Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Peter Power

The boycott is bad for all those concerned.

Alex Procel

That was a bad scene, but Luis is in good spirits now, and it's not easy to be that way when you're in this kind of situation. He's got a lot of therapy to do. We're not even thinking about an estimated riding time right now. We just want to get him back 100%, and if it takes a while, that's OK.

Dino Ebel

That was a bad one. Like I've said since day one, this team never gives up. We gave up seven runs in an inning, but battled back. It's exciting. We still have a lot of games left.

Dan Whitney

People are starting to see that earnings aren't as bad as they initially thought. It's boosting a market that got pretty beat up.

Harry Smith

People cannot give up on the city as bad as this looks, ... It's devastating and it's catastrophic, but I have also been around the city and there are pockets of the city that can come back quickly, and I want people to come back.

Lewis Mandell

People don't remember the Depression. People who are younger just really believe that nothing bad can happen to them. Either they think Social Security is going to be there for them when they retire, or they may feel that the government will never let them starve.

Don McClure

People get a lot of hugs from Chick when they come into the station. It's just his way of making a bad day better and a good one more worth living." ()

Katharine Whitehorn

People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

Tommy Bolin

I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.

Tom Scholz

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

Tony Goldwyn

I've done a lot of movies other than Ghost. It's amazing. I get sick of it. I mean, I'm grateful for it. But I think it's one of those movies that struck a chord in the consciousness of people and they watch it over and over again. It's weird - I haven't seen the movie in 10 years!

Sid Vicious

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

Tommy Chong

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.

Will Chase

Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.

Patti Smith

The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Brendan I. Koerner

Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers. There's something about the sleek designs, the pillowy rides, and the panoramic views that just enchants.

Nancy Ammerman

These churches can do a ton of things that smaller churches can't.

Kevin Parker

This is a small church that was planted about five years ago with a focus on the post-modern generation. Goths, punks, homosexuals and yuppies make up a large part of the 80,000 people living within a half mile walking radius of the church.

Benjamin Disraeli

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Brennan Manning

The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.

Bill Hybels

The local church is the hope of the world.

Edmund Burke

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

Stephanie McDonald

We have really expanded within the past month. We have around 15 regulars now. We learn new songs, and sing at various churches on Saturdays and Sundays. We have already learned about twelve songs; we will probably learn four or five more before the end of the school year.

Elbert Hubbard

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Peter Akinola

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

Ariel Sharon

deepening its involvement in incitement, violence and terror.

Terry Teachout

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

Nancy Healey

The seniors know that this is their last year and last chance. They want to go as deep into the tournament as we can.

Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights,even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Mike Skelton

It was the opening three minutes that put us in too deep a hole.

Jacques Chirac

I share the pain of those families who have lost a loved one, and I offer my deepest condolences and sympathy,

Randy Jackson

They all hate each other deep down, but they aren't going to say it on camera.

Jim Hall

This is a sad way to end his career. His family has my deepest sympathy.

Laura Lopez

This is the deepest snow we've had in a long time. I never thought we'd get this much.

James Barry

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Bob Crawford

Dreams do come true, but you have to work for them.

Emily Dickinson

Dreams are the subtle Dower/ That make us rich an Hour/ Then fling us poor/ Out of the purple door.

Unknown

The test of Gold is Fire. The test of Truth is Time. The test of God's love are the heavens above, and everything sublime. Treasures in life are many, dreams realized but few, but I know the test of God's goodness, is when he gave me a friend like you.

Damien Chazelle

I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

Josie Loren

After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, 'That's fine. We support you, but you have to go to school,' which was fine because I'm a studious person anyway; I enjoy it.

Nicolas Cage

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

Unknown

Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile...

Paul Simon

Sail on, Silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine

Stephen Roberts

Productivity hasn't met the high hopes held out for it and, as a result, has pretty much dropped off the radar screen for economy watchers.

Carlos Casteneda

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you

Jane Bryant

Term rates keep dropping and dropping and dropping; it's just amazing.

Jerry Palm

Tennessee is dropping like a rock. It's looking like whichever team ends up with the higher seed (UNC or Tennessee) will end up in Greensboro with Duke.

Mike Heffernan

The rounds played is down about 5 percent this year, ... The season passes are down ... about 20 percent. But even though the number of passes sold dropped 20 percent, the number of rounds played dropped only 5 percent.

Aaron Rodgers

I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

Phil Brown

There would be no better man to replace Eriksson. Sam would have no problems dropping big-name players.

Mike Zimmerman

The program dropped off in the late '90s,

Charles Carroll

What we made them do was re-mark it regular and drop the price down to regular price,

Anthony Jeselnik

I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.

Anne Sexton

It would be pleasant to be drunk.

Noel Gallagher

I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.

George Saunders

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'm drunk but truthful.

Frank Wedekind

We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

Jim Carrey

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.

Jack Kerouac

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.

Bill Cosby

I'm going OUT... because I DESERVE to go out! And I'm going to get DRUNK... because I DESERVE to get drunk! And get out of my way!

Carson McCullers

But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

Charles Colson

I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.

Jase Robertson

Through Jesus, your past is explained, your present has a purpose, and your future is secure. What more could you really want in life?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.

Dean Koontz

One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you've got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn't just happenstance.

Bob Dylan

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.

Billy Corgan

Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.

Antonia Bird

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Charles V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.