Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Stan Magee

There is a lot of wisdom at this table and we all bring something good to the table that will allow us to made a decision amongst ourselves without committing taxpayer dollars to do it.

Piers Handling

To allow Canadian filmmakers to stand shoulder to shoulder with their international counterparts.

Matt Silverman

With Fan Fest comes the unofficial start to the baseball season. We are pleased to welcome our fans into a new era of Devil Rays baseball. We hope to offer many more opportunities to allow our fans to interact with our players.

Kelly Lamrock

We in opposition are not prepared to allow this government to legislate its way to more votes or more seats or power than the people chose to give it.

Lynn Reaser

We don't think we are going to have another recession ... We think there is enough stimulus in the pipeline, enough positive news in there to allow the economy to keep on a growth track for the next year.

Seth Sulka

We certainly couldn't compete with that type of money. The economics of the WNBA would not allow for that type of deal.

Marty Brown

We think it's appropriate for the state to allow King County and Seattle to make these decisions in any way that they decide.

Ernesto Zedillo

There's great participation, there's great enthusiasm and there's a great calm in the country ... ... It will strengthen our democracy, and that will allow the country to continue forward.

Na'Shan Goddard

Sometimes you do bad things, you just don't get caught. He's just got to know that he's got more eyes on him than a normal person.

Joseph Hansen

So people didn't want to destroy themselves, and they didn't; and so only a very few brave hearts, not always the brightest or the sharpest knives in the drawer, stepped forward and did the best they could to bring about change and to make known how bad the situation was - the social situation, the legal situation, the employment situation, and so on - for homosexuals.

John Byrd

So much of 'is it a good sign?, is it a bad sign?' depends on personal taste.

Rebecca Lobo

Sometimes I played because I wanted to get out of a bad mood, sometimes because I was worried about an upcoming test. Sometimes basketball was just a great way to forget myself. When I stepped out into the driveway, I was no longer Rebecca Lobo. I was Larry Bird or I was Dr. J.

Mitch Hedberg

Sometimes I make some money doin' comedy. I made $3000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash, so I had $3000 in my front pocket. That was a bad situation, because then I start to buy ridulous sh**. Like, I bought a snake-bite emergency repair kit. Then I said to my friends, 'Don't even worry about snakes anymore.' Then my friend stepped on a worm, I said, 'Lay down.' Snake bite emergency repair kit... is a body bag.

Jason Calacanis

TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they're so bad and uninformed. It's insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC's, we all laugh at TechCrunch.

Marc Blucas

Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.

Jesse Holley

Teams are starting to give us some respect. But we're not there yet. We've just got to keep improving. We know what losing feels like, that it's a bad thing. We know what winning's like, that it's a good thing. The next step is to go from a good bowl game to a BCS bowl. If we win our division, we're going to Jacksonville in December to play for a BCS bowl.

Jesse Holley

Teams are starting to give us some respect, ... But we're not there yet. We've just got to keep improving. We know what losing feels like, that it's a bad thing. We know what winning's like, that it's a good thing. The next step is to go from a good bowl game to a BCS bowl. If we win our division, we're going to Jacksonville in December to play for a BCS bowl.

Jeff VandeLoo

The way King played us defensively, it was obvious how they felt about Adam. I don't think you focus a defense like that unless a guy is a big-time stud.

Cedric Bozeman

This is special and this is a special group of guys. We play defense. That's what we do. We didn't let them walk over us.

Mike Scioscia

This is out of the blue. Everything you could have messed up, we messed up out there. These guys have played terrific defense all year, so it's very uncharacteristic.

Chris Richard

This game will be a lot tougher. If we just play the defense like we played the last time, maybe a little harder, we should be OK.

Tim Brasic

That's when I really took a picture of the defense and everything started slowing down. I just saw everything so perfectly on that play. I really started to get a good feel for it.

Duane Akina

That's what we want our identity to be. We want to be a defense that runs and hits. That's what we want people to talk about.

Jim Delmar

We held a highly potent offensive team to 16 points in the first half. The defense was getting it done. It was the offense we were lacking.

Kevin Bartz

Controlling them up front, they make it extremely easy for our linebackers because of the quickness and strength that they have. They dominate the line of scrimmage for the rest of our defense and it make it easier for all of them.

Chuck Ramsey

Another good start with great passing, movement and defense. Our defense has been good and our team play has been solid.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Steven Soderbergh

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

Uli Hoeness

I hope the manager and the team can overcome all of this. It is not easy to go into a game after spending so much time with legal prosecutors.

