Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greville Janner

Imagine the feelings of victims' families as they read the list and see the names of victims alongside those of their murderers.

Thorsten Fischer

Half of the refining industry's capacity is located alongside the Gulf of Mexico.

Jonathan Loynes

Alongside the gathering momentum evident in the euro zone economy, the virtual confirmation of a hike in March supports our view that ECB interest rates will rise further than markets are anticipating.

Mollie Mayfield

After a week, we had a lot of black marks from track shoes on them. It causes an abrasion that slows down the surface, so our varsity team is not playing on as fast of courts as they may encounter.

Ed Smith

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.

Brian Knutson

Brain imaging gives us the hope of opening up the black box.

Ed Renwick

Blacks got used to winning, and whites got used to losing. Now with all of this upheaval, some blacks think that maybe they're not going to win, and some whites think they're going to win.

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Ruth Reed

Black and gray smoke just came puffing out like a train. You could smell it all over the house, and the soot got into everything.

Jose Mujica

I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!

Tony Oppegard

You can mine 4 tons of coal in a couple of minutes. It's cheaper to exceed the dust limits, expose a miner to black lung and pay the fine than it is to do the right thing.

Bob Galush

We wanted to be more stylish for small business. The Think family of offerings is awesome, but some people don't view black as their preferred color.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Ray Waddell

The Stones have written and rewritten the book on touring.

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

Philip Chien

The whole object of the book is to take the two-dimensional bios and make them into three-dimensional people.

Travis Paquet

This is a win in our book as far as I am concerned. We keep working hard. It'll come.

Gena Prochaska

That's why I chose it, it's the first book in a series. This way they get the first book and it will suck them in. It draws them in and gets them interested in the book, and then they want to continue the series. And it gets them reading, which is the whole point of this group.

Brett Ratner

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

Brandon Sanderson

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.

Barbara Kingsolver

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

Kirk Douglas

Because I love you, I will be checking up on you, ... You have honored me and I thank all of you.

Cliff Floyd

I don't have to do anything. Nothing. Just follow up with her and watch what I eat and drink a lot of water. There are little things you have going on that you have to monitor. I'm just happy we can move on and that we were able to get a hold of this, as far as checking myself. I'm relieved.

Brendan Witt

The more time and space he has, the more he can make plays. You have to take that away from him, try to shut him down. But he's really good. It's also going to take a whole checking line and four or five guys doing their jobs.

Bill White

It seems to me he should have been doing it the last three years. Now is a little late to start checking on his evidence.

Simon Helberg

We're going to do a natural birth. At first she was like, 'We should do it at home,' and I said, 'Look, either way, when you go into labor, I will be checking into a hospital... so if you want to come along, come along.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Cathy Nixon

Any win is a good thing for us. This was one of the goals we set, this is something we wanted to accomplish. I'm proud of the kids, they played well and it's fun to see the reward of their hard work.

Kevin Taylor

I've tried other jobs, ... But I am having too much fun.

Lisa Bluder

It was a long wait. It seemed like forever. I wish we could relive it again., though, I wish we could see our name and relive it again, because that was a fun moment.

James Sarni

It wouldn't surprise me if we get to 4 3/4 percent, but it would surprise me to see the funds rate go higher than that.

Marissa Brown

Things are going pretty well this year. It has been a lot of fun to be a part of this team.

Chris Smylie

Things went smoothly today. Everyone is working together, and we're having fun now.

Matt Hasselbeck

They are actually fun to watch. It's fun to watch film because they are so good. But at the same time you realize you have to play them this week.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Nick Miller

Dr. Who is my greatest passion in life.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Tonight we celebrate. Tomorrow, we go back to work. I can't wait. I have the greatest job in the world.

David Goldstein

We got many requests for a mystery. I thought if we were going to do one, why not do the greatest one of all time?

Armand Salmon

The tiniest of sparks can kindle the greatest of fires.

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

James Darren

One thing I don't do is, I don't listen to Sinatra before I record or before I go out live. Because if I did, I'd have to say, "What am I doing?" I couldn't listen to the greatest singer in the world and try to go out there and sing. I'd be too depressed.

M. Wolfe

Now we're tied with two of the greatest shows of all time,

Jose Andres Puerta

For me, Romesco is one of the greatest sauces in the world.

Ron Beard

Jimmy was in the groove. He looked unstoppable.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Jay Jacobs

People stumbled into the war by making mistakes.

Tom Daschle

People still would have the right to go to court,

Gary Koenig

People still want it, that's why the old stars are still doing it.

Tom Stoppard

People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think.

Ben Okri

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Charles R. Swindoll

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Demian Bichir

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Barbara Bush

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Edmund Burke

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Robert Davies

Don't underestimate the power of sport as a way of rehabilitating young people.

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

James Sturm

I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five,

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Clive James

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

Clive Barker

There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings.

E. B. White

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

Donald Trump

I will release my tax returns. And that's against - my lawyers, they say, "Don't do it." I will tell you this. No - in fact, watching shows, they're reading the papers. Almost every lawyer says, you don't release your returns until the audit's complete.

Anna Wintour

The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.

Stephen Evans

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

Vin Diesel

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

Robert Burns

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

N. T. Wright

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.

Franz Grillparzer

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Jeff Miller

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

Bill Cosby

I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way.

George Canning

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Albert Einstein

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

T. S. Eliot

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

Tom Waits

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

Socrates

Wisdom belongs in wonder.

Socrates

Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is to wonderful to be true

John Piper

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.