Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Ruff

Any suggestion by the Office of Independent Counsel or its public relations advisor that the president should do otherwise is reckless and irresponsible.

Elaine Sciolino

We often forget that Iran has a long tradition and history with the United States. Iranians have been coming to the United States as students for decades. American businessmen were in Iran developing the oil fields. ...There was an American financial advisor to the Iranian government in the early part of the century.

Richard Wagoner

During his 36-year career at GM, Mike has made a tremendous contribution to GM in a broad range of assignments, ... And, he's been a long-time advisor and friend to me and many others in the company. We thank him and wish him well.

Mike Donahue

What I've asked the students to do on the phone is put together a list of all the classes you've completed; list the classes you were registered for for the fall term and that will give an advisor here a clue here as to what you should be taking.

Mark Fontaine

He's tremendously well respected in the juvenile justice field. He's like a senior advisor to all of us.

Michael Greene

That FDA advisory is one of my all-time pet peeves.

Evan Williams

My brother was an advisor to Michael Manley and they wanted to do a project in McIntyre Lands. It was about 1972. I volunteered to design a scheme and the next thing I knew the PNP won (the general election).

Daniel Snyder

Wellington Mara was a dear friend and football fans everywhere mourn his passing. Throughout my tenure as an NFL owner he was an invaluable advisor in person and in our many phone calls. As a Hall of Fame owner and backbone of the League, he shaped the sport we all love so dearly. My thoughts and prayers are with his family during this sad time.

Lee H. Hamilton

I cannot remember a national security advisor testing in public, under oath, talking at length about policy matters, and that's an unusual event.

Don Lowe

Eric has been the backbone of this team. He has been hot for the last month and a half. He is making key saves at the right time. The key to going far in this tournament is goaltending. If you have a hot goalie, then there's a good chance your team will go far. Eric has been playing great for us. He is one of the best goalies around.

Harry Reid

Hopefully, by then, President Bush and his majority leader will have found the backbone to stop the extreme elements of the Republican Party from blocking improvements to America's security.

Colin White

He's the backbone of this team. No question. Our whole team has been playing well and he's back there to make the big saves. I think he's the best goalie in the league by far.

John Stockton

Most people know us as providing drinking water and taking away sewage, but we are the backbone of fire protection, ... We've spent close to $3 million in improvements largely to improve fire protection.

Al Guthman

Our defense was just fantastic as it has been all year. It has been the backbone of our team all year.

Gigi Arntzen

I'm hoping we could develop a code fair to everyone throughout the city, but more importantly we need to have backbone to enforce whatever we do adopt.

Robert Bunyi

Oil will continue to be the backbone due to its sheer scale plus the rate of expansion envisaged. I'm not sure if this is enough evidence of diversification or conversely is it just evidence of the benefits of a booming oil sector.

Ernest Ross

Our junior class is the backbone of our program right now, ... It is very evident, as all four have been major contributors this fall. You expect leadership from veterans and we have gotten leadership from them this fall, but I am expecting even more throughout the year.

Madhav Nepal

Our goal is to foil government plans to hold the municipal elections and to break the backbone of the autocratic regime.

Tom Hanks

Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.

Tom Shales

So it is that one side effect of the HD revolution has been the gratifying and edifying return of the nature documentary - films about the hugely varied forms of life that eat, sleep, stalk, mate, fight, thrive, suffer and struggle on our dear and embattled old Earth.

Romain Rolland

Never do I hesitate to look squarely at the unexpected face that every passing hour unveils to us, and to sacrifice the false images of it formed in advance, however dear they may be

Bhagavad Gita

One who does not envy but us a compassionate friend to all ... such a devotee is very dear to Me.

Arthur Conan

My dear Watson, Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Mutants have always been dear to the heart of Devo. One of our earliest influences was the original Island of Lost Souls , ... The whole thing was frightening and unnatural and disturbing.

Bhagavad Gita

No other person shall do a more pleasing service to Me, and no one on the earth shall be more dear to Me.

Alexander Dubcek

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.

Max Cleland

He was a true, honest-to-goodness statesmen and a real, real dear friend of mine. I mourn his loss. There are a lot of tears on the floor of the Senate today.

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.

Edmund Spenser

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

Vanessa Paradis

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

Utada Hikaru

I can never really enjoy being famous.

Sonakshi Sinha

I will take a back seat when I know my fame is dipping. I'm not delusional.

Steve Guttenberg

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

Robbie Williams

It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.

Tom Hiddleston

Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.

Rajneesh

Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?

Noel Redding

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

Laura McDowell

People get very nostalgic. They're probably doing traditions that they've done in their family for years.

Melanie Schweinhardt

Anything that will give the officer's wife peace. It would give our family peace so he doesn't torture himself.

Mike White

And the long-range toughness (for the Saints) is they know the next year is going to be different... the family insecurity... this one is going to be unbelievable in comparison.

Mark Fuhrman

The Skakel family, when they married into the Kennedys, was so wealthy, they could have purchased the Kennedy family.

Ann Douglas

The situation can be overwhelming. It's important for the family to share the responsibility. It's not just one sibling's job.

Ann Douglas

The situation can be overwhelming, ... It's important for the family to share the responsibility. It's not just one sibling's job.

Joe Schmidt

The single-family neighborhoods aren't functioning like they're single-family.

Alia Faraj

The students are doing what's right. The family is appreciative.

Tim Nardiello

The team trials and competitions are fierce. You've got the travel, which everyone thinks is wonderful but isn't. You don't see your friends, your family or your pets. You live out of a bag.

Colin McRae

Rally GB is obviously very special to me, and I am looking forward to giving the fans something to cheer,

P. James

We're gonna have some fun here. We always have a good time on this team. I've been getting out to see a few things and the fans have been great to me.

