Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicki Minaj

Before I got signed, I was doing a lot of DVD's, and a lot of freestyles.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Ian Woosnam

I've used it on the putting green a few times. I'm good with it, but I've not done it on the course, not in competition.

G. H. Hardy

I've tried to get out a few times, but I always seem to come back.

Phil Jackson

I've seen a few 60-point ballgames in my time, but none of them had been done by the third quarter.

Hilary Rosen

Our list represents many different genres throughout all parts of the 20th century. And our hope is that each song will help tell a very different story,

Nicholas Sparks

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Shane Coursen

We now know that it's not only a threat to smart phones. All these regular phones that support J2ME are vulnerable and can become a major target.

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Roberto Torres

The TRUTH sometimes scares people. In order to skirt the truth they start to major on the minors as opposed to majoring on the truth that is before them.

Harvey Pekar

I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'

Johnathan Frakes

No, I was a psychology major in college.

Tom Hudson

It's like putting someone out in space for the first time, ... It's not yet to the moon or to another planet, but it is a major milestone.

Mahatma Gandhi

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Eckhart Tolle

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

Ernst Toller

For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.

Stephen Jay Gould

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

Stephen Jay Gould

Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.

Stephen Jay Gould

[H]istorical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws of nature do not represent its usual working methods. The sciences of history use a different mode of explanation, rooted in the comparative and observational richness in our data. We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don't see electrons, gravity, or black holes either).

Azar Nafisi

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Jamie Drummond

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.

Carl Sandburg

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Arthur C. Clarke

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

Brian Cox

We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

Bob Dylan

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.

Brian Reynolds

The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.

Billy Blanks

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Anwar Sadat

I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing it on TV. I'm sure they are.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.

Michael Goodman

It's sort of like you're seeing Yahoo spread its wings and be more of a portal that ties into the TV in your home.

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Tyler Hansbrough

Every team I play is real physical. They have some big bodies, but it's nothing I've never seen before, and it's nothing I can't handle.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Barry Hinson

But I did not know who that team was out there in maroon. That was a team I have not seen all year long.

Larry Dixon

He's only seen me win live one other time. This is his win.

Mike Candrea

I don't think I have ever seen that.

Teri Barbera

Someone has to have seen something. We're hoping.

David Edwards

My wife said 'have you seen this?' They wrote a book. I thought it was a joke.

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Anthony Jeselnik

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

Alice Barrett

But this is called show business, not show family.

Veronica Roth

Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.

Pete Carroll

If anything, it shows that we can finish.

Joss Whedon

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

David Hallberg

I'm not one who goes to a lot of fashion shows or tries to infiltrate that world, really.

Mike Colter

So often, when you're playing the lead in your own show, it is all about you.

J. August Richards

Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.

Brea Grant

Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.

Lady Gaga

Off to the STUDIO in my new whip

Bill Forsyth

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

Carnie Wilson

I can be a lady - surprise!

Mae West

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

Jerramy Stevens

So it's not a surprise that he's got something to say about it and that he's getting upset. Because that's his style, and I know that.

Jim Noonan

I was surprised that one didn't go in too.

Maria Sharapova

I surprised myself in the first round, that's for sure.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.