Matt Watson

It's an easy way to make a quick getaway from the school environment.

R. Robinson

They got a lot of easy baskets in the first half shooting (near) 50 percent to our 20 percent. We just didn't play at the same intensity as we do when we play state schools.

Max Kurz

They are easy subjects, very cooperative. They seem to enjoy being studied.

Larry Brown

You don't have players on the team that can't play a style that's comfortable for the coach. Isiah and I understand that. He knows the guys I like in the league. It's not easy to make trades. My job is to find out what these guys can do and if they can do the things we think will help us be a good team for the long run.

Terry Francona

There wasn't a whole lot that was easy (this season),

Vince Young

There was no taking it easy on me, ... I was really talking a lot of noise. I was purposely doing it so they wouldn't hold back.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Chris Chiusano

It's a great feeling. I'm still reflecting on it. It's a huge win for our program. It's been a long time coming. A lot of people put a lot of effort into getting us into this position -- not the least of which is the kids. They are the ones that got it done on the ice. It's very gratifying.

Tom Pecora

I told them I am proud of all of them but I wasn't proud of everyone's effort though. But that's OK. Nobody's perfect.

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Donald Trump

I never said I'd support Paul Ryan. I'm giving it very serious consideration.

Donald Trump

We will immediately terminate President [Barack] Obama's two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately five million illegal immigrants, five million.

Donald Trump

We have to do a much better job at keeping our jobs. And we have to do a much better job at giving companies incentives to build new companies or to expand, because they're not doing it.

Adolf Hitler

I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.

Ally Carter

Give me everything you have," I told [Preston]. "Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.

Ally Carter

The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.

Allen Toussaint

When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that feedback in the studio.

Alison Moyet

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

Alison McGhee

Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Dorothy Kelly

That is the quickest way to reach everyone. We need to get enough people together, but this is very preliminary. We must take small steps to get to a big step. This will not happen quickly.

Doug Duncan

The question in New Orleans is what will happen to the economy. The key to housing is jobs.

Engin Atsur

We can't let that happen on our home court. We were having a special season.

Richard G. Scott

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

Ray Holloway

We'll return to pre-Katrina levels at the pump and that will happen next week.

Eric Chavez

We were here all night, and it might happen again.

Shawan Robinson

We want to make some noise. And we know if we make some big noise, big things will happen and hopefully you'll see us on selection Sunday.

Source Unknown

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

Demi Lovato

If you're hurting, don't be afraid to seek the help you need! Speak to someone - it may just change your life.

Marsha Sharp

We got a little fatigued on the boards, and they started hurting us right there.

Don DeLillo

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only Americans can hurt America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.

Dalai Lama

To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.

Dolly Parton

I was born in an odd spot and was a very sensitive kid. My feelings could get hurt so easily because I always wanted to be loved, I wanted to be touched, I wanted to touch somebody. I wanted everybody to love me, so I think I was louder than I should have been. I was just trying to get attention. I always felt like I was somebody special, maybe it's because I needed to be somebody special.

Dolly Parton

We're not all perfect. People always say to me: "Oh you seem happy all the time." But I'm not happy all the time. I'm a human being. I'm very sensitive. I hurt like anybody else. But I do try my best to have a good attitude and I set about tryin' to take care of myself knowing I'm not going to be exactly right, so I just try to see what I can do to improve every single day.

Dinesh D'Souza

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

Maria Sharapova

I knew she would be very patient and I tried to be extra-patient. I knew she wouldn't overpower me.

Patricia Clark

I knew I was going to not remember it because there was too much going on, ... So, when I ran down the street and got the plate number, I yelled to the girls: 'Remember this!'

Patricia Clark

I knew I was going to not remember it because there was too much going on,

Shane Filan

I knew I was going to lose my house in Ireland and all the other properties. It's all gone. But my house was the one material thing that was very important to me.

Earl Boykins

I knew I was going to have the soreness. I knew that I was going to have a little pain. I don't think it hindered me doing the things that I want to do. . . . I think my shot was off. It was evident. But my speed, my quickness and my ball-handling were there. So the shot will come.

Robert Brown

I knew you once: but in Paradise, / If we meet, I will pass nor turn my face.

Sven Eriksson

I knew yesterday that he had more than one fracture. That's what I heard. I don't know what that means, but I'm not that pessimistic.

Roger Clemens

I knew when the skipper looked at me and said, 'Put your things on,' he wasn't kidding. So I went out to the bullpen.

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.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

David Akers

It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, by far.