Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doris Goodwin

If there was somebody you'd want to spend a night with, aside from Lincoln, it would be Seward. He reminded me a lot of (Winston) Churchill, this kind of larger-than-life figure.

Mark Madsen

I know it's going to be emotional for everyone, because Fred is such a great friend and such a great teammate. Aside from the emotion, it's going to be happiness. Because circumstances were such that, hey, the organization made a decision and that's just the way it goes. There's no hard feelings, either way.

Tom DeLay

I have notified the speaker that I will temporarily step aside from my position,

Jamie King

I hadn't swum very well and had been entered into a race I didn't want to swim. He pulled me aside in front of the whole team and had a 10-minute rant and rave and told me I was the worst swimmer he had ever worked with. A lot of people were scared of Bill but no one would really stand up to him. He's caused a lot of people to give up.

Skylar Astin

I like that 'Pitch Perfect' is one of my first forays into film and just being seen in that kind of light, aside from some people who know me from 'Spring Awakening' or the other things that I've done. I think in so many ways it's kind of like my own 'Glee' or 'Smash'.

John Maine

I'm not bad at it, but I'm not great at it, either. Aside from their unbelievable stuff, their concentration is what sets them apart. They go about things in a business-like way.

Patrick Stump

I'm really glad I put aside whatever ego I had and just let (Wentz) be free,

Mary Barnes

I hope we do everything possible so that fragile and impaired elders are not left behind, and that they do not get pushed aside in wheelchairs with blankets covering their heads because they have expired.

Clint Wallman

I just can't say enough about Shannon. She deserved a first-team selection. I think she had an outstanding year and possibly one of best in school history. We are going to miss her. Aside from her performance week-in and week-out, she was a great leader and mentor for the girls.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.

Tommy Chong

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

Kurt Busiek

The most fascinating powers don't mean a thing if the guy's poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won't hurt a well-motivated character. Personality and motivation are what make Magneto, Magneto and not Cosmic Boy. The powers work for him, but it's his motivation that makes him the character he is.

Lao Tzu

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength

Bo Ryan

He didn't force anything, and he gets a double-double. That's a good line for Brian. It's a good line for anybody.

Ronnie Moore

You have to force Richie to come off, but he will be okay.

Aaron Bruce

He's a force inside. You love to play with players who are that dominant.

Kim Whitney

Her reach, and well, her height, of course. She's so physical because she has this mentality and force of just wanting to win. That's important to go on to the next level.

Michael May

Holiday '99 will force a shake-out about who can and who can't stand alone.

John Knight

We told them this is gut-check time. It's who wants it more. It's going to be sheer force of will.

Steve Spurrier

We threw one up, but we should have tackled the guy somewhere. We should have been able to run that guy down, but we couldn't do it. That was just one of the big plays in the game. Nah, 28-7 is no safe lead for us. We didn't force a punt in the second half, so it wasn't safe. They should have scored another touchdown.

Ben Wallace

I thought they were the more poised team down the stretch. I thought we maybe lined up too many threes down the stretch and tried to force the outcome instead of doing what we usually do.

John Bolton

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Kathleen Blanco

We don't like looters one bit, but first and foremost is search and rescue.

Margaret Atwood

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

Rainbow Rowell

I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation.

John McPhee

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Jill Thomas

The request-for-donation letters didn't get out in time.

Bryan Callen

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

Curt Johnston

Unfortunately, it seems like there are always winners and losers with this kind of decision. They'll probably write letters to the editor, tell us how stupid we are, and tell us we don't listen to the public.

Charles Barkley

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Austin Mahone

When I awake dramatically I start off my day by reciting aloud a fan letter.

Stephen King

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Joseph Addison

Jesters do often prove prophets.

George Andrew Olah

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

James Russell Lowell

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

Northrop Frye

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Northrop Frye

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

Northrop Frye

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.

Northrop Frye

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

Norman Maclean

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Friedrich Muller

Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Ron Gardenhire

He's pitching like a man on a mission on the mound.

Javier Valentin

I don't know, man. ... What can I say?

Tim Evans

The markets are bracing for Thursday's DOE reports, with traders cringing since the recent (supply) trends have been bearish.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Alex Brown

I think markets will stay roughly where they are with the outlook slightly positive,

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Abbott L. Lowell

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Charles M. Schwab

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

Benjamin Franklin

A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind.

Jane Greer

My mouth was too large, my eyes turned out, and my legs mere toothpicks.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

Theodore Bikel

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

Alma Gluck

One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.

Frank Sinatra

To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .

Mike Pearson

We've been working on putting this in place for two years.

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Dennis Lobenberg

Most of them are in my garage. I haven't worried too much about putting any signs up because of the weather.

Henry Cotton

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Russell Brand

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

Roger Ebert

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

William Arthur Ward

A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

Rick Riordan

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

Pat Summitt

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

Peter Norvig

All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

Kent Beck

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

Julie Andrews

Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth.

Lukas Foss

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Ryan Tedder

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Virginia Foxx

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union and we know how successful that was.

Wayne Dyer

If you think peaceful thoughts, you'll feel peaceful emotions, and that's what you'll bring to every life situation. If you're attached to being right or absolutely need something in order to be at peace or successful, you'll live a life of striving yet never arriving.

Vendela Kirsebom

Im so lucky, Ive been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.

Rod Blagojevich

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

Pope Francis

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.