Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Donaldson

He can take a story, compress it into nine or 10 words, and have a greater clarity and punch then when I write two paragraphs.

Sophia Drossos

What you really need for the yen to strengthen is some clarity on when ZIRP will end. ZIRP is key.

Brian Belski

I think we received some clarity there. I think we are done with the Greenspan hangover.

Barry Hyman

I think we are just mired in interest-rate concerns until we get some clarity on rates.

Michael Pond

I don't expect the market to gain momentum in either direction until it gains new clarity about the possibility of a May rate hike. The overall trend in housing demand remains relatively weaker compared with 2005.

Rob Thomas

Let your clarity define you, in the end, we will only just remember how it feels.

Tori Amos

We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.

Greil Marcus

Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

Sue Schneider

In terms of legislation that has gone through either state or federal houses that has told players specifically you can't do it, there really isn't anything on the books. So this industry is a lawyer's dream, because there is no clarity on the law.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.

William Butler Yeats

The fascination of what's difficultHas dried the sap out of my veins, and rentSpontaneous joy and natural contentOut of my heart.

Wade Wimmer

Once that dried up, things went really well.

George Bell

It's good wood if it's dried correctly. They should be able to use it for a lot of things.

Bible Bible

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Bob Lilley

We had streaks last year where we were good at putting the goals in and streaks where we dried up.

Robert Anderson

We had a false start. We pulled in and dried out.

Oliver Goldsmith

And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.

Jim Crace

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Paul Marsh

Kinston paled a great game, and with them, it's always a battle. We didn't shoot well from the outside, but it's good to pick up that second win in a row.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Alex Winter

Knowing that it is highly competitive, and I'm not the first person to say this, but good stories do tend to get made.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Samuel Beckett

How hideous is the semicolon.

Charles Palliser

I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.

Steve Bruce

The kick in the teeth was the hideous mistake we made in conceding that first goal.

Deborah Moggach

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

Ludovico Ariosto

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

Noam Chomsky

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

Rachel Perry

I didn't think I was hideous or anything.

Joe Monahan

He could influence the outcome of the race. If he does have any ideas he wants to see advanced, this is the time to do it.

Jon Hurst

There are still a ton of mom-and-pops out there that come up with new ideas and new niches.

George Foster

Here we'd like to think they can start to think about the ideas we're teaching, but their main job is to perform on the field.

Bob Garner

The purpose of the newsletter is to supply the reader with a reliable supply of seeds made up of proven motivational ideas and strategies that can be immediately put to use.

Mike Moore

I think they will respond to our ideas in Shanghai,

Rob Enderle

It is one of the more interesting ideas that has come up of late. And one that I think has the potential to really transform the way we play with the Web.

Carl Jung

You and I are meant to be. It's the only thing I'm absolutely sure of. And while I have no idea what to expect, I promise I'll do whatever it takes to find my way back.

Monica Procar

We make a lot of what is in here ourselves. We make the wreaths and the swags and whatever ideas that we can come up with.

Newt Gingrich

Ideas precede reform. If you can't think it, you can't say it and you can't do it.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Virginia Woolf

No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

William Gibson

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

Sarah Brightman

You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.

Roald Dahl

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

Rob Bell

Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

Sarah Polley

Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.

Wayne Dyer

Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now

Samuel Goldwyn

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Eric Hoffer

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Mike Short

We're not going to get them just because they're a novelty item. We have to be responsible with our budget.

Ovid

Novelty in all things is charming.

Pliny the Elder

Human nature craves novelty.

Pliny the Elder

Human nature is fond of novelty.

Terence McKenna

Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.

Madeleine M. Kunin

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Heinrich Heine

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Bob Hughes

We try to keep it rock 'n' roll. Everybody's welcome.

Christopher Lee

We threw a lot of rock yesterday, and we're throwing more rock this afternoon.

Scott Bertoli

I thought Wednesday was rock bottom. Apparently, it can get worse.

Dick Bennett

I think Batista's the rock on that team.

Chris Blight

He's been a rock back there for us.

Troy Brown

I actually feel like a rock star. I feel like I'm important here.

Ed Stern

He was pivotal. He was sort of the rock of the Playhouse: organized, disciplined, always in control.

Rob Sheffield

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

Richard Paul Evans

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

Derek Lowe

I think it's tough for everybody. We can't just go out there and roll over and die. ... To see where we are right now is very disappointing.

Dick Ebersol

I was just swept away with how that sounded. It just rolls off your mouth.

Tiger Woods

I don't feel like I'm on a roll at all,

O. Henry

If you're on a roll you get two or three.

Pat Gillick

In a situation, sometimes you have to roll the dice. What do we need, an outfielder or another pitcher?

Jon Huertas

I don't really like roller coasters!

Don Cassidy

You don't have to be 75 to use a rolling wire basket.

Greg Thompson

That first split hurt. He got on a roll and it was pretty much over.

Alex Rodriguez

I want to get on a roll here. Each day, it's getting more comfortable.

Jeff Lindsay

We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.

Rex Harrison

Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian.

Roald Dahl

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

Vera Wang

I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

Sarah Sutton

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

Vivienne Westwood

I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

William Bernbach

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

Samuel Richardson

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

Sarah Paulson

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

Pete Carroll

It's so frustrating for him. He's been waiting for his chance. I feel terrible for him.

Christopher Hill

It's been very difficult. It's been a terrible strain.

Meghan Cronin

It was a 20-question, multiple-choice, open-book test. I'm not in terrible shape, but I'm not completely fitness-minded, either.

Joe Thompson

It's terrible being here, ... But it's even worse being away.

Jodi Picoult

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

Moby

I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends.

Mika

I am terrible at relationships.

Mark Millar

Writers are the most terrible kleptomaniacs.

Kenneth Clark

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.

Lucy Larcom

We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

Thomas Lynch

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

John Searle

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Herman Gorter

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.