Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Bakker

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

Ryan White

When I came out of surgery, I was on a respirator and had a tube in my left lung. I spent Christmas and the next thirty days in the hospital.

Leonard Woodcock

When the settlement was made to pay the same wage rates in 1967, it provided for base rate parity, but not cost of living parity.

Kevin Mitnick

Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms.

David Gest

I bought up the first two nights thinking if you can pack them the first two nights, by the time the reviews came out, she'd be able to sell tickets.

Patty Hearst

But this has to happen. You just can't let people go because they stayed hidden for 25 or 27 or 37, whatever years. It's ridiculous.

John Cameron

Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.

Jim Lampley

She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don't ask me why.

Kim Mathers

I have always taken his word on things and stood by his side. Even after the whole situation up at Hot Rocks, I tried to defend him.

David Harcharik

Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.

Petro Poroshenko

I understand that my presence in the position ... could be considered possible pressure on the investigation (into the corruption allegations).

Dave Gould

They are an icon of the '50s, ... It was considered a friendly, comfortable American sports car,

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

Scott Carney

This is probably the first time I have considered it.

Patty Murray

All are considered money and all goes toward the grant,

Gavin Graham

You're still paying cold, hard cash, but because the product is considered better, it's counted as a price-cut.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.

Douglas Alexander

Newspapers can make their own judgment in terms of who they support in a general election. Our responsibility is to make a considered judgment about where the national interest lies.

Colin McRae

Rally GB is obviously very special to me, and I am looking forward to giving the fans something to cheer,

Graeme Souness

I understand that on Monday, our final offer was rejected, so I think that one is finished, unfortunately. We have made a fantastic offer for the player and really, there is a limit on how much you can spend on one player.

Andy Ball

The women had a fantastic season and will do even better in 2006!

Gary Maurer

We're having some fantastic meals. They sure know how to cook.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

Billy Thornton

There is a real fantasy with the American West, ... When you really make it big in Hollywood or on Wall Street, you want to fulfill that fantasy.

Bret Michaels

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

Sadaharu Oh

We heard that TV ratings for our games surpassed 30 percent and 40 percent in Japan and we also got warm fan support in the United States. I feel very happy that we responded to such enthusiastic support with this title.

Kurt Cobain

There is plenty of Hühnerfleisch in the Kühlschrank. (There is plenty of chicken in the fridge)

Roger Ebert

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Alexander Pope

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

Christopher Morley

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

T. S. Eliot

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

Stephen Spender

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Stephane Mallarme

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

Rumi

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

John Milton

Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing