Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Jim Anderson

Bankruptcy didn't 'go easy' for us. Almost one-third of our membership has been furloughed.

Eda Shan

Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things --wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

Chris Barnes

Babies are fun for punting. Even a lousy kicker can get one almost all the way over a football field.

Carol Bartz

Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.

Peter Capaldi

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.

Sam Bodman

As of right now, in Houston, Texas it's almost impossible to buy gasoline,

Tim Lindloff

As long as he stays out of foul trouble, he's been doing a very good job on the defensive end, just hanging around the basket and blocking shots. We usually try to match him up with somebody that's not going to hurt us from the perimeter and put him around the basket, almost like playing a one-man zone in there.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Jim Leljedal

As far as we can tell at this point, those men had a right to be at that corner, they weren't breaking any laws. They had a right to have guns in their pockets and they may have been justified in returning fire.

Danny Glover

The breaking point was to stand outside on 116th Street and have five cabs pass me up.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Paul Stevenson

Rationally, people understand what is happening, but the team and job they love is breaking up. Their grief is about loss - losing a team, an environment, a secure income.

Ira Mehlman

People should feel uncomfortable about breaking the law. If we have a policy that is demonstrated to be consistent, many people will get the message and decide that remaining here in the United States illegally isn't worth the price that they have to pay.

Chris McKay

Operating in one community doesn't lend itself to a big TV buy. You get a broad reach, but it's cluttered. The challenge is breaking through...intercepting consumers where they shop or are entertained communicates that we are a local company investing to give them more TV and broadband choice.

Aaron Peirsol

Coming off the Olympics and breaking the world record, it's been pretty spectacular. I'm happy with my season.

Curtis Staples

I've always said, like the old saying goes, records are meant to be broken. J.J. has been a hard worker and deserves everything that he gets. I'm glad to see somebody like J.J. breaking it. He's a very significant player that we will never forget.

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Akhenaton

As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Karen Kuhlmann

Back in the day when we first had the MVC, it was pretty fierce. It was very competitive and kids came in with a competitive edge. When we didn't have the conference, I felt like that was lost. I have seen that return this year (with the reformation of the MVC).

Don Horner

A thousand people came through here tonight and that's no exaggeration.

Tim Floyd

A split is not what we came into this weekend for. We tried to come into this weekend trying to get two.

Isaac Bruce

As I've been away from South Florida, I see a lot of coaches being pacifiers to children. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. But I came up with coaches screaming and yelling in your face, telling you what to do and putting the fear in your heart if you didn't do it.

Glenn Hoddle

That performance came from out of the blue. We've got to pick ourselves up and show a lot of character, and that's a big challenge.

Bryan Whitman

That particular Iraqi special operations force came under fire as they were conducting this operation, and in the process the Iraqi special operations forces killed 16 insurgents. They also, in securing the objective there, detained a number of other individuals, approximately 15, is what I've heard.

Todd Fairbourne

That was a bomb. I told Chris to pick the pitch she wanted and to drive it. Chris came up big. We stole that game from George Mason.

Kate Ziegler

As far as the world record goes, it still seems so far away from me, ... As far as the world championships . . . I'm just so happy how it's gone.

Ronald Zarrella

As far as theories, there's a lot of them, and we've run a lot of them to ground and come up with nothing.

Chris Barnes

As far as I'm concerned, he'll always listen to me.

Edward Hirsch

As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.

James Nicholson

As far as I'm concerned, everything takes too long in the federal government,

J. J. Johnson

As far as I'm concerned, a yes vote starts us down the road of withdrawal. We haven't really looked at what the educational implications of this would be.

Jon Brion

As far as I'm concerned, any work you get is because people have heard other work you've done.

Mariano Rajoy

As far as I'm concerned, and I hope for the prime minister too, you can't pay a political price (for peace).

Ibrahim Jaafari

As far as I'm concerned, all the regime's henchmen are dead.

James Mulva

As an industry we feel it is not a good precedent to fund a government program.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Tim Kaine

Often, money is taken out of that fund for other projects. I'll make sure that stops.

