Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.

Tom Stoppard

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

Dennis Smith

saw some people in distress across the river near the Mexican bank, and that was reported up through Border Patrol channels and relayed to Mexican officials.

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.

Dennis Andrulis

Public hospitals may become an endangered species. Not only are public hospitals disappearing from inner cities across the country, they are disappearing from the suburbs as well.

Larry Freed

Quite frankly, we did not expect to see such consistent drops almost across the board for all the biggest online retailers. These are the guys that are supposed to be doing it right.

Richard Hayne

Quite frankly, the Urban brand organization became too siloed, with too little communication across functional areas. The great creativity that has been the hallmark of our success became stifled.

John Chambers

Q1 was a solid quarter for Cisco, with balanced execution across most of our geographies, market segments and product categories,

Jody Bronson

We've been working toward getting everybody healthy in practice. They showed a lot of heart out there today. It was an all-around effort.

Robert Gordon

Basically, we want everybody to stop for a minute and think about what it is they love about Litchfield, so it will be an example of what we're trying to save.

Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?".

Robertson Davies

It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet one he is likely to be a fascinating monster

Linda Evans

There are no words to express this. Everybody says there's nothing they can do. This is outrageous.

Aidan Gillen

I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a habit of it - in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy.

Michael Slonaker

He talks to every person on campus. He meets everybody with a smile. You'll see him smiling at everybody. Everybody knows his name.

Paul Reiser

He is an undervalued treasure of American cinema, ... What I'm finding as we're traveling around is that everybody loves this guy. He's been so good for so long. I see it in people's faces. Women want to hug him and guys want to give him a pat on the back. I think that's one of the reasons the movie starts off so well. As soon as you see his mug on the screen, people are at ease. They go, 'I know this guy. This is comfortable.'

Chris Moser

He gets everybody going and ready. He loves to joke around, but when it comes to hockey he's very serious.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

Jennifer Henderson

Last year I had the big three, but this year I have the big 20.

Lindsey Kildow

Last year I had a lot of top-three results, but we didn't really get any prizes, just money, so this is really awesome. She's a little ornery, but she's cool.

Kianna Smith

Last year I got a lot of recognition (for my scoring). I like to pass. I like my assists more than my points.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:""Mankind."" Basically, it's made up of two separate words - ""mank"" and ""ind.""What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

Kyle Lohse

Maybe I'll try to skip (the start) next time it comes up. I'll go have a talk with the manager.

Jack McKay

Maybe I'll shop. If I'm going to be shopping around those days.

Doug Miller

Maybe I'll always be searching for an answer.

Dave Roberts

Maybe if we could have put them away, he wouldn't have come back. We made a mess of this, and we took two big punches on Monday and Tuesday. But we're still standing.

George Karl

Melo has got to go through this. We can't teach with film. We can't teach it with books. . . . Maybe the year he's had we have too much responsibility for him. But he's listening. . . . He's trying to become special.

Chris Capuano

That was a sloppy inning. Take it away, and maybe we win.

Alex Rodriguez

That will never end. Maybe when I retire it will stop. I use it as a motivation.

Toni Lydman

That was my worst period maybe in the game.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Larry Holmes

There is no quit in me.

Milton Berle

If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit.

Gwen Stefani

Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Shelby Lynne

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Robert Jordan

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.

Robert Jordan

The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

Robert Jordan

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

Robert Jordan

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.