform.

John Rushing

People were calling about the damage. It?s like they were afraid to come down because they think it?s still damaged here.

Pravin Gordhan

People want to be in the tax register but are afraid of fines, penalties and interest from the past. The amnesty allows them an opportunity to come into the fold. Money is not the main reason we are offering the amnesty.

Bill Rocco

Single country emerging market funds are very volatile. Do you need a Korea fund? The answer is no. Nobody needs a Korea fund.

Jack Baker

I can't figure it out, ... You've got to go somewhere else to find the answer to this.

Doug Johnstone

I can't speak for all the clerks in the case, but we were really looking for clarification, and we've gotten it. It's not necessarily the answer I was looking for, but it's a definitive answer for those from out of state.

David McKay

I can't see why someone with their financial house in order would want one of those loans. People who are pushing to get payments clipped so desperately may not have the resources to deal with any problems that may arise. Many of these cars will be out of warranty at the time that there are still loan payments. Maybe the better answer is to buy less car. You don't always have to go up in class and features.

Marcus Trescothick

I can't really answer that, but I will give my opinion to the captain and the coach if they ask me.

Devan Downey

I can't really answer that. As of right now, I'm going to see how it plays out and see who is the head coach at the University of Cincinnati.

John Emmerich

Certainly, the poor condition of moose in that area has hurt the survival rate of calves. And we're hoping our research and this new study will be able to answer some of those questions.

Robert Herrick

Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry / Full and fair ones; come and buy; / If so be, you ask me where / They do grow? I answer there, / Where my Julia's lips do smile; / There's the land, or cherry-isle.

David Knoll

Because you can detain a person without trial, without time limit, to answer question to which they could not possibly know the answer, and punish them for not knowing,

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

Stephen Rubin

I have never seen him so happy writing something.

Patrik Elias

I'm very happy where I'm at right now.

Kirk Maltby

I'm sure he's happy, and we're happy he's here.

Elaine Elliott

I'm happy about the progress of our team.

Mira Leung

I'm happy about my personal best. Now I know what I have to work on when I get back to Vancouver and I'll be even better at worlds.

John Arbuthnot

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

Katie King

It was subdued after the game, but we're happy to go home with at least some hardware.

Libby Trickett

It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Don Herold

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

Yusuf Islam

Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.

Jeb Bush

Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,'

M. Wolfe

Quarterback is a position that people try to put too many things into it,

Christi Wade

They're like every other mother-daughter relationship. They have their moments, but don't talk about the other one.

Ann Gard

They're so crispy. You're talking a long time ago here.

Howard Ward

There was a lot of talk about China.