Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

David Walker

Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.

Graham Thorpe

We actually had a barbecue that Sunday. I was out in the garden while a lot of the other blokes were inside watching the cricket on TV. Every now and then someone would rush out and shout, 'Another wicket's gone.' I was struck by how weird it all seemed. I really was no longer a Test cricketer. I was just some ordinary guy looking after his barbecue while this momentous battle unfolded at Trent Bridge.

Graham Thorpe

We actually had a barbecue that Sunday, ... I was out in the garden while a lot of the other blokes were inside watching the cricket on TV. Every now and then someone would rush out and shout, 'Another wicket's gone.' I was struck by how weird it all seemed. I really was no longer a Test cricketer. I was just some ordinary guy looking after his barbecue while this momentous battle unfolded at Trent Bridge.

Deborah Harkness

Her bark is worse than her bite.

Michael Moriarty

I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.

Orrin Hatch

The position that you have been nominated for is chief justice of the United States. Do you plan to use that role as a bully pulpit to encourage members of the bar to take seriously their responsibility to undertake pro bono work as you have done throughout your legal career?

Kathleen Blanco

We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens. This state can barely stand what happened to it.

Ray Corn

We vaulted the best we have vaulted and probably ... had one of the best (floor) performances of the year. The debacle on bars and beam really cost us.

Louis Stokes

Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.

Scott Cowen

Until a commission is sanctioned to sift through all these ideas and coalesce it into a single vision, I don't think people will pay much attention.

Mike Twomey

What these companies give in contributions is just a pennies-on-the-dollar investment compared with what they get from the Legislature and Public Service Commission in terms of favorable legislation and rulings.

Tom Brookes

We can confirm the meeting is taking place and is part of the regular dialogue between Microsoft and the Commission on competition and a wide range of other subjects.

Harry Reid

We're going to have an independent commission to study what went wrong, ... Mark my words, it's going to happen.

Caroline Cross

A technical team from UNSCOM (the U.N. Special Commission disarming Iraq) has gone out to maintain monitoring equipment,

Serge Brammertz

A common understanding has been reached. Despite these encouraging steps, it is important to note that the commission will ultimately judge the cooperation of the Syrian authorities on the merits of the information provided and the promptness with which its requests are being accommodated.

Reporters Borders

This degree of violence is completely unacceptable from a parliamentarian, but all the more so when he is the vice-president of a commission that is supposed to promote dialogue with the indigenous communities.

Paul Taibl

This commission showed far more compassion than one we've seen previously.

Mark Luscombe

What's really complex about it is you're going to have to do allocations you've never had to do before.

Darren Irby

Working with celebrities has become, over the last decade, a lot more complex with so many more nonprofits engaging with celebrities.

Jason Silva

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

Don Garber

Absolutely. Dallas is not a playoff contender. They had one of the worst seasons in the history of our league. They need impact immediately, and they will get that. Dallas needs to have somebody that's going to help them win some games as they get ready for moving into their new complex in 2005.

Keith White

A big complex with a gym in it, a weight room, a music studio, a photo lab, a computer lab.

John Gall

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

Ellen Miller

It's just too complex and it's not timely.

David Rice

It's a simple concept, but a complex system.

Richard Carmona

Americans are overwhelmed with the complexity of health information. We have hit a point of information overload and the public health message is being diluted.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Suzanne Vitadamo

She recognizes me. She's weaker but she's still trying to talk.

Domhnall Gleeson

I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Shana Martin

I want to be the person who sets the curve.

Marcos Baghdatis

The first two sets I was really stressed out, I didn't know what to do.

Cass Elliot

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I cannot speak in happy tones.

David Farber

Don't look at me in that tone of voice

Clint Dempsey

You have to set the tone early. We're just going to play hard.

Robert Holden

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

Steve Vai

The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You got guts taking that tone with me. (Nykyrian) What you gonna do, oh great wounded one? I’m the one with the injector. (Syn)

John Turturro

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

Charles Grant

But the tone will change, and in diplomacy, the tone is often the reality.

George Eliot

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.