Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Long

Any grass-roots organization or group of individuals that come together often have an impact with local officials when they're reasonable. If someone's indignant, rude or loud, reasonable people get turned off. It's almost like they click a switch off in my brain when they get belligerent, and I almost don't hear some positives they may have.

George Young

Another rule: I took pictures of what intrigued me, but I didn't alter the pictures on the computer except to crop. And there are almost no people; it's more about scenery.

Venkaiah Naidu

As far as the successor's selection is concerned, we are holding consultations and have almost arrived at a name.

Bill Joy

As far as I know we also almost bought Apple once. We almost merged with Apple two other times.

Mark Schneider

As far as I am concerned, this is a totally bone-headed idea. As it stands now, there are way too many 'no turn on red' signs, most of which serve no obvious purpose. As a pedestrian, I've experienced almost no problems with the turn-on-red law.

Wendy Gordon

As hard as it was being away from (my family), I really felt like that's where I needed to be. You almost feel guilty coming home because they have to stay and live it for who knows how long. So, whatever relief we could give was an amazing experience for us.

Gary Barnett

as good of a practice as we've had on a Wednesday. We had good spirit and executed very well. It feels like we're almost there.

Shamir

As far as influences, I listen to a lot of people like Nina Simone and other androgynous voices, almost to make me feel like I'm not alone.

John Evans

As everyday road cars, they are not the best, ... They are quite high strung and almost demand that you push them. Although they are easy to drive, my most pervasive thought when driving on the road is 'Am I going to jail today?'--and you have to really like talking to 20 people when you buy gas.

Don Cooper

Any time a pitching staff does well, I think the first thing you've got to look at is the defense and right along with that you've got to look at the catching. The catcher holds the brain. He's the guy that everybody is looking at to be the leader and take control of the game and keep that pace going. With A.J. and Widger, I haven't felt as comfortable with two catchers in the four years I've been here as I do with these guys. They remember the game plan and they carry it out. That's one of the reasons why we've had the kind of pitching staff we've had this year.

Al Dyer

Ashley Baker is our defensive specialist. That's what she did for us last year, and now her shot is coming along too.

Michael Russell

As far as I'm concerned the project is running along smoothly. The building is coming out of the ground right now.

Atharva Veda

As flies the wind, as flies the mind, as fly the winged birds, so do thou, O embryo,. ten months old, fall along with the placenta! May the placenta fall down!

Howard Rubenstein

As Global Crossing announced in May, a company-sponsored plan is being developed for submission along with other potential bids to the creditors. The creditors' committee has affirmed its support of this option.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

As a result of its tremendous box office success, the potential to tell a new chapter in its story and the popularity of the film's characters, we are excited to announce that we are making 'Madagascar' our second company franchise -- along with 'Shrek,

Jeremy Jones

As a whole, we are further along than we were last year. We want to continue that through the summer, making it an easier transition for next season.

J. August Richards

As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.

Douglas Brinkley

As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar.

Dave Blood

The boys on Pennsylvania Avenue have convinced a whole lot of the public that What's His Whiskers had something to do with 9/11. Stay tuned.

David Borenstein

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

Cecil Taylor

See I'm not interested in appealing to the larger masses of people, because what the White man shows us is that he will do anything to make money.

Les Claypool

The scene itself in San Francisco is just bizarre and non-existent for young bands and places to play... it's just so scattered now.

Billy Sheehan

I've seen it happen when the first rock bands played in the 60s, and they played simple music, and got more complicated and complex as they moved on.

Lee Konitz

I've played with not such great players, and found that I was inspired to play very well. I welcome every one of those opportunities.

Sheryl Crow

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

Wanda Jackson

It would be nice to say that I planned all of this, that this was exactly what I'd planned, but it was just one of those things that happened.

Wanda Jackson

It would take them three days to tape a thirty minute show, and you just got so worn out, you did it however they wanted, just to get it over with.

Douglas Alexander

A self-evidently confident politician, Cameron still suffers from a curious hollowness. Ten years after he became Conservative leader, many people still question what he actually stands for or believes in.

Paul Formica

As he got older, he just became intimidated by these computers. It was kind of devastating for him.

Doug Aplin

As he got older, he became stronger and his speed improved. He also grew defensively.

