Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bronislaw Geremek

We celebrate today the end of the bipolar world symbolized by the Iron Curtain.... It's a great day for Poland and for the world,

Kurt Cobain

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

Arnaldo Otegi

We did not choose violence, but there is no other path.

Jon Katz

Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and socialize them day after day. Yet I know any dog can be unpredictable.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.

David McWilliams

When there were unlimited scholarships, we were able to pick and choose and take more of the elite guys. Now it's not the numbers, it's who. Not all of those top guys were going to come to Texas.

Joseph Joubert

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man

Chuck Hagel

No one knows what the country -- or the party -- will be looking for when we get ready to choose a new president.

Ricky Williams

I have neighbors, I have friends, and now I have to pick up and go. It's the off-season. I don't have to be here right now but I choose to. It's going to be hard to have to transplant somewhere else.

Burt Flickinger

When it comes to their eating habits, consumers will continue to choose the proverbial sin over salvation -- or fat and sugar -- over the lack of it.

Karen Brown

I'd prefer they appoint someone now and then have the election in November. I really trust who they choose would be a good replacement for Denise.

John Shimkus

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry.

John Wagner

depends on strength because he can't retain technique.

David Patrick

Depending on the industry you're in 10 percent to 80 percent of employees can migrate to a Linux desktop now.

Marco Rubio

Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do.

Cheryl Baker

So, one word can mean four different things depending on how you say it.

Barbara Turner

This is going to let us know if we're mature enough to come out and play really well on the road and be together. It prepares you for the tournament. Very rarely do you get to play on your home floor. I know we've been fortunate a few times, but it's rare. It's a totally different atmosphere. You don't have the normal support that you usually have. You have to depend on each other to win.

Timothy Karr

This is the first step down a slippery slope. A large e-mail provider wants to turn e-mail into a paid and privileged realm, but what about the non-profits that depend on a free and open Internet?

Chauncey Billups

Dice is playing so well right now. We depend on him every night to play like a starter.

Dwight Freeney

You have to be able to win games a lot of different ways. You can't just depend on your offense to score 35 points.

Richard Lewis

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling,

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Alan Greenspan

While these forms of protection have often been imposed under the label of promoting so-called 'fair trade,' oftentimes they are just simple guises for inhibiting competition.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

Jacques Rogge

We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is not yet defined. The practical circumstances of the torch relay and the whole format is still under discussion.

Jason Robert Brown

You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it.

James Patterson

There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.

Randy Pausch

It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai

Sean Maloney

Its always helpful to look at ourselves rather than our competitors,

Anton Chekhov

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Hippocrates

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

Kenneth H. Cooper

I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.

Robert Morris

It takes a lot of people getting sick, and going to physicians, and then it also takes the physicians diagnosing the illness and recognizing that it's water-borne, and very often all of those things don't happen.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...

John Howell

They stand up to the ravages of the illness better.

Carlos Lee

I've been very patient at the plate. I'm trying to see a lot of pitches and wait for the right one.

Billy Carter

We did over 200 adjustments, ... My patients really responded.

Jerry Kramer

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

Ron Gardenhire

He's just rushing. He's not being patient enough.

Garry McPeek

We have to be patient and take what they give us.

William Kamkwamba

One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

Austin O'Malley

If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.

Thomas a Kempis

Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.

Louisa May Alcott

...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

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?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Ashton Kutcher

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Brenda Ueland

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

Carl von Clausewitz

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

Bryant H. McGill

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Al Franken

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.

Charles Colson

The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it, dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons. Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Demian Bichir

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Joyce Smith

She's shown us things we didn't know about.

Peter Sorensen

Using these extracts has been shown to work,

Stephen Hawking

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

Cynthia Nixon

I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!

Anthony Jeselnik

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

Alice Barrett

But this is called show business, not show family.

Veronica Roth

Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.

Tommy Tune

I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you.

Steven Van Zandt

I'd never go onstage in my life without fully intending to do the best show you've ever seen.

Pete Carroll

If anything, it shows that we can finish.

Douglas Muzzio

But, ... he shows no inclination of doing anything like that.

Irwin Shaw

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it

Andrew Solomon

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

Anna Chlumsky

I was an international studies major.

Thomas Browne

Study prophecies when they are become histories.

Robert A. Heinlein

If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.

Sherilyn Fenn

I said, "Oh well, I'll act." I started to study, but I didn't know what I was doing, and I don't know that I was taking it very seriously then.

Margaret J. Wheatley

No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.

George Oppen

It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.

G. H. Hardy

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

Ferdinand de Saussure

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

Tim Allen

I have a thing for tools.

Sebastian Pinera

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

Socrates

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Michael Crichton

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

Christina Aguilera

I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Neale Donald Walsch

You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love.

Marshall McLuhan

First we build the tools, then they build us.

David Ricardo

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

Rick Clausen

I'm going to get a lot of treatment this week, as many times as possible, to get the soreness out.

Don Flanagan

It swelled up pretty good. But we'll let her get treatment on it and see how it goes.

Joe Williams

Treatment is the way to go, ... It can work if you have the right model.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Ryan Kavanaugh

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alex Haley

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

E. M. Forster

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.

David Bailey

I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

Dave Attell

I'm not like a performer type.