Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Ernie Allen

What our people are hearing in the shelters is that folks are afraid to sleep because they're afraid a picture of their loved ones will be posted on the shelter's bulletin board and they don't want to miss it,

James Wolfensohn

What is happening outside is that people are scared -- they are afraid they may lose their jobs, ... These are legitimate fears, but the trend toward globalization is irreversible.

Carolyn Bennett

We cannot deal with things that we're afraid to talk about, ... We actually have to begin to take on the links that we know of between incest and alcohol and drug abuse. This is huge.

Colin Powell

We cannot be shocked into impotence because we're afraid of the difficult choices that are ahead of us,

Scott Slayton

We knew it was going to be a battle and everyone knows what is on the line. We were able to get started and feed off of the emotion. Curtis is never afraid of the magnitude of the moment. He stepped up and hit foul shots and Kyle Ruby's 3-pointer from the corner was big. Things kind of went our way after the first quarter.

Terry Rischel

Old tin toys, old radios. He has little soldiers, old board games, transistor radios, luggage, classic luggage. We have way more than what we could put in this studio so we could do this studio many times over with his collections.

Pat Flaherty

I think you've got to try to limit their touches as much possible which is difficult with their size. You have to try to keep them off the boards and out of the paint as much as possible, which is easier said than done.

Bobby Bowers

The (Florence County) delegation did them (Florence 1 board members) a courtesy giving them the right to come up with a suggested plan, but the delegation is the supreme school board.

Peter Gray

The JCI board is reviewing all matters relating to Letseng. That would include the possible sale of any interest in Letseng and the raising of capital should that become necessary.

Tom Dawson

The meeting yesterday was in a sense a six-month review. I think the operative note is that the board decided not to restore Zimbabwe's voting and related rights and not return any signing eligibility to use the resources of the Fund.

David Sternblitz

It really wasn't as much about the long-term strategy and direction of the company, but the board was disappointed that after 3½ years, the progress hadn't translated into better financial performance. There had been several quarterly misses.

Robert Schaeffer

There's clearly something wrong with the management at the College Board and Pearson.

Van Huyssteen

It was a very constructive meeting, with open channels of communication and we (Tuesday's board delegation) fully understand where they're coming from. We discussed the implications of changing what has already been decided... but it's not a closed shop.

Ron Shelton

We project it to go to 60 to 70 million board feet by '07.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Donna Karan

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

Danny Elfman

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

Mikael Samuelsson

I had a wide open net. I couldn't miss that one.

Katharine Hepburn

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.

Tyrone Lewis

I'll be OK. I can't miss any time. I can't miss any practice.

Mark Gottfried

I haven't thought too much about it. We are thinking about Ole Miss right now, period.

Lindsay Anderson

I really miss having her as a training partner, ... We pushed each other in everything.

Cameron Crowe

I miss Kentucky, I miss the sound of the cicadas, and I want to come back from time to time.

Nick Kirby

I miss them. I wish they were here, I wish I didn't have to do all of this.

Robert Scoble

Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you.

Cindy Sheehan

applecobbler: Sorry that so many people have spoken up to say

Jan Egeland

Are we going to have tens of thousands of people staying in the rubble and in the snow until it's too late? Maybe. It's a logistical nightmare,

Julie Hall

Are people still sleeping with their chickens? Yes, they are.

Ayad Allawi

are outlaws or terrorists ... who do not represent the sentiments of the people of the towns.

Randeep Hooda

Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

Pablo Picasso

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.

Carl Olson

And then people got all excited. Why was it there?

Constantin Oclei

The situation is very bad. We need to evacuate 1,200 people from Bechet and its surroundings by this evening.

Willie Smith

Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

Aldous Huxley

I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.

Albert Einstein

We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.

Alexander Pope

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

Alexander Pope

Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

Albert Schweitzer

You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming. That is why you have to be careful. As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm and zest, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially.

E. M. Forster

If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.

Drew Barrymore

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

Dorothy Richardson

Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.