Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Jose Rizal

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Sir Trotman

We will be trying to find out what it means for education, what it means for skill levels and having common qualification levels for entry and onward progression.

Jorge Sampaio

We have a common responsibility to contribute to a fairer world where all human beings, whatever their race, sex or creed, can enjoy a decent life, ... We have a common interest in warranting peace and security in Europe and in the world, ensuring the prosperity of our economies and defense of our values.

Howard Jacobs

We felt U.S.A.D.A. made the proper ruling. It seems to me the anti-doping rules are lacking any notion of common sense.

George Speight

We don't want Fijians fighting Fijians -- our common enemy is the Indians.

Nick Kirby

We are using our seven gill shark as a surrogate species because they are more common and easier to work with than risking the gray nurse shark.

Jim Puckett

We are trying to get it to be common practice that you have to test what you send and label it.

Lori Reynerson

Use common sense. You can have a great time and be safe at the same time.

Tom Cruise

I take no pleasure in having to be here today, but it is the last recourse to counter the vicious lies that have been printed about me and my family,

Walter Isaacson

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

Paul Johnson

We have to have a plan to try and counter that. We know that if we don't come and play really hard and with a lot of intensity that we'll get embarrassed. And we don't like to get embarrassed.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Jake Shields

I've only seen two of his fights, and it was hard to get a feel for him because he had his man on the ground most of the time. I'm going to have to feel him out early on and see what he's got.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Dave Moates

That's high school baseball. It's not earth-shattering. It's early in the year, too. They have to learn to pitch and play in games like this to be successful in games like this in April.

Elize Du Toit

I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey.

Bob Cook

We have incorporated the teachers into an early intervention team which visits all our nurseries up to twice a week.

Dana Altman

We've won some games we shouldn't. We probably lost some games we should've won. We just need to focus on getting better. If a few weeks down the line we're still in the hunt, we can talk about it later. But it's too early for our team to be talking about anything like that.

Mason Morfit

Currently, we are focused on the shareholder meeting in early 2006.

Suzy Young

Early voting got off to a slow start last week, but it has steadily picked up. The elections office wants to encourage every registered voter to get out and vote.

Stephen F. Lynch

To have no one on the ground is just inexcusable, sir.

Kazimierz Krzowski

There is a low possibility that people are still trapped under there. The parts of the structure that are not lying on the ground are a threat.

Al Hanna

Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.

John Conway

Ground zero is Charlotte. With all the garages, all the drivers, it's, like, natural.

Dennis King

That would be one place where Phil can hit the ground running.

Marc Pado

Mergers are looking to help us hold our ground today.

Dominic Purcell

Whoever it was that set me up wants me in the ground as quickly as possible,

William Williams

I will teach you my townspeoplehow to perform a funeralfor you have it over a troopof artists--unless one should scour the world--you have the ground sense necessary.

Ervin Santana

I was in big trouble, one out, men on first and third. I just wanted to get a ground ball.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Brendon Burchard

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Deana Carter

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

Lindsey Hunter

At this point, we don't even care. We know what we've got to do, and we know what we need to do -- and that's get the title back. That's our focus, our goal. All the other stuff, hey, people can say what they want to say or not. They'll put us on the prime-time or whatever. It doesn't matter to us. We just want the title back.

Sebastien Loeb

To be honest, it didn't matter if I was first, second or third in this rally -- I just wanted to win the championship,

Chuck Grant

We want to play Orion again. But we can't look past that first game. You have to respect that first opponent, no matter who they are.

Peter Munk

You have to please understand that in today's American terms, people worked hard. The Swiss worked hard. But it was a matter of survival.

Matt Thissen

With her talent and her academics, it was only a matter of time for Kim.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Billy Corgan

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

Dean Kamen

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.

Brad Williams

Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny.

Brian McDermott

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

David Troyer

Right now we're waiting on them and they're waiting on us.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action...

Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Don DeLillo

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Colleen Haskell

The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

Ray Kroc

When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?

Thomas Jefferson

We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

Suzy Kassem

Truth waits to be found. It searches for no one.

Tom Rath

Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Greg Aiello

We were disappointed we weren't able to work it out with him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.