Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Dan Netto

It's never really been a place where we allowed the public access.

Khaled Fadl

They are not allowed to deviate from the curriculum that the government sets for them.

Ruby Rose

When I first started in the industry back home in Australia at 18, there was a lot of push and shove as to how I should dress, if I was allowed to cut my hair short, if I had too many tattoos. If I didn't get a campaign, or if I didn't get a role, they would always come back to, 'Well, she dresses like a boy.'

Haruhiko Kuroda

I think the Japanese economy has recovered and it can continue to grow by two to three percent (annually) in the next several years, although such growth is not so big compared with China or India.

Heather Parker

I'll be working the register, although I'd prefer to be scooping some ice cream.

Sigi Schmid

The number one objective for us was not to give up goals. We were doing that in the first two weeks. I thought defensively we did pretty well although we broke down on the one goal.

Peter Kelley

It's important to transition away from fossil-fuel vehicles because they do cause global warming, although our homes put out twice as much gas as vehicles.

Peter Beutel

It now looks like the post-Katrina high will be the top for a long time. Although the supply picture is the worst it has ever been, the weakening demand picture is an even bigger worry. Demand is shifting underfoot as high prices are felt by consumers.

Craig Wright

It's very important to us that we get some prior experience of the unique cricketing atmosphere in the Caribbean before we go to the World Cup. Although our competitive games in a year's time will all be at the new Warner Park Stadium in St Kitts, we will have some warm-up games in Barbados, and this trip is an ideal way to find out how to play the game in these conditions.

Colin Firth

I want to say, strenuously, that although I have never considered the Darcy thing to be a problem, that is simply not going to happen.

Wendy Squires

It takes you through some of the prettiest part of the line, although it is not as long, and there are not as many redwoods.

Linda Earle

The world is getting smaller and the art world is becoming more global. And although people go between the U.S. and Europe all the time, this is still primarily an American place.

Bobby Valentine

Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Rafael Palmeiro

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

Tobin Bell

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

Sinclair Lewis

A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.

Norman Cousins

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

Mike Trout

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

Mike Trout

I think people keep baseballs in their cars, just to be prepared in case they see me. It's cool to get recognized in public; it's an incredible feeling.

Neil Gaiman

Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Emmanuel Munyukwi

The nomination committee to appoint commissioners has been put in place but that is not public information yet.

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Robby Reasonover

We had to control Richland's 3-point shooting. I thought our girls did a good job of jamming their cutters. Houston County ran a similar half-court offense, so we were not taken by surprise.

Jim Furyk

Winning two years in a row, pretty much being in control of this tournament most of the way, he's the guy to beat.

Jane Badler

I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.

Willie Nelson

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

Kathy Sheehan

The Internet has given people a control over prices, options, information and deals. It's given the traveler leverage. People feel it's worth dedicating the time to hunting for better hotel rates or flight times. They want not just to save money but to control their travel. People are being ever-more self-reliant.

Bennie Osburn

The federal government needs to see this (shortage) as being important for safe food, disease control and the economic viability of the food industry in this country.

Jermaine Carter

You can't fall two games back. If you put yourself in a hole, then you're hoping someone can help you. We want to control what happens.

Jim Collins

You can't prohibit them, but you can control them.

Will Allen

Was I surprised? ... Of course I was surprised. Of course it was surprising. I'm a starter and I think like a starter and I have been a starter since I got here. But am I losing my job? It's news to me. I'm a player and I can only do what I can do on the field. I can't control the other stuff.

Nick Davis

There was no drilling involved because it was above- ground. Most of the guys would not even qualify for 250 straight days.

Brian Jones

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

Li Na

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Deena Kastor

It was one of my expectations as my training has been going so well. I did want to run faster but I wasn't feeling it early on. I managed to hold on to go under 2:20 which was my main goal.

Jordan Beck

It's too early to tell what's going to happen right now. Hopefully I'll get back soon and won't have to miss much time.

Dave Cassels

It is very important we get the players registered as early as possible.

Paul Tagliabue

Our goal is to play some games in the Superdome in 2006. It's too early to say what will happen in 2007.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Brian Miller

We didn't execute as well offensively as we have the past few games. Rachel getting in foul trouble early on impacted the game, but we got some good offensive production without her, which is good so that we know we can get points from other places with sectionals approaching.

Chad Lavalais

We didn't play Falcons football. By the time we got it together, it was too little too late. They set the tempo early and often.

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

Ed Baker

They're like manna from heaven, but they pop up out of the earth.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

Bobby Collins

I thought we played well 35 of 40 minutes. But we've got to put together a full 40 minutes, because teams like A&T never give up.

Ruby Rose

I think at one point I had 50 or 60 tattoos, but then they all morphed to become a half sleeve and then a full sleeve and then a sleeve with half my hand and then half my back. So I have so many now where I feel like I can get away with saying, 'I have three tattoos.'

Jorge Rodriguez

We looked at his skills, and it only took ten minutes to see that he had the talent to be a great player. I immediately said he should stay. We couldn't let him go. He was the full ticket.

James Touchton

I am in full support of what KSU is trying to do for the betterment of students' health.

Friedrich Muller

He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise, who, though young and strong, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle man will never find the way to knowledge.

David Baker

He's back at work and quite keen to get back to his full schedule.

Diane White

He has a hangar full of vintage engines. We don't have room for a plane.

Rick Dempsey

He has not experienced a full season where everything has gone well, where everything has improved. He still needs to do that.

Chan Gailey

He has got to do his part. But something we lose sight of from time to time, he is a part of the equation, but he is not the full equation.

Jack Nicholson

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

Alan Rickman

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

Jennette McCurdy

When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.

Charles Bukowski

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Richard Hammond

When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life.

Ray Bradbury

Heaven is a house with porch lights.

Ralph Marston

You can choose instead to live in the enriching, empowering light of your own highest visions. You can always choose to grow, to achieve, and to fulfill by immersing your awareness in life's ever-present goodness.

Ralph Marston

Every aspect of your life is greatly influenced, day in and day out, by the way you imagine life to be. Imagine the best, choose the goodness, and "be a source of love and light for all to see..

Ralph Marston

Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly shines. Be, in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to be.

Rajneesh

You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the explosion of light happens and you are, for the first time, absolutely yourself - an eternal being, an immortal being, who knows nothing of death, who has never come across any darkness.

Sean Connery

I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

Michael Polanyi

The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Sam Mendes

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

Rosa Parks

I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.

Ron Perlman

I had an opportunity to be in Frank's [Sinatra] circle, but I couldn't take advantage of it because I couldn't get over how awed I was by him. It was so uncomfortable for me because he meant so much to me, but I just couldn't be myself, so I fled rather than having those great nights hanging out.

Susan Rice

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

Steve Jobs

We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.

Steve Case

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities...

Sri Chinmoy

An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

Sri Chinmoy

You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?

Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Alanis Morissette

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Alan Parker

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Alan Alda

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

Chin-Ning Chu

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Cher

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.