Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Ellen DeGeneres

When I asked her what she missed the most right now she said, 'My friends. I don't know where my friends are,' ... Tonight, let's show people on the Gulf Coast that they have friends all over the world . . . to give them shelter from the storm.

E. Hicks

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Manuel Miranda

Conservatives want someone with a clear, written record. The Roberts hearing has been superb as a technical, tactical matter, but it's left some people in despair and just clamoring for someone with a written record. The left keeps asking, 'What does the right know that we don't know?' Well the truth of the matter is, we don't know anything. We're all being asked to take a leap of faith.

Aaron Peirsol

Couldn't have asked for a better meet as far as the competition goes, ... Those are some great fans sitting out there, a lot of kids and that's kind of who we're trying to reach with this.

Poppy Z. Brite

I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.

Marcus Brigstocke

I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so large by then that, in the heat, my thighs chafed together and bled. I was very unhappy, and yet no one ever asked me how I felt.

Scott Walker

You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.

Simon McBurney

Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.

Gene Vincent

She's the gal in the red blue jeans.

Brendan Taman

Gavin Walls was an integral part of last year's team and we are pleased that he will remain a Blue Bomber for the foreseeable future. Gavin established himself as one of the premiere defensive ends in the CFL in 2005 and we expect him to improve upon that Rookie of the Year performance in the years to come.

Matt Collins

We encourage Monopoly fans to participate in the design of our new game board by voting often at our Web site for their favorite landmarks. Remember, elections are often won by a slim margin, so your vote could be the difference needed to land your favorite American city on a blue property space.

Ken Wonstolen

We can't be put in a position where we owe some kind of blue sky (undefined) damages related to the change of the area. Not to say we're not sympathetic. If we are going to have oil and gas development, it has to happen where the gas is.

Todd Pletcher

I thought he worked real well. I think he really likes this track. We decided to train here because if you get rain, it's a little more consistent surface. And hopefully after the Blue Grass he'll be back here.

Mike Babcock

We just did a good job on the specialty teams. They (the Blue Jackets) played with a lot of passion and urgency. (But) what do you do when your (the Blue Jackets') power play isn't putting them in, and the other team is?

Kim Huston

We realized that there was no sign off the Blue Grass Parkway promoting the downtown district.

Jayson Williams

I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.

Jay Baruchel

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

Rod Smith

We had a good season, but it's still a failure to me. That's in my eyes, that's nobody else's opinion, that's my opinion because I know what it's like to hold the trophy at the end. But anything less than that is a failure to me. . . . When we needed it the most, we didn't get it. Their team was better.

Charles Bukowski

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Daniel Woodrell

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Anne Lamott

The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.

T. S. Eliot

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the center of the silent Word. Oh my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where shall the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence

Simone Elkeles

Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again. He steps closer. “No. The part about you fallin’ for me.

Roland Gift

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light,

Stephen Spender

Death to the killers, bringing light to life.

Sri Chinmoy

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

Sri Aurobindo

But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.