Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

John Marshall

It would be useful to the voters if Marc wanted to talk about the issues, but he's now proven he's incapable of civil debate. He's more interested in calling names. Holtzman is desperate for attention.

Mary Berry

They already feel mistreated. By calling them refugees, I think, makes them feel less American.

Ken Starr

In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Willnett Crockett

Every time I left the gym so I guess you can say out of 24 hours in the day I was calling home about 20 hours. I was sleeping the other four hours.

Travis Leffew

Toward the end of the sixth round, a lot of teams started calling and telling me they had picks left and they would like to get me if they could.

Chan Gailey

I've said, 'Hey, it doesn't matter who walks on the field. You have to get ready to play,' ... It does not matter who's in the game and who's not in the game.

Pat White

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

Huston Street

You never like the first pitch to be taken deep. But it's not about how pretty it is, it's about walking off the field with a win.

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.

Sebastian Coe

I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.

Nathan Brown

There was a great field this weekend. I really gathered it all together today. I thought I performed well yesterday in the high jump, and then had a good pole vault and hurdles today.

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.

Rex Grossman

The plan was to get them off us a little bit. We wanted to stretch the field a little bit, loosen them up, and then start getting the run going.

Phil Davis

We hope the plaque will be a fitting tribute to Tom.

Emmanuelle Seigner

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

Thomas Steg

The motive for this kidnapping is totally open.

Ronnie Arnold

These allegations are disturbing. It was improper and unprofessional, but you see these things out there where kids are harmed emotionally and physically every day.

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.

Shaheed Saleem

I've been here before but none of these kids have. This team is already winners because of what they have accomplished this season.

Brian Idalski

This is special because it's my alma mater and being to be a part and have that success here. We didn't get here because I'm a genius. This is a players' accomplishment and a testament to the kids we've had play here.

Harv Bainter

You saw how many different looks we had. We played up to 20 some kids tonight.

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.

Ayelet Waldman

The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.

Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

Jane Smiley

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Charles Spurgeon

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Eleanor Smeal

She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

Carlos Moya

You have to play perfect and wish that he is not going to be at his best. I think today these two things happened.

Stu Jackson

This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available.

David Wright

This one's on my shoulders. Those were tough plays to make, but these are the big leagues.

Lance Berkman

We've got a logjam out there. We'll see how that plays out. It's an interesting situation.

Mike O'Connell

We're going to wait and see how it plays out,

Bronco Mendenhall

I give TCU credit, they made the plays to win.

Bob Stoops

He's the best. You can say all you want about him. He makes the plays that matter, and you see it every week.

Terry Teachout

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

William Taylor

Mater Dei had this fullback. It took two plays of him running me over to get me mad. I think I stuffed him. Nothing should be able to stop you if that's what you want to do.

Michael Robinson

I tell them all the time, you have to make plays first before we'll get any respect from a secondary.

Bob Stoops

It's still the Roy-back position until someone plays like him.

Arthur Bloch

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Mike Murdock

Your schedule and your spending describe what you really love in life.

G. H. Hardy

We're not willing to schedule more negotiating sessions.

Allard Beutel

We know there is going to be a schedule impact, ... We don't know what that's going to be yet.

Brian Boland

We need to be in these situations, and that's why I made the schedule so competitive day after day.

Tim Parmeter

We've got the right schedule for us down the stretch to see if we're going to have a chance.

Michael Crane

We thought it was going to take a lot longer, so that's why we didn't schedule any exhibits until February.

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Barbara Jordan

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Calvin Coolidge

The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.

Catherine McAuley

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.

Charles Kettering

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Charles Kingsley

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.