Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deirdre O'Kane

Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

Andrew Davies

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

Sylvester Stallone

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

John Millington Synge

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

Bill Cosby

If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it

Mo Mowlam

The last thing the people of Northern Ireland need now is an outbreak of recriminations,

James Joyce

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

John McGahern

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

John Millington Synge

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Tony Blair

Yet here we are for all the difficulties in Northern Ireland able to point back to real improvements in the security and the standards of living,

Jim Day

Knock on wood, Larry is staying, but you need to be prepared.

Kathleen Blanco

knocked us down but they did not knock us out.

H. Hunt

Go from $250 to $500 and you should be able to knock 10 percent right there.

Dan Rohn

Gonzalez was tough early, but we made some adjustments and got some big knocks (hits). That's what you've got to do to win ballgames.

Magic Johnson

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, and you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says no, then you have to knock on the next door,

Bud Kasper

What does that tell you as an investor? It tells you that you've got to do everything you can to prevent the negative years, because they will knock the socks off of you.

John Beilein

I thought we had tremendous looks, but we just couldn't knock them down.

Guus Hiddink

It is normal that we were knocked out when you look at the potential of the two sides.

Chris Moore

I'm tired of seeing him. Golly, he was (on) tonight. I don't know if that's a regular occurrence, but I just want to give that young man his credit. ... I don't know what we could have done to stop him. He just plain stepped up and knocked down big shots.

Dinara Safina

I think I played well today. I just missed some really important shots.

Thomas Ken

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.

Jeff Burton

He said it in a way that you couldn't miss it.

Buck Showalter

He's a treasure. Every day that passes, we realize how much we miss him.

Jack Ferraro

I think the players that we have right now are very good. But one thing we don't have is that big-time scorer. We're going to be missing Piazza, but somebody's going to have to pick up his slack.

John Shadegg

I think we need an idea person. It's something we've been missing for a long time.

Claude Tarver

I think a lot of them are wondering if they may have missed out on him.

Kitty Wright

I think a lot of people misunderstood, (thinking) that they were going to be there forever. Now that they're gone, they're missing them.

Rick Barnes

I think it was a situation on this night that (Tech) missed a lot of shots. We were obviously taller and longer, so we could get those rebounds.

Jon Heder

I think we have a unique voice we really want to get out there.

Richard Dawkins

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

William James

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Will Ferrell

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Richard M. Nixon

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

Werner Erhard

All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a difference ... to stop assigning cause for my inability to the circumstances outside of myself and to be willing to have been that way, and to see that the fear of being a failure is a lot less important than the unique opportunity I have to make a difference.

Wayne Dyer

I do not concern myself with being unique, and I do not concern myself with success. I feel I just do and say what I am supposed to. I do not know where it comes from. I go where I am told, and I just allow whatever it is to come out.

Sandra Day O'Connor

For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.