Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonin Scalia

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

David Roberts

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up

Alan Ball

Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.

Veronique Keyser

The death of millions of Jews, homosexuals, Roma, is in no way comparable to cartoons or the burning of flags. We cannot talk to you if you deal with this in this manner.

Donald Trump

Well, that's up to really Mark Burnett and myself and NBC ( search ) as to whether or not the Martha show continues, but it certainly has struggled mightily.

Rip Hamilton

You know you're doing it right when you feel burning in your hips and nothing in your groin. It gets my hips and my groin all on one page. I had groin trouble early in my career. I was using too much of my groin because my hips were tight.

Sylvia Plath

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

Theodore Roosevelt

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

Gavin Graham

You're still paying cold, hard cash, but because the product is considered better, it's counted as a price-cut.

Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.

Roberto Orci

If something is wrong, it'll prove to be wrong in the wash, and if it's right, you don't want to not expose yourself to it - so I read everything, no matter how horrible it gets. You listen and take it in and if it doesn't sway you, you'll know you considered it.

David Dinkins

I am not here to criticize the mayor, who I consider a friend,

Carlton Fisk

I consider it an honor and a privilege to be here today, ... I'm also involved with Special Olympics and the Jimmy Fund, which is the Red Sox charity.

Christopher Fowler

I consider myself a kind of a nerd, because when we go to the coffee shop in the mornings, we sit there in a very neat row with our laptops. It's just like being at work, but with coffee and panini. And, of course, you don't get paid.

Jeremy Grantham

I consider most of the talent in the financial world to be suboptimal. It could be better placed earning its living in the real world.

Josh Liss

Once we receive the equipment, we have to have the staff trained on this and get our election judges trained. We'd also like to take it around the county and demonstrate it to the voters so that when they walk into the polling place for the first time it's not the first time they've seen the equipment.

Joe Layne

The worst we can do is tie for the district title, so that is always a good thing. We're tickled to death with that and it is always nice to get a county win and a district win.

Chuck D.

This is starting to be an issue in Citrus County that I never thought we would face.

Scott Young

Huge. County championship. Oughtta be another big one.

Darrell Smith

The county wants to make this right. I had my engineer send a letter to tell the county that it was not a good installation. However, there's no immediate danger of it collapsing.

Sandy Greenberg

The county needs to educate the public and come up with better recommendations for what types of trees should be planted.

Chuck Thomas

The county has to go by what the state says.

Kelly Jones

The county executive ought to make an example of this function and show that he is willing to save money where he can, given his rather outsized salary increase.

Dave Morrison

This has been the policy and fortunately the county has had the political will to stick to it.

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.

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.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Ken Bussard

It would be nice to get a few surprises. The kids need to peak at the right time. Everyone of our wrestlers have an opportunity, it is just if they want to take it.

Richard Doherty

It would be foolish to say these will be the last (companies) we will hear from in the next few weeks.

Paul Wright

The second half I tried out a few new looks.

Steve Ogden

One of the issues that the Legislature needs to look at now that we've had serious outbreaks of fires is whether or not in hindsight we should have funded that.

Jason Williams

Scoring is up around the NHL, so I'm not going to think too much about it. But it's obviously it's a milestone I was hoping to reach.

Harry Masch

Neither team played well last time we played. I'm just hoping we can play better and see what happens.

Kinky Friedman

How sad for him to be hoping for a small turnout.

Ron Gardenhire

He likes to play and he'll play through anything, so when he has to sit out, you know he's hurting. That's a little scary. I'm just hoping it's not a lingering thing.

Dennis Ruedinger

He seems to be doing all right. We're hoping by (today) he'll be able to do some light workouts and get some shooting in. It looks like he'll be on pace to do that. We'll be able to go pretty solid on Wednesday and Thursday with him.

James Blake

I was just hoping to make it a match.

Ron Gardenhire

He has no strength in it, ... We were hoping that he would be a little better, and he's not.

John Abraham

I'm really hoping that everyone can stay healthy, ... because I feel that we have a team and a nucleus that really can get us to where we want to be.

Marat Safin

I'm just hoping to play as many tournaments I can to get my ranking back.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Richard Langford

Conceptually, I don't have any problems with this idea. It's just a question of where do we start and how do we get there.

David Filo

You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.

Jon Heacock

I know they are special team problems, but they are important ones.

Steve Courson

There's a whole minefield of problems, and the minefield doesn't go away,

Edgar Allan Poe

It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.

Amos Lee

We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow

Amy Carmichael

If I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told "There is nothing', till at last there arises a little cloud out of the sea, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Ricky Nelson

Today's teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows.

Neil Gaiman

After a while it sort of began to rain, which is to say that it was the kind of rain that never comes to a decision about whether it's actually raining or not. Driving in it, you would never have been certain whether or not to turn on your wipers.

Matsuo Basho

Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.

Patricia Cornwell

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

Pablo Neruda

The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence....

Pablo Neruda

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.