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.

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.

Bob Mills

This issue is precedent-setting for every border region across Canada.

Andy Parfitt

This is such an exciting development. Radio 1 already has a strong international reputation amongst music fans around the world, including the US. Now the station can be heard easily across America. With our commitment to great new UK music we hope that we can help British acts make in-roads into the massive US music market.

Alexander Volkov

This is sort of an exotic state for us because it was difficult for us to get here. Some Americans think, in Moscow, the bears walk across the street, with people in winter hats.

Mercedes Carnethon

This is something that we thought was happening, and that we have been concerned about. But no one had ever documented before how poor fitness actually is across the population in the United States. What we found is pretty worrisome.

Lien Chan

This is something that our people will welcome because we want to avoid confrontation across the Taiwan Strait and our people would like to see dialogue and reconciliation and cooperation,

Suzy Young

This is something that is affecting counties across the state. Until the programming is complete, we'll be back to the old ballot box. But we will be ready for early voting to start Tuesday morning.

Bobby Hatfield

My wife was diagnosed with lupus 16 or 17 years ago, and that's how I kinda got involved in it. I just finished my fifth annual Bobby Hatfield Classic Golf Tournament, and happily I can report that we raised over $52,000. Through the years we've raised not only through the golf tournament, but through other charitable concerts, we've raised over $600,000.

Bobby Schilling

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

Ken Worthington

As the Nasdaq goes higher, market-making business goes higher, implying that the fundamentals of Nasdaq companies are doing better.

George Foster

As their business increases, ours naturally grows as well.

Henry Tang

At the business conference, we will highlight to US companies the unique business opportunities that Hong Kong and Guangdong together will present to them,

Jim Barry

At the moment 80 per cent of our business is in Ireland. In three years' time, we would hope that 80 per cent will be overseas.

Pat Harris

cost of doing business on a difficult project.

Stephen Mulloney

Conflict of interest is in the eyes of the beholder. It's part of the way we do business in the United States.

Phil Condit

We are strategically realigning our operations in response to global business realities, ... We are reducing costs.

Mark Loughridge

We had really good momentum in short-term signings, and we think that will continue in the second quarter. Long-term signings as we exited 2005 were up 19 percent, and now long-term signings are up 20 percent. All of that bodes well for that business as we go forward.

Kevin Cosgrove

The one thing about Steve, he's got a tremendous motor. But he still has a ways to go as far as his checks and things like that. We're looking for the exactness in his play, and that's got to continue to develop.

Robby Ginepri

Slipping to 103, ... was a good reality check for me.

John Walsh

Houstonians want to help, ... Obviously, if you have vacant units and you want to rent them, there's a financial incentive.

Donnie Edwards

Marty has been talking about us finishing games. ... He has been stressing about making plays when you have to.

Saxby Chambliss

The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we've got to be very careful how we address it on our side.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Colin Hanks

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

Angie Martinez

Always keep things in perspective.

Mark Martin

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

George Washington

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

George Orwell

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

George Meredith

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Chrissie Fit

I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive.

Chris Pratt

If you wait for things to be perfect you'll just miss out on life.

Chris Johnson

Nobody's perfect and I don't want to try and portray that but I'm genuinely doing the best I can out here; trying to support my family the best that I can, trying to make them proud and happy and everybody having the best life they can live. I'm trying to provide a better life for them than I had.

George Ripley

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

Shelby Lynne

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

David Antin

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

David Hare

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Curtis LeMay

You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons. I think that a blockade and political talk would be considered by a lot of our friends and neutrals as being a pretty weak response to this [the Cuban missile crisis]. And I'm sure a lot of our own citizens would feel that way too. In other words, you're in a pretty bad fix at the present time.

Corin Nemec

I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.

Confucius

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...

Confucius

Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.

Amelie Mauresmo

If you are not physically strong, it's difficult. But at the same time, I think you need something more than that; you need to vary your shots, as Justine has been able to do in Amelia or Charleston, where she beat her -- I can't remember where it was on clay. So you need this kind of thing. But of course if you're not fit, you'll never make it through.

Andy Murray

Do not strive in your own strength; cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you, and works in you. Strive in prayer; let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Ali MacGraw

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

Ali MacGraw

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

Ali Smith

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

Alexander Grothendieck

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps...