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.

Carlos Fuentes

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

Brian Nelson

What I've learned in this game is that good teams don't let one loss overwhelm them or allow one win make them comfortable.

Brian Hill

We got a little dejected at that point and we fought back, but we can't allow those things to be unsettling,

Dr. Schaffner

We cannot let our guard down, because a series of genetic changes could happen at any time that could allow this virus to pick up the capacity to move from person to person.

George H. W. Bush

We cannot allow the world's most dangerous nations to possess the world's most dangerous weapons.

Bill Clinton

We cannot allow them to have a hundred nuclear weapons. We cannot allow a country to, in effect, become the bomb-seller of the world because they're in a snit, and because they can't grow a crop.

Stratton Pollitzer

We cannot allow them to be repealed overnight with some broad, lukewarm legislation.

Jay Inslee

We cannot allow telecommunications companies to hijack the Internet. After all, the beauty of the Internet is its open architecture.

Jim Calhoun

I can still hear the words of Denham Brown saying, 'We have plenty of time. There's a minute, seven seconds on the clock and we're down five.' He really believed.

Chad Brown

That's when the harshness of the business in this sport comes into play,

Steve Kaplan

Your business could be in a radically different place 18 months from now. But first you have to be ready for that to happen.

Ken Sternad

This is business that is permanently lost. This is business that has gone to competitors, that has gone elsewhere and through the signing of contracts and other deals that our customers and former customers have established with competitors.

Karen Mills

As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.

Jacqueline Leo

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

Steven Rogers

Environmentalists don't understand how to make an agricultural business run. It comes down to familiarity. We call it agriculture -- it is a culture.

Chris Rodgers

Each game is going to be a statement for us that we're ready, and whoever plays us is going to have their hands full. As long as we take care of business and do the things that we did in the Washington game, like fighting back and keeping our composure, down the stretch we should be OK.

Michael Metz

Even though the summer is traditionally slow, we are likely to see a pickup overseas this year. That's really where the incremental business will come from.

Andy Wirth

Even if we had gold medals from every U.S. skier, I think the snow would have eclipsed it. It's clearly been driving our business for the past two months.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Heather Casey

I can't put into words what I felt when I saw the look on her face as she realized something she did with her hands got her something she wanted.

Frank Martin

I'm at peace with understanding that I'm at a crossroads. I'm at peace understanding that it comes with the profession. ... But whenever you face the possibility of change, there's always a nervousness to it. We all want stability.

Ray Smith

Thats part of playing the professional game, ... Youre going to face good opposition day in and day out ... and thats why you value every at-bat. You want to make every out a tough out.

Rob Parish

It will give us a good look at other schools we'll face in the Western Slope.

Tom Daschle

It will be uncomfortable clearly, but I don't see any other real option ... Let's get on with the business. This is important, but so is running the country, ... Face the Nation.

Chad Collins

It will provide a new face on the waterfront for some people.

Joe Thornton

They were obviously missing five key players and we're trying to gain that final playoff spot. We need every win, every game. I hope we make the playoffs and face them again.

Kate Achter

They just made the tough shots. We were there in their face and they made things happen. We can't hang our heads.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Daniel Petrocelli

Some people think it's a waste of time to go to trial here.

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Susan Murray

So we're telling people they should know what they're paying.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

E. O. Wilson

so that the will of the people can be upheld.

J. J. Johnson

Once you go out and start making plays, they don't say that anymore, ... You just have to play and show people what you can do.

Demi Lovato

I feel most confident when I'm taking care of my body and my skin.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Stevie Wonder

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Marie Windsor

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Ted Turner

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing worth having comes easy.

Kin Hubbard

Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Penelope Lively

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.