Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert Gold

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.

Kathleen Winsor

The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.

Kathleen Winsor

It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.

Keith Miller

When we go out with the idea that we are going to fix somebody, then it communicates to them that they are inferior and it shames them.

Charles Phillips

When we go into an industry, we go all the way.

Dan Simmons

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

James Lane Allen

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Frederick Douglas

At a time like this, scorching iron, not convincing argument, is needed.

Bill Casey

We spent millions on this. The taxpayers trusted us. Bringing people in here who can't see questions our credibility. We need to please the people who sit in the seats.

Brian Nelson

We have no intention of duplicating those efforts. We get incredible content from our partners, but in this case, we are covering largely under-reported stories and bringing them to our audience.

Joanna Nathan

Until now, there has obviously only been an executive. And we really see that there is a chance to pull together a lot of people from a lot of different backgrounds, perhaps from different factions in the past, from different sectarian groups, getting some women in there obviously and bringing them all together to give them a voice on the future direction of Afghanistan.

Mark Joseph

We've always had a School Committee member or two on these committees, and I feel very strongly that should continue. We need to know what we're bringing in.

John Tortorella

We're going to miss him. He's a main piece to our puzzle, offensively, defensively, on our power play, all the things. Having said that, we'll hope he comes back but if he doesn't we have to be concerned about bringing someone up and we have to keep on playing.

Frank Muir

Wouldn't it be ironic that the very year the World Potato Congress is bringing all these international visitors, we take famous potatoes off our plates?

Brett Galloway

Working with Intel, Nokia, RIM and others, we are unifying a triad: bringing together wired and wireless networks, voice and data offerings, and industry support for Cisco and partner offerings.

Jeff Kinney

Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!

Sparky Lyle

We feel that we are in pretty good shape heading into spring training. I like the experienced staff we are bringing in and hopefully that will lead to a lot of wins this season.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Charles Dickens

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

Charles Dickens

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay

Charles Dickens

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Charles Dickens

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

Charles Dickens

"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

Charles Dickens

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

Wayne Abernathy

Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.

Elissa Buie

When you take on debt, you increase your risk, but you also increase your return,

Loyola Sullivan

We have a staggering debt level, and government must ensure our expenditure levels are kept within our means,

Terry Teachout

Whether they know it or not, most American playgoers owe an incalculably great debt to translators. Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Moliere.

Jim Cooper

When we don't save, we can't even lend money to our government. Today, more than 40% of our huge national debt is owned by foreign countries.

Brunello Cucinelli

I've always had an aversion to debt.

Benjamin Franklin

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

Benjamin Franklin

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.

Sarah Santana

We want them to have a full year of grieving before they volunteer.

Bob Day

The other times, we just preached at you, ... This time around, it's like you're getting christened in church. This is the full immersion version.

Ken Vaughn

We are at all full production and we have increased staff, with some openings at mines.

Mark Hansen

We split it up so the Sunday devotional is more spiritual and the Saturday show will be full of all different kinds of music so it lets people know we do more than just soft piano ballads.

Mike Sherman

We're not going to make it look pretty and say, 'Well, we've been here before,' ... We have 14 games to play and we can't panic. But I don't think you can tell them the glass is half full when it's not.

Glenn McGinnis

We have narrowed it down to those who are providing full financing.

Army Sgt.

When he first signed up, he wanted to go for the full 20 years, but we had to talk him into four. He knew the military, he knew what was involved with it the separation, the risks.

Charles de Gaulle

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.

Howie Nielsen

We're sleeping in a hammock with tubes of mosquito netting. It's too hot, too wet and too full of crawly things to sleep on the ground.

Arne Glimcher

Everything happens through relationships.

Matt Mullenweg

I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!

Rick Smith

You don't look for these things to happen in Park Hills, but in today's world, it's here,

John Cohen

Tomorrow, we'll get a big hug going, and we'll talk about past times, and then the first pitch will be thrown, and he won't see John Cohen, he'll see the enemy. I won't see Pat McMahon, I'll see a team that we're trying to beat. That happens a lot in this league.

Travis Wight

We remembered. That's why we made sure it wouldn't happen to us.

Zell Miller

What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?

Red Cavaney

What happens when we don't have a year like this one?

Jim Mills

What happens to those people with severe memory lapses? How many of those people have they contacted, how many times have they been invited into their houses. How people who have nobody to call, so we don't know how many people this has affected.

The Vikings

What happens on Lake Minnetonka stays on Lake Minnetonka.

Charles Dickens

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

Audre Lorde

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

Arthur Rimbaud

I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent

Denis Waitley

The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.

Harper Lee

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

Mark Twain

The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Tom Zupancic

When you walk into this stadium you won't be able to walk out of it without knowing what the name of the stadium is going to be.

Marisa Miller

I think it's so important just to have confidence in your body. Everyone knows that confidence is sexy, and it's knowing your assets, your strengths, and just playing those up.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.

Chris Chocola

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

Derek Jeter

One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

Palitha Kohona

We are awaiting a response from the Tigers to an offer of a private sea plane for their use.

Larry Templeton

We started by offering tickets to evacuees in the Starkville motels. We thought we would give out about 200 or so.

Chang-Rae Lee

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

Bill Walsh

Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you're offering.

Mack Brown

Three years ago I would have said, 'Tell me why I owe YOU one?

Kristy Servati

They do so much. We really do owe them a lot of thanks.

Marcus Giles

It's about enough of that, I think. We need to step up. We owe it to the pitchers.

Matt Hasselbeck

It's a pep rally, right? Those people were there from, like, 4:30 in the morning, so I feel like I owed them something.

Lisa Mandeville

At halftime, I told them if they score one more fast-break point on us, you?re going to run a suicide in practice tomorrow. I?m not being facetious -- they owe me two.

Nick Iammartino

It was strictly a bookkeeping error. We do not owe any states any back money.

Markus Naslund

It was a treat being around him for three years. Not only me but the team owes him a lot from all the stuff he taught us. He's going to go down as one of the all-time greats.

Irvin Kauffman

Teach we must, for we owe all that we are to all those who have been and all that we have to those who are yet to come ...if they but ask!

Jim Curry

Public welfare trumps individuals' and businesses' rights. We owe it to our children, we owe it to the public to pass this measure. It's the right thing to do. It's the right time to do it.

John Banks

Throughout our lives, we were in the system. Our parents weren't stable enough.

James Jordan

It's been real positive for us to have the parents being mandated to come with their sons and daughters,

Wendy McGonigal

A lot of it has to do with parents who smoke. It was a part of their culture.

Deb Trine

A lot of people who aren't parishioners or parents come out every year. It's a fun?filled day.

Wanda Bethea

They're superb. That's really a tribute to the parents and teachers.

Nisha Singhania

As a girl, you never spoke to your parents. They spoke to you.

Doug Horn

I've always been told by parents how well our team handles these competitions.

Matt Ward

Sometimes you come out there and it's just your parents in the stands.

David Stewart

Some will still be around because they have parents with robust businesses.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don't email saying, "When are we doing next film?" I'm excited to see.

C. S. Lewis

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Agnes Varda

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics make strange bedfellows.

Beth Moore

It's a strange thought that sometimes God trusts us more than we trust Him. God trusts you - can you trust Him?

Tom Gorman

It's a strange business, all jeers and no cheers.

Jordana Brewster

It's a strange age, but at the same time it's great.

Kurt Warner

It wasn't that strange at all. This is my team now.

Michael Kasprowicz

It was a strange wicket and a strange day,