Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Corneille

A service beyond all recompense - Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense

John Milton

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye

Herman Kahn

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

Mullah Bakhtiyar

As for the self-determination for the Kurds, this issue did not enjoy the support of Sunnis or Shiites, and we almost gave up this demand,

Robert Gottlieb

As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.

Milton Babbitt

As for the future of electronic music, it seems quite obvious to me that its unique resources guarantee its use, because it has shifted the boundaries of music away from the limitations of the acoustical instrument, of the performer's coordinating capabilities, to the almost infinite limitations of the electronic instrument.

Mike Colter

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

H. Hunt

As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperceptible.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Katie Gearlds

Aya was everywhere tonight. She had a great performance all around.

Dr. Fauci

The surveillance is going to be so intense that it is very unlikely that there is going to be the type of situation we see everywhere from Nigeria to Indonesia.

Chris Cole

I wanted to be that guy when I was younger. I had pictures of him everywhere -- on my walls, in my notebooks. Everything he did, I wanted to do. He was my favorite skater, by far.

Laurie Harrsen

Vanilla was on the list a few years ago. And vanilla is everywhere now, in toothpaste, sodas, candles, it's pretty much mainstream.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Carl Sandburg

There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they seem to get nowhere

Margot Robbie

I always have more fun when I stay in hostels - you just meet so many more people. A hotel makes sense when you're doing work things, but travelling, you don't really get a feel for a place if you're in a hotel. I find it seems to make it all feel like everywhere else.

Aaron Brooks

Just about everywhere we go a hurricane hits,

Michael Thompson

I went to the post office, the grocery store and the drug store today, and everywhere I went people were talking about it.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Rob Hayward

Predictions that pubs will be open for 24 hours were wide of the mark.

Greg Oden

It was two hours of that, ... Pizza and Nickelodeon.

Nancy Sudduth

These were people working hours each day, who'd never done anything like this before, and then hurrying back to do their jobs.

Jeffrey Archer

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

Roland Herwig

Things are back to normal after about two hours of special security activity.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Bob McKenzie

Crews will be working 24 hours a day.

Margaret Murphy

Crews were able to get that back on within two hours and that's really the only weather-related outage we've seen,

Tetsu Emori

The oil market is now down because most people are taking profits after seeing a sharp increase last week.

Sergei Ivanov

Russia has no intentions to increase its military presence in the northwest.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Rob Enderle

This is a potentially market-changing event. My sense is that this is going to increase Apple's market share dramatically.

Brian Hall

the utilities savings more than make up for the increase in your monthly mortgage.

Doug Tumen

You should increase weekly mileage no more than 10 percent. If you run 20 miles this week, then you should run no more than 22 next week.

Alan King

We could see a small increase as a result of that.

Rand Paul

Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

Donna Miller

As they redo the road, property value is going to increase and increase. Now is the prime time for this area.

David Dwyer

The monitors are sort of windows into the way kids are thinking. You don't want to sit down and lecture them, you want to give them time in this wonderful interactive environment.

Eric Dubin

Do you realize these kids lost their mother? ... Are you having fun?

LouAnn Hopson

Defensively, we didn't get to do a whole lot. I saw the kids warming up and I knew that they were ready to go today.

Chris Kaman

Any kids out there, I'd tell them try and do what you can. If you need the medication, you need the medication. I didn't want to take a pill for the rest of my life.

Stephen Bennett

Are kids going to suffer because of all of this unorganized mess?

Richard Seto

And the kids come out and some of them perform at an assembly.

Gina Miller

(The students) were all saying the same things. You just don't know what kids will do these days.

David Robbins

The staff will be lost; the kids will be lost, but they will be lost together,

Sandy Wood

The team we played, unfortunately was very weak. But it was an opportunity to get matches played for kids who don't usually play.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Gwendoline Christie

People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'

Cate Blanchett

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

John Ortberg

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

Paul Ballard

On this day we want to say thank you for an American hero, for one who would sacrifice his life so we could be free.

Stella Young

On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.

Jack Brennan

No question it has been a challenging week. But it's a reminder to us all that life in the NFL doesn't get quieter when you have some success.

Joyce Banda

After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.

Stuart Townsend

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

Brad Shaw

Sometimes it's better to take 30 minutes out of your day and talk about something other than hockey.

Paul Whitworth

And we're 35 minutes away from Silicon Valley,

Amy Poehler

The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

Anne Robinson

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

Sara Lewis

Unfortunately that wasn't done until 20 minutes into the call.

Stephenie Meyer

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

Stephen Chbosky

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

Ron White

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!

George Weah

I will do nothing for 89 minutes, but score in the 90th.

Chuck Amato

I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.

Andrew Solt

It was the only show I watched with my parents as a kid,

Jody Ault

They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people.

Margaret Atwood

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to

Pete Carroll

We're always worried that the parents are going to be shocked.

Maria Jimenez

We are studying here. We want to be able to work here. My parents are immigrants, too.

Larry Taylor

You have to treat people like you want to be treated. I was taught that by my parents.

Lloyd Thacker

Very seldom do parents pay the advertised price tag of a private school.

Debbie Ritchie

If that's all they're basing it on, then the parents need to take into consideration the rest of the story.

Bai Ling

I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you feel that something's going to affect your body, then it definitely will. I've always found that sex gives me a kind of calm, and I'm much more in control because of it. It's the same for friends of mine who are also top bodybuilders.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When you see a blonde with great tits and a great ass, you say to yourself, 'Hey, she must be stupid or must have nothing else to offer', which maybe is the case many times. But then again there is the one that is as smart as her breasts look, great as her face looks... so people are shocked.

Cameron Diaz

The fountain of youth [for me], let’s see…I guess it’s exercise, healthy diet, lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex—yes, sex, we need that as human beings. It’s healthy, it’s natural, it’s what we are here to do!

C. S. Lewis

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

Carrot Top

I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not sexy. So it's either you get it or you don't.

Al Franken

Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive.

Jane Austen

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle;

Jane Austen

All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

Brian Jacques

Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

Erinn Hayes

I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.

Erik Estrada

I like to watch the Fox News Network. I like 'Nightline.' I like to watch 'The Sopranos,' of course. That is one of my favorite shows. 'Entourage' is another one. I like 'The Shield.'

Elizabeth Scott

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Dennis Quaid

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

Bono

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Ben Katchor

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

Dave Rowntree

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Mike Carter

Nowadays, they don't care. They do whatever they can to be popular. It's really sad.

Trent Dilfer

Whatever RAC (Crennel's initials) wants, that's what I'll do.

Carmen Electra

Whatever it takes to make you more secure with yourself, you can learn to do it.

Chad Gaudin

It's not new for me. Whatever they want me to do is fine.

Doug Preston

It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confidence.

Mike Reid

We'll work with whatever they need us to do.