Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Ridout

The most shocking thing about this is the reforms we were looking for were so modest. They were nothing more than bringing cell phone companies in line with the standards that consumers expect in their other commercial interactions.

Michael Wright

THE RON CLARK STORY is the true story of one teacher's courage to leave his small hometown and head to one of the most challenging public schools in the country. We are proud to have an actor the caliber of Matthew Perry bringing his talents to such a memorable, inspirational story.

Tori Kelly

After I shower and put in all my products, I hang out with the diffuser with my head flipped over for five to seven minutes. But before I use a hair dryer, I'll towel-dry my hair. Actually, drying your hair with an old T-shirt is a great trick. It helps to get all the extra water out, without bringing on frizz.

Winnie Pooh

We have people who come back year after year, ... Parents who brought their children are now bringing their grandchildren as well. One family has been coming for 45 years.

Janet Hubbell

The real focus here is bringing some sort of order.

Tim McGuire

The town will be the first to see it. Things always change and we want a firm plan before bringing it to the town. We want to find a project that works for everyone.

Bill Cowher

We mixed it up and did a good job of dropping eight and bringing pressure and trying to disrupt them and get them out of their rhythm. They hit some big plays there in the fourth quarter, and we were fortunate to get out of there with the win.

Italo Calvino

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Jeff Evans

My teaching is by way of starting out with something small, bringing it big and then bringing it back locally,

Charles Peirce

Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false

Lon Anderson

Will numbers likely be reduced because of Katrina and because of gas? Probably so. On the other hand, Memorial Day and Labor Day trips are a cherished part of America.

Robert Charles Winthrop

Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.

George Eliot

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

Michael Conforti

The surprise happens as you experience the building. This is clearly a reason why we thought Mr. Ando was the appropriate person for our landscape here.

Mike Kohs

It was a lack of communication on his part. He?s been clearly frustrated with his injury.

Terry J. Lundgren

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience.

Tzipi Livni

The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.

Jeff Cohen

There is clearly going to be a lot of debate and a lot of compromises before we get a final product.

Jim Lowell

Beth is clearly one of their big names. The good news is she's not leaving to start a hedge fund.

John O'Neil

Everybody knew Coke was the one that could pay the most if they wanted to. Now, this puts the company back to where it was three weeks ago before the Pepsi bid. It clearly can remain an independent company if it wants to. They are not cornered at all.

Willie Pearson

Coretta Scott King was clearly more than the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. She was an icon in her own right.

Jan Leroy

Corporate results are coming in a fairly decent way and are better than expected, the market is clearly focusing on the ones that surprise on the upside and are hammering the ones who disappoint.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Terry McAuliffe

the whole country has been in play, all the different groups of the Democratic Party have been involved in this process, and we need to narrow this down.

Gary Bauer

This country can be better than it is today, and I intend to make it better,

Brett Eldredge

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

Boris Spassky

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

Argus Hamilton

Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president.

Argus Hamilton

The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Aravind Adiga

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

Terry Teachout

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

Richard Rhodes

When I heard what had transpired, I was deeply saddened. I resigned in support of Mrs. Wheatley because I know she has given unselfishly of her talent to this community.

Carl Gauss

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries

Walter Isaacson

Mrs. Graham was an important and remarkable person in our profession and all of us lucky enough to know her are deeply saddened by her untimely death.

Sarah MacLean

I'm so thrilled to have won the RITA. The award is particularly special because it is given by other romance authors. It's deeply rewarding and not a little humbling to be honored by such a talented tribe of writers.

David Mitchell

My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.

Chelsea Clinton

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

Lykke Li

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

Michelle Kwan

I am deeply disappointed that I will not be at nationals.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Martha Stewart

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Larry Diamond

How can we communicate effectively if you risk being intercepted by the National Security Agency?

Lord Palmerston

Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Martha Stewart

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Larry Diamond

How can we communicate effectively if you risk being intercepted by the National Security Agency?

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Brian Hill

That's just our nemesis with this team. We can't seem to keep them off the offensive boards.

Courteney Cox

I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.

Bill Self

If we didn't make those outside shots today, it would have been an ugly offensive game. You have got to make shots when teams do that.

J. C. Ryle

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

Eminem

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

Katie Brunelle

We never really got into our offensive rhythm. All season we've relied on our play in the paint, and they just pressed us outside a lot.

Don Johnson

I think one of the reasons we haven't seen more of an official response to this is that the signs aren't offensive in any way,

Ryan Barnes

We can penetrate and give the offensive linemen a fight.

Hugh Blair

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Sammy Morris

Personally, I don't think the team was teetering on whether (Williams) apologized or not. Rick just wanted to say something, and the team was able to respect that.

Jane Haddam

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Baltasar Gracian

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Elizabeth Bowen

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Matt Giampietro

There is so much respect for that name.

Dick Gregory

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

Ambrose Bierce

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

Annie Gottlieb

Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

Tommy Docherty

Personally, I am very, very sorry we have come to this. I suppose it is another sign of the times.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

Mark Proctor

This is a terrific signing for us as we look to consolidate our play-off position.

Cathy Austin

Courtney's students, teachers and other students have signed up to volunteer to work the different shifts.

Vince Cable

Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change

Michael Taylor

I got arrested for signing autographs. Signing a little girl's autograph got me arrested.

Gordon Strachan

If I said to you we're signing Vieira you'd say 'what a signing that is',

Kitty Kelley

I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra' (Bantam Books, 1986).

Marin Alsop

I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.

Augusten Burroughs

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

Benito Mussolini

The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State -- a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values -- interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.

Jane Goodall

I wouldn't even like to begin to define God - I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches me, is a great spiritual power, which I don't even want to name. If I had to, I would say God, because I don't know any other.

Jan Morris

I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.

Cesar Millan

Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing force, or the wonder of science and the universe, or simply the beauty of the human spirit, nearly every one of feels an inner longing to feel part of something bigger than ourselves.

Al Gore

The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift Global Consciousness to a higher level.

Jane Wagner

One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

Richard G. Scott

I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your students that would immediately facilitate mastering the ability to be guided by the Holy Spirit. Nor do I believe that the Lord will ever allow someone to conceive a pattern that would invariably and immediately open the channels of spiritual communication. We grow when we labor to recognize the guidance of the Holy Ghost as we struggle to communicate our needs to our Father in Heaven in moments of dire need or overflowing gratitude.

Bridget Riley

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Lydia M. Child

The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world.

J. William Fulbright

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

Libba Bray

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Chelsea Handler

There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline.