Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Olson

Barbara would have insisted that I live my life and that I go on and do the best possible job I could as solicitor general of the United States.

Bracey Barker

Our defense was barely there. We didn't have any rotation.

Monica Crowley

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates, Mr. Obama was 'light-skinned' and lacked a 'Negro dialect.'

Bible Bible

And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

Peter Schiff

One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.

Jamie Cullum

Now I have other demands on my time that are not flexible, I just can't wander into the studio at 2 A.M. like I used to. If I have an idea in the middle of the night, I will go and get the bare bones down, but mostly you can learn to tame it to your needs.

Richard Foreman

It would be nice to get to the point where I don't have to think about it any more. People slip up all the time and refer to me as 'she'. I've even done it once in a bar when a friend introduced me to someone and I said, 'Hi, I'm Vanda. Oh no I'm not. I'm Richard'.

Mark Cunningham

This is a special day. But it also sets the bar high for us, because there are a lot of expectations. We're going to do the best to meet those.

Bob Gregory

This is the biggest rule revision that has ever been done for solid waste rules in the state. ... It's time to raise the bar and get these facilities operating under current standards and stop the grandfathering.

David Waters

As he put it, 'the biggest nightclub in central London'.

Jeff Pentland

Sometimes the biggest successes aren't the guys you hear the most about.

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Gary Mitchell

This is probably the biggest name show we'll have all year.

Roy Williams

This could go on three or four or five weeks. I only had to put up with it for one week, even though it was on the biggest stage.

Josh Childress

That's my biggest goal now, two in a row. Last year I said if we won two in a row I was cutting my hair. I'm not saying that now.

Arlen Specter

biggest challenge of the year and perhaps the decade.

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.

Randy Carlyle

The result is the biggest negative. Our effort was good, we had chances, but we just didn't bury the puck.

Kevin McHale

In San Paulo I went to the movies and by the time I left the theater there was a mob at the exit. I had never been in that kind of situation when we weren't on tour and there was a whole bunch of security. I'm a little dude, and out of nowhere to have 50 or 60 people come running towards me when I'm jut with my friend, it was kind of scary.

Bill Bunch

Every single one of the petition signers signed an affidavit swearing that they watched the person sign their own personal signature on there. If there were any irregularities, we want them found out, we want that person prosecuted, but we know that also we had a whole bunch of extra signatures.

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Mieke Kramer

Some people are thinking he's this horrible person even though they don't know him. When you have a whole bunch of facts and take out a few things and put them in a certain order, they can make anything look true. But once the evidence is laid out, it's going to be obvious what happened. He didn't do anything but try to help someone in trouble.

Lucas Glover

My short game kept me in it. I had to make a bunch of 6- and 8-footers or I'd have shot 80.

Boris Diaw

My pride is my creativity, to be able to make plays for my teammates. That's why I've been fitting pretty well in this system because that's what we try to do. We've got a bunch of shooters, and I just try to set them up.

Scott Elarton

My philosophy is: It all evens out. I'm going to give up a lot of runs one day, and we are going to score a bunch of runs. I can't worry about that part of it. We are going to be fine.

David Sanborn

My manager and I had been talking about trying to do a TV show. There was a series of shows back in the '50s, where they'd get a bunch of musicians together and they'd jam.

Rosanna Arquette

I'm so fascinated about this. I have so many friends who are hitting 40 and are flipping out. I think it hasn't been talked about so I'll be interviewing a bunch of people about it. I want to interview movie stars and rock stars, people on the street and then I want to interview Hillary Clinton.

Rob Bironas

We're here all day, so I just need somewhere to lay down and maybe catch an hour of TV, then go to sleep. I'll be back in here in the morning, so it's not that big of a deal right now.

John Britton

We did not catch it nearly as early as we should have,

Ted Spadaro

He's the real package, running the ball, catching the ball. Everything he gets, he's deserving of it. There was no way we could stop him, we just wanted to slow him down. We wanted to give him the middle, but not off tackle. And that's where he got those two long runs.

Scott Barton

I think the retail is just now catching up to the residential.

Mark Farley

We're catching them as a very confident team.

Paul Duca

It is a lot of fun catching these guys. You have four guys who can throw a no-hitter at any time. That makes it interesting.

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

Howie Hewitt

I think our inexperience and our youth is really starting to catch up with us a little bit. Proctor will be ready to go.

Frank Robinson

I just don't know why we can't throw and catch the ball. Am I embarrassed by it? Not really. I'd like for us to be sharper.

Pat White

I've been doing this since I was four years old. Nothing on the field scares me.

Brian Sun

While the firm may have historically done some work for Mr. Ovitz, neither the firm nor Mr. Fields was involved in any way in the Anita Busch matter.

Bryan Way

There's no way he's going out on that field. We want to make sure everything is OK.

Ann Aguirre

But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.

Tim Clark

I do feel more comfortable over there. I go there and feel like, 'I can win this week.' I want to feel like that over here, too. There's no doubt, this is the toughest tour to win on, and the fields at the top are always much more bunched.

J. J. Johnson

I thought they flew around the field pretty well.

Markus Roeders

In the second half, we were able to use more of the field and get our offense going. It's our second straight overtime game, the second time it took a little longer to win, but we'll take it, especially with it being Senior Night. It's a special night for them, I'm happy that we were able to win.

Bob Bandoni

In the middle of the field, Kelsey improved her game remarkably in the second half.

David Burks

If you take out a league, the talent is going to increase. It's not going to be all spread out. The level of play on the field (here) will be as good as anything.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Butch Cassidy

Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia. Let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Busy Philipps

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Bobby Fischer

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up.

Brian P. Cleary

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.

Stendhal

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

John Milton

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious.

Alfredo Griffin

I am very proud to be here and to be with such a powerful group. This is my country's team. It's a pleasure being here.

Dante Alighieri

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.

Michael Goodman

It's sort of like you're seeing Yahoo spread its wings and be more of a portal that ties into the TV in your home.

Kate Micucci

I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke.

Dorothy Allison

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Nick Carter

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

Patti LaBelle

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

Farrah Fawcett

Im shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I wont sit on a toilet seat on a plane. Im certainly not going to go on somebodys lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

Candice Swanepoel

I don't know if it is obvious, but I am extremely shy.

Alan Moore

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

Clive James

The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.

James Franco

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

Christopher Hitchens

The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or care or family or society or solidarity is necessary - these are immoral teachings that have done and continue to inflict untold moral and physical harm on our species. And until we outgrow this nonsense, we have no chance of emancipating ourselves.

Kathleen Hanna

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me.

Oswald Chambers

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Natalie Cole

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

Nikki Giovanni

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

Marian Seldes

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

Lillian Hellman

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.