Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

Tina Brown

Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals.

Idina Menzel

Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'

Idina Menzel

I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!

Isaac Brock

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

Isabella Bird

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.

Giles Foden

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.

Gil Gerard

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.

Ezra Taft Benson

Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage each paycheck. Can or bottle fruit and vegetables from your gardens and orchards. Learn how to preserve food through drying and possibly freezing. Make your storage a part of your budget.

Lori Miller

Valentine's Day gift giving can put a great deal of stress on singles. Many people feel like the gift signifies something about the relationship and where it's going. Take the pressure off this year and go for something creative, such as a favorite new DVD, a great bottle of wine or a seductive dinner by candlelight.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

I hate plastic bottles. Just think about it before you buy one. We pay more for a gallon of water than we do for a gallon of gas. I think people will realize that water quality standards in most municipalities are as good or better for the stuff coming out of the tap than bottled water companies. You'll save money and save the environment, too.

Nicholas Sparks

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE had to be told in third person to be effective.

Ren Jing

Wine is imported to China in containers. Many 'vineyards' just bottle wine that they have imported.

Ed Mathey

I wish I'd known how that was happening so I could bottle it.

Scott Sullivan

I worked at Sullivan's through high school. At least 10 of my cousins did, too. We would spend hours cleaning bottles in the basement, running bottles through shoots. I don't know if it was good times, but it was what we did.

John Sicher

I think certainly there's a certain set of American consumers interested in healthy beverages. Water is certainly a healthy beverage. There has been a great deal of bottled water, a huge proliferation in the last four or five years since it was bottled in convenience packaging.

Don Ryan

We can put out the call for bottled water and have it sent to them the most direct route possible. There will be no red tape, no waiting, no delays.

Bruce Downey

We review these patents for validity and of course there's a lot of incentives on the other side to press the patent to the bursting point,

Brian Tracy

Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst ofpositive energy.

Alice Walker

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Jim Bell

I was the tallest kid in the class, and the play was about food. The kid who was playing the hamburger forgot his lines, and I said them, and there was all this laughter. When I came out for my bows, there was this burst of applause, and I loved it.

Nitasha Brown

It feels good to get back on a winning track. We hope to close out the season strong. We have another burst of confidence.

Don Breaux

It does lend itself to a guy who has tremendous quickness and burst. Coles ran it pretty well, too, but sometimes being quick enough to burst by a guy is the difference.

John Lynch

Which would you rather have, a bursting planet or an earthquake here and there?

Katherine Henderson

We're bursting at the seams in terms of resident students,

Julian Casablancas

You always want to do that. But that wasn't necessarily the strategy. But I do think you're always trying to take it to the next level. We've been working on it for months. Hopefully if it sounds like a burst of good songs, that's fine. I'll take that.

Steve Scruggs

That was something we could absorb. From 2004 to 2005, we have grown exponentially. We can't keep up with that.

Sean Brady

We live in a twilight sort of world where, unfortunately, the perception of the seriousness of abortion - has grown progressively obscured in the minds of many of our contemporaries.

Bill Dudley

We've learned a lot this year and we've grown from the experience,

Hale Irwin

We've known all these kids since they were babies. It's impressive to see what they've grown up to become.

Ryan Holmes

As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.

Philipp Meyer

If you've grown up with guns, the thought that someone might take them away makes your stomach churn. They make you feel safe. If you didn't grow up with guns, if you don't know how to use them, then the thought that someone else has them makes your stomach churn.

Stephanie Murphy

(White) has grown into an impact player. Being the player she is has taken the pressure off of me just because it makes us tougher for us to defend.

Amy Roberts

It has since grown we have had over 10,000 people come to the event.

Karla Reese

We can set up drop-off points for a route, if there is a need for a meal in those communities.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.

Ranjana Kumari

What do you do in a situation where you know if you stay back in the house, you may be abused sexually? There may be a possibility of you not even surviving, not even getting a meal to eat.

Al Pacino

We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.

Paul O'Grady

The person I always enjoy having a meal with is Cilla Black. I might not see her for months, but then I'll pick her up at her flat, and we'll go to a restaurant, and it's like I've seen her that morning.

Nell Newman

To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.

Sharon Stone

There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

Anthony Trollope

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Daniel Handler

There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I've sat through boring speeches; didn't get up and leave.

Bethenny Frankel

Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

Dick Bartholdi

That was as satisfying a win as we've ever had here.

Sherry Sturner

That works fine. That would satisfy everything we want.

Fred Solomon

That will go a long way towards satisfying some of our critics.

William Brown

We have a lot of work to do. We're not satisfied with getting there.

Beth Clark

We can't just be satisfied with being down there this year. We want to make some noise.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Chris Hillman

You don't ever want to touch that money,

Stacey Hallahan

You'll be touching it or combing it, and it'll come out in pieces.

David Zuniga

I wondered what could I do to make a hands-on film that could actually touch people.

Peter Capaldi

I think it's always exciting when 'Doctor Who' touches its past.

Louis Walsh

I couldn't make it because I've got a touch of the flu.

Charles Ruff

I did not do those things. I did not touch those parts.

Alan Paton

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

Alan Ball

Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same.

Edith Wharton

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Agnetha Faltskog

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.

David Icke

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

Calvin Harris

There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

Adam Baldwin

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

Donald Curtis

An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own.

Chuck Grassley

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN

Anthony Hopkins

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

Carlos Castaneda

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.