Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bible Bible

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

Steve Erickson

Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, 'Lost in Translation.'

David Byers

They all appeared to be in perfect health. My father was 69 ..., but one of my partners was 51 and the other was 34. None of them had any 'known' history of heart problems, ... I thought it might be worth spending a little bit of money to be able to know exactly what's going on with my health.

Dwight Mitchell

The victim in this case appears to have died of other causes, but not of the injuries that appeared to be at the scene.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians.

Mark Millar

Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.

Michael Wynne

Lay was arrogant and defiant. If the defendant is going to take the stand, that's the best you could hope for as a prosecutor. He just appeared to be defiant.

John Kyriakopoulos

Perceptions that Japanese interest rates would not be rising much appeared to reverse earlier concerns about an end to carry trades, which supported the Australian dollar.

Rhoderick Chalmers

Most of the concessions he appeared to offer were very much cosmetic.

John Johnson

As for going on the show, I would not have minded one bit to meet him face to face and look him in the eye, ... But I feel the deck is stacked on that one and the show is Dr. Phil, not Jerry Springer. The title is ?Falsely Accused,? not?Guilty as Sin.?

Rand Paul

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

David Beard

As long as the numbers are within expectations, it's going to be a win-win situation. If the economy is a little bit weaker than we think, that's good because that means the Fed will keep cutting. If the economic data is a little bit better than we think, that's good too because that means companies won't miss numbers.

Retief Goosen

As long as you hit it straight (at Augusta National) it doesn't matter how long you hit it. You still have to hit it straight and hit the shots. I think I'm hitting my irons a little bit better at the moment, which is a big plus.

John Buck

A slider. He hung that one a little bit up the middle and I was able to stay back on it.

Steve Davis

As it stands now each school is doing a little bit of their own thing.

Donald Selkin

A slowdown in GDP could inject a note of caution in copper and the other metals. All of the metals are a down a little bit today.

Des Hennessy

That poses a bit of a problem. We have to get through them.

Maurice Cheeks

That part of the game is better than the overall game. We'd like our defense to get better for 48 minutes. But I think as the game unfolds and when another team needs a basket, I think our defense gets a little bit better. Certainly if you're going to win games, it has to be better down the stretch.

Siri Hustvedt

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

Bill Cox

Of course, we don't know exactly all the facts and circumstances. But apparently, there had been a disagreement. We weren't there. We don't what all went on. But we know how it culminated. We know how it ended. It was tragic and horrible.

Jim Sheehan

No one was ejected and the reason explained to me is that the officials couldn't identify exactly what happened. That to me is disappointing.

Christopher Sands

So the sense of where the problem is has shifted as people become more sophisticated about what exactly is going on,

Tom McClintock

Proposition 54 simply says that our government has got to stop classifying us by race, ... It doesn't matter what race you are. The government should treat everyone exactly the same." ()

Aaron Miller

I skated pretty good today, but my back gets tired. It's going to take some time, but I'm not exactly sure how much. Hopefully soon, if it keeps getting better like it has and I don't have any set backs.

Sam Shepard

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

Charlie Batch

I've been up there and know exactly what to expect from the fans and that team,

Bob Djurdjevic

This is exactly what IBM went through during that time frame.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

James Stephens

Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.

Nick Rimando

Another week to two weeks, hopefully less than that. I want to make sure I'm 100 percent healthy before I go out there again.

Bill Maris

People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top.

David Bernstein

Once we established that it was safe and did what we hoped it would do in normal healthy adults, then we move to our most vulnerable population, older adults and children.

Alan Marks

a real loss to people and to the overall health of the community.

Siti Supari

The suspected person is now in a healthy condition.

Ted Saskin

A financially healthy league is a positive for everyone, including the players, in the long run. We've always wanted teams to do well.

Lorrin Lee

Study healthy people to learn how to be healthy.

Derrick Rose

I live a great life. I can't complain. I'm healthy, my family's good and there's nothing I can really complain about.

George Cox

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

Brett Ratner

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

Baha'u'llah

The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence, this is conditional upon refinement which in turn is dependent upon hearts which are detached and pure. As to its moderation, this hath to be combined with tact and wisdom as prescribed in the Holy Scriptures and Tablets.

Baha'u'llah

Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.

Barbara Mikulski

Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.

Augusten Burroughs

You must never allow something that happened to you to become a morbidly treasured heirloom that you carry, show people, put back in its black velvet pouch and then tuck back into your jacket where you can keep it close to your heart.

Benito Mussolini

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Brian Tracy

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

Brad Paisley

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Eurico Guterres

This is an opportunity for us to take a new step in history.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Kim Cattrall

You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

Gary White

We want to go to the place where history started.

Anton Chekhov

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Lee Tergesen

We have history, because he was my training officer,

Elizabeth Blackwell

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

Romesh Gunesekera

You might want to write 'War and Peace,' but that might not be who you are. You might be better off with nursery rhymes.

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Darrell Bryan

A number of us are very upset about this slogan. By having too little money you come up with poor ideas.

John Gannon

The older you are, typically, the more money you have.

Robert Kiyosaki

Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Patrick Major

Some people were charging money to use their boats,

Ross Perot

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world

Chris Corrigan

Now it turns out that this is considerably more money than these ferries actually make,

Neal Wade

Sometimes you have to step out and spend some money to win a project.

Thomas Lee

I visited with every student here at one point or another and none of them have said they feel unsafe here.

Rick Forney

There's none of that just-down-to-the-foundation devastation that we saw out of Mississippi after Katrina.

Kim Hunter

None of this has been done before; all of this is new ground,

Reuven Paz

None of these terrorists shows any remorse. They are proud of what they do.

Charlie Strong

I'm real concerned. No one has stepped up. We have the guys. But none of them has taken the job.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

Paula Vogel

we were all starving in New York, and none of us were getting produced, and we were just frustrated.

Anna Paquin

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

Nick Faldo

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

Christina Richmond

Partners are getting more and more savvy in services because they have to.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Reg Alcock

We view the public service as our partners in this,

Archie Manning

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Ben Okri

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Jane Fonda

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

Jane Fonda

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Catherine Keener

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

Catherine Ponder

I have unshakeable faith in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life, for God is in absolute control.

Charles R. Swindoll

Trusting God doesn't alter our circumstances. Perfect trust in Him changes us.

Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

Jascha Heifetz

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Corey Pavin

I've never done anything like it, ... It's more than worth it.

Marissa Nowakowski

It was well worth the wait. (Being a senior) made it all the better.

Eric Greenberg

I'm worth $300 million, and I'm 34 years old,

Mother Teresa

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

Eddie Einhorn

All the frustration, it's been worth the wait. It's a generation-long wait. I mean, that's a long wait.

Robby Rodriguez

It probably did about $25,000 worth of damage.