Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Bible Bible

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? / With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Victoria de los Angeles

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

Gary Gibson

Plotinus, 'The One' and the Source of MatterThe ideas that Plotinus developed as a neoplatonist writing about seven hundred years after Plato acknowledged the prior ancient philosophical work by pre-Socratic philosophers on elucidating the concept of ?The One? unified being that creates everything else that exists through another aspect of himself.

William Butler Yeats

Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say;Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day;The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.

Clayton Christensen

Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'

Edward Fitzgerald

But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, / And still a Garden by the Water blows.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian . . . handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

Doug Heiken

Now the Forest Service and BLM must stop avoiding their legal responsibilities and get to work implementing the Forest Plan, so at least minimal protections are in place for ancient forests, salmon, wildlife and clean drinking water.

Steven Thompson

As a unit we have to try and find ways to make things come together. We try to have fundraisers and whatever money we raise, we save because every penny counts. We seem to always be scrapping the bottom of the barrel but the bottom line is that we want to make sure that we represent the country well, competing internationally.

Carlo Ancelotti

Barcelona played well. But the match was always in the balance.

Ted Olson

Barbara would have insisted that I live my life and that I go on and do the best possible job I could as solicitor general of the United States.

Karen Meredith

Barbara is definitely the heart and soul of this school.

Robert Locke

Procter & Gamble truly sets the bar when it comes to identifying and implementing innovative retail solutions.

Bracey Barker

Our defense was barely there. We didn't have any rotation.

Mitch Albom

People come down for baseball or football or hockey and drive by the refurbished Fox and State theaters, they see the new Hard Rock Cafe, the Borders bookstore, the bars and restaurants, the loft conversions. You can't drive around and not see what's happening down here.

Todd Spencer

No question the success and bowl exposure we've gotten has taken us to another level. The bar is set higher and we are going after better players. Four years ago, we couldn't go head-to-head with Rice and New Mexico for a recruit.

Andy Jados

North is a very good team. They're very athletic. They do a real good job of pressuring the ball. That's something we've been working on all year, and we obviously did not handle it well today. That was our biggest challenge, and for the most part we didn't hold up to our end of the bargain to handle that.

David Waters

As he put it, 'the biggest nightclub in central London'.

Daniel Yergin

Depending on what we learn in the next few days, this may be the biggest oil-supply shock since the 1970s. We are now in the days of reckoning.

Graham Nelson

The single biggest is to stop the player from getting stuck and getting bored; always think like the player as well as the designer.

Jeff Pentland

Sometimes the biggest successes aren't the guys you hear the most about.

Briana Mackey

Sometimes it is the number of rooms (available) and sometimes it is the rate, because we need to make sure the rate is falling in line from a value perspective. So far, the biggest stumbling block is the rate.

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Mohammed Amin

This is a new experience for the new Iraq, ... Iraqis now are watching the biggest man, Saddam, being tried in an open trial.

Mike Viola

This is huge. This is the biggest tournament west of the Mississippi ... we need to carry this momentum into league.

Andrew Preston

This is huge, this is the biggest game of the season, ... it doesn't get any better than this.

Scott Harelson

We chose this site in the first place because vacant property next to the canal is very rare.

Mike McCartney

It doesn't take much to the canals to look blighted.

Elizabeth Morgan

I've seen a sprinkling of it over the years, but it's out front this year.

Ricky Davis

You saw it right here on the stand, ... Right in front of you.

Carlos Castaneda

There are worlds upon worlds, right here in front of us. And they are nothing to laugh at.

Hale Irwin

When I made the turn I didn't give much thought to winning because I didn't play that well on the front nine,

B. R. Hayden

We have a rule for that, but I don't have it in front of me,

George Chapman

As soon as you're here in front of those race cars, ... everything else kind of goes away.

Ken Gross

The optics of what members do now is front and center. You don't want to be seen riding around in a taxicab with a lobbyist to the Willard Hotel.

Champ Bailey

We've got a great defense, a great front seven. There's no way we shouldn't play the way we did in the second half every week.

Rick Lepire

This was a big game, and you try to win the game in front of you.

Joe Banner

Normally I'd say the player is not likely to just pass up getting paid. But in this case, you really can't say. This isn't a very predictable situation.

Susan Meyer

The more options we are able to offer people, the more likely they are to use one of them.

Tom Dorsa

The suspect was most likely in the passenger seat of the vehicle at the time.

John Pescatore

AES will likely not replace more than 30 percent of DES operations before 2004,

Laura Bush

The old Medicare was a system stuck in the past and we need to worry about the young workers that are putting money into the future, ... The more options available, the more likely you are going to get what you want.

Kyle Cooper

The weather remains the primary driver. Until the weather moderates, prices will likely remain robust.

Sam Buttrick

We think it's been done in such a way that it's likely to stick.

Kevin Hassett

There's not really likely to be market panic around the nomination,

Carol Wotton

Those are probably things that students are likely to have.

Ben Agosto

We weren't sure that we were even going to be here. To now be here and have a medal around our neck, it's amazing.

Jeffrey Buttle

I stood there (on the medal podium) in disbelief. It was a really special moment. I wouldn't have been there without (my parents).

Jeremy Bloom

It really isn't about winning the medal for me.

Connie Thomason

It provides money for shirts, medals and ribbons.

Brian Simmons

The thing about it is nobody is out there freelancing. Everybody's playing within the parameters of what we are doing.

Mickey Rourke

Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.

Glenn Williams

Push yourself, guys, ... Nobody walking. To the cones.

Jane Walsh

The work (Ryerson) did was really groundbreaking. Nobody else had really done that before.

Manny Diaz

The process is ongoing, nobody has pulled the plug,

Lucky Wurtz

You give him a one-game season and there's nobody better.

Jack Pitney

There's plenty of time to criticize. I think two years from now, nobody is going to remember what these people said.

Andrew Albert

Nobody seems to be talking about security. It's a non-issue at the moment. I'm shocked.

Ray Brown

Nobody would have picked me to play 20 years,

Claire Coggins

She's the oldest one, she's the most mature, she's the smartest. She's just Jessica, you know, J-Mac.

Denis Kearney

Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!

George Santayana

The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.

Jimmy Carr

Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, but in a properly big and important way. My perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee.

Euclid

Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

George Herbert

The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]

Christa B. Allen

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.