Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Greg Nie

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

Ted Stevens

It is important for us to get the facts and avoid speculation.

Olli Rehn

It is high time that Serbia reaches full co-operation with the ICTY. That is the way to avoid the disruption of the negotiations, that the negotiations would be put on hold when the next round takes place.

Paolo Canio

I will avoid certain situations, but I will continue my battles, without second thoughts and with even more decisiveness.

Mary Karr

For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.

Tuomo Ruutu

We have to avoid the penalties. It's too easy to fall behind big with them. You make a few mistakes and you're down two or three goals.

Phil Keinzley

If we come out of those three games on the right side of the ledger it will be a huge plus, and anything could happen then. But if we lose all three it will be an uphill battle we want to avoid that.

Jasmine Tookes

I don't have a specific favorite product, but I deep condition my hair regularly. When I can, I'll avoid heat styling and wear my hair in a bun.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Helen Oyeyemi

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

Richard Cohen

I was 13 when Dr. King was slain. I didn't have the opportunity to know him. But reading Taylor's books make me feel that I do know Dr. King.

Ashley Johnson

I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.

Alice Braga

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

Robert Hall

He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move

Diane Ravitch

Removing books from the library is a no-no.

Will Ferrell

I would tend to shy away from that, only because hosting those type of things is an extremely difficult task. I'd rather watch at home.

Speedy Claxton

He's a great player and he made some difficult shots for them.

Jeff Ruland

He's got the heart of a lion. We have a difficult task in front of us.

Dave Carlson

We thought we've had it difficult until this time. We think it's going to get a little tougher.

Duffy Waldorf

To get a short iron into that green is great, because it's such a difficult green.

Tarja Halonen

I think we will see some good ideas, but as you have noticed already, the good ideas are difficult sometimes to put in practice,

George Boateng

I think before the game if you'd said 1-0 we would have taken it. It could have been better, but we've got a feeling of how they are and we've been in much more difficult positions. You can't say it's going to be easy -- but we're very confident.

Kristy Curry

I think it was difficult for us. The Indiana and the Ohio State (games), it kicked us right in the gut.

Warren Shiau

It has been difficult for IT administrators in the Microsoft world to transfer to Linux and get a lot of things done.

Mitch Hedberg

There are six ducks out here, and they all want Sun Chips!

Richard Russo

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

Si Robertson

Christianity is why the 'Duck Dynasty' family is still together.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister? Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass. ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass. Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one. PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass.

Henry Samueli

For me, it's just a pleasure to be out in the community wearing my Ducks logo on shirts and hats and so forth in representing the team.

Alan Sugar

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

Edward Lear

And who so happy,- O who, / As the Duck and the Kangaroo?

Clint Hurdle

I still envision that duck swimming on the pond,

Maeve Binchy

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

Steve Martin

He?s already been to the show. I know the intimidation factor will be out of him.

Tom Benson

I think the fact of what San Antonio did for us -- we had no other place to go where something like this was set up -- that's what made this happen.

Dan DeRose

We talked about the fact that they are a pattern offense and they like to shoot the 3 and we just let them set up and they could run their sets. One of our things is to not let teams that are systematic run their offenses. We kind of mixed up our presses. It makes you take time off the clock.

Don Zimmerman

We took a neutral position on it.. We did not realize nor understand the fact that this was going to involve such an increase in the municipal street lighting bills.

John Sweeney

We're opposed to permanent normal trade relations at this time. We support trade. We support the fact that globalization is here to stay, but we want to make sure it's working for working families.

Bill Stoneman

When he went out there, he was just lights-out. It was the combination of his stuff and the fact that he was throwing it for strikes plus the fact that he wasn't phased by any of the so-called pressure that you're supposed to feel in the postseason. He dominated.

Clarence Darrow

What I hope to see for labor is the people who work in factories own the factories

Hilary Clinton

I think we sort of have lost track of the fact this is a government that has to be accountable to the people of our country,

Richard Preston

I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither.

Greg Massoni

It just was a horrible vote, and disgraceful he voted the way he did, as way too many legislators did in the House.

Mike Farrell

They had a horrible season. Horrible ... But I thought they did very well, keeping a lot of kids at home, but they went into a lot of different states, including Maryland. For the record they had, they did very well.

Jim Graham

It's a horrible tragedy for us, but I'm pleased that we had such solid presence and response. I think it's really going to make a difference.

Jill Soloway

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

Ken Tutt

We didn't want to go through what we went through last year. It was a horrible feeling. I would say that has been in the back of my mind this whole season. Every time I went in the gym, I just thought about that loss.

W. S. Gilbert

At the time it was a horrible experience, ... But it all worked out.

Thomas Moore

There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.

Debbie Harris

This was like going to school for us. It's part of our heritage. It would be horrible to see it close.

Christopher Moore

That's a horrible plan." "Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that.

Rose Kennedy

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

Rick Warren

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

Ella Wilcox

If you work with zeal and ardor till the night,You can only make the wasted moments right.

Dee Brown

I just threw it up and prayed for it to go in. It was just big momentum for us before halftime.

Craig Kelly

I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son, ... All I want is to be reunited with my son.

David Stahl

If Merck can win on those, then they can really say they've got some momentum on their side.

Sebastian Coe

The international people tell us that we are taken seriously and that there is a momentum.

Jose Carreras

I am always living very good moments.

Henri Richard

A lot of momentum we are seeing is simply because we are offering choice.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Mike Butters

We just have to find the net. We didn't do that tonight and Eugene skated very well.

Lupe Fiasco

I got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

When I know I'm not doing any auditions, I go to the skate park on my scooter or my bike.

Tony Hawk

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

Teppo Numminen

We didn't skate as well as we'd like to. We had our chances, but it wasn't enough.

Kevin McCabe

We kind of didn't skate (in the second). We let down.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Ron Eldard

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.

Kenneth Fisher

Over rolling long periods, U.S. and non-U.S. stocks tend to equalize.