Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KNIGHT, n.Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth. Warrior, person, and fellow --no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower. Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy. God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad.

Richard Boucher

Journalism is often a dangerous profession. Today, we take this opportunity to express solidarity with the brave journalists who risk their lives to inform the public and express their views.

Michael Drayton

Had in him those brave translunary things/ That the first poets had.

Stockwell Day

It is a brave new world, one that I do not think most Canadians, when they fully understand its implications, will want.

Mark Rosenbaum

I think the homeless have just found shelter with the federal courts. I think it's a brave and courageous decision.

Chuck Prochaska

I think it's unfortunate because what we did for our readership was something that most newspapers were scared to do. I think Acton and I made a brave decision to publish the cartoons.

Brenda Jones

The owners at the time thought, well, were going to have to give all this money back, ... And he comes driving up, late, to do the show. Hed been to a Braves game.

John Donne

I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid

Scott Erwin

He was very brave and I'll miss him always.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Foreign policy is something Americans care about when the economy is good, and when it isn't, they hardly notice it. It's hard to worry about what happens in the Mideast when you don't have a job in the Midwest.

Joey Gathright

I was like, ?Get off my arm,' and he wouldn't move. It's spring training and he's known for something, so nobody really cares. I could care less. I'll get over this. Hopefully, everybody else does.

Nathan Robertson

I was just desperate to win it. It was such a big occasion and right now it ranks as the best. We can win grand prix events but it is the medals you have won that define your career when it's all done.

Dennis Perry

I was in Vegas for a month, and I had to come home to take care of my cattle,

Sam Phillips

I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

Don Jordan

Ken was recognized early in his career as a man of integrity, strength and imagination. I hated it when he told me he was taking early retirement. I tried hard to talk him out of it.

Lesle Gallimore

Kim provides so much emotional lift for our team when she plays because she cares so much.

A. Johnson

Kids need to dream, they need to know that people care about them and they should be able to see outside every single day, because that's what helps you dream,

Gary Griffiths

Kids need to be connected to the school and they need to feel someone cares about them. In a large school setting it can be extremely impersonal. There's nothing worse than a student in a large setting not being connected to anything. That's the height of loneliness.

Barry Cohen

He's a compassionate guy; he's a person of substance; he's passionate about what he wants for this state. Jim Davis is a nice guy. From my perspective, it takes more than a nice guy to get elected.

Lovie Smith

Going into the game, we did not know Davis could return kicks like that.

Larry Parrish

I thought Davis threw pretty good. He pitched better than giving up three runs. In the five games we've played, we could have won four of them easily if we were scoring runs and swinging the bats.

Walt Harris

I think as the game wore on, Davis started seeing that they were in it and they got stronger and stronger. And the pressure on our team got stronger and stronger and we weren't able to deal with it.

Mark Rozell

I think Tom Davis is about as safe as an incumbent can be these days. Davis strikes a pretty good middle ground for his constituents.

Tony Quinn

He was larger than life, not a Gray Davis or Pete Wilson, who were technicians. He said, 'I am Arnold. I can move mountains.' But then he didn't deliver?. He delivered midgets when he promised giants.

Michael Turner

He had only generous words for Ray Davis and Koshiba.

Jeremy Bates

He is not the type of person who will shy away from any pressure situation, which he has already proved in Davis Cup, in Wimbledon and finals of tournaments already in the last year. He's desperate to play in front of his Scottish fans.

Danny Elfman

He looks like Sammy Davis Jr. -- but he's a skeleton,

Richard Codey

Katrina was a devastating hurricane, not a financial windfall for the shameless.

Peter Thiel

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

Robert LaFleur

I think it could get noisy; it could get ugly from a PR point of view. (But) it's more headline risk than any real financial risk.

Rick Pudner

It (becoming a financial center) could be a little faster.

Richard Morton

He left us without saying anything to anyone. The league said they hadn't heard from him. So we had no financial backing.

Jessica Jackley

There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.

Pete Lindstrom

Hackers are now being lured by the promise of financial gains.

