Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Adkins

He's got some acid burns on the back side of his right hand and his wrist.

Robert Stone

It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.

Kieran Crowley

It's probably almost like a final for them so the acid is really going to be on us. Most of the guys can still remember two years ago up there (when Bay of Plenty won 22-13). They gave us a good going over that day. We know what we are in for.

Frances Beinecke

The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.

Timothy Gardner

What has been demonstrated by this trial is that vitamin B-6 and folic acid are not helpful in preventing heart disease. The key message for people taking vitamins is to be careful -- you can overdo what you thought was beneficial,

Bill Griffith

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

Owen Elias

This is fascinating. In England our acid levels are much higher.

Vicki Arroyo

What we propose is changing that to a greenhouse gas focus program and having cars and light trucks together in that program, but announced in advance so that companies can reach (the targets) over time and benefit from a program, like the acid rain program to be able to get the most cost effective reductions.

Britney Spears

I'm still the same person I've always been.

John Burdett

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

Pat Riley

He'd average 20 points a game if he was put in that role every night and I'll be damned if I'm not going to try to put him in that role - now. You forget a little bit about how good he can be if he gets good opportunities.

Andy Roddick

He kind of wrapped some presents for me and handed it over. I was average in most regards, but a win is a win. I feel like I'm on the verge of playing well.

Seth Shostak

Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.

Chubby Checker

Here I am the best batting average in the music industry and I'm a bye word in the industry. I really am. Compared to Rod Stewart, I mean, Rod Stewart big deal. I mean, I know he's good and everything, but I played a show two years ago and I had to star under Eddie Money.

Jim Ferraro

Her lower scoring average is a compliment to the rest of the team. I see it that way and I know she does, too.

Bill Gleason

God really has cursed the sports fans of Chicago. It defies the law of averages when you think about it: 1908 and 1917. God didn't want it to happen. But if the White Sox ever win again, they'll probably set off a hydrogen bomb.

Dave Maguire

He's got over 800 now. so if he continues his average of more than 20 points a game, he could do it. He's a great shooter that really has a quick shot. He has the green light to shoot whenever he thinks he can make it.

Philip Klotzbach

Historical records and the law of averages indicate the probability of seeing two consecutive years like 2004 and 2005 is very low.

Ed Cogswell

I wouldn't say it's common - it really is dependent on a large number of factors,

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Kenneth Chenault

My message to Washington is the United States has gone through incredible crises, and our leaders have been able to find common ground. And that's what our leaders have to do.

Ali Khan

What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

John Prescott

have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.

Bob Hunter

Hockey is steeped in our city's history and is a common touch point for Torontonians. It's time that Toronto hosted the world juniors. We know Torontonians will embrace this championship tournament, which will leave a lasting legacy for our world-class city.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Tyler Perry

You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Hiroichi Nishi

Key U.S. monthly jobs data, due later in the day, a three-day weekend and concerns that the Tokyo market has gone too far too fast are expected to encourage investors to take profits.

Paul Spiegelman

I would support a recall of the mayor. I'm really troubled when a man talks about sunshine and hatches deals in back rooms. I'm very concerned that the process is being manipulated by some very wealthy people.

Robin Cook

It accentuates our grave concern about the increased risk of nuclear and missile proliferation in South Asia, and of escalating tension in that region.

Joe Donnelly

I talk about it. It's a concern to a lot of people.

Kelly Kisio

I think it'll be fine and I know there's some concern on a lot of people's part but if you watch around the league, the guys who play, and play a lot, get better. It might be tough for a year or so but once those guys get playing, they'll become good hockey players.

Kelly Williams

I always felt his game was ready (for the NBA). I was concerned about the off-the-court issues and mentally.

Neil Rodman

He was a great kid. He was always concerned of what people thought of him and he went out of his way to make sure people liked him. He was very caring.

Greg Aiello

He wants to share with them his perspective on what has happened and where they go from here. He wants to have a dialogue with them and hear their concerns and suggestions about how things can be better next year.

Craig Patrick

He didn't make the trip because in the third period last night he was having a recurrence of an irregular heartbeat. Obviously, we're concerned about it, so we left him at home.

John McCarthy

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

Irish Proverb

Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.

John Czwartacki

It is a little like a reformed alcoholic taking little drinks - pretty soon, you have a real problem on your hands.

John Phillips

I was drinking tequila and I woke up in the morning and there was no one there, except the worm and myself were still there.

Sukarno

I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.

Two Chainz

I'm drunk and high at the same time/Drinking champagne on the airplane.

Pokey Reese

He was on drugs. He did the drinking thing. He used to party a lot. That's in his past now.

Aminatta Forna

I don't have very many little fetishes, but the one I do have is that I like a particular mug to drink out of. It's just a small china cup, and I get very upset if my husband moves it.

Janet Wu

Had you been drinking at all that night?

Napoleon Bonaparte

Know how to listen and be sure that silence often produces the same effects as science.

Brian Archer

I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.

Masashi Kishimoto

I watch a lot of movies, and I tend to be influenced by scenes that intrigue me, that make me want to use the same effects or technique.

Skyler Samuels

I had a great time working on 'The Gates,' and that was my first real experience doing supernatural television, working with the special effects and everything that goes into making a supernatural show.

