Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Reiner

As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Family.' He helped me get my start as a director. He was the one who said, 'Let him do 'Spinal Tap.' Let him give it a try,' because I had been trying for years to get that thing off the ground.

James Browning

After a few years we found that these items didn't work. It took a lot of time to deal with them, plus they took up a lot of space. So we put the other stuff aside and migrated back to the book business, something we really felt very comfortable with.

Carole Strayhorn

After nine legislative sessions full of name-calling, our school funding is in crisis, property taxes are up and judges are having to do our governor's job. We all know that unless we set politics aside we'll never fix what's broke.

Meredith Grey

Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired, we are scared, denying it doesn't change the truth. Sooner or later we have to put aside our denial and face the world. Head on, guns blazing. De Nile. It's not just a river in Egypt, it's a freakin' ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?

Melissa Harwell

Sometimes we have to put our own desires aside to see his. During the whole IVF procedure, I felt like God was telling me not to do it. I just had to make sure I wasn't hearing him wrong, so I did it anyway. Now, over $12,000 later, I wish I would have trusted that he was indeed talking to me. I know I heard him calling us to foster care/adoption. This time I didn't hesitate to make sure I heard him right. His voice was way too clear.

Wang Xuming

Rural schools are forbidden to collect any other fee aside from the three permitted categories.

Martin O'Malley

Putting aside competitive interests for a new kind of collaboration, Maryland pioneered a real-time encounter notification service to alert primary care doctors when their patients are hospitalized.

Barbara Ward

Put aside the politics please, just for one minute. Forget about those jobs promised and think of your most important role of all, that of being a parent.

Edward Wolff

It would be very unusual for workers to make up for the shortfall and it might certainly be a good way to shock people into saving more -- tell them they now have to put aside 12 percent of the earnings.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Steve Snyder

Southwest certainly was a part of the increase in January. We'll see in the coming months what the trends look like. It'll probably be a little easier to make a judgment (about Southwest's impact) at the end of the first quarter.

Jim Beal

So we're certainly concerned. We're watching the situation closely, but at the present time the system's functioning as it's designed and we're being reasonably successful in managing flows.

Arlen Specter

So they weren't necessarily your views then and they certainly aren't your views now?

Andrew Morton

So the whole thrust of any kind of reportage of the Royal Family, certainly in the tabloids, it may have been intrusive in terms of the way you define it, but it was certainly very laudatory and it really maintained and expanded the fairy tale.

Greg Olsen

Space is not for wimps. It's certainly not just writing a check.

Adrian Gonzalez

On-demand solutions are influencing the mindset and expectations of customers with regard to pricing and time-to-value. While $1 million TMS deals are still possible, they are certainly the exception and relatively rare these days.

John Chafee

Now is certainly not the time for Congress to embark on massive tax cuts or spending programs predicated on revenues we have not yet received. Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Mary Quant

People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'

Helen Adams

On top of this, it's a good idea to take up references.

Alvaro Bandeira

On top of that, rates are still very high, which guarantee good margins for the sector.

Russ Granik

On this one there was a pretty good consensus.

Meggie Ford

On the women's side I thought we had a very good day. We picked up right where we left off at the indoor season and jumped right into outdoor. This is a good sign of what is to come for the rest of the season.

Granth Sahib

O servant Nanak, through the karma of good actions, the treasure of devotional worship and the Name of the Lord are attained.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

George H. W. Bush

We might have an idea, ... They have been around before.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Peggy Baker

People see what's there and think that's what was always there. But it wasn't. Before 1921 it was very different.

Kenyon Martin

People see what I did: walk off the court. I snatched my back brace off and threw it. I'm frustrated. We're losing. I'm frustrated. Whatever it is, people are going to assume. ... It is what it is.

Eric Greene

People see those signs and they kind of wonder.

Abbey Clancy

People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.

Gerd Langguth

People see Merkel as an alternative out of their desperation. She may not be, but that's how they see her now.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

Dick Vermeil

We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically.

Dan Ariely

What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.

Amy Tan

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

Richard Thaler

A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that raise goes to increasing their contribution rate to the 401k plan. In the first company we convinced to adopt this plan, saving rates tripled.

Vin Diesel

When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

John Stott

Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.

Robert Orben

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Emo Philips

I'm not a Republican... but I am saving up to be one.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Rainbow Rowell

If you can't save your own life, is it even worth saving?

Mark Davies

I've been a Diamondback for a long time, ... It'll be a shock to not say I'm part of the D-Backs.

Anthony Chan

This is a shock -- and the shock is going to be there.

Evelyn Gardiner

You need to shock them back every once in a while, ... And so I do.

Kenneth Darby

Brodie kind of shocked me today. All I could do was just smile.

Alfred Hitchcock

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Serena Williams

I'm playing to around 30% of my potential - you'd be shocked at what I could do.

Astro Teller

When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.

Bobby Bowden

I was shocked that he wasn't first team All-ACC. It made so sense.

I. Stone

Honestly, it's kind of a fog. We were in shock for a while.

Thomas F. Wilson

Crispin Glover is unusual, but not as unusual as he sometimes presents himself. We got along nicely.

Cecelia Ahern

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

Lance Randall

That's unusual for us. I like to see more balance. But I'll take where we're at.

Dan Hill

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

Harland Braun

It's conceivable that the D.A. could find that there is not enough evidence. It would be unusual, but this is an unusual case.

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.