Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Bob Eaton

Novel technologies for delivering ... vaccines can certainly find a market if they are more effective, less costly, less invasive or more convenient to use than the alternatives.

Rodrigo Rato

oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy.

Jonathan Galassi

I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent to think that I should be just doing that. Publishing seemed like fun to me - to be involved with writers. And it did turn out to be.

Dick Cheney

Texas is a large industrial state with a rapidly growing population. We have not solved all the problems in Texas, but we've certainly made major progress and the record is a good one,

Steve Adlard

Thank goodness in certainly the last 4 minutes they didn't get anything. It was a fighting, spirited game in tough conditions, but you know what? We played quite well.

Rick Hearst

So Ric is forced into the position of having to do something he would never have intended to do. Ric thinks, 'I have to stand by him.' He is pulled back to a place of a much darker Ric - the same place he was in when he was holding a pillow over Elizabeth's head and chaining Carly to the wall. But when he actually shoots Ruiz, it surprises him. It certainly surprises Ruiz.

Gary Ramstetter

Sonny has certainly accomplished a lot placing in four national tournaments. But the weight is so loaded, any little mistake on his part and he's in trouble.

Burn Gorman

The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.

Tom Hooper

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

Jack Kerouac

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

Martin Jol

It is a cliche in England, but that is what we were shouting about before the game - getting back to winning ways. This is exactly what we need - a win.

Ken Jeong

I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.

Michael Cudlitz

Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from anybody and reduce them to just that, that's what you're going to get.

David Walton

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'

David Thornburg

Any teacher that can be replaced by technology deserves to be.

Marcus Conigliaro

Now it's win or go home. If you can't get up for something like this, you don't deserve to play the game. This (earning an at-large bid) will give us a spark and get us playing hard again.

Jaromir Jagr

Sometimes, things are very bad, but you keep fighting. I'm happy for him. He deserves it.

Jake Fisher

A little too much celebrating? Well, you deserve it, girlfriend. Get ready for raves. Everyone I talked to said the Pelican Park Parade of Homes has set the standard. You outdid yourself, Pinky.

Tim Williams

We did not deserve to be treated like this after all the work we did,

Ron Wilson

We deserved what we got in the second period.

Kyle Wanvig

We deserved that one. We hit three posts and missed two open nets. ... It didn't seem like it was meant to be tonight.

Paul Godfrey

We deserve an explanation, in the very least.

Demi Lovato

NO one deserves anything less than being loved.

Tom Goldstein

As a result of our investigation, we've determined the information did not reach its destination, and is missing and presumed lost.

Josh Teeples

Determination. I was just determined that I was gong to do it this time.

Charlie Brotman

The starting time of the parade is actually determined by the length of time of the traditional brunch,

Toni Chovanetz

After interviewing the passenger, it was determined to be appropriate to release him at this time.

Saeb Erekat

so the truth can be determined once and for all.

Susan Page

This is an event where the planners are really determined to get on TV -- not in the old-style newspaper that gets published 12 hours later.

Evan Bayh

Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.

Loretta Lynch

We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.

Bennett Miller

For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jim Davies

A few points here and a few points there and the score could have been 5-4 for Iowa Falls-Alden/Hampton-Dumont.

Paul Feasby

A few played for other teams, and we had some turn out for the reserves, but hopefully this will be a fresh start after all that's happened off the field in the past two to three weeks.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Stewart Cink

A few people called in about something that happened out there in the waste area,

Gerard Hopkins

A few other little things; some in sprung rhythm, with various other experiments.

George H. W. Bush

as a president it goes with the territory.

Bobby Cox

This ranks right up there. This goes back 14 years.

Shaun Alexander

We have an unbelievable team, an unbelievable group of fans. Prayer works. I get knocked out and guys step up. One guy goes down and another guy steps up.

Sonam Kapoor

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

Andy Nash

As it goes down the mountain, it's accelerated. It results in stronger gusts of winds that you normally wouldn't have if the mountains weren't there.

Patty Griffin

There's an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that's not true.

Alice Sebold

When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?

Anne Frank

I want to go on living after my death!

Rene Descartes

It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable

Gary Arthur

Something has gone wrong with taking this young man out of the Dominican Republic. I'm frustrated, I'm angry, I'm sad. Somehow, I feel partly responsible, you know?

Alan Ackerman

Techs have gone from terrific to tepid to terrible,

E. Hicks

The search has gone into a new phase.

John Turner

The security mission, which has always been there, has gone more to the forefront,

Jake Moreland

I should have had that second goal. That was my fault. It was a soft goal. It shouldn't have gone in.

Paule Marshall

You're going to be gone so maybe you aren't the right one to talk to.

James Woods

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

Diane Duane

Dear Artificer, I’ve blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place!

Brendan Gill

Parody is homage gone sour.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Steve Chercover

The stock (Monday) is trading higher than I think it's been in a long while.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Anne Donovan

The way of the WNBA playoffs, it does not put the higher seed at an advantage, ... You have to go in there and make the most of it.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Steve Anderson

People think they're doing the right thing by leaving them here - but they're not.

Andy Jones

The ones that are left are the die-hards. These are people who are more scared of leaving than staying.

Dennis Roth

The science says if you can keep the soil from leaving the property, you keep pesticides out of the water.

Colton Fretter

That thing's not leaving my side all night.

Michael Hachey

At this point in time, we're not sure. We're leaving all options open. We feel a presence in the West End is important, so some level of service there is likely.

Donald Trump

Once you say you're going to have to tax them coming in, and our politicians never do this, because they have special interests and the special interests want those companies to leave, because in many cases, they own the companies. So what I'm saying is, we can stop them from leaving. We have to stop them from leaving.

Donald Trump

The first thing you do is don't let the jobs leave. The companies are leaving.

Don DeLillo

Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.

Donald Trump

All you have to do is look at Michigan and look at Ohio and look at all of these places where so many of their jobs and their companies are just leaving, they're gone.

Matt Elliott

It was very touching to get the note from the group.

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Channing Tatum

I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."

Jami Attenberg

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.

Grant Tolbert

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Bruce Chatwin

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Abdullah Ocalan

Everyone should take note of the way I live, what I do and what I don't do,

Allen Ginsberg

I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Brian Eno

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

Bram Fischer

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

Madhavan Nair

ISRO has made all security arrangements and put on red alert. We are taking all possible steps.

Kiki Vandeweghe

for working with us to make this possible so quickly.

Pete Carroll

If I'm lucky, I can see 7-8 possible recruits at these meets.

Nick Harper

I was trying to get it as soon as possible and get to where there were no defenders, find a clearing, and score.

Asaf Shariv

We have to prepare for the worst possible scenario.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Richard P. Feynman

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

Dr. Beebe

You've got to try and normalize your life. I just walked around every morning, the same as I do here (in Connecticut).

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.