Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Woolsey

A week ago Saturday we saw five moose on the trail. These ladies from California were asking if we ordered them up special for them.

Gianfranco Fini

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

Dallas Salisbury

Ask your employer why their rules are not up to current law.

Pam Harmon

Ask to see a copy of the home's utility bills. You need to look at those fees so you can compare houses.

Max Mosley

ask the public what they want -- probably through the television companies, but that's a matter for Bernie. I think he would prefer to change but I think he's quite easy about it.

Rick Bender

Ask them to tell you when they smoke and leave the room.

Fairuza Balk

As I was being born my father claims that he was playing his fiddle/violin to soothe my mother and when my head came out he says that I looked right into his eyes and that my eyes were the color of electric turquoise and in Persian the word for turquoise is Fairuza, it also means Sacred or Precious one....don't ask me...

Ronnie Mamba

As our procedure dictates, we have sent this offer to the regions, to ask for their mandate regarding whether or not to sign.

Steve Diamond

That period of time probably cost us the game, though on the balance of play we can't argue. Our decision-making was poor, though we are entitled to ask why a penalty try wasn't considered in any case. In the end, though, I am happy enough with the bonus point.

R. Robinson

The burden of this crisis cannot be borne by workers and retirees alone.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Hooman Majd

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.

Lorin Maazel

Salzburg was where he was born and where he was rejected.

John Battelle

Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between the three key parties in commercial media: the audience, the author/creator and the marketer.

Bible Bible

These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

Juan Garcia

The seed is growing and being born on it's own. This really is an international movement of the people.

Lise Sansom

These dogs are born to pull. Six of them could pull that pickup.

Brandon Boyd

I see you in line dragging your feet. You have my sympathy. The day you were born, you were born free. That is your privilege.

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Akhenaton

As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Barbara Wagner

A while later, a maitre d' came up to him.

Brian Rolston

Auld came up big for them. We had a lot of good opportunities and he made the saves.

Paul Gallant

At some level, the court in these cases came down on the side of property over others who wanted to use it.

Nick Mangold

A year ago we started out as individuals and sort of came together at the end. This year we're starting where we finished, and coming together as one.

Richard Willis

Back then many of the hotels were named for a person or the place where they came from. The Hockenjos were from Paterson so they named it the Paterson House.

Peter Stewart

Back then a lot of operators came in deliberately for the short term, sucked a lot of money from people and then disappeared overnight. Those days are gone. We want a long-term future and long-term career for our staff. Are there some sharks out there? Yes, there are, but you'll find that in any industry.

Jimmie Johnson

Back in the spring, all the emotions came back.

Jeff Goodell

The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.

Robert Elliott

These companies and many smaller Delta Dental groups may be unable to update their eligibility and/or pay premiums for some time, so we're going to step up to help them from our end. These groups can focus on recovery and let us worry about paying claims and covering the dental needs of their employees and family members.

Julie Rochman

There are going to be all sorts of claims that are not settled for a long time.

Dan Donovan

To help allay customer service issues, Giant Eagle pharmacies are issuing seven-day medication supplies to customers in need of their medications immediately until claims are worked through.

Dean Ornish

The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting claims by saying: 'Show me the data.'

Art Hogan

There is not a hand-in-glove relationship necessarily with the jobless claims and the payrolls number, ... We're still pretty upbeat.

Robert Hartwig

Fewer claims translate directly into a lower overall rate increase for consumers.

Maureen Allyn

There's a difference between being stable and starting to grow again. I think that's what we're hearing from companies, too - the worst may be over, but we really don't see the upside coming, and that's what these jobless claims suggest.

Patrick Fearon

The trend in general for the last several months has been in this ballpark, with initial claims being really pretty low compared with the size of the workforce and the size of the economy. So for some time, jobless claims have been and indicator that the labor market remains healthy and March payrolls probably will remain pretty healthy as well.

Jimmy Ruff

Printing on newsprint is a lot different than printing at a photo lab. Newsprint absorbs a lot of ink, and each color is on a different plate and roller. So, if just one color plate is out of line, it can throw the whole photo out of register.

Jan Karon

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

Jamie Lee Curtis

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

Janet Napolitano

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

Daniel Handler

[I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.

Charles Petzold

Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.

Edward Norton

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

Mike May

We have a real opportunity in Colorado to take a great step in Colorado. You should not have to have your health be damaged in order to have a job in the state of Colorado.

Bruce Vilanch

You know, you have to do homework. You listen to who they are, what they do. I also compare it to designing clothes for people. If somebody brings in Tilda Swinton, you're not going to give her the same dress you'd give Gabourey Sidibe. Everybody looks different in a different line, a different color. The same thing with the way people speak.

Mike Hoffman

It was a little scary. It sounded like a freight train, and then I saw two tall electric poles snapped.

Rob Williams

This is great news. This is great news for us and it is also great news for the region's electrical energy supply.

Julien Quistrebert

The trends on electricity are good and Suez is gaining from its production mix. With a significant part of their production nuclear, they are gaining hugely from the increase in the price of electricity. They're also signing on new clients. All of this has helped results.

Donald Trump

Your electric bills will go down.

Shai Agassi

The one factor that you can't find on a spreadsheet is the willingness of the people in government to lead change, And in Denmark every single one of them is engaged and willing to do whatever it takes to get Denmark to be a leader in electric vehicles.

Lydia M. Child

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Philippe Gijsels

Lower prices are hurting utilities and energy companies. Electricity prices are an enormous risk for utilities so we shouldn't be surprised by the response.

James Lancaster

Basically, the electricity in my heart wasn't working correctly.

Alex Young

Imagine if your hair was to stand up from static electricity, that's kind of what the corona looks like all around the sun.

Peter Cameron

As long as I've got my eyesight I'm not going to stop.

Richard Rose

Anything you can do like that can be helpful, anything that can open eyes up.

Kevin Brownlow

The silent film was not only a vigorous popular art; it was a universal language - Esperanto for the eyes

David Morris

The temptation is to pick the eyes out of the wines to make a great wine, a trophy-winning wine,

Unknown

The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

Brion O'Connor

I usually operate on an intuitive level. I just saw something in this kid's eyes. It's an intangible thing. But there was a spark there, something I just responded to.

Richard Natonski

I wanted to come out here to look you in the eyes to tell you that this is a good aircraft,

Matt Damon

a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales as seen through the eyes of Terry Gilliam in a wild fantasy world only he could create.

Mike Gillespie

The one thing that he has done is pitch consistently. It's not overpowering, knock-your-eyes-out kind of stuff, but it's good stuff and he throws strikes. He doesn't get rattled or become afraid, you kind of know what you're getting.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own

Nick Zito

It was tough yesterday. I just had to leave really early. It all just got to me with High Fly. I've got a headache right now just talking about it. But that's the way it goes.

Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Dan Lankheit

As I said, the head on this thing was unreal.

Eric Snyder

This weekend is really important. It's one of the weekends we've been working from the very first practice for, and this is where all the training and work we've done all season will pay off. We're one of the top teams heading down there, so we'll just hope we do enough to move on.

Robbie Bennett

We think it is his knee. But we're still not sure. That's where we're headed now.

Stephen Chick

We think Home Depot is headed for a stall.

Omar Pimentel

Everything is fine; everything turned out well. I'm leaving with my head held high.

Pink Floyd

There's someone in my head but it's not me.

Chad Oberholtzer

We tried a new lineup tonight, and it looked like that might have been too soon. We switched out and we still couldn't seem to get it together.

Gail Simmons

When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.

Emilia Clarke

'Elizabeth' is something I've looked to a lot for a strong female leader.

Andie MacDowell

I was from a little rinky-dink town - to be a model... it looked like a lot of fun. I'd look at the girls, and they always looked happy.

Marcia Clark

Could you tell whether that was a right- or left-handed glove when you looked at it at that time?

Tom Donahoe

We didn't look to going to J.P. as a step back, we looked at it as a step forward,

Lori Miller

What I've looked for all year is the mental part. When you start making those mental mistakes, you're done.

Olli Jokinen

We got a penalty every time we tried to take a puck off them. In the new NHL, special teams will win or lose you games. For a while it looked the other way around for us, but we bounced back.

Mike Babcock

We weren't thinking, we were just kind of going, and that was nice to see. We looked like we could move.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Romeo Crennel

We're 2-2 and all that means is we're .500.

Andre Agassi

To be honest, with the way a mentality like mine sort of works, this means as much to me as doing it in the finals,

Mitch Boeck

Unbelievable. It means everything in the world to us.

Eric Lin

This year means being very sensible, very human, very alert. That's a dog's character.

Jerry Stackhouse

Tonight was a big night for us. But so is (Saturday) night. If we stub our toe (against New Orleans), then this one means nothing.

Harry DeFrank

Those two had 39 points, 39 out of their 60 points ... how about that. That means you can't let 'em open.

James Jeffrey

We are using technical means to try to verify that.

Archie Panjabi

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

Barbara Mertz

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Ayelet Waldman

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

Ayelet Waldman

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

Ayelet Waldman

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Ayelet Waldman

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

Ayelet Waldman

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Ayelet Waldman

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

Ronnie Wulf

You see him playing the game, but you don't really get to see what he can do. At practice, he was just awesome.

Carmelo Anthony

You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest of the way.

Annika Sorenstam

You still are playing the same holes, it's just a different order.

Adam Dunn

You playing today, LaRue? What is it, a spot start?

Stefan Hell

Eventually I realised there must be a way by playing with the molecules; trying to turn the molecules on and off allows you to see adjacent things you couldn't see before.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Sarah Olson

We're playing better as a team. This was more respectable than the first time we saw them.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Pat Summitt

And we talked Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday ... we talk all the time. But did we talk about playing each other? No, because we had a different agenda.

John Roberts

the most precious rights we have as Americans.

John Naisbitt

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

Judy Cornett

She worked backstage, and she was so precious to all of us. This is my first show without Pat.

Herodotus

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

David Duval

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Jennifer Carpenter

It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

Gloria Steinem

Religion is often politics made sacred.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

Dogen

In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.

Ted Strickland

What that says to me is they know the other two and they don't like what they know.

Jerry Reinsdorf

We win the World Series and Ozzie retires, who says I'm not going to retire?

Carrie Fisher

No one says that to you any more really,

Ryan Garko

If someone says something, you know who said it.

Derek Walker

She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'

Donna Berger

I was very amazed. The sign says the crew, they all ate, slept on the deck.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Mark Grudzielanek

We try to get him to go out and he says 'No, I've got a show Tivoed at home. I don't know about this guy.

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Richard Wright

There's one word for it -- carnage. It's horrible.

Geraldo Rivera

What four-letter word do they have in mind? ... Hero?

Rae Tyson

We just thought we should get the word out there in the meantime.

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.