Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Marshall Bloom

We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.

Joe Paterno

We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.

David Boothe

We just didn't show up for last week's game against Joshua Springs. I told our kids that they (Excelsior) would come out and hit you hard because they have some good players, and you'll have to execute our game plan better than you did last week. The other teams are looking for that opportunity to beat us and have that second-place playoff spot, and we really need to step it up.

Mike Fratello

We just didn't rebound the ball for the whole series, but that's not even fair to say because we were terrible all year. It is what it is. We just don't rebound. Up against that team, the size they have and the way they go after the ball, the truth comes out.

Jim Shannon

We just didn't hit any shots tonight, we shot very poorly against their zone and we had no inside presence.

Gary Kendall

We just didn't go after it in extra innings but they did. To their credit, they've got a pretty good bullpen and they did a good job against our bats in extra innings.

Giles Foden

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

Zaha Hadid

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

Vince Cable

We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.

John Stokes

The Pinelands Commission is thankful that the court recognized and acknowledged the clear threat to the unique resources of the Pinelands area attributable to the proposed facility.

Eric Hansen

The pictures are really interesting, ... As you look at them, you recognize areas, yet you don't recognize them. There are mature trees in one area or the building of new structure in another area.

Clinton Morrison

The overall growth of data storage is going up at about a 100 percent every year, and in conjunction with that, systems are getting more complex. So there is a big demand for solutions to help manage this growth. Storage area networks (are) still in their infancy. It's a fairly small market and I think the experts expect to see very rapid growth in the order of 50-to-100 percent in the market for a number of years.

Eric Klein

The PC market is in a very mature stage in its evolution, ... That is why vendors are expanding their strategies beyond the box, expanding into services and storage. You also see Intel moving into the rapidly growing area of communications chips.

Xavi

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Twyla Tharp

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

Thierry Henry

The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

Thierry Henry

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Imelda May

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

Steve Friedman

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Rick Adelman

The patience at the end of the game there when Brad hit the three was terrific. We had plenty of time, we moved the ball around and they made a mistake and left Brad standing there. Then in the overtime we took control, especially when Odom fouled out.

Phillip Hilliard

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

Gaines Adams

I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 pounds will help me stop the run better and be a more dominant pass rusher.

Yo-Yo Ma

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.

Elle Fanning

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

Boris Boehm

The overall performance of the market in the last couple of days has been impressive. Investors are locking in profits.

Bryan Cogman

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

Carl Reiner

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

Bill Bryson

You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

Bette Davis

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

Ashton Kutcher

I have someone that cooks for me... that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel... so I want to have a couple of options... I like to have a couple of options.

Gianni Agnelli

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

Virginia Postrel

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

The pavement underneath the asphalt is crumbling. The drainage wasn't that particularly good. The planners back in the 1960's expect only 150,000 vehicles a day.

Mike Quade

The past two or three weeks we've pitched it the way I thought we would from the get-go. This is also the kind of pitching I expect from Mitre.

Bill Bruford

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

Bill Bradley

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Chris Allen

The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.

Erik Anderson

The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit.

Chris Liddell

The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,

Cilla Black

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

Alex Brink

We just didn't play 60 minutes of football, or 65 minutes, of football, or whatever it was.

Ron Zonen

You just witnessed the worst seven minutes of this boy's life.

Sandy Wright

You just can't take a quarter off. You can't take off two or three minutes in our league. We have to find ways to answer.

John Jay

Where we are right now, I'm going to try and get as many minutes as I can out of each starter.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.

Thomas Dawson

We'd probably have to wake up 15 to 20 minutes earlier.

Greg Gard

Whether you're home, road or neutral, you can't go 8, 9 minutes and not score.

Maurice Jackson

We can't be out there for nearly 20 minutes when there is only 24 minutes in a half.

Bertrand Russell

Only six need be attempted.

Olivia Newton-John

I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.

Jessica Williams

I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting.

John Danowski

We are now the hunted. It wasn't like this six weeks ago.

Mike Shanahan

I think if you take a look at any of the six teams, any of those six teams could go all the way.

Allen Smith

We're not talking about something that will be in and out of here in six hours.

Paula Abdul

I wish we could have more than six (guys).

Jeff Wagner

He never sold anything for us. He was a distributor for us for six months.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Arsene Wenger

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

Arsene Wenger

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Roy Oswalt

The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs,

Craig Biggio

The '98 team was probably the most disappointing.

Aaron Small

The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,

Jim Pace

That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.

Will Sergeant

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Dave Huber

That was ugly. I was waiting for the ugly duckling to turn into the swan, but it never happened.

Barry Trotz

That was the turning point. That was a big save.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Dustin Lynch

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

Tom Price

I think Jaguar can turn it around, but right now it's tough. If I had only a Jaguar store, it would be very, very tough.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.

CC Sabathia

As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.

Catullus

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Cecil Rhodes

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Carrie Underwood

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Carl Sagan

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

Carl Sagan

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as 'night walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.' But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. And it has the additional and important virtue-to whatever extent the word has any meaning-of being true.

Bethenny Frankel

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

Bette Davis

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

Bette Davis

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.