Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Cornelius

I think it's a virtual certainty that the low turnout this time around will be used by opponents to say this was a misbegotten project that never should have happened in the first place.

Samuel Johnson

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

Robert James

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

Ram Bhagavatula

It shows that the Fed still has some work to do to cool off domestic demand. A 25-basis point rate hike at least seems a certainty next week.

Mario Monti

It's important to have constant application and legal certainty.

Claudia Rapkoch

It's difficult to say with a degree of certainty whether it (wind) will lower or increase the costs.

Patrick Sullivan

It means a certainty of process. A knowing of what to do if you have a problem. For the first time, it defines very clearly what might be done to resolve (a dispute) before going to court. There (previously) was no direction other than to immediately pursue litigation.

Ed Clark

It's hard to say with 100 percent certainty that we're totally out of it (the dry pattern), and it's going to shift. But it's leaning in that direction.

Ashleigh Brilliant

It's good to have some certainty in life, even if it's only that I'm in deep trouble.

Ken Hill

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

Bill Hines

Having our lawyers back in town working will jumpstart the dry cleaners, the drug stores, the gas stations. They need us as customers.

Mike Trapasso

We are fortunate to have the return trip to Louisiana. It's not ideal, but it's better to play in sunny, dry weather rather than playing on the sponge we have.

Mitch Hedberg

I was walking down the street at 3am, and I passed a dry cleaner. The sign in the window said -"Sorry, We're Closed". You don't have to be sorry. It's 3am. And you're a dry cleaners. Its not like I was gonna come back at 10 and say "Hey man, I was here at 3 and you guys were closed... somebody owes me an apology.

Mary Roach

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.

Peter Moody

He was making ground on Primus in Sydney and wet or dry I think he will run well at Caulfield because he has won there.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Hark," he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?

Sara Gruen

Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.

Warren Christopher

To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're hung out to dry and, finally, you're framed.

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Charlie Otero

Knowing the last moments, the last thoughts, the last words was pretty hard to take,

Author unknown

Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Joe Jones

Joe has really been positive throughout this whole thing. He's worked hard to get back to being the player that he once was. We're hoping he's going to be able to do that.

Jerry Snyder

I talked to the coach; he said that'd be great. He's actually one of the reasons I'm pushing so hard is because he was so enthusiastic about it. I think if I do get to play I'm going to love that coach.

David Beckham

I think it is better for the team to have a regular penalty-taker rather than me who hardly ever takes them for Real,

Sue Fox

It can be quite hard for teachers to understand what pupils are saying sometimes.

Teddy Dyess

I really think he's just about back at square one. I don't think he's leaning one way or another right now.

Elise Bronzo

I'm really leaning toward communications and sports journalism. It's not really a major of study at Colgate, so I'm going with English. I'm not a math or science person.

Mike Flanagan

I'm leaning much more in thinking we need to have a voice in this at the state level.

Terry Mattingly

You could tell he was leaning toward Buddhism.

Bob Baffert

After watching him today, I might be leaning towards the Sprint,

Anthony Cummings

At this stage I'm leaning to the Derby.

Ray White

They've been leaning on her pretty good. What people don't realize is she'll never give in.

Bobby Cox

Even if we won tonight, I was still leaning that way.

Don Cooper

I do think that at some point or another this season, we're going to need 12 pitchers, but we're leaning toward 11 right now. That's probably going to happen.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Robert McGrath

He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Ed Peterson

We're probably doing 60 percent as many ships as we had been before the storm.

Eric Price

What you see here on the facility, we are probably running about 90 percent of our workforce.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Nick Holmes

He's over 90 percent on the year. There was not much doubt.

Howard Davidowitz

Kinko's is under assault, and I think what Kinko's is doing is totally rational.

Steve Bennett

I would say our two weeks down there were totally different than their two weeks.

Cindy Christensen

I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.

Spencer Grammer

I loved 'The O.C.' and I totally watch 'Gossip Girl,' too!

Carolyn Sime

It's totally inappropriate for wolves to be that close.

James Shuler

It's totally devastating, the way things went down.

Atom Egoyan

It's crazy, it's totally outrageous, it's very upsetting, and I can't understand it,

Jamie Wyeth

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

Ray Nagin

It may not be totally back to what it was pre-Katrina, but every day we make progress,