Steve Robertson

Cocaine trafficking, the profits involved that are immense and terrorist organizations, just like any other organization, have to fund their organization.

Cathy Nixon

Any win is a good thing for us. This was one of the goals we set, this is something we wanted to accomplish. I'm proud of the kids, they played well and it's fun to see the reward of their hard work.

Dale Mitchell

The state does not provide any funding at all,

Joe Jones

The Second Injury Fund seems to be advantageous to a very small number of people.

Ray Allen

The shots were there for me tonight. It was a fun game to play because it went back and forth.

Mike Greene

I wanted to jump over the glass but I couldn't so I just stayed composed. It was a good feeling.

Guy Clark

I see you're wearing glasses. I never saw you play with glasses before.

Aimee Mullins

At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

Janet Frame

[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.

Damon Lindelof

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

Boris Yeltsin

The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time.

Anthony de Mello

My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.

Davy Jones

I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.

Simon Pegg

Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.

Nick Park

You need to find things like having your actors move 2 inches in a day pretty exciting.

Tommy Williams

From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then until 8 a.m..

Mark Ewens

We had 5.1 inches of snow here, with 0.53 inch of precipitation.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

John Ruskin

That thirst (for applause) if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first infirmity of weak ones

Al Groh

That's more positive than it was last week.

Adam Boone

That's kind of the way our season had been with us struggling in the last minute. But we were resilient. We didn't let the free-throw shooting problems spill over into other areas.

Amanda Hocking

You know, back in the day, when a guy saved a Princess's life, she would reward him with a kiss...

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What are you? (Zarek) I’m a nymph. (Astrid) I hope you just left an important syllable off that word, princess. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I defy you to try it, Princess. Go ahead. I don’t even know how to sweep a floor. All I know how to do is use my body to please others. I was sick and alone with no references, friends, family, or money. I was so weak from hunger that even a beggar stole your himation from me while I lay on the ground, wanting to die and unable to stop him from taking it. So don’t come here now with your disdainful eyes and look at me like I’m beneath you. I don’t need your charity and I don’t need your pity. I know exactly what you see when you look at me. (Acheron)

Cassandra Clare

Her throat ached: adoration, heartbreak, in equal measure. “Kiss me,” she said. “Please.

Frank Zappa

I want a steamy little Jewish Princess with over-worked gums, who squeaks when she cums. I don't want no troll, I just want a Yemenite hole.

Ivana Milicevic

The Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies of all time.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.

Jay Leno

Today Arnold Schwarzenegger made another major announcement. He said his lieutenant governor will be Xena, Warrior Princess.

Gerard Way

Look at me, with my pretty bracelet and tiara... I'm a f****n' princess!

Gregg Williams

Cod and halibut tend to co-mingle quite a bit.

Bill Rodgers

I usually get side-aches when I am really tired and or when I am not quite warmed up.

John Pilger

Quite frankly, they just haven't been doing anything lately.

Fran Townsend

Quite frankly, I think we did quite well.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Gil Dufour

We have quite a lot. I think we have ten or twelve colors. The varieties of blue, the varieties of red and of burgundy.

Ashley Wagner

The SoCal weather can't be beat, but I just haven't quite been able to embrace the lifestyle.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.

Dr. Beebe

You've got to try and normalize your life. I just walked around every morning, the same as I do here (in Connecticut).

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.

Brandon Sanderson

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

Ayn Rand

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

Brian Aldiss

The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.

Jamie Dimon

Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, "The biggest institutions of America - Washington, broadly, and Wall Street, broadly - they're to blame." And, broadly, they're right.

Ben Gibbard

There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of the kind of person that I'd always been. So, when I moved back to Seattle, the first thing I said was, "I will never live in fear again."

Carey Mulligan

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

Cameron Diaz

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

Carrot Top

I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?'

Daniel H. Wilson

To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest.

Todd Nace

We're about a week away from reopening, once we get the (insurance) settlement.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Sylvester Croom

This week has never been about just football; how could it be?

Albert Brooks

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Taye Diggs

On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

Ray Nagin

One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

Tony Abbott

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

Tommy Rettig

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.