Famous Quotes & Sayings

Teju Cole

I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is someone out there embittered enough to carry it out.

Joe Evans

I think it's awful that because of a personal conflict, Mr. Spinks thinks it's necessary to do something that may have the effect of disrupting the whole festival and the whole county loses.

David Kennedy

It could be false, but an awful lot of it gels. Unless the guy's been much more surreptitious than these guys usually are, it's probable that law enforcement is on his trail.

Joseph J. Lhota

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

Dave Wannstedt

I think what you saw out there today is really no different than what you saw in the preseason. He breaks an awful lot of tackles and the guy has an awful lot of desire.

Brian Coulton

There are no numbers, there are very few deadlines and not an awful lot of ownership of these plans, and so it is a disappointment.

Sally Ride

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

Denis Law

In the long run, after knowing him for a long time, it's the best thing that could have happened because he would have been slightly like a vegetable and he wouldn't have liked that. It's awful to say it sometimes but it was a blessing.

James Nesbitt

I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Chris DiMarco

Jack's the best, the best of all time, and to make that putt for him is what it's all about, ... We wanted to get a win for him so much. Last night, we had a great, emotional dinner. Everybody got up and talked, and I think everybody said they wanted to go out and win this for Jack. And to do that is unbelievable.

John Bogle

Jack Brennan is the best person I could possibly have found,

Ed Oakley

I would say it's in his best interest, at this stage of the game.

Neil Rackers

I would say they're both the best at what they do, ... It makes my job easy when I know where the ball's going to be every time.

Willie Lager

Kelsey just played awesome, the best she has all year.

Mike Reardon

Kelly is a really smart player. I'd say she's our best puck- handler on the team, and she's starting to clean stuff up and get in front of the net. Even though she's a freshman, we look to her to do some damage ? she's really important to our offense. Obviously Michelle (Bolduc) is our power forward and our big gun, but other people are going to be keying on her as we move into the playoffs and we need big games from other girls.

Finis Shelnutt

Katrina is the best thing to ever happen to this city.

Robert Cross

I think it's very analogous to what happened in the 70's. The arguments are all the same.

Romola Garai

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

Denzel Washington

When they said my name, I said, 'There is no way I can go up here without sharing it with Rubin,' ... Everything that has happened with this film and this moment is about the love that has come from him.

Duce Staley

I didn't get involved in an altercation. That happened in the club, but that didn't involve me. I wasn't robbed, and I had my 2 earrings. I lost my bracelet, that's all.

Kyle Williams

I don't know what happened out there. We played like a joke out there in the second half.

Patrice Lauzon

I don't know what happened, it's never happened before. The lifts are usually our strength and for some reason, Marie slipped.

Arthur Travers

I don't know where the shooting happened or how.

Branny Vickory

I don't know what kind of impact this sentencing that happened back in '91 had on his behavior.

Robin Williams

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

Chris Porter

Knowing you're a part of this ... is something.

Katha Pollitt

knowing that it's there for them if they really need it.

Russell Crowe

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

Woody Allen

Paranoia is knowing all the facts.

Samuel Beckett

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

Salvador Dali

Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.

Salman Rushdie

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

Ryan Reynolds

Wouldn't that be an amazing super power? Knowing where to press on someone's neck to make them immediately urinate.

Ryan Reynolds

There are so few surprises left in life. We've gotten so addicted to knowing. It's the Google generation. We want the answer to everything right now!

Ann Richards

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

Terry Stotts

I really liked the way we competed in the second half. With Michael and Mo out, I was really proud of the way our team competed.

Joe Consolino

I liked what I saw. We're playing with a lot of poise and we got a lot of support from our bench.

Jeff Garlin

I like raconteurs; I like conversation. I liked the 'Tonight Show' when it was 90 minutes, I like when people aren't plugging things per se, and they're just in the moment being interesting.

B.o.B

I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

Lee Daniels

I never saw Glitter, but I liked her work in the other film.

Julian Fellowes

I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.

John Salmons

The first time we wrote this revision, we tried to make it very simple. That wasn't well liked so we tried to be more specific.

Dany Heatley

It's nice, but I would have liked to do it in a different game.

Suki Waterhouse

I've always loved slightly ugly shoes. Or even very ugly shoes.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

Lesley Nicol

I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.

Karen Collins

Vegetables can be a fabulous-tasting centerpiece of cuisine.

Dan Barber

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

Tim Tebow

I rely on a lot of green drinks to get my vegetables.

Sheena Iyengar

I used to go to this store called Draeger's and you had a little bit of that same feeling because this was a store that offered you so many varieties, things you'd never contemplated before, you know like 250 mustards and vinegars and over 500 different kinds of fruits and vegetables, or over 2 dozen different types of water.

Martin Sheen

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

Jethro Tull

All sorts of dung and compost contain some matter which, when mixed with the soil, ferments therein; and by such ferment dissolves, crumbles, and divides the earth very much. This is the chief and almost only use of dung. ... This proves, that its (manure) use is not to nourish, but to dissolve, i.e., divide the terrestrial matter, which affords nourishment to the Mouths of vegetable roots. His underestimate of the value of manure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.

Bill Bryson

Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of adjustments, adaptations, modifications and providential tinkerings stretching back to 3,8 billion years. Remarkably we are even quite closely related to fruit and vegetables. About half the chemical functions that take place in a banana are fundamentally the same as the chemical functions that place in you. It cannot be said too often: all life is one. That is, and I suspect will ever prove to be, the most profound true statement there is.