Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Kevin Turner

We will pursue this individual, we will search him out and try to get at least some of our money. The rest will be borne by the taxpayer.

Dale Carnegie

Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

e. e. cummings

our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more

Alex Ferguson

Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.

Harold E. Varmus

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

Amartya Sen

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

Anneliese van der Pol

I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

Anne Sexton

women are born twice.

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Wally Walker

The Sonics & Storm family, including our players, coaches, staff and owners, recognizes the importance of aiding the massive relief effort, ... We welcome the community in joining us to support this important cause, both now and into the future.

Chip Dickinson

The thing I like most out of our girls in both games is ... the girls didn't get down. Their maturity level between last year and this year is a phenomenal difference.

John Bolton

I've been an executive branch official my entire public career and, for both constitutional and historical reasons, the executive branch appropriately has typically opposed automatic, non-discretionary directions from all of you esteemed ladies and gentlemen. That's our position. I support it emphatically.

Jared Harris

I used to do lots of independent films and for a while I was very content living in New York City and doing independent movies and off-Broadway theater. I loved it, I had a really good time doing that, and I worked on a lot of projects that are very dear to my heart, both plays and films.

Tom Brookens

I've always appreciated that. But frankly, I thought it wouldn't be long before I was playing for him and we'd both be in Detroit. Then the Sparky (Anderson) thing happened, and Jim kind of got lost in the shuffle.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

John Street

I've been an elected official now for 24 years, and I value my integrity very highly, ... And this speculation about whether or not I'm a target of any federal investigation has caused some concern.

Thomas Moore

Right now, we really don't even know what happened as to the cause of the accident.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.

Brigham Young

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Pat Lewis

Even though we didn't pull it off, it was a thrill to be involved with so many great athletes. This game is for a great cause and I think we put on a great show.

Robert Genuario

We think that's the way to go. We think it would not have been wise in this particularly volatile climate to increase the gasoline tax or increase a tax that would inevitably cause a rise in gasoline prices.

Ben Hatfield

We don't what went wrong and caused this explosion.

Cindy Sheehan

What was the noble cause my son died for?

Jane Wagner

We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didnt know what to think. Its hard to think without words cause you havent got a clue as to what youre thinking. So if you think we suffer from a lack of communication now, think what it must have been like then, when people lived in a verbal void - made worse by the fact that there were no words such as verbal void.

Jose Andres Puerta

The right use of food can end hunger.

Barbara Jordan

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

Dave Williams

We are here to provide the most good to the most people. If they want to stay, we give them food and water. If they want to leave, we rescue them.

Marshall Faulk

What's a store with food in it if you don't have food? What's a store with fresh water if you don't have water? What are you supposed to do?

Alice B. Toklas

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

Diogenes

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

Alice Paul

Food simply isn't important to me.

Thomas Overbury

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

Scott Adams

If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

David Brodsky

Everything (entitled to the defense) is not given to us,

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Mark Rylance

This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.

Orrin Hatch

We think that this money should be given in tax relief to the American people, not spent by those know-it-alls back in Washington,

Taylor Swift

I never expected anything to be given to me.

Luan Enjie

Sending a man to the Moon? It would be a one-way ticket if we do it now, given the thrust of our rockets at present is not strong enough.

Doug Thornton

She's taken a hit. She's been given the ultimate test.

Bruce Babbitt

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Terri Swaney

For some reason the soccer gods were not with us today.

Rod Parsley

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.

Thomas a Kempis

Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Ayn Rand

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Brian Selznick

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.

Brenda Ueland

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

Bobby Baldwin

The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

Don DeLillo

The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.

Debbie Macomber

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

Andy Roddick

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

Amiri Baraka

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

Tony Dungy

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

Paulo Coelho

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender.

Michael Connelly

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

Patricia McConnell

The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

Christoph Waltz

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

Grover Cleveland

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

Leo Tolstoy

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Dana Stabenow

The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.