Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

John Gibson

I think it's a great opportunity to showcase our city.

Randy Smith

I think it's a great opportunity to be able to talk to him, but more important than that, I think it tells me that he's listening and that's really important to me.

Marie Windsor

After surgery and my time in intensive care, I was deposited in my room and I realized I was without back pain, but that I couldn't move my legs.

Steven Sacks

You could do projection work onto these other buildings. You'd need permission, of course. Unless you own them.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Graham Cluley

The worry is that the problems with the patch may have prevented it from being successfully rolled out onto some vulnerable computers.

Jack Messman

the window of opportunity for migrating will be when Vista comes onto the market.

John Updike

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

Stewart Hall

You got a lot of people targeting 1.12. People are hopping onto the train.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Carina Perelli

This has been a much more solid operation than the one we saw in January, ... It has been a peaceable election. Voters were much better prepared.

Kazimierz Krzowski

The rescue phase of the operation is over.

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

Cilla Black

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

Joni Pitkanen

The first period we weren't ready, that's for sure.

Leroy Shafer

You couldn't program better weather for a three-week period than we've had this year.

Tom Cross

This is just the start of a period of strong growth.

Cindy Sheehan

It's remarkable that in a 27- day period Crawford has stood for something other than war. It has stood for peace.

David Cutcliffe

That's probably the one position that has stayed the same the most over that period of time.

Brad Boyes

It's inexcusable, the way the third period went. You can't sit back like that. ... Tonight we sat back and took penalties.

Stephen Hadley

I would say that is some real progress.

Samuel Johnson

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Walt Disney

Progress is impossible without change

Samuel Johnson

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Melanie Sloan

Particularly in the House, the progress is very slow and may end up with very little reform.

James Cook

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

Olympia Snowe

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

Octavio Paz

The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

Emile M. Cioran

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Charlie Ward

He said, 'You're welcome to come on full-time now,'

Walter Wriston

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.

Yang Yang

You come. You will be very surprised. I will be there to welcome you.

Paul Singer

You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.

Stein Vaaler

We welcome this decision. We think this is fair.