Brendan Fehr

I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

Brad Delson

I was a big Transformers fan.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

Cameron Diaz

I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

Bret Michaels

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

Tim Tessalone

We use them for the fans and as a revenue generator,

Bob Howell

I've been around long enough to know that football only occupies a portion of what I do in life,

Brad Childress

Terrell is a very talented player, but if there's one thing I know about football is that it's about the team, the team, the team, the team, the team, the team.

Tory James

Sometimes we're supposed to be big football players and nothing can touch us. This one hurts right here.

Randy Edsall

Rutgers is a team that has been playing with a lot of confidence. On film right now they are a 4-2 football team, just like we are.

Tom Chute

Rugby's a game of possession, whereas football is a game of yardage.

Dan Morgan

said the stocky Morgan, ''shocked that the school didn't have a football team.

Chad Johnson

Safety, cornerback, it don't matter. I want to play all over. This is the Pro Bowl, man. I'm not just a receiver. I'm a football player.

Jerry Meuschke

Right now, we've got a big hole there. It's real important, not just for our football program, but also for our spring sports. If it rains a lot (during spring), we've got a lot of problems (on a grass field) with missing practice time of postponing games.

Gary Jones

Right now we're not a very good football team and it's my fault. It all starts with me.

John Spear

Ray's a good friend of mine, but maybe this is political payback?

Paul Rieckhoff

People don't feel comfortable getting mental health care, necessarily, because they're worried that their friends are going to think they're unstable or they're crazy.

Indian Proverb

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Les Paul

The worst is over. I am doing better. I am grateful to all of my friends for their thoughts and I will be back shortly making them laugh.

Pat Lester

This group is such a wonderful, friendly group. We're very nurturing of each other.

Jack McGuire

This gift represents the true friendship that the people of Kuwait feel for the people of the United States.

Jamar Nesbit

The most frustrating thing is not knowing. I've had neighbors and friends go by my house and give me reports. But I have the keys; nobody can get in. So I don't really know.

Ayn Rand

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."

Arthur Conan Doyle

Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

Brian De Palma

I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

Brendan Shanahan

Since I was 15 years old I've never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl.

Edgar Allan Poe

Invisible things are the only realities.

Clive Barker

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

Chuck Klosterman

In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I do love horror movies, but I'm not the kind of guy who would dress up as a ghoul for Halloween. I might go as a member of the Blue Man Group.

Andrea Phillips

One of the tours we had scheduled - the gaslight tour of Jack the Ripper's haunts, and on Halloween, no less, was canceled at the last minute. I recommend making sure you know the numbers of your tours and destinations so you can confirm your schedule along the way. Also, though we laugh about it now, the Eiffel Tower was on strike so we couldn't go up!

Anne Rice

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Having an education is invaluable.

Ron Rivera

It's an invaluable time for him because he can learn so much. It's a little disappointing we didn't get the job done.

Karin Slaughter

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

William Williams

Antony and Cleopatrawere right;they have shownthe way. I love youor I do not liveat all.

Ogden Nash

Any kiddies in school can love like a fool,/ But hating, my boy, is an art.

Mary MacLane

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisiteas the pure love of one woman for another?

Lee Ielpi

Are there going to be love scenes in it? How do you portray it correctly? It has to be done with some reverence.

Michael Matthews

Aquaculture is a risky business. You don't go into aquaculture for the money. You do it because you love it.

Lisa Kudrow

And then, if you survive that, they love you again,

Anton Chekhov

I'm in mourning for my life.

Sigmund Freud

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

Maurice Sendak

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

Kurt Braunohler

For people who mourn for old Times Square - hey, there's a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them!

Anton Chekhov

Medvienko: Why do you always wear black? Masha: I am in mourning for my life. I am unhappy.

Horace Walpole

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

Homer

Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

George Herbert

Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.

Joan Didion

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

Brett Favre

In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Brandon Jacobs

I can be in the NFL as long as any other back. I went late in the draft because no one thought I could do it.

Richard Sherman

Every TV timeout, I went up and said it right to Brady: 'Please keep trying me. I'm going to take it from you.'

Randy Moss

The Moss of old is back!

Michael Strahan

Camp is always all business.

Matt Taibbi

The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.

John Riggins

I'm broke and I'm back.

Peyton Manning

I'm a serious person by nature - sometimes too serious.

Peyton Manning

I see young quarterbacks just coming into the league, and they're throwing screens and layoffs right away. As funny as this might sound, I really learned a lot by going downfield, even in tight coverage.

Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

Bobby Frankel

I didn't even know she was a Cal-bred until the owner told me.

Henry James

Most of the time they can get the loan, but it's not 100 percent. The owner usually has to come up with 35 to 40 percent of the money.

Brian Regan

The owner tends to source these things separately,

James Cook

A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.

Brian Berger

They have ownership of this field, it's their baby. It's going to give them a sense of pride.

Ellen Hopkins

Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?

Arthur Blank

There are a lot of reasons owners vote the way they vote. They have their reasons, usually very legitimate.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Never be a minion, always be an owner.

Al Franken

Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.

Bar Refaeli

The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

Cory Monteith

It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.

Dylan Lauren

My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.

Douglas Adams

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't

Douglas Adams

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

Dorothy Day

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

Christopher Moore

Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan.

Chuck Martin

There are 7 billion people in the world, and 5.1 billion of them have a cell phone, and 4 billion have a toothbrush.

Andrew Abraham

The prayers worked, very simply. But we need more prayers. He's not out of it yet.

Brian Jacques

A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

Brian Andreas

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.

Al Yankovic

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

Daniel Handler

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

Daniel Handler

The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.

Clarice Lispector

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

Boethius

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Charles Bukowski

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Source Unknown

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

John Swanson

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.