Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Stephen Gengaro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Marc Basnight

Ham was a great senator and a great North Carolinian, but first and foremost he was a great American. He was the most special among us and he will be missed - God gave us the greatest when he gave us Ham.

George Ryan

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Trevor Noah

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Tim Crawford

There are still signs that Scotland is faring better than the U.K. as a whole, with pessimism among businesses less widespread and new order levels rising.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Unknown

Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Jack Black is incredibly hilarious. I think he's really appealing, so sexy. When I watched the movie, I really thought he was sexy.

Taye Diggs

Just recently white people are starting to notice who I am. In the black community of actors, that's the gauge of how big you are, your real crossover appeal.

Linda Massey

It always come down to black and white. It's the same thing every meeting.

Toni Thorn

Having a black president doesn't mean anything. He is not the black president. He is just a president that happened to be black. He has yet to do anything for minority students on this campus.

Clara Taylor

I think we thought we were mentally prepared for everything that's come into this case. But to see that chain was bone-chilling. It made me think back to the slaves -- of slavery when you saw black men chained and brought over on ships.

E. O. Wilson

It goes both ways. They know if they throw it in, we're not black holes. It will come back out.

Mark Murray

I think this is just a remarkable black eye for Oracle.

Bruce Thompson

I think that with the black cloud that's hanging over Mr. Horn, this was a diversion, to try to distract people from his ethical problems.

Brittany Howard

I wear a lot of black, and it's not because I'm depressed or anything. I like black jeans - they're pretty much the only colored jeans I wear. James Jeans have the most comfortable fabric. I'd say in general, I dress pretty comfortably.

Don Mattingly

I think it helps to be away for a while. You're ready to come back. You make the choice, you want to do it. You're not doing it because you have to. As soon as you start getting into the competition of the season, it comes right back to you.

Chad Latch

He's handled himself well. He's had some big matches this year, and I think the competition he's had throughout the year has set him up and prepared him for the state tournament.

Kyle Shewfelt

We supported each other the whole way and, as the competition went on, we knew we were going to win.

Dennis Piron

What you love about her is her competitiveness, her fire and her spirit. More importantly is her unselfishness. She wants to be part of the team and do her thing.

Stacey Clausing

I think that the competition this year is the strongest it has been since I have been here. There are a lot of strong teams that have a lot of depth.

Kathy Wilburn

It isn't fun to lose when you haven't lost in 11 years. This shows the high quality of competition in our conference.

David Olson

I think that is very harmful to the nature of our democratic politics because, not unlike the market, competition politically is a healthy sign of a well-functioning democracy,

Brian Urquhart

It is hardly a process at all. It is more like a lottery. It has become a rather squalid competition with no set procedure, shrouded in Big Power secrecy. They don't even interview the candidates.

Toba Beta

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

Michael Thompson

I went to the post office, the grocery store and the drug store today, and everywhere I went people were talking about it.

Brian Cashman

He's been young everywhere we've put him. But obviously he is very talented.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I know. Ive been everywhere and seen everything and done everythingSophisticated God, Im sophisticated!

Charlton Young

I'm not a candidate. That's message-board stuff. They've got me going everywhere this year. I'm a Georgia Tech guy.

Abraham Lincoln

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Richard Pasch

The intensity of a hurricane does not mean that the strength of the wind is the same everywhere around the storm's circulation.

Rep. Rubio

The idea that we have to have a system that is uniform everywhere all schools look alike, the same desk, the same light, all the same over and over. Maybe 12 years is too short or too long. Maybe it should be year-round. Maybe it should be longer days. I don't know, all I'm trying to do is start that debate.

Wilson Mizner

A good listener is not only popular everywhere but, after a while he knows something

Niki Caro

The iron range has its problems, like everywhere else, but the people are genuinely good,

M. Thompson

Just to get that hit, it felt great.

Mark Sullivan

Karl Miller once described a role that he had as 'actor-proof.' I kind of felt like that was Justin. He was so well-written, it was kind of hard to not do him justice.

Graeme Smith

(Kallis) said that he got through yesterday's session fine. He felt it with one or two shots, cross-bat shots.

Noah Lowry

Just one pitch. Everything else felt pretty good out there.

Michael Hopkins

Jones had his intensity level up from the start. We felt if we got off to a quick start we could hang with them, but we never found a way to stop Jones.

Sam Perlozzo

I talked to Richie at the time it happened, and we felt if it was going to completely heal, it was going to take about six weeks. You just hope nothing happens to him and he can get through the rest of the month.

Paul Formica

I talked to Kevin and he had nothing but great things to say about Cleveland. I think Kevin is going to take his time and wait until the end. I don't think the Indians are able to give him what he wants, which is five years, so I felt comfortable talking with him.

Mike Holmgren

I talked to him Saturday morning, and he was walking and moving. And he felt pretty good about it,

Tim Duncan

I think it's a great situation for everyone, especially myself. I felt good tonight. I felt like I was moving pretty well and not in a lot of pain, so it was good.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Larry Brown

He'd be in a lot more trouble when he got at home if he didn't do what he did.

Mark Mersel

He knows those guys. It's more of a homecoming than you might know.

Simon Spurr

I'll always be a Brit abroad, and I love London so much, but New York is my home.

Najib Razak

The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.

Greg Rucka

When they're saying 'it's too dark,' they're saying, 'I'm scared.'

Giulio Tremonti

I have been saying for three years that Fazio is not suitable for this job.

Judy Turner

If you go out of your way to say it's non-platonic, then you're saying it's sexual. . . . They're trying to spin this and it can't be spun.

Johnathon Schaech

I'm loving saying 'I'm not a big movie star, but I play one on television.'

David Williams

I have no recollection of saying that to Dr. Whitehurst.

Mark Emalfarb

I keep saying this, but nobody's doing anything.

Heather Hibner

I'm not saying this to be political, but it really was a team effort.

Allen Settle

This is like saying I could not vote on sewer or water projects,

Elizabeth May

It's unfortunate. I sort of feel like saying

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Yoshihiko Noda

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Zen Saying

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

David Liu

This is a breakthrough year because of the variety of deals.

Jorge Camejo

Obviously, for a variety of reasons, we would like to see it finished.

Nick Larson

We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.

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?