John W. Snow

I think we'll be successful with the quiet financial diplomacy,

Glen Taylor

It isn't that we couldn't use somebody like that. It would have to be one of those things where New York would have to say that they really want to get rid of the player and could help us in some financial way to do it. We wouldn't know until this summer if that would even be a possibility.

Andre Dyson

Ken is very inspirational. Even though he hasn't been playing, he's been there with us at every home game. He's been on the sidelines cheering. He has a good heart, and he's always fired up.

Jeremy Wotherspoon

Kato won the world title last year and he's been on fire for awhile.

Ken Robinson

Just like we do for fire victims every day of the year, we want to meet those needs.

Mike O'Hare

KB Home, even though its stock was up after hours, had orders that were down. That sector was on fire last year and since then people have taken profits and put it on the back burner.

Ryan Howard

I think it gets guys fired up. If it doesn't fire you up, you've got issues.

Alex Rodriguez

I think it gave us a little fire in our butts. We were a little flat, and I thought after that, we kind of picked it up a little bit.

Charles Dean

He was a disciplinarian, ... Any time you got out of line, any time you fired back or had an attitude, you ran a lot of laps. I think I ran more laps than anyone.

Mark Richt

He was awesome. He was probably more fired up during the game than anyone.

Gary Gait

He just gets fired up and thrives on that challenge.

Charlie MacArthur

He was a friendly kid, he was quiet, not someone you'd think would be twisted up in something like this.

Jerry York

He was a friendly guy and kind of kept to his own from what I could see.

Atharva Veda

Grief is a friendly reminder, a good task-master; even a better teacher than joy.

Tony McCoy

Horses are like people - they have different personalities. They can be nice, friendly and hard-working, or awkward, difficult and lazy. If horses were people, some would be on the dole, and others would be entrepreneurs.

Rich Falasca

He's always positive, never negative. He's just a friendly guy that we can relate to.

Juli Lax

I was a paralegal who worked in the office quite a bit. I think she just realized I was a friendly person and responsible. She thought it would be a good jump for me.

George Bernard Shaw

It is only natural that a man should have established friendly relationship with the wives of his friends, but if he is wise he quits all ideas of sex out of the question.

Russell Lynes

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

Rebecca Pidgeon

Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.

Suzanne Williamson

Just make sure you throw out the bottles,

Jim Gardner

He didn't have it and I'm not sure why.

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Johnathan Joseph

He's been there. He's making sure we don't go into this thing blind.

Gary Sheffield

He's going to make sure it's done. It's always calm, but he had that look.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Curtis Baham

I thought for sure we'd win after that play.

Ralph Richardson

I think we can use (the study) to make sure we're in balance,

Harry Redknapp

Jose won't let him come but I would have taken him,

Tom Chapman

He is someone who has to be taken very seriously,

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richard Hooker

Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.

Richard Dawkins

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

Richelle Mead

Even if I’d been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would’ve taken my suitcase anyway. That’s how he was, a lost remnant of chivalry in the modern world, ever-ready to help others.

Richelle Mead

Well," he said, clearly enjoying my confusion. "It was actually for two souls, since you and Seth were both saved. But even if it wasn't, it still would've been worth it. Do you know the price of one soul, Georgina? It's beyond rubies and diamonds, beyond any mortal reckoning. If it had taken me centuries, if it had taken a dozen more angels to help me, it all would have been worth it.

Rep. Schultheis

You don't want to make two victims from the same crime.

Johnny Jessop

They're just as much victims as we are.

Jennifer Garraway

We have to do something for the victims and that's why we do this program.

Laura Gunn

We know there are more victims out there.

Jason Bay

He wants to win now. He made that pretty clear.

Bob Gansler

He wants to win every four-on-four and every one-on-one in training,

Ron Gardenhire

He wants to play. But I'm just going to give him a day break.

Kurt Faust

He wants to play. But I don't think he's going to be able to. He's day to day.

Ray Allen

He wants to be better. He wants to be the best. But don't worry about that. Those things will come.

Paul Shefrin

He wants this to be the coming-out party.

Michael Whitcomb

He wants it to be an upscale, low-key place in the neighborhood.

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Brian Billick

He's got to look at what he wants to do.