Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, which is set at $5.15 an hour. After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, (which is set at $5.15 an hour). After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

Jaime Winstone

When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.

Paul Rodio

We're getting there. I thought our players did everything they had to do (Saturday) except win.

Mark Snyder

We're still learning how to practice, like everyone except the NFL,

Charles Krauthammer

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Molly Quinn

With voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read.

Joe Jurevicius

As much running as I have been doing, nothing is going to get me in shape except playing the game of football,

Luc Montagnier

What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.

Harry Banks

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Harry Banks

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Ellsworth Huntington

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

Jack Nichols

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Hayley Orrantia

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

Michael Turner

We have to get our heads and telescopes around that.

Charles Rhodes

We're going to play through it. I know it. It's just, we got to keep our heads up. It's frustrating. I'm frustrated. But we're going to learn from our mistakes.

Jim Steets

When we first got these findings we were scratching our heads because it does raise questions about what the source (of the leak) really is.

Matt Murphy

We're still scratching our heads over that one. We'll have to re-measure.

Phil Garner

We let them off the hook and let them keep their heads in the game,

Maura Harty

a big heads up that this is a big management concern.

Joe Crede

It's just a matter of us putting things together. We'll be fine. We know things will turn around. We've seen enough to know that we just have to keep our heads up.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Harland Williams

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.

Graham Cluley

The worry is that the problems with the patch may have prevented it from being successfully rolled out onto some vulnerable computers.

Jack Messman

the window of opportunity for migrating will be when Vista comes onto the market.

Adrian Alaniz

You're not going to be a superman every time you go out onto the field.

Terri Blackstock

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

John Updike

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

Alisdair Gray

We are going to get products onto the shelves as soon as possible.

Stewart Hall

You got a lot of people targeting 1.12. People are hopping onto the train.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Edouard Manet

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Tony Winnicker

Think of it like a funnel -- you pour too much into it and it'll clog up.

Steve Elkington

It was a romp from the start. We poured it on and poured it on.

Don Bluth

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Marcia Gay Harden

Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

Dale Carnegie

Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

Albert Pike

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

Chris Souder

When it rains it pours, and its pouring here right now.

Drew Peck

When it rains, it always seems to pour at AMD.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Jim Ratcliffe

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Mary Leith

It's more about who has the proper credentials to be a leader.

Publius Tacitus

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.

Dan Quinn

I told my wife this would be the only lakefront property we'd ever have,

Tamsin Greig

In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

John Pistole

The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

Allen Lichtenstein

Proper review is not particularly burdensome, so there is no real need for this. It's like they're saying we don't need judges, we don't want any review at all.

John Jones

Proper legislation can put a stop to many of these practices, but politicians need to know their constituents are being ripped off and are upset about it.

Keion Carpenter

They tried to throw it a little more once he got in there. Other than that, it was the same kind of outfit.

David Berry

You can't keep throwing us around. Accommodate your own people.

John Cornforth

You can throw that out of the window.

Brian Schmidt

You can throw it out or you can do what you want.

Derek Jeter

You can throw everything everybody's done up to now out the window,

Kurt Robinson

There were times when I wanted to throw in the towel.

Jack Kokinda

This is the time of year you want him throwing this way.

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.

Robert Jordan

I told him, 'I'm going to be there for you,' ... 'Whatever you throw up for me, I'll go get.'

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Tara Miller

I use Lysol and bleach and water. And, I am always washing blankets.

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

Christopher Shays

It's kind of like Pontius Pilate washing his hands.

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

David Viscott

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details

Charlaine Harris

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

Charlie Melancon

When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats.

Bob Saget

Just went to a lovely Catholic wedding. I need a drink. They didn't even offer us water. Well they did, but it was Holy water.

Bill Watterson

MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water?

Catherine Booth

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

Camille Paglia

Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

Arthur Rimbaud

I could never throw Love out of the window.

Bill Gates

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Bill Joy

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

Tom Silva

A lot of times, those windows can be refurbished.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.

Archie Shepp

All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Bela Lugosi

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

Elin Hilderbrand

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.