Adam Brown

If you look at all the speakers after the last Fed meeting, they've all held to the same line: Inflation is running on the higher side of where they're comfortable, and the growth effects from the hurricanes will be temporary.

David Card

Immigrants come in and the industries that use this type of labor grow. Taking all into account, the effects of immigration are much, much lower.

Martha Stewart

I'm sure it's had effects on me, ... I may talk about it. I may not. But I think that I'm just really looking forward to what we're doing. I'm looking forward to the next few years of great productivity and great growth for this company.

Wendy Wright

Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on women who take the morning-after pill, and there are no studies that have been done on multiple use -- if a woman uses it more than once.

Howard Silverblatt

All the big effects of the hurricane didn't happen.

Mark Rodgers

It appears, at the end of the day, there are fossil fuel interests trying to stop a renewable energy project.

Lee Humphrey

He was big for us tonight. He's been around for five years; he knows how to prepare for games. He knows the right mindset to have, and he stays focused. Tonight he gave us great energy off the bench.

Siobhan Davies

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

Scott Fetzer

Having them out there kind of sets the pace for the rest of the team. Their energy kind of spreads out, and other kids feed off it.

James Neal

He said he was feeling good but was having a hard time getting his energy back.

Ross Gittell

Historically, spikes in energy prices are followed by a recession. The possibility (of a recession) is there; the probability is less than 50 percent, but it's there.

Willie Randolph

His stuff is good. Hey, we're 9-2 and he's a part of our team and as long as we're doing well I don't feel I should waste a lot of energy talking about him.

Chelsea Levine

There is energy and it's exciting performing on stage with other people.

Lisa Willis

I think we did really well. We struggled a lot this year with keeping the energy up for every event and I think we did a lot better at it. We got the energy all the way to the floor (the last event) and I'm really pleased with that.

Thomas Szasz

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Howard Dean

Karl Rove breached our national security for partisan gain and that is unpatriotic and wrong.

Jill Koenitzer

I think in some ways there are more things gained through this type of day versus a traditional first day.

Patricia Mercado

What women have gained is one thing. How we have been received is another. It's not with open arms.

Bob Saveikis

I think you win and it speaks volumes, but if you win in the playoffs, that's where the respect is gained. I think, with our first time in the playoffs, we want to win whether we're 15th-seed, 16th-seed. You still have to play the games, so I don't want to say there's a lack of respect. But if you don't win, you don't gain respect.

B. F. Skinner

When he was in school and worked in the store, I think the interaction between people is really what gained his interest.

Eddy Cue

We've gained a lot of credibility in the industry in the past 2 1/2 years with what we did with songs. And that's what we're trying to mirror in the video space.

Bernadette Devlin

To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

Bronco Mendenhall

He was poised and gained confidence. I'm proud to be his coach.

Nastassja Kinski

Just now, I've been working all the time and I don't have much of a personal life.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Graham Taylor

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

Dale Decker

There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing well when done properly.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Robert McGrath

He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

John Gunter

I would've never thought that 40 pounds would make that much of a difference.

Warren Cuccurullo

I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.

Rufus Wainwright

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

S. Walker

You don't have to be 6-4 and 280 pounds to be a kicker,'' he said.

Pete Townshend

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

Josh Young

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

Rachel Hunter

All you need is a bad angle and suddenly youre 30 pounds overweight.

Kim Kardashian

When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.

Lewis Carroll

Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

Samuel Hopkins

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

Ricki Lake

Hey, I don't produce my shows, I just show up to work!

Jonathan Zittrain

Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.

Brian Rolston

I've got to produce if we want to be successful.

John Dos Passos

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

Howard Schnellenberger

It's no secret that this state produces high-quality players, ... And there is no reason why every team in the state can't become a winning one.

Stephen Covey

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Nell Newman

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.

Bob Hughes

We try to keep it rock 'n' roll. Everybody's welcome.

Christopher Lee

We threw a lot of rock yesterday, and we're throwing more rock this afternoon.

Scott Bertoli

I thought Wednesday was rock bottom. Apparently, it can get worse.

Dick Bennett

I think Batista's the rock on that team.

Chris Blight

He's been a rock back there for us.

Troy Brown

I actually feel like a rock star. I feel like I'm important here.

Ed Stern

He was pivotal. He was sort of the rock of the Playhouse: organized, disciplined, always in control.

Rob Sheffield

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

Richard Paul Evans

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

Jay Hopson

It all starts with him. He can do it all.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Daniel Larson

He's about as big a star as you can get. I can't think of anything that will top this.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Brian Finnerty

I think when we start to get strong numbers, that's when we take off again.

Mike Bradley

We're off to a strong start in 2006.

Assemblywoman Leslie

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.

Dale Jr

I think we're all right. I think we're going to start third and fifth. I don't know; the 38's on the pole, right?

Bill Dwyer

It's been tested here and we know we can do it.

Adam LaRoche

He's huge. I wonder if they've tested him yet.

William S. Burroughs

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Rob Bell

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

Robin Gibb

It's hard for me to put on weight.

Warren Buffett

I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

Zadie Smith

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

Harvey Keitel

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

Eric Bana

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

Joely Richardson

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Ashlee Simpson

Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under?

Jeff Hammond

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Two Chainz

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.