Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system has been a nonstop torrent of TV specials. So if you're one of the many who believe the aliens are here, you really do have to admit this: They're the best houseguests ever.

James Gunn

As for the "torture" of fans waiting for the other shoe(s) to drop, I hope that it is true - that there are readers out there panting to know what is going to happen to Adrian and Frances and Jessica, and who can't wait to find out who the aliens are and why they sent spaceship plans and what they want with humans. I must admit that I am curious, too.

Brett Favre

As bad as I hate to admit it, age is working against me, as it works against everyone, ... But, if you can help it, you can't afford to be slow. Not one step.

Arthur Conan

As a rule, when I have heard some slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the facts are, to the best of my belief, unique.

George Bernard Shaw

As an old soldier I admit the cowardice : it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little.

Doc Watson

The bottom line is a man's got to have a vocation of some kind. But performing in concert has its own rewards, though I have to admit that up until a few years ago I was very nervous being up there. I finally learned to be who I am and relax. When you do that, it's just like being down there with the audience.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Probably some of them don't believe it was a mistake, and for those who do ... people don't often like to admit they're wrong. I'm not even sure I'm right when I say it was a mistake.

Bella DePaulo

People tell about two lies a day, or at least that is how many they will admit to.

Phil Bennett

People don't want to admit it, but TCU has sort of looked down at SMU,

Erin Campbell

The bottom line is this should translate into a savings of several million dollars for the people of Vermont.

Peter Beck

The bottom line is, they are many years away from food self-sufficiency. If they push the public distribution too far, they could easily be looking at another famine.

Clint Hurdle

The bottom line is, they are in the playoffs. They won the (National League West).

Andrew Roskill

The bottom line is, the way things are laid out on the table right now, they just aren't going to work. The government doesn't really understand how technology works.

Phil Anderton

The bottom line is the team is selected by the manager and that is the way it should be.

Robert McKinley

The bottom line is these offers are a marketing gimmick. If you get an offer in the mail, it's important to read the disclosure box very carefully.

Mike Claffey

The bottom line is there will be only three lanes.

David George

The bottom line is there's nothing very new here. It's not going to change our forecasts.

Ronald Brown

The bottom line is there's more use of psychotropic medication with children than there is research data on it.

David Foster

The summer concerts in Stone Park have been one of my passions.

Karen Wagner

I've been to many great concerts at Mishawaka,

Bill Golden

We thought we could get the same type of experience without extending ourselves to promote concerts and those type of things.

Barry McGuire

I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.

Birdy

My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think.

Jenni Rivera

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

Colin Blunstone

As soon as we were on stage, it felt like we'd played our last concert two weeks before,

Sophie B. Hawkins

There is something about the stage that makes it so much better than being in the studio. I always connect with my audience; a concert to me is a collaboration between me and the audience, and I love it so much.

Herald Castillo

We sold everything by three o'clock. Hundreds of hats and all the drums. We went into the concert and I saw hundreds of people dancing and having fun and wearing my hats.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Budd Booth

That was a big accomplishment for them. They all seem to be playing well together, and we have a lot of youth and depth, so that's encouraging for the next few seasons.

Curtis Brown

That's where we've seemed to hit the wall the past few games. We play hard in the first half. But it seems like after halftime, we just can't put forth the same effort.

Allan Bristow

That's where we start. Hard to say where this thing is going to take us in the next few weeks.

Dave Jones

Reading are up and maybe they'll be on the pop celebrating for a few weeks. No matter what, though, it's a game we need to win.

Chuck D.

Primarily, there are messages from a Yahoo group that are most interesting, ... There are memories, a few photos, a photo of Myron's hometown and some historic photos. There are links to other sites Welk related.

Firefighter Cummins

Our discussions are more meaningful than they have been in a long time and we hope to iron all this out in the next few weeks.

Aaron Rowand

After playing 14 innings, when my head finally hits that pillow, I don't think I'm going to have any trouble sleeping tonight.

Lauri Hakala

Sometimes it goes that way, sometimes it doesn't. I've been really mindful of my footwork. I'm happy it finally worked.

Darin Erstad

We're happy that spring training is finally over. It's always fun to get the season under way and to keep score for real.

Dynelle Tadlock

We ran our offense to get open shots and it finally paid off. I wanted the girls to recover from those two losses as a team, and I think we showed we can play team basketball.

Khaled Suleiman

There are a lot of difficulties, but finally we will succeed.

Jason Blum

Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing 'Sinister.' Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it'd be really scary on set.

Tim Taylor

Bradley is finally starting to get healthy after that injury he had last Monday. I told him it had been a long time since we've seen that stroke come back.

Craig Benson

Benson said in an interview after the vote. ''I think this law finally puts all parental notification on the same footing.

Apolo Ohno

I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Raina Telgemeier

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.

Joel Parkinson

I used to be tense or nervous before heats. But I've learned to get rid of the negative stuff and just stay relaxed and positive - and it seems to be working for me.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

Billy Donovan

The thing that's so shocking of his 37, he only took 14 shots. He got to the free-throw line tonight. That was the difference.

Masayuki Ito

Sony's results look pretty much in line with market expectations, in that they didn't disappoint. The problem is that you can't see any pillar of growth.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Klaus Rinnen

The Samsung announcement is still in line with our estimate.

Larry Bailey

It would take $30,000 to $40,000 to make repairs to get this residence in line with codes.

John Samuelsen

These women put their necks on the line every night.

Sergei Kiriyenko

These deliveries are made in line with the main principles of the nuclear suppliers' group.

Greg Rubin

I set the line and he just took off about 150 yards straight out to the middle of the lake.

Chris Duggan

Some smaller providers get nervous when you start talking about a rating system.

Deepak Chopra

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

Scott Sprinzen

We are still nervous about our ratings, even at the reduced levels.

Linda Jay

We do seem to have stabilized here but this is a real nervous market.

Dale Jr

You get nervous when you see fluids. There wasn't any fluids -- just Busch trying to get out of the way.

Ellison Chu

The time for the announcement for the ETF is getting closer. Basically, the turnover is very small in silver because all players and traders are very nervous about the price at the moment.

Patrice Lauzon

We were probably a little more nervous going into it than usual but I think we skated great.

Adele

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

Dreama Walker

When I get nervous, I get word vomit.

Rashida Jones

I'm terrified of performing live.

Liz Phair

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

Monica Keena

I got off not bad, actually. because I went to LaGuardia HS of Performing Arts, which is really well-known. and there were often talent scouts there.

Carrie Fisher

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Van Morrison

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

Michael Davis

TI is performing well but it is being unfairly tainted,

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

John Dryden

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm

David Mitchell

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Katie Jacobs

Even though they are competitors, we really wanted to do the right thing by the users and give them other choices.

Mike Eaves

Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.

Al Golden

You never know it as well as you think until you have to be the teacher,

Ian Millward

And, until we get that right, we're not going to win games.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.