Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Brown

He's a Chicago kid. That team had a great future. I don't know if it's ever easy being traded. My hope is that this is a good situation for him.

Ethan Harris

In terms of being a predictor for the national index, the Chicago number has a spotty record.

Deena Kastor

I had the fear of Chicago creeping back as the miles ticked on. My last three miles being horrendously slow.

James Iha

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

Al Michaels

You've got these guys and the Chicago Bears.

Jerry Coleman

And Kansas is at Chicago tonight or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas leads in the eighth four-to-four.

Michael Strauss

The Chicago PMI helped, but the economy is doing better and we know the fourth-quarter will have some of the effect of the hurricane, but the market is ready to withstand that.

Sidney Davis

The Fraternal Order of Police will do everything legally in our power to make sure no banner, no sign, no monument, no anything goes up in the City of Chicago that would honor Fred Hampton.

Shawn Willett

The first wave was ... companies automating their procurement processes. The second wave, happening right now, is trading communities, ... The next wave is going to be like the Chicago Commodities Exchange: instant fulfillment done completely on the fly.

Bobby Hauck

You wish you had a crystal ball, where you could predict the future and predict what's going to happen next fall.

Seimone Augustus

I want to be able to kiss that crystal ball. Hold it and hug it.

Shay Doron

Crystal obviously is our No. 1 option. Everything goes through her. She spreads the game, especially for the guards and the other post players because she draws so much attention.

Dorothy Hodgkin

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

Anne McCaffrey

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

Jack Palance

Billy Crystal... I crap bigger than him.

Michael Gove

Well I've been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond the pale organization.

Jim Gillespie

I don't think we have any intentions of slowing down. I don't have a crystal ball, but the pace that we have set for ourselves the last 10 years -- my goal is to keep that going.

Ellie Goulding

I've got a song called 'Salt Skin' because when you run in the heat it evaporates and you've got salt crystals on your face. I love that, because it means you've worked really hard.

Harry Browne

Job was tested, and he proved himself. Because of that he was rewarded greatly, and I think the same opportunity exists for those people suffering so sorely now.

Seth Palansky

We are following the same format, the same protocol that exists for games shown on ESPN.

Saint-John Perse

In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

Yingxi Yu

Interest still exists even at such high prices.

Julie Gayet

I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I get the feeling the French cinema holds on tightly to what exists already.

Alex Pareene

The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture.

Lydia Leonard

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

George Carl

A distressing gap exists between the public's expectations for retirement and the reality.

Adauto Lima

This is positive. The tax structure that exists today in Brazil, even for local investors, is an aberration.

Nicholas Hoult

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.

Van Morrison

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

Rachel Platten

I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.

Sarah McLachlan

The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from,

Nick Atkinson

The guys just come to our gigs to pick up girls, if nothing else.

Jules Shear

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

Marianne Faithfull

I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

Pauly Shore

I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me.

Brian Molko

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Mark Neumann

If somebody walks in to me and says, 'I'm a gay person, I want a job in your office,' I would say that's inappropriate, and they wouldn't be hired because that would mean they are promoting their agenda.

Amy Adams

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

Herb Trimpe

I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.

Kenneth Langone

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

John Whisenant

There's nothing like throwing it in the basket, ... I mean, that's why she's our hired gun.

Tim Maloney

Getting hired under 18 is somewhat of a privilege.

Tom Smith

If (the company) hired permanent replacements, then they don't have to give the strikers their jobs back upon termination of the strike.

Margie Feinberg

Jared Hunter no longer works for us and can never be hired here again.

Nancy Wright

Whoever hired us had to really know what they were doing. Our personalities match. I feel like I've known them forever.

Bryan Randall

He seems to be real comfortable with the system. He seems like he's been doing it longer than two years. He seems like he's made strides.

F. Stone

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

Alberto Fujimori

It is no longer a possibility or an option.

Matisyahu

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

John Phelan

Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.

Dr. Armstrong

In our trial, women who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median survival time of 16 months longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy.

George Charamba

I no longer talk to you and you must never phone me again.

Georg Hackl

I have the strength of a 10-year-old. If the track was 500 meters longer I might have a chance.

Elliot Morley

In many parts of the country, water is a precious resource which we can no longer simply take for granted.

William Green

I'm being pushed in ways I've never been pushed before, on and off the field. I think it's paying off.

Martin Bashir

I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.

Silke Stegemann

The company's salt acquisitions are paying off big time thanks to the winter weather.

Robert Chavez

On average, we're paying them back about $685,000 a year.

David Baker

It's called taxation without representation. We'd be subject to paying the tax, but we couldn't vote on it.

Pedro Mart

It worked for me, ... And now it's paying off for someone else.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Anton LaVey

Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Steve Stifano

Essentially, if you go with a friend, you'll each be paying $9.75 for a ticket.

Dave Pirner

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

Lindsay Davenport

I was just able to eke out the second set, and the third set I just played a lot better and she started to make a lot more unforced errors.

David Duncan

Kirby was 8 of 15 from the field. That's pretty good. She played well.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing.

David Cash

I wouldn't say it's pressure. We played our way into this position we can play our way out of it.

Tiger Woods

I think I played really well - even though I had three bogeys, I think 10 birdies usually offsets that.

Leonard Little

It can't do nothing but get better now. We've played the worst that we can play.

Stephen Jackson

He was aggressive. He didn't let the referees get in his head, he just played well. He's getting a feel for the game.

Myron Rolle

He just told me not to put any undue pressure on myself. He said if I just relaxed and played my game, the big plays would come.

Pam Walker

We thought we would start with TV and radio to reach the most people.

Sarah Vowell

Radio is the playground of coincidence.

Will McDonough

The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.

Wayne Dyer

I was asked on a radio interview what my mission is, and I immediately blurted out, "God realization."

Randy Jackson

You were right where you were supposed to be, singing the right song that could be on the radio right now.

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

Juan Williams

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

Sean Hannity

When I started in radio, I worked for free. I lived at the radio station. Then I worked for very little money.

Shelby Lynne

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

Rose McIver

It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.

James Frain

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

Lou Reed

Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.

Geena Davis

I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me.

Elaine Vogel

For a long time, we were the only theater in town. And it may be the only theater in Nyack again.

Brian Baumgartner

I come from straight theater.

Jane Krakowski

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Elaine Vogel

This theater is actually always busy. There's so much going on here.

Robert Brustein

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Euripides

He is wise that is wise to himself.

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

William Wordsworth

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

William Wordsworth

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

Richard Dawkins

Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is irreversible. But today I want to present it as something different again, and even more intriguing. The DNA in you is a coded description of ancient worlds in which your ancestors lived. DNA is the wisdom out of the old days, and I mean very old days indeed.

Charles Fletcher

He could've won by 10 lengths if he wanted to.

Greg Davis

Having won 19 games, to think that they've won 34 is just unbelievable.

Jack Nicklaus

When he won his match, I told him, 'We'll, you've doubled your allotment for the week,'

Curtis White

I think we should have won by more (against Muncie Central), but we've been off (from competition) for a bit, and we're kind of rusty.

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Roald Dahl

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

Vasily Grossman

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.