Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carey

Any positive thing like that will absolutely create problems. But I thought it was and still is a wonderful thing.

Carl Mydans

As he came across the deck, tapping the deck with his cane, the entire ship was absolutely silent. And the sound of him coming to surrender his country -- tap, tap, tap -- affected me greatly. And my vindictive feelings about him vanished.

John Scarlett

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.

David Call

As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.

Carole Strayhorn

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

Michael Shaw

The bottom line -- GPS is absolutely critical to our nation's economic well being.

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Frank Hancock

The boy did absolutely what you'd want children to do. Quite honestly, he should be commended for the job he did, not criticized for it.

Carrie Martin

The bottom line is we will be clearer. We will make every effort to explain that better. We will be absolutely clear that this is a reimbursement.

Jeff Ross

We are trying to make it a trophy bass lake ... a place you can go and catch the fish of a lifetime.

Dave Holland

I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.

Harmony Korine

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

Roger McGuinn

My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.

Noel Redding

No, I enjoyed playing bass and still do.

Jeff Ross

If the density of naturally spawned bass is more than 25 percent below average, the lake receives the higher stocking rate.

John Kerr

I was at Lake Poway, and I was 7 years old, ... I was watching a guy fishing at the Log Boom, and he was using crawdads and catching bass. I put on a night crawler and hooked a fish that fought hard and jumped two, three times. It was a bass, and that did it for me. I've been a bass fisherman ever since.

Bob Carnes

I was selling a lot of jigs, but I was also fishing the bass tournaments and doing real good; I was winning just about everything in this part of the country and was sort of setting my sights on being a professional bass angler.

Suzi Quatro

I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do.

Robert Grindle

The new regime is bedding down and in the ascendancy.

John Drengenberg

They (heated bedding products) are like Christmas lights. When they get too hot, too cold or emit an odor, it's time for new ones.

April Winchell

My bedspread isn't washable. Since my bedding has to be washed every day, I'll have to throw it out.

Jeremy Nicholson

Back in the real world one must recognize that the French government will be calling many of the shots.

Jason Isringhausen

As long as they keep calling down there, I'll keep going out there, and I'll give up another home run, I'm sure. That's just part of it.

John Ridley

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

Chris Bell

Someone shouts food fight; food starts flying; management comes and tells us to get out or we're calling the police.

John Marshall

It would be useful to the voters if Marc wanted to talk about the issues, but he's now proven he's incapable of civil debate. He's more interested in calling names. Holtzman is desperate for attention.

William Cowper

Oh for a closer walk with God, / A calm and heavenly frame; / A light to shine upon the road / That leads me to the Lamb!

Steve McNair

Norm is a guy on game day, he really doesn't say much. The days before is when you really got to say, 'Hey Norm, just calm down.' I think it's exciting to him. He tells us, 'This is exciting.' We all should be excited. That's the type of guy he is.

Siti Supari

The national extraordinary condition was declared so that the people can remain calm and not panicking because the government is prepared to handle this in a national way,

Lorie Smith

Coach just told me to calm down and realize it's a game. She told me that when I go back in I'm just supposed to play my game.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo

Despite such a heavy defeat, we need to keep calm because the competition is starting and we can't let ourselves become demoralized.

Shane Steichen

Any system you run, there's always going to be pressure on the quarterback to perform. That's just what you take when you're playing quarterback. I've just got to go out there and stay calm and collected and play my game.

Paul Ash

The situation is relatively calm but it's still fragile.

Paul Ash

The situation is relatively calm ù but it's still fragile.

Eugene Volokh

The sense is that he is very highly qualified and has an excellent judicial temperament, which means he is seen as a calm and thoughtful person, which is what you want in a judge,

Doug Leggate

Delivering volume growth is critical to the Exxon story -- but incremental margins are equally critical.

Stephen Campbell

Despite some very limited progress, the meeting was seriously hampered by the non-attendance of some critical countries.

Jim Scroggins

Despite this decades-long setback, America's fascination with lottery games would continue, as would the desire of states to find alternative methods of funding critical and worthy programs without raising taxes.

Cardinal Ratzinger

a real alternative, a set of meanings and values that can stand at a critical and redemptive distance from contemporary culture.

Conrad Burns

are a critical element of the nuclear triad and represent our most responsive, stabilizing and cost-effective strategic force.

Andrea Baker

The Secretary of Education will decide which languages will be deemed critical to national security. My hunch is Spanish will not be one of them.

Colin Angle

The simplicity of the interaction is one of the most critical things.

Barbara Saunders

The thing that is critical is to develop a strategy and then make sure you stay on it,

John Margarita

The thing is we're young and we're going to make mistakes. We just have to hope we don't make critical mistakes that derail us. With so many young kids playing their first varsity games, we're really going to rely on our seniors.

Wayne Krivsky

At home with my wife and dogs after six weeks of spring training. That's been the last 11 opening days for me. But this one here, this is special.

