Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Eastwood

Half of them are suicides or accidents, Martha. Don't exaggerate.

Carlo Ciampi

Last Monday, a tragic series of errors, negligence and accidents suddenly cast us into darkness, tears, wounds and mourning.

Kevin Honea

We're on a bit of a spike from December until now, with the fatal accidents.

Jonathan Fox

I think Beckett was influenced by those clowns, Buster Keaton, Abbott and Costello ... by that sort of physical comedy. I don't think it was an accident that they had Buster Keaton in his film.

George Wilson

I think it was not an accident because he doesn't smoke, and if they said it wasn't electrical, what could have happened?

Peter Hall

I think it was more by accident rather than design there is such a strong connection between the show and the racing fraternity, but there's just so much talent here. And, hey, both the racing and theatrical communities are made up of real people with many interests and backgrounds.

Dan Johnson

It has been fun to coach and watch him mature physically, ... His success is no accident because he has worked hard to earn it.

Robert Gamez

It has been a long time coming. I've been close a lot over that stretch of time, and I had that car accident in '98 and was sidelined for a few years. To come all the way back and be a champion again, I'm just tickled to death.

Robert Gamez

It has been a long time coming, ... I've been close a lot over that stretch of time, and I had that car accident in '98 and was sidelined for a few years. To come all the way back and be a champion again, I'm just tickled to death.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Phil Harrison

There are the born teachers who just want to do it. People will do it because they want to put something back into the community. Or they will have a passion for what they do and want other people to share that passion.

Laura Schlessinger

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Jeffrey Kluger

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

Carlo Rubbia

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

Daniel Gibson

I think what happened opened his eyes. Something you love can be taken at any time. He's borne that out through the season. He came out motivated.

Spanish Proverb

I wept when I was born and every day explains why

Nathan Robertson

I was just desperate to win it. It was such a big occasion and right now it ranks as the best. We can win grand prix events but it is the medals you have won that define your career when it's all done.

Don Jordan

Ken was recognized early in his career as a man of integrity, strength and imagination. I hated it when he told me he was taking early retirement. I tried hard to talk him out of it.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Walt Jocketty

I would think it's a good fit, ... but that's not something for me to decide. He started his career there, and he's obviously one of the top managers in the game that's not employed as a manager. Jim is going to manage somewhere in 2006. Definitely.

David Skorton

I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to walk in here with approximately 90 seconds of experience and start telling the people who have made their careers here what the important issues are.

Ron Artest

I talked to Stu Jackson, which was encouraging. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my career which (were) unfair. I support my teammates, and hopefully they'll win the game, and I'll be back Friday (for Game 3).

Jim Fuglie

He dedicated his professional career to kids, and his retirement years to volunteer work, especially work with the credit unions.

Lindsey Graham

has been in the legal trenches throughout her career and has a tremendous understanding of how the law works in people's everyday lives. Her legal experience combined with her life experience makes her a solid choice.

Andrew Larson

For me, personally, it just made my career more meaningful, ... It never gets old. Any time, anywhere, I love talking about it.

Sonya Hartnett

I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.

Brian McInerney

Right now our flood threat is ... dictated by what kind of snow pack is in the mountains.

John Surtees

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.

Nick Leeson

The ticket price was dictated by the promoter and may have been too high,

Hanno Langenhoven

The route to a destination is dictated by the start location of the one that makes the journey.

Paul Dergarabedian

Especially the younger people (who) are used to, 'I can plug in my video game and play it now,' 'I can download music and hear it now,' 'I can take my iPod with me and listen to it wherever and whenever I want.' Going to the movies requires that you're on a time frame and in a location that's dictated by someone else.

Maurice Jackson

We dictated the game, and that's what we wanted to do.

Thomas Stith

What was described was not in my opinion expressing prosecution as the primary role of a prosecutor. Everyone has a role to play in the community, everyone has a lead role, and I would think our funding would be dictated by that.

Dave Smith

We tried to work for high percentage shots, we need to. Horton wasn't going to give us any easy baskets. They dictated the pace of the game pretty good.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Jacques Santini

It is important for the players to relax physically and also psychologically,

David Reeves

He's a very physical kid, but I think he played physical in basketball, too, when I watched him. He was always up on you bumping guys.

Rick Newman

He was physically unable to get to the closing.

Willie Randolph

He has to feel real strong physically and throw a little bit. You don't want to play around with a hamstring.

Rich Manning

He is a very reliable defenseman who is physically gifted. He can recover and play a lot of minutes.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Willie Anderson

Physically I'm doing good. It's going to be a while before I get that game-type conditioning and get my second wind in the game.

Joe Haldeman

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Mark Leibovich

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.