Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Gary Brown

Ken Lay is what I would call a fix-it man who thinks he can pick up the phone and take care of it because of who he is, a man of power. It's as though he thinks he can call anyone, any time. They're not going to like that kind of attitude.

Rich Beem

Just think of it as a golf cart with a V-8. Call it the Silver Bullet, baby.

Gail Goestenkors

I was just a little worried about fatigue and playing this 11 a.m. game. I was really proud of the team. I thought it took us a little while to get going, but once we hit our stride, I thought we had a nice inside-outside game going.

Bruce Larner

Joe's a good player, but he's only a sophomore. His father used to teach at Okemos, so I had a feeling he'd have a big game for us.

Julian Schnabel

It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings

Dick DeGuerin

It ain't over. The Fat Lady hasn't sung.

Randy Price

He was a father figure to all of us.

John Cornyn

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

Frank Thomas

He knows how to pitch to the fat part of the ballpark.

Yiddish Proverb

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble

Todd Kolson

The people who are setting the foundation are the mothers and fathers. I think we are just giving students recognition for the good habits that parents are instilling in them. We can't wake up 900 students and make sure they always go to school. That's up to parents.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Katharine McPhee

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Stan Butler

He'll be a high NHL pick. He'll be a first round pick.

Trish Routte

He is very likely a witness to the crime. There's a high probability that he saw something.

Graham Elliot

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.

Fadel Gheit

The only thing keeping prices artificially high is the potential for supply disruption, ... Fundamentally, prices should be at $20-to-$25.

Noelle Reed

Had I had that in high school, I would be dangerous.

Maria Semple

I'm not the comedy police, but you watch a movie, and everyone's laughing, and then you shake it out, and you realize, 'There's no joke there!'

Bob Herman

The joke was that we were retiring at the end of every year.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else

James Schamus

It's essentially flattering, It says more about those making of the jokes than about the movie.

Ronde Barber

It's not like we're messing with some jokes at wideout here,

Matt Roth

You don't want to make him mad. He's not one for jokes or antics.

Sam Brown

We are a very united group. We like to have fun, we like to joke around.

Fred Cohen

Dennis is very affable. He likes to joke all the time. He has a very open personality. I thought I would like to write a piece for him.

Seth Greenberg

Now it's for real. It's no joke now.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

John Sacchi

There aren't any soft spots left in our schedule. We need to realize that every upcoming match is going to be a brawl and we better be ready fight.

Wayne Brady

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Orlando Bloom

Right where i left you... Not where i left you?

Kurt Busch

Roger told me to stand on the right pedal, turn left and go fast. He doesn't want me to do anything different. Just race hard, race smart.

Bill Womack

Our left side should be really solid and we should be strong up the middle.

Alphonso Jackson

have come to realize they might not go back to New Orleans.

Andy Reust

It could be a possibility he might run it. At this point, I don't know where I'm going to go with it.

Scott Arneson

I think the proof is in the pudding. The Valley produces state championship contenders every year. Some people might not think that the Valley is that tough, but no one has proven otherwise.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Brent Scowcroft

I think a different first strike by the United States might have stopped what is going on now, but I think he may be getting the word,

Karen Sherman

I think it's one of the big winners out there in terms of something that might be useful for people if they're willing to practice it.

Jim Murphy

I think it's smart. Will it move the needle immediately? No. But over the long term, it might move things.

Rosey Fletcher

It has a first-place medallion around her neck, so that might be the only difference.

Donald Selkin

I think tomorrow (the Fed) will do nothing. But the talk now is that they might move toward a tightening bias.

David Cash

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

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.

Jerry Slocum

He just played tremendously tonight. I'm proud of the way they all battled back tonight.

Shaquille O'Neal

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

Jeff Beeman

He's a really smooth player. I wish he played for me.

Jerry Sloan

I thought we played with a lot more purpose tonight than we did the other night.

Luke Poore

I thought we played well. They just wore us down.

Susie Gardner

I thought Whitney played very well, especially considering who she was playing against.

Jim Ferraro

I think you?re going to see us (in the tournament). We have a lot of young girls, but they have played well together.

John Gunter

I would've never thought that 40 pounds would make that much of a difference.

S. Walker

You don't have to be 6-4 and 280 pounds to be a kicker,'' he said.

Pete Townshend

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

Josh Young

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

Rachel Hunter

All you need is a bad angle and suddenly youre 30 pounds overweight.

Kim Kardashian

When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.

Lewis Carroll

Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

James Thurber

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Henrik Ibsen

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

Jessica Pare

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

Julie Brown

I was always trying to do things to make school fun.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Jan Murphy

I think we've done just about everything that can be done on a school vacation.

Ruben Blades

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

Ronnie Dunn

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

Umberto Eco

The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.

Tyler Hilton

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

Tyler Blackburn

High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Source Unknown

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Miranda Lambert

I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.

Larry Vanderhoef

I'm worried about that, ... It's a widening gap.

Katy Perry

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems,

Glenn Wilson

This is a very real and widespread phenomenon,

Thalia

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.

John McCarthy

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Keyshawn Johnson

The wide receiver position is such a complex position.

Willie Parker

I thought it was going to come back to me. But Hines was wide open.