Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

Everyone has been wonderful, ... So many people have sent me supportive e-mails or attempted phone calls.

Robert Sloan

The attempted cover-up failed, and the investigation continues, ... Our investigative committee will continue to aggressively pursue the truth until we are satisfied that a thorough and credible examination of our men's basketball program has been completed.

Shinzo Abe

Its regrettable that the company attempted to illegally export equipment to China that can be used for transporting weapons of mass destruction. I expect a full picture will be revealed through the further investigation.

Erich Pratt

It's raised as a question mark that the thought of a gun may have averted her attempted rape. It would have been good to point out the existing evidence on that topic.

Darnell Couthen

The officer first attempted to verbally stop the fight and then tried to physically separate them. The officer was physically struck. To ensure the combatants' safety as well as his own safety, the officer used the means necessary.

Tatyana Paramonova

Banks that understood the difference have attempted to save their position on the market and raise the capital.

Sgt. Griffin

Officers attempted to keep him from going into the house. At that time a single shot was fired and he was shot in the head.

Gregory Benford

The moon's closeness is a huge advantage: To make it habitable, we would first have to bombard it with water-ice comets, a tricky endeavor best attempted with the many resources waiting on and near Earth.

Greg Evans

The snow was falling heavily outside. I sat before a blank page for close to ten hours. I refused to get up; instead attempted with great pains to coerce stubborn thoughts from my noodle. Useless it seemed until the 11th hour and then all I'd seen and felt and heard, arrived, and was transcribed effortlessly like the tune of chirping birds.

Carolyn McCarthy

and here we are giving them (the industry) blanket immunity.

George Carlin

a blank slate -- and you get to play.

John Carey

A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.

Douglas Adams

Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds

Al Goldman

A wet blanket was provided by the Palm offering.

Scott Hartnell

The shots we had were right there, point blank and tonight we buried them.

Emile Cioran

The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?

Mike Robinson

This was a shift from a person selling on the street on a blanket to being in a more closed environment. It suggests that it requires a little more work on their part. It's good that we are forcing them further underground.

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Richard Barnes

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

Gary Anderson

Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother.

Vince Young

Just like those other guys, you've got to start somewhere. They are close to me, and I know they won't hurt me. And they are intelligent. I have the last say-so on everything, but they know what I want and the things I'm trying to accomplish.

Lee Terry

Just pick you out a tree to stand under. I usually stay here pretty close to the truck. They don't seem to mind that.

Sarah Krycinski

Jordan gave it all he had. It was good time for him, close to a personal record.

Frank Castillo

J.P. got a pretty good look but it just didn't drop. The games in this district are so close that it comes down to making plays and making free throws.

S. Walker

I think it really (threw us off). Some of the girls didn't know whether to play on them or play off. It slowed the pace down a lot and that's what kept the score close until we went on our run, and that forced them to play a faster game.

Dom Starsia

I think it is very important for us to continue to improve. We're reaching a point where we are close to being playoff eligible -- We're concerned about being part of it at the end.

Mario Theissen

I think it could be possible but in the end it's a sport. I don't promise you podium finishes or victories this year but we'll make our mark and put everything in place to close the gap to the top teams.

Robert H. Connelly

The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end.

Roger Kahn

You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

Sarah Addison Allen

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

Salman Rushdie

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

Salman Rushdie

we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the heavens and leading us to our destiny, but it's only our vanity. We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It's true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you'll see a meteor fall, flame and die. That's not a star worth following; it's just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. There are no guiding stars.

Tony Orlando

A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.

Robin Skelton

Men who like women rarely fall in love.

Warren Farrell

Falling in love is biologically natural; sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.)

Waylon Jennings

Don't you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.

M. Thompson

Just to get that hit, it felt great.

Noah Lowry

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

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.

Kyle McAlarney

I think I passed a few up the past few games. Tonight, I felt real loose and I felt real good out there, felt real comfortable.

Davis III

I always felt like I took the pressure off him.

Gena Rowlands

I always felt her vulnerability. You could always see it, though she'd have killed you if you said so.

Cliff Hapgood

He could be very stern with you, but when he was being stern, he felt like that was good for you. If you had done something stupid, he wouldn't mind pointing it out and that's good for you.

Marlon Byrd

He didn't even have his good stuff today. Tonight felt like we were a second-tier team.

Tatiana Totmianina

There are small problems in the program, but I felt great. I don't know what will happen in the free skating, so let's just wait.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

John Gibson

I think it's a great opportunity to showcase our city.

Randy Smith

I think it's a great opportunity to be able to talk to him, but more important than that, I think it tells me that he's listening and that's really important to me.

Mike Hammond

I think it's a great opportunity for people to come out and have fun. They're not running a marathon. It's great for people who want to come out and test themselves.

Steve Sanchez

I think it's a great idea for the city.

Mike Darnell

I swear, it must (have been) 13 hours a day, ... And I still do. It's on all the time. I was sort of hypnotized by it as a kid, I think. I just loved it.

Tom Izzo

He's got to be going 100 miles an hour all the time.

Roger Bedford

I think it's an outrage that these hours would be billed on a state holiday,

Brian Mehler

The purpose is to pay them for their work. They worked 20 hours per week -- it's like a part-time job.

Felix Bloch

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.

Christopher Poole

There aren't many sites like 4chan where you can pop in every hour and see all new stuff.

John Tracy

Well, you should be, ... You've been saying 'Yes' for three hours straight.

Maxwell Anderson

He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.

Mark Tyndale

I don't know what hours he likes to go, but whatever hours he comes up with, I'm willing to work for him.

Scott Aukerman

I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.

Shawan Robinson

I think we just got tight. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year. Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year, ... Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Bob Johnson

Hopefully, we can have one large one instead of several smaller ones.

Aaron Gryder

He was standing fine. His first step was down instead of in front.

Jamie Kennedy

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

Will Rogers

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory

Fabio Capello

Instead of the record I'm already thinking about Saturday,

Richard Paul Evans

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

Robert Scoble

Never use pages for personal brand!

Willa Cather

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created.

Sarah Dessen

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

James Salter

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,

Helen Vendler

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Eddie Van Halen

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

Dallas Martin

We were on the same page all day.

Herb Thomas

What's very important is that we are all on the same page and that it's documented.

Morgan Freeman

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

Kevyn Aucoin

My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.

Manfred von Richthofen

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

James Russell Lowell

Endurance is the crowning quality...

Jon Foreman

Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

Ornette Coleman

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Norman Vincent Peale

One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

Nelson Mandela

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

Alberto Sanchez

They refused to come, and three times they told me they were not doing that service any more.

Joe Torre

Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.

Alan Cranston

I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back. I look forward.

Roseanne Barr

I signed a deal with Satan because I wanted to get famous. Then I forgot I had a deal with Satan and then I got really famous.

John McKee

I just sat on him, and he was completely relaxed. He was a lot more professional.

Marco Basten

I'm satisfied with the result, but not with the way we played,

Will Harris

I'm satisfied with her representation and what Kerr-McGee is doing.

Kevin Williamson

And I sat down. And I didn't write another word for 10 years. And when I wrote, and the first thing -- 'Killing Mrs. Tingle' is my first script.

Rob Globke

It was probably a little of both. We kind of sat back and they didn't give us much.

John Winn

It will satisfy curiosity, probably, more than anything else,

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Matt Foy

It was unbelievable. Everything just seemed to click. It seems like everything I did went right.

Aaron Miles

It was a long possession. It seemed like 20 seconds.

Fred Williams

I didn't see any survivalists; it seemed to be more for profit.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Charles Golvin

I haven't seen any discounting from Comcast other than the short-term discounts for signing up,

Steve Pardue

I have never seen that in my 21 years of coaching. We haven't done anything like that before. I'm not sure what happened.

James Dunn

I have never seen such solidarity. It was a consistently united voice.

Greg Willett

I have never seen him so white and sick.

Phil Jackson

I have never seen anything like that. It was pretty impressive.

Lori Crunk

I haven't actually seen it because every time I've been around it's been wrapped. I do know there was some discoloration and swelling.

Sadako Ogata

I have not seen such a crowded, what shall I say? ... Shelter-wise, very bad. ... I'm concerned.

Leonard Maltin

If you're willing to go along for this farcical ride, you'll find 'Dead Snow 2' to be one terrific zombie movie.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

John Gay

In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow.

Paul Jensen

Rain, sleet, snow or strike, we'll get to work.

Boris Pasternak

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

Jerry Moore

We could treat it like a snow day and have just the drive-through open.

Lori Worley

We had a really warm winter, and then we get snow the first day of spring.

Chris Proulx

There's no snow and it's not -20 C, so it's actually pretty cool.

David Hasselhoff

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

Willie Aames

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

Mika

I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.

Jonah Lehrer

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

John Dryden

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

Tim Lappano

We're still going to be stubborn about that.

Rick Riordan

Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn." "Yeah, it's a gift.

Jeff Smith

He wants to get tennis going in the valley, especially with juniors.

Katie Gearlds

If we want to win the Big Ten title we have to win and that's pretty much what it comes down to. If we lose, we get second.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Josh Brown

I'm going to do something. There's a little tension between us.

Marat Safin

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

Marat Safin

Everything is possible in this life...

Wayne Quinlan

You think you know somebody, but you find out if you travel with them for ten days.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Neneh Cherry

I had this weird, nomadic little tent with a rug over it, like a booth where I'd sing the vocals.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Source Unknown

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Steve Vai

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

Larry Wall

It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

E. O. Wilson

It's not a sport until it's in the Olympics.

Jose Lima

It's been like this all year round, ... Sometimes you just can't wait until it's over.

Keith Kramme

It'll be interesting to see what the mind-set is of this group. I think it's going to be good, but we won't know until we take the field.

Raymond Chandler

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Henry Ford

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

Mo Rocca

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Milton Friedman

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

Albert Camus

One grows out of pity when it's useless.

Sonia Rykiel

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.

Sophia Bush

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

Markus Zusak

The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.