Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Carty

The oil prices are creating a few problems, ... Prices are impacting the PPI report and also consumer prices and are also hurting our trade balance, what with the weaker dollar, because we have to pay more to import oil. However, there aren't a lot of inflationary pressures here beyond that.

Pansy Tlakula

I urge voters to register or re-register as a matter of urgency and not to delay it beyond this week. They will only be able to do so until the elections are formally proclaimed in the Government Gazette, and that could be imminent.

Sean Brown

The victim here is a local attorney, and I am familiar with him. That may cause a problem with my being able to represent her beyond today.

Kurt Barnard

The weather was a factor and the effects of higher gasoline prices are finally catching up with retailers at the registers. Beyond that, I think we're likely to see softness for the next two to three months.

John McWhorter

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

S. Walker

What we're concerned with is the timing of it, beyond the uncertainty that is inherent in the vote. If it happens in November, it might be too late.

Charlie Pierce

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.

Travie McCoy

I feel like a lot of people in the hip hop world don't take me seriously as a rapper, and I feel that first-and-foremost I came up as a rapper before I started singing. All a lot of people know from me is 'Cupid's Chokehold,' and they don't scratch the surface and see beyond that dude who sings the song about his girlfriend.

Jesse Reynolds

The expectations have started to be lowered, but I think expectations were raised beyond justification.

James Steel

Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to the rally.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

John Challenger

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Preston Clark

The spectator traffic wasn't even a factor today. With this weather, they all headed for the hills.

Peter Lehman

The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs,

Sean Hannity

So you think it's race-related (which Watters had not said)? You think race is the factor that the New Orleans mayor didn't use the buses?

Arnold Glasow

Telling a teen-ager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Steve Govett

Ryan was willing to move to Denver, which was a huge plus and a huge factor in us making the selection,

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Ryan Madson

Stuff started happening pretty quick, and I wasn't thinking out there like I should have been. I was just out there throwing.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

Mike Trewick

Sometimes I feel like we play a little scared. I think we play not to lose rather than play to win sometimes. That always happens when we start pressing a little too much.

Frank Beamer

These are all unusual things that can happen in a ballgame,

Kobe Bryant

It was very disappointing so I just try not to think about it too much. I just let it go. Everything happens for a reason, and this for whatever reason is the time for me to be on the team.

Ricky Nolasco

The way I'm just going to take it is everything happens for a reason. I went out there, trying to get some outs. It was a tight game.

Freddie Shepherd

That's going to happen sooner rather than later.

Skip Carr

That (game) was something we talked about before today. We wanted to make sure that didn't happen again. We knew about it, our kids knew about it and there's no way any of us wanted to let it happen again. Once we won the first (game) to get to 13 (wins), we knew we had to get to 14.

Ed Perlmutter

This is a personal issue because it holds out hope for a lot of people.

Mary McCarty

The way this thing is playing out, Commissioner Addie Greene holds this thing in her hands.

Mike Bauer

We're holding our own pretty well. I thought we'd be depleted, but the meltdown is more at road level.

Oprah Winfrey

Every show you'll see here holds such profound meaning for me,

Estella Olguin

We think his name is David, but we don't know. He doesn't talk. He is very clingy. He will not let go of whoever is holding him.

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

Ron Sisler

When you can hold a team to under a 10-spot every quarter, you're doing the job. I think they understand the concept.

John Williams

The plans have been put on hold for the time being.

George Becker

China's a rogue nation, ... We should hold our congressional leaders accountable.

Sia Furler

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

Stewart Hall

You got a lot of people targeting 1.12. People are hopping onto the train.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Brandon Sanderson

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Arthur Lydiard

I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at my near best aerobic efforts and that, supplementary to this, running as many easy miles as I could

Arthur Lydiard

When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow.

Arthur Lydiard

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

Arthur Lydiard

They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do.

Arthur Lydiard

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.

Arthur Machen

Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the White House. Once in the road, free from the fields and brakes, he changed his run into a walk, and he never paused or stopped, till he came with a gulp of relief into the ugly streets of the big industrial town. He made hi way to the station at once, and found that he was an hour too soon for the London express. So, there was plenty of time for breakfast; which consisted of brandy.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Linda Bannister

Things look bleak. It's unclear when things are going to start to look better.

Ron Ward

This is a terrific opportunity, and I can't wait to really start contributing.

Greg Knapp

This is the first year that he's starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

Jeff Kish

This is not how I wanted to start the New Year.

Kevin Jones

That's what they know. When we start winning, it won't be that way.

A. Hodge

They are 4-0 for a reason. We know it is going to be a true test.

Cesar Chavez

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Dean Koontz

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

Eckhart Tolle

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

Elbert Hubbard

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

E. B. White

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

Alex Flinn

True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage in Euphrasia until he finds you.

Don DeLillo

Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

Todd Nace

We're about a week away from reopening, once we get the (insurance) settlement.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Albert Brooks

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Ray Nagin

One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

Tommy Rettig

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Tom Hooper

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

Tom Hanks

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

Tina Fey

I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I really love being in London at weekends - there's always so much to do.