Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Sheffield

If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.

Alicia Sacramone

I think we could have sent three people to the Olympics and done equally well. We have a lot of great girls in our generation right now.

Fred Hartsfield

I think we were equally matched the last time. George has improved since then and we have improved since the first game. It will come down to which team makes the fewest mistakes.

Carnegie Hall

He was just magic. He was equally as wonderful offstage as on.

Lanny Davis

He focuses on the half-empty glass. But it is equally true to say the glass is half-full.

Alicia Sacramone

I think our group is really strong right now. I think we could have sent three teams to the Olympics and done equally well with all of them.

Arun Jaitley

If the prime minister was in the know of it, then he is equally culpable. If he was not aware, then it is for him to introspect as to what kind of government he is running.

Tom Lantos

I only hope we will have an equally charismatic and visionary leader in the future as Kofi Annan has been.

Doug Wright

I flatter myself a terribly liberal New York playwright, but his prose floored me because it was so extreme, ... I found myself asking, 'Wow, does this have any value? Does this merit a place on bookshelves?' And I thought, if he could unnerve me so completely, then maybe he'd be a worthwhile subject for drama. Maybe he'd be the kind of figure about whom I could write a parable about free speech that made liberals and conservatives equally nervous.

Shaun Wynn

Kevin, he had a good game going inside, so I figured it's not really about me. That was what was working - going inside.

Jim Duncan

Knowing that figure is a valuable tool that will help guide the Planning Commission's thinking as they work to update the Comprehensive Plan.

Johnny Hott

I yelled out, and no one answered, so I figured they all must be on a walk or something.

Jason Eldredge

Keep giving it to us, we've got to figure it out. When the whistle blows, let's play it.

Kawika Shoji

Kamehameha is well-coached and they're very athletic, so we knew it was going to be a battle. We figured it was going to be another low-scoring game. The key was just to be patient.

Brian Nichols

Just shut up. Just shut up. I gotta figure a way out here.

Doug Rine

Jon's figured out that he's hard to score on and he's making that work for him.

Dave Sitek

I think I tried on the hardcore scene's outfits maybe once, and then I just figured I'd stick to Hawaiian shirts.

Van Horn

It also sends a message that nothing is set. Guys got to keep working hard and trying to figure it out.

Jason Bay

There are still a lot of things that need to be worked out, ... but it's flattering to have that offer.

William Blake

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer

Rep. Caruso

He flatters me, I'll tell you. It's as if the neighbors don't have problems with his proposal.

Rick Riordan

Imitation is flattery

William Shenstone

Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

Samuel Johnson

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

William Feather

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it....

William Hazlitt

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

Mark Gottdiener

I'm unbelievably honored and flattered that something like this would take place. This type of thing is rarely done while the person is still alive. It happens to maybe 1 percent of academics.

Adam Brody

I was like Nemo, Ryan. I found my way HOME.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Adam Barrett

Katie's done that all year for us. She stepped up and found a way to get to the hoop.

Sakie Yokota

I survived this hardship for 20 years until I found out she had been abducted by North Korea.

Maelle Ricker

I talked to him yesterday and found out what happened. Hopefully I've got a game plan to not have that happen to me.

Al Borges

He did a wonderful job considering he found out less than an hour before the game. We tried to keep it as low maintenance as we could.

Randy Monroe

He can score, and he found ways to score tonight.

Antwan Peek

He just made plays. He has led them to 14 straight wins (now 15), so he found openings. We're going to have to go in, watch film and find out (what went wrong).

Barclay Radebaugh

He just has a lot of poise with the ball. He found open people, and he's very tough to keep in front of you. I like the way he plays.

Chuck Hillery

Kim was kind of limited with fouls. She hit some big free throws down the stretch.

Bill Bradford

Kim was a free spirit. You never knew where she was going next. She would just come up with an idea and go for it.

Ed Pendt

I yelled at (Scheffer) as she was going by to go to the hoop. She went to the hoop, got fouled and made the free throws.