John Suchy

As a result of the police investigation it was determined that he had, in fact, been in the restaurant, became intoxicated and became involved in an altercation with a bouncer.

David Chang

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.

Dan Webster

As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

Gian Carlo Menotti

As a little boy of 3 or 4, I became lame. Something was wrong with my right leg. There are pictures of me being pulled around in a little wagon. The doctors didn't know what to do. So my nanny took me to the miraculous Madonna at Sacro Monte in Varese, the priest blessed me, and I walked.

Manuel Miranda

The calls to withdraw are serious, and they're going to increase. The more that we heard from the nomination's defenders, the more people became convinced that there was no substance in the nomination and that her friends were her worst enemies.

Manuel Miranda

The calls to withdraw are serious, and they're going to increase, ... The more that we heard from the nomination's defenders, the more people became convinced that there was no substance in the nomination and that her friends were her worst enemies.

Jeff Carlson

People are tough. We're evolved for less food; more exercise; less sleep; less security; more paranoia. The irony is that we're so good at what we do. We strive for more food; less exercise; more sleep; more security; less paranoia - and we've succeeded.

Isabella Rossellini

I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress.

Mark Woodworth

Jeff has evolved and learned to live with it. I'm very proud of that.

Marcus Samuelsson

I think the kitchen is the new garage. And I think for a guy that wants to go out and be an evolved person, he should know about his local favorite restaurant. He should know how to cook something.

Gary Peterson

It's evolved into something different than the original intent.

Jeff Hester

There is no way that you can form iron-60 other than in a massive, evolved star.

Chris Graves

It was talked about for a number of years, and we finally stopped talking about it and did it ... we mad-scrambled, but it's evolved and we've been learning as we go and having a great time,

Antoine Predock

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

P. J. O'Rourke

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

John Tavares

I've been able to handle the pace, ... I've got four goals in four games so I feel pretty good. Obviously today wasn't a great day, but hopefully I can come back next week and have a good one.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Jack McGuire

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

Brian Andreas

You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Ben E. King

When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.

Charles R. Swindoll

Friends make life a lot more fun.

Charles Kingsley

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Jane Austen

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Anton Chekhov

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Baltasar Gracian

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Jacqueline Bisset

What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every shot. It wasn't fun.

Tom Mashek

We wanted to be aggressive. We can't sit back and let things happen. I really liked our aggressiveness. We really went after it.

Rickie Fowler

There's still nothing I love more than being in the air. I've always liked speed and things on wheels, going out there and putting it all out there, being on the edge.

Jeff Wintersteen

We tried to get him to move more to the right, but he stuck to his guns. Toby's an individualist. He liked that line and he was going to go for it.

John Shields

You know why I liked that one? It very much reminds me of my grandmother's soup. It's very old-fashioned, Baltimore-style soup.

John Reiss

People watched Brian, they liked what they saw and they've stayed with him ever since. It used to be that we would win big when there was big news. Now we win big when there's not such big news.

Mary Matalin

No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

Cheryl Tiegs

My father's name is Theodore, but that - it's always - I've always liked the name Theodore. I read a lot. It's in a lot of literature.

Stan Cliburn

Naturally, this wasn't the way we wanted to start. We would have liked to have put on a better show.

Mary Roach

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

John Carr

You mostly come to these things to support other musicians,

Ernie Els

Ernie told her there was no need to wait, as he thought she was ready to turn pro, ... He spoke mostly to Michelle, but also had a word with her dad, whom he told the same thing.

Hermann Maier

The training is going very, very well. I think I've got just the right formula. At the present time, I'm working mostly on the thighs.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Mitchell Moore

(Ramsey) was a little upset at us at halftime.

Denny Green

Things have to go the way you want them to go, and I think that's probably what upsets me the most as a coach.

Bryant H. McGill

The more something upsets you, the more it is meant for you. When it no longer upsets you, it is no longer needed because the lesson is complete.

Bobby Crosby

We've had a lot of ups and downs,

Willis McGahee

We've had our ups and downs, and things just didn't go the way we wanted.

John Brady

There have been a lot of similarities with our progression. We upset a No. 1 as they did 20 years ago.

Erin Smith

We have a lot of upset individuals who complain.

Robert Kiyosaki

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Conor McGregor

There's many ups and downs in the fight game.