Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Gary Brown

Ken Lay is what I would call a fix-it man who thinks he can pick up the phone and take care of it because of who he is, a man of power. It's as though he thinks he can call anyone, any time. They're not going to like that kind of attitude.

Rich Beem

Just think of it as a golf cart with a V-8. Call it the Silver Bullet, baby.

Jay Anderson

Jose was just in the right spot at the right time on all three of those goals. I wouldn't call them garbage goals, I think it was more of his hustle that made it happen. He's got great vision of the game and he's just in the right spot all the time.

Jeff Davis

I wouldn't be surprised (if the rally continued next week), ... There's a lot of momentum that can carry into the coming weeks.

Ronnie Brown

I wouldn't be surprised if he called me later on this week and put some kind of wager out there as far as yards per carry or something.

Dave Jones

I think it's a great idea. If you carry a weapon, you're going to use a weapon, that's as simple as it gets.

Paul Bremer

He is virulently anti-Western and is particularly anti-American, ... and he has the resources to fund considerable anti-American or anti-Western activity. So he is a concern, because he's got a clear motive and he's got the means to carry out -- or to pay people to carry out -- attacks.

Alan Trammell

He's a kid who wants to help carry us -- which is commendable -- and of late it hasn't happened. It's like we say about hitters who want to go out there and do too much. The same is true of pitchers, and Jeremy, unfortunately, still falls into that rut of -- instead of being a pitcher -- reverts sometimes to being a thrower.

Ben Johnson

He showed me the ropes. A lot of the struggles I had in the minors, he's had as a ballplayer. We clicked on that level. We just tried to make a lot of the adjustments I needed to make. Not only on the field, but off the field, how to carry yourself, how to be a professional.

Paul Maholm

I threw some fastballs and they hit them. It was just one of those days. You put it in the back of your mind and carry it into the season.

O. J. Simpson

I think the main job of the commissioners right now is to make sure we have the personnel to carry out any ordinances that are adopted.

Jim Haslett

I think the guys have gone a great job of focusing on football in practices and meetings. It did not reflect that today. It didn't carry over.

Jane Rissler

Proponents of pharmaceutical crops have inflated the rewards and downplayed the risks.

Camila Alves

My waist used to be tiny. I just saw a picture of Miley Cyrus with a little crop top and low pants, and I'm like, 'That was me growing up in Brazil!' I had the typical model body, but after babies, it changed. I look more like a woman.

Lisa Hardaway

Farming now is a lot different than it was 20 years ago. If you want to get into a tractor, drive up and down a field and cultivate and harvest a crop and sell it, that's not where farming is headed.

Juan Felipe Herrera

We went from crop to crop, field to field. And my father had that army truck, a 1940s army truck from Fort Bliss, El Paso.

Richard J. Roberts

Modern genetic engineering makes producing GMO food products relatively easy. GMOs can improve crop yield and greatly enhance the nutritional value of those same crops.

Lord Byron

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years, months, days, hours, or minutes remain that Carpe Diem 'is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?'

Michael Taylor

My philosophy is to stay with the normal plan, ... It seems if you jump in and out of a crop you might miss an opportunity.

Megan Wheaton

Without a legal work force, Michigan farmers are at risk of losing productivity and leaving some of Michigan's most valuable crop land un-harvested. This loss in productivity will have a multiplying effect to local economies as well as the state tax rolls.

Alexei Gordeyev

We estimate that about 30% of the winter crops are dead as of today.

Cyril Connolly

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Herb Brodarick

In the 18 years I've been down here, I've worked with many a good person who's gotten discouraged when they run into dead ends or are told no. That doesn't necessarily stop him. He doesn't give up.

Robby Ginepri

I'm just dead right now. I don't know how I got through it,

Kari Koch

In high school, I used to joke with my family that I wished there wasn't a bench. Even when I'm dead tired I hate to come out of the game. You just focus your mind not to think about getting tired.

Jerry Kelly

I left three (putts) dead in the jar, 2 inches short.

Ben Wallace

I loved what that place stood for. You didn't walk into that place unless you were dead serious about working out.

Rich Thompson

The funny thing is, it's not about the answer, it's how you react. All the interviewer is trying to do is derail you. If you throw a question like that and they shut down, that's probably not the person you want on your floor at deadline time.

Jim Haslett

Then I'd probably be dead right now. He's one of the great all-time kickers. I never would have guessed this would happen.

Kelly Hass

That start for her was awesome. It was terrific. It was dead on. In fact, she said she thought she was the one who false started. That's how good it was.

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Dave McAlindin

It has always been our philosophy that less is better.

Charles Coles

He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, because he is more like us and less like them.

Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

Robert H. Connelly

If you've had a turbulent August/September period, ... It's less likely you're going to get sucker-punched in October.

Mike Babcock

I liked to see less plays through the neutral zone and more plays around the net, but he (Hudler) played well tonight.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Robert Venturi

Main Street is almost alright.

Kip Winger

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

E. B. White

Our main goal, obviously, was to get sanctioned in Nevada,

Nicky Hilton

Our main demographic is 12 (years old) to 30 (years old), but I've had women in their 50s come to my signing wearing pieces from the collection.

George Hayes

I'm mainly trying to get the word out to people, ... Look in your pantries and linen closets. Go to the store. What are some things you have that someone down there needs even more than you? What can you do without.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

John James

You can't get off the script, or it's going to throw the kickoff time. That's the main thing, to keep ESPN's 11:02 (a.m. EST) kickoff time on schedule.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Jamie Oliver

The future is about a plant-based diet.

Rick Santorum

The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is,

Michael Pollan

Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.

Melissa Etheridge

There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.

Marc Shapiro

We do not feel at any time that the security of the plant has been in jeopardy.

Walter Raleigh

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

Jim Leonard

We're trying to squeeze the most out of every plant we have.

Linda Scatena

You can replace the rings but you can't replace what they represent.

Patsy Denham

You can replace everything but you can't replace a child.

Theodore Olson

These two appointments, when they're completed, will replace 57 years of experience.

Bill Carmody

They had to replace so much. They're still overachieving in my mind.

Richard Myers

It will have some effect, but over time they will replace people,

Robert Reich

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

Alan Alda

No one can replace a unique person like Peter.

Mike McDermott

It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money,

Cassandra Clare

Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle’s head.

Henry Blodget

Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive.

Cassandra Clare

You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.