Jennifer Armentrout

I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom in that - no expectations or anything like that. It was also my first contemporary novel I'd written and sold, which was to Disney/Hyperion in January of 2012.

Jon Markman

Just to show you how perverse the markets can be, the No. 1 investment over the past 15 months was a product that is given away for free at virtually every restaurant in the world.

Jerod Uldall

I think it helped us. We're a running team. We needed a little breather. It was like a free time out.

Jacque Rolfes

I also liked your 'What Cupid Does In His Free Time' story.

Gary Mills

He didn't shoot a great percentage this year, but he always makes his free throws when the game's on the line.

James Blake

He didn't get many free points on his serve and I was getting some on mine,

James Heckman

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

Joseph Mercurio

He is firming up his support from liberal women.

Michael Ignatieff

I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language.

John Mackey

I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.'

Sylvia Soble

The liberal picture of sex is that it really isn't that much different from anything else it's all a question of consent.

Justin Trudeau

The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose.

Larry Jacobs

The fundamental reality is that she's more liberal than the district.

Ben Shapiro

Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.

Bob Davis

It's like liberal and puritanical at the same time.

Ben Shapiro

Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.

Alex Pareene

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

Clint Eastwood

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn't working for me at all.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Doyle Davidson

I talked with him maybe three times, I don't remember what about.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Tom Woods

He was a decent, law-abiding man. Maybe he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Dayton Moore

He can play first, and maybe a little outfield. But he's really a third baseman. I don't think you want to move him around.

Sam Hunt

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

William James

We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit , power , and love of our Redeemer.

William Blake

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

Ward Churchill

There's always merit to having a debate.

Samuel Johnson

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

Mr Howard

If there's some outcome, some merit in those sorts of things (I would support the summit),

James Anthony Froude

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.

Napoleon Bonaparte

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

Epictetus

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

Patti Smith

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

James Payn

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

Owen Heimer

This exceeds anything ever prosecuted in this state,

Randall Upshaw

It's surprising to me that the prosecutor would even think about charging (Etheridge) in this case.

Owen Heimer

The scale of theft exceeds anything ever prosecuted in this city,

Jay Nixon

There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

Andrei Tarkovsky

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

Melina Kennedy

We need a prosecutor who wants to be prosecutor. Not a prosecutor who'd rather be mayor.

Richard M. Nixon

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Virginia Woolf

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

Salman Rushdie

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

Salman Rushdie

Free speech is life itself.

Robert Southey

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

Robert Orben

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Roland Barthes

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

Alan Simpson

Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.

Dan Smith

He was getting at a really important subject and he did it thoughtfully and gracefully.

Woody Allen

Subjectivity is objective.

Martin Parr

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

Jim Wilson

He would ramble back and forth. He was in one subject and out of one subject.

Jess Walter

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

J. J. Johnson

I just find the whole subject so exciting, it really is my passion.

Mike Hargrove

I don't know that he was awe-struck, but he was terribly excited.

Roilo Golez

I'm terribly disappointed with (Marcos). But that is her prerogative,

Nastassja Kinski

I'm not terribly consistent, and that worries me.

Oriana Fallaci

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

Anna Chancellor

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

Antony Gormley

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

John F. Kennedy

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.

Jerry Sloan

I would think it would be something that would be worthwhile for him.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Ned Yost

It's not going to be easy. And nothing worthwhile is easy.

Rick Page

It's been a long project, but it's been a worthwhile project.

Mike Berry

The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile.

Mark Twain

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Martin Fleischmann

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.

Oprah Winfrey

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself

Chuck Jones

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Aileen Quinn

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

John Catsimatidis

I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor.

Meg Rosoff

I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.

Mariska Hargitay

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

Phil Esposito

I only see myself doing this in two places, New York and Boston.

Scott Westerfeld

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

Robert Parkes

You could take this place out and put it in New York City.