Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madeleine Quayat

I was known as the person with the 24-hour smile.

Ramsey Clark

has been in total isolation. He hasn't seen a member of his family, talked to a member of his family, met with a lawyer or met with friends he has known before.

Torrey Smith

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.

Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

Matthew Bright

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

Viola Spolin

That which is not yet known comes out of that which is not yet here.

Maureen McCormick

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

Diane Nelson

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.

David Allen

the first 15 laps were pretty scary today.

Alan Gustafson

Around lap 80 or 100 was the first time we led, and I thought we were looking pretty good.

Johannes Ullrich

This laptop will infect your systems from the inside.

Eddie Jordan

We started as if we were on a qualifying lap but we got a puncture near the end but we got it home.

Michael Andretti

I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that counts.

Chen Yao

That's fine. You can take the laptop and use it in an emergency.

Cilla Black

Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'

Jeff Gordon

We know that after Richmond (the 26th race) comes, we've got to be in the top-10 and when we are, we'd better be set on 'kill' to go out there and lead laps and win races.

Sharon Van Etten

Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Robert Neelly Bellah

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

Samuel Butler

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Sally Ride

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

Will Rogers

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Twyla Tharp

Perfect practice makes perfect.

Trofim Lysenko

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

Wilhelm Keitel

A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.

Walter Lippmann

Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

Martin Amis

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

Sydney Smith

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Sienna Miller

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

Rick Riordan

Blowfish, did you say?" "Ah, no. Blofis, actually." "Oh, I see," Poseidon said. "A shame. I quite like blowfish.

Maria Edgeworth

Nature's hasty conscience.

Pierre Corneille

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

Seth

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

M. F. K. Fisher

... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.

Josh Beckett

It's a shame that that's how it has to end. Obviously, something was really bugging him because you just don't speak like that out of emotion.

William Shakespeare

O shame, where is thy blush?

Tom Moody

It would be a shame if he didn't come back, but I think he will.

Rebecca Loos

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Princess Anne

I didn't like netball... I used to get wolf whistles because of my short skirts.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Mackenzie Astin

Life can only be understood backwards.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

Adam McKay

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Tom Jenkinson

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.