Jeff Nobers

Once we get the permits, it's about 120 days to get the store built, stocked and open.

Jalal Rumi

Days of wanting.Let them go by without worrying that they do.Stay where you areinside such a pure, hollow note.

Brendan Shanahan

The old days of having a two- or three-goal lead and just being able to lock on are over. You're just going to have to keep on playing.

Sherri Coale

After 30 days of practice and three wins now, it was not something I expected. I was very surprised there was a lack of poise from particularly my point guards.

Plaxico Burress

Some days you get the pretty lady. Some days you get the beast.

Michelle Monaghan

Some days I really love being a mom, and some days I don't! It's crazy - I'm tired of packing lunches!

Patricia Lockhart

Soon we'll be working overnight and on weekends. It's not about the three days or 10 minutes, it's about giving up the rights our past teachers worked for.

Jim Tressel

There will be some days where we are prolific or, whatever, and then there are other days where we do just what we have to do to win and feel good about that, ... And there's going to be days where, you know what, we didn't do our part. I know that's the way Troy feels.

Demetri Martin

They should call fishing what it really is... tricking and killing!

Paul Lee

Fishing is our main hobby and I think it is the only thing we are good at.

E. M. Forster

English literature is a flying fish.

Thomas Shadwell

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.

Sylvia Earle

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

Tom Riley

My fishing hole is deader than...a dead thing that's dead.

Tim Blake Nelson

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

Stephen Leacock

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

Robbie Robertson

I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

John Tavares

I've been able to handle the pace, ... I've got four goals in four games so I feel pretty good. Obviously today wasn't a great day, but hopefully I can come back next week and have a good one.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Gary Hall

Any time it's Westfield-Herndon, South Lakes-Herndon, it's a little more intense. I thought our guys showed some great composure.

Dwyane Wade

Another win Wednesday will make us feel great about the way we're playing.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

George Peters

As a resident I'm actually happy they're doing it, I think it's going to be great for the community.

Tracy McGrady

As a team, we had great intensity to start the game. I think if we consistently do that and play the way we played in the first half and to come out in the third quarter, then we'll be all right.

Russ Borman

As a team, we played fundamentally well. Our guys did a great job.

Jim Yurwitz

As a freshman, she had a great day.

Rodman Philbrick

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Joe Sakic

As a hockey player, it's great to be a part of this race.

Bill Ryden

Aubrey was simply unbelievable tonight. She hurt her shoulder on Wednesday and it was questionable whether she would be able to compete.

John Wall

At times we played with poise and at times we didn't. Our mistakes hurt us and I think minimizing them would have kept us around à as it kind of got away from us in the second half.

Bobby Clark

A tie on the road at Michigan State wasn't the worst result. It's not going to hurt us if we can take something out these three games.

Jim Provuncher

That penalty was a mistake that hurt us.

F. Stone

That penalty really hurt us. We can't let it be one of those things that drags us down.

Charise McHugh

People think we're not here any more, but that's just not true. There are lots of ways to get in here, and traffic is very light on weekends. If people don't come back it's really going to hurt the little mom-and-pop businesses.

Mark Turgeon

Our shot selection hurt us in the first half, hurt our defense, and that was really disappointing.

Mark Turgeon

Our shot selection hurt us in the first half. After that I thought we (gave) a valiant effort.

Bob Rose

Northwest is hurting. They're hurting themselves, and they're hurting the passengers.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

Jeffrey Lurie

We wanted this tribute to be a lasting one.

Shere Hite

Where there is lasting love, there is a family.

Benjamin Netanyahu

lead to a real peace, a lasting peace, not a minute-long peace.

Joschka Fischer

For me this is the end of a period of my life lasting 20 years, and a new beginning.

Graham Chapman

I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

J. Paul Getty

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure,

Ed Rollins

I do not think it is a lasting issue. I think it is just a series of things that this administration has done that makes it look like they are not always forthcoming.

Gabriela Sabatini

tennis is a 100-mph chess match.

Ross Rasmussen

We were going 5 mph up a mountain.

Darrell Waltrip

There's no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200 MPH and suddenly get hit from the rear

Booker T. Washington

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

Blaise Pascal

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

Blaise Pascal

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

Donna Tartt

…still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life…

Colin Powell

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

e. e. cummings

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Andrea Bocelli

The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

Andrea Bocelli

Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

Alfred North Whitehead

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

Diane Screnci

At some point, all three of them will be under consideration at the same time.

Ron Ziegler

As long as we can keep two or three people, we'll be here.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Keith Richard

I've watched him for three years and it's been unbelievable.

Heath Sager

I've never used three pitchers, especially in a one-run game. But we're going to use all three until the weather warms up.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Chris Price

This is heart-wrenching is what it is; to actually see it for yourself in three dimensions.

John Lopez

This could (ordinarily) take three years. But everything's on track.

Donna Moir

That three was a back-breaker. That was the ballgame.