Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like Coach. He's going to be fine, based on all the information we have. I was hoping we would play really well so he and his family could enjoy that in the hospital room that he was in.

Larry Scott

Historically this is a very significant development. We've had some very high-profile matches where momentum has turned based on calls. Now the players know the calls will be right.

Russel Honore

I think it's going to be a lower number, much lower than the 10,000. That 10,000 was based at a time when we didn't know what we didn't know.

Ken Hitchcock

It certainly wasn't based on anybody's poor play and that's what made it such a difficult decision.

Peter Franck

It comes from a time of optimism based on technology. It is a fake; it's clearly not an artifact.

Harvey Bennett

It is a lot of money, but law enforcement with their experience and expertise is used to making informed decisions based on their experience.

Chris Watson

I think the jury came to the right decision based on all the facts in the case. I think they came back with the only verdict they could based on all the facts.

Paul Mott

I think the games in Baton Rouge will start in mid-December based on the parameters we got from the people at LSU. We're still in negotiations.

Jose Basulto

I think the cartoon says a lot about what happened to our psyche after Castro took power and established a society based on double morality.

Stephen Hess

Had this been handled expeditiously, quickly, it might have been a story on the style page, or limited to the late night comedians and the cartoonists. There's simply no question they fumbled this one.

Artie Lange

It's weird because standup can be like therapy. Comedians can't be satisfied with just having fun with our friends. We've got to figure out a way to do it on stage.

Akshay Kumar

People want their actors to do comedy, too. They don't want any comedians next to the actor. They want one solo hero and want to see everything in him.

Rory Bremner

Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland where you rarely get more than 40% turnout at the polls. There's a big disconnect there, and I think comedians bridge that gap.

Erick Dampier

That's what comedians do, comedians talk a lot. I laugh at it, too. He's never hung out with me. I don't even know him. So I can say anything about him, and he can say anything about me.

Chris Pratt

Who knew Rob Lowe was funny? On 'Parks and Rec,' we've got some of the funniest comedy writers, some of the funniest comedians in the world working there. And if anything, we don't just effuse to one another and be like, 'Oh, Rob Lowe's really funny,' if he wasn't.

James Davis

For one year, Davis continued to have discussions directly with actors and comedians regarding signing with Davis to produce and perform his screenplay, ... offered funding through an investor to produce the screenplay for video distribution.

Kaley Cuoco

I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.

David Steinberg

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

Doug Clark

I don't expect foreign exchange students to get a diploma, but I think they should at least get some recognition.

Jim McCormick

In the short term, this is probably not that significant. But it does indicate that they are putting all the pieces in place to have a more flexible exchange rate." ()

Masahiro Kawai

The individual exchange rates won't be supported officially...but if this index is relatively stable vis-a-vis external currencies then it's quite useful.

Mark Fitzpatrick

The dollar's a little weaker because Miyazawa retracted some of his comments, indicating there may be a need for foreign exchange intervention,

Kirby Daley

It's quite shocking. We don't really know how investors are going to react. We have to see how fast the Tokyo Stock Exchange can upgrade its system.

Emmanuel Munyukwi

It's quite embarrassing because the exchange is supposed to mirror the reality of the economy. We have benefited from the distortion of the market.

Mike Heimerdinger

It was pretty ugly. I don't think it was as ugly as last week, because we got the quarterback-center exchange this week.

Nobutaka Machimura

I want to exchange views with you frankly,

Svein Riibe

It took just about a week to set up the system and move existing e-mail from staff PCs and the hosting service server to the new Exchange Server at our KL office.

Frederik Pohl

There is a method which distinguishes SF from fantasy, though a lot of the science fiction written does not go by that method, and some fantasy does.

Gurdjieff Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Cassandra Clare

The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.

Molly Quinn

I love, love, love fantasy, like Lord of the Rings and things like that.

Terry Pratchett

You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.

Lionel Trilling

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

Jonathan Carroll

Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.

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.

George Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Michael Angarano

I would say that my favorite action film is the 'Die Hard's. They're kind of perfect, I think.

Quvenzhane Wallis

My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

Jamie Jackson

We've generally become favorable of shorter-dated (agencies) inside of five years as of December. Spreads widened out, more so in the front of curve.

Greg Gilchrist

I think we'll be able to work things out, ... Right now, I'd say we're 75-25 in favor of shipping Saturday.

Dan Anderson

He was in his favorite place doing his favorite thing. He was just too young.

Uli Hoeness

I am in favor of people talking. Those who talk with each other don't fight wars.

Sam Allardyce

He will be looking to clinch that position, but who knows? I haven't given up hope that it is going to me. It just does not look as though I am the favorite at the moment. I am still keeping my fingers crossed. I have not heard anything officially but we should know by the end of the week.

Jenny Craig

He's become my favorite horse. He gives his all every time and has so much heart.

Bob Gansler

He has been magnificent since the All-Star break, and especially on the road. The guys around him are running off him very well. My favorite word for him is the catalyst. He makes everyone else around him better, and we are going to ride that pony as long as we can.

Walt Whitman

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

Warren Farrell

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

Trisha Yearwood

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

Nicole Richie

Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting.

Joshua Smith

The male singers are spending a lot more time singing with the females.

Jane Arraf

They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines,

Nick Flynn

There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.

Edward Abbey

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

Douglas Adams

Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

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.

Gerald Johnson

I think we'll pull through this, ... Real Men Pray Everyday.

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

Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

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.

Allan Carr

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

Abbott L. Lowell

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

Felicity Huffman

I'm not a beauty. That's not my thing. So it wasn't like I was risking anything. What I was risking is whether I could do it. There are many places to fall.

Simon Baker

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

Chan Gailey

I told the team there's a lot worse places to go than San Francisco. It's historical. It's something they'll remember the rest of their lives.

Jorge Torres

This is something that should not be on places of education.

Kirsten Borgstrom

There are places throughout the state that are a little softer than they've been.

John Duncan

Those two places in South Portland are significant bottlenecks.

Dr. Seuss

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Adrian Smith

I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.

Hope White

I'll be very shocked if we didn't use all of it.

Debbie Roth

It's really unfortunate that something like this has happened. I'm just really in shock talking to you right now. It's terrible. I'm very surprised.

Ann Marsh

It?s shocking to the family, it?s shocking to the friends.

Miles Austin

It kind of shocks you a little bit.

Laura Prepon

There's nothing you could say that would shock me.

Karlie Kloss

Every single day I'm shocked.

Kami Garcia

Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch.

Mark Davies

I've been a Diamondback for a long time, ... It'll be a shock to not say I'm part of the D-Backs.

Anthony Chan

This is a shock -- and the shock is going to be there.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

Robin Hobb

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Robert Smith

B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view.

Samuel Johnson

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

Samuel Johnson

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Warren Beatty

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

Virginia Woolf

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Eleanor Catton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.