Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Katz

I owe my dogs much - more than I can say - but they are not my 'companions' - as if we voluntarily chose to hang out together but none of us has authority over the others. I bought and/or acquired them. I own them. I am profoundly responsible for their care and well being.

Nick Fry

Since Honda acquired a 45% stake in the team at the beginning of this year, we have been finding ways to work even closer with our Honda colleagues, ... The Honda Institute is the perfect place for us to learn more about Honda and I'm sure that what will come out of this will be greater communication and understanding throughout the team.

Donna Dubinsky

I mean, they sort of refused to come to the table with any incremental capital. They would have loved for us to be acquired just get their money out and be gone.

Stewart Butterfield

People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo.

Robert Ecker

We are pleased to have acquired basic cable rights to this significant and important documentary that sheds considerable light upon the often neglected achievements of African-Americans in motor sports.

Sean Payton

We've acquired some players because it was an area we felt like we needed to improve and whether or not it's finished there, it's probably too early to say. Some of these guys we've been able to sign we're getting a good look at now and some have more experience than others.

Yang Yuanqing

Our results validate the expectations we have when we acquired the business and reinforced our convictions that we have a model for ongoing profitability,

Henry Bessemer

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

Henrik Pontoppidan

I turned to the novel, an artistic form which had in former days been neglected and had thus acquired a bad reputation, but which during the nineteenth century had developed and elevated itself to the ranks occupied by drama and the ancient epic.

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Dave Foreman

During my 26 years of college coaching, I have had the opportunity to experience exciting games played in great arenas across the country. Capacity crowds cheering for their teams in 'fan-friendly' arenas are what made those atmospheres special. No doubt, The Colonial Center is among the best in all of college basketball ... the place to be for every Gamecock fan!

Antony Starr

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

Tom Crowley

An industry with the broad participation and profound cultural impact of video gaming demands a more structured media-