Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chandra Fernando

There are casualties but the fate of the commander is not known yet. He was critically wounded.

Constance White

We still want to keep our casual look, but now people want something extra and interesting. Not just a hoodie, but one that's fun or even intellectual.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm a compulsive note-taker, and I used to feel self-conscious about pulling out my little notebook and taking notes during a casual conversation. Then I noticed that people really seemed to enjoy it; the fact that I was taking notes made their remarks seem particularly insightful or valuable. Now I don't hold myself back.

Bryan Whitman

we have no indications that the allegations of civilian casualties is accurate.

Connie Maina

Whenever there is a drought, the first casualties are usually hippos who live in the water.

David Levine

There is no padding in the shoulders. It is a much more relaxed, casual fit.

Monica Mitro

Whether she's casual or red carpet, she's put together.

Louis Michel

We are all hoping that the news does not get steadily worse as the day progresses but we are fearful that the casualty figures may mount and that international support may be needed.

Les Claypool

As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing.

Edward Looney

We see compulsive gamblers of all sizes and shapes.

Keith Henson

The rewards that compulsive gamblers get are only one step removed from exogenous chemicals, unless you are a big winner.

Michael Gray

I'm always looking for a good deal. I'm meaner than a woman as far as going shopping. I'm a compulsive shopper.

Greg Wittrock

She's obsessed with cleaning. I think she has OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder about dirt.

Trisha Meili

I had issues. I was a compulsive runner. I had an eating disorder. And I needed to look at that ... how to get peace with that in a way, and how to deal with not being the same person that I was before the attack, and come to some peace that that's OK -- that different doesn't mean worse.

Ruth Rendell

I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.

Source Unknown

Have you heard about the latest 12 step group for compulsive talkers? It's called ... On and On Anonymous.

Tony Fadell

We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We're totally obsessive compulsive - when we see an idea, we're like, 'let me in, it's so much fun.'

Claire Cameron

I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids.

Edith Wharton

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Daymond John

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.

David Bryant

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Antony Jay

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

Derek Jacobi

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

John Burness

There are some folks who want us to do a full investigation ourselves. But the fact of the matter is this is a police investigation, and we can't impede it. The more information we have, if the allegations are true, there will be grave consequences.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

David Hahn

The mantra should change from 'Always Be Closing' to 'Always to helping'.

Chuck Norris

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

Steve Jobs

You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

Steven Wright

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

Germaine Greer

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Paul Gauguin

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Heidi Klum

I don't really care if they like me or not.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

Charles de Lint

I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.

Charles de Lint

Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.

Chad Harbach

Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

Bill Gates

Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it — at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.

Bill Gates

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Joni Clark

As SATA transitions into the notebook environment, only then will SATA become mainstream.

Mark Summer

A regular PC uses between 100 and 200 watts and a standard notebook uses 40 to 50 watts.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.

Tommy Bowden

They ran a lot of pursuit drills. If you noticed they ran a whole bunch. They ran their tails off pretty good. That's while they're dragging.

Robin Wright

As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.

Doug Jones

The suspect told him he was out of gas. The victim noticed a red Chevrolet S-10 pick-up truck on the shoulder. The suspect told him it was his truck.

Jill Soloway

I've noticed that women are always punished for their sexuality in popular culture.

Rob Fields

I've been wanting to be noticed for so long, just to have this opportunity is great. I'm very blessed.

Teresa Owens

This is a request we have noticed and we're testing it to see how it works out.

Mark Hoppus

'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before.

Andrea Walker

When they (the committee) started, I noticed they didn?t have any students on the committee,

Heather Casey

My three-year-old is talking better, and people have noticed my twins communicating better.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Kenny Graham

We started pulling some of the starters even though it was only 2-0 but you have to look at the big picture.

Bill Maher

New polls show that Obama is now pulling away from Mitt Romney. And, of course, what could be more natural than to see Mitt Romney and pull away?

Peter Chandler

It's the tussle between the 'old economy' and 'new economy' and Nasdaq is pulling back.

Brett Mackey

It was our offense. They stuck with it, but (scoring) was like pulling teeth. As long as they stick with it, they'll be OK. It wasn't pretty, but we'll take it.

John W. Thompson

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them. We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

John Thompson

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them, ... We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

Elizabeth Warren

Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric.

Richard Johnson

We had to get something to eat. What are they doing pulling a gun?

Stubby Clapp

There's nothing like pulling the red and white over your head.

Richard Durbin

He has the right to say what he believes, ... but all of us should be denouncing these remarks as totally irresponsible.

Dave Calloway

A lot of the teams we've seen this year have seemed to have that inside-outside punch.

Mike Morse

They seemed a little surprised when I said that, but I didn't think anything of it.

Joe Macri

For an 8-9 game, I don't know, it seemed more like an 8-1 game.

Mike Lentz

It was quick, but it seemed like forever.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Bill Rowe

The situation seemed like it was just right.

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.

Mark Buehrle

The way Buehrle pitched, it seemed like they didn't need no signs,'' Guillen said.

Steve Hall

We're still on a trend that is taking us downward.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Ladrika Gross

They're taking this pretty easy. They're taking it better than I thought they would.

David Carr

They're taking their time with him, and that's good,

Carol Olson

It's not like we're taking from other facilities. Everybody's experiencing an increase.

Laura McElroy

For him, repairing something is like taking a walk. He fixes everything.

Lee Gierczynski

This is very atypical. It's taking a very, very long time.

Kurt Tsue

Right now, the tides are taking it out. Should the wind change, it could come right back into shore.

David Carr

I see us taking more of a businesslike approach,