Famous Quotes & Sayings

George B. McClellan

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

William Reddington Hewlett

Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are.

Ezra Taft Benson

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

Gore Vidal

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.

Cecelia Ahern

Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained. And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Bethany McLean

The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs - would end up magnifying each other's sins rather than keeping each other in check.

Bill Vaughan

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

Bill Vaughan

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Scott Pelley

The Army would have us believe that you were operating outside the rules.

Ice T

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

Ice Cube

I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.

Isaac Brock

I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

Ian Watson

My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.

Giovanni Agnelli

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.

Gianni Agnelli

Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

Gareth Bale

My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

Vonda Shepard

The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren't quite as controlled - and my hair isn't quite as in place as it is on 'Ally McBeal.'

Christian Bale

The biggest rebellion I could've ever had with my father would be to work in a bank. He would have disowned me. As long as I was doing something where I didn't have to wear a tie, I was good.

Barry O'Farrell

I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

Noreena Hertz

It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think.

Naomi Watts

Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

Robert Long

We'll probably have a couple classes every month until the end of the year.

Bob Demesy

We've got snowmobile races and go-kart classes for all the kids. We have a class for just about everyone who comes out, from those just starting out to those more experienced racers.

Kyle Anderson

My classes are really challenging. I didn't think senior year would be so tough.

Tyler Smith

Most members are obsessed with everything Japanese. While only two members speak fluent Japanese, many are taking classes or simply interested in the culture.

Jiang Zemin

Members of the new social classes have made a contribution to socialist production forces through honest work and legal operations,

Shirley Eaton

My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set To Partners' when I was 12, followed by Benjamin Britten's 'Let's Make An Opera.'

Michael Palin

I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.

Emmanuel Jal

When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.

Jon Evans

I'm a victim of Developaralysis: the crippling sense that the software industry is evolving so fast that no one person can possibly keep up.

John Hawkes

It's ridiculous, it's crippling the industry. Owners are suffering, they are losing interest. It's so frustrating.

Iyad Allawi

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

George Allen

We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.

Yo-Yo Ma

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

Billy Graham

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Don Rickles

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

Graham Swift

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

Ben Elliot

I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.

Becky G

There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.

David Kay

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

Ruben Hinojosa

For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.

David Nichols

has done everything he said he was going to do. In fact, he financed an expansion.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.

Craig Bruce

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

Piero Fassino

But today, Berlusconi owes an explanation to 8,000 mayors who want to know where money will come from for public services -- day care, the elderly, road works -- everything now financed by the property tax.

Joseph Volpe

Hopefully it will be financed and it will be funded. If it's not, then Peter will have to reconsider.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.

Jeff Joerres

The outplacement industry has gone through much more of a severe downturn than anyone, including us, would have anticipated.

David Stern

We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.

Feist

Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

Felicity Kendal

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

Aron Ralston

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far.

Mike Koester

That would have tied it up. Whatever could have gone wrong did.

Kieren Fallon

That was tremendous. A lot of hard work has gone into this.He really picked up. I hoped I hadn't gone too soon as it was his first run of the season,

Stevie Wonder

We need to have more respect for each other, ... Things have just gone really crazy, out of control. ... We're on a very weird kind of cycle.

Benjamin Haydon

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.

Noel Coward

Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.

Vernon Swaback

The paths and trails are the lifeblood of the community.

Dave Brown

Obviously, ratings are the lifeblood of what we do.

Olivia Toca

The quality of work is twice as good. The baseboards remind me of the old baseboards my mother had. In general, the lifestyle here is just much better.

Lydia Lenker

We don't promote one lifestyle over another. It's really pretty simple reasoning.

John Paxson

He would have an above-average lifestyle that would put him in a position that most other people aren't in,

Demi Lovato

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

Craig Kilborn

I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

Dominic Cooper

In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.

Steve Case

When I saw it, I really thought it could be more of a lifestyle brand, much like Nike.

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Anne Hathaway

I love the short-haired lifestyle.

Bruce Tulgan

Today, the most mobile part of the workforce is the most marketable.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre. You don't see him as a mobile quarterback. He made some plays today.

Andy Reid

His mobility has been a big factor. You've seen plays that he's made in the six games.

Eric Anderson

I think it's going to be another tool in our mobility toolbox (in the Valley).

Vicki Warker

The potential is huge, considering that 55% of the U.S. population subscribes to a mobile phone.

Jeff Jordan

With the overwhelming popularity of mobile phones, the time has never been better for the merging of e-commerce and wireless devices.

Thaksin Shinawatra

The protesters are exerting mob rule over the rule of law, which I can't accept.

Gene Miller

The project starts as soon as school is out. We will move them (the mobile units) in when school is out.

Scott Kerstetter

We had a lot of turnovers, but Hannah Tobin was the MVP of this game. She was really mobile in this game.

William Shakespeare

That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

Charles Lyell

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Allen Ginsberg

what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

Allen Ginsberg

Inside skull vast as outside skull

Carl Jung

Haven's warm, clammy palms press hard against my cheeks as the tarnished edge of her silver skull ring leaves a smudge on my skin.

Anne Michaels

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Annie Dillard

The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I myself was one such item...the things in the world did not necessarily cause my overwhelming feelings; the feelings were inside me, beneath my skin, behind my ribs, withing my skull. They were even, to some extent, under my control.

George Moore

He was standing like he was going to smash a bug,

Jimmy Chamberlin

I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.'

Paul Tollett

That's not going to happen. I don't know the story on Smashing Pumpkins. From what I can tell, they're not available.

Ricky Proehl

He smashed my chin. That didn't feel too good.

Alice Walker

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

Rik Mayall

With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Chuck Palahniuk

You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.

Donald Trump

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

Donald Trump

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

Donald Trump

Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.

Jacqueline McKenzie

We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.

Lucy Punch

I am terrified of being misjudged by thousands of faceless Twitterers.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Farrah Fawcett

I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

Stanley Elkin

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

Rhianna Pratchett

Showing a videogame character terrified and scared is something that's not really done that much.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.

John Doran

They are terrified they will make a mistake,

Danny Pintauro

When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore.

Ron Moore

We're wanting to do an upscale natural-habitat project.

Jodi Collins

I think like everyone, we've been wanting to do something, and now we are.

Michael Taylor

I'm always wanting to score. I want to win the game.

David Tom

I think it's more willpower than anything else, wanting to win more than anything else.

Gary Moore

We've been wanting to get that for a long time.

Ron Gardenhire

I can't see Rad not wanting to go out there.

Brad Meltzer

There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.

Brad Meltzer

The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?

Jarome Iginla

We're about wanting to be in your face. We want to be aggressive. That's how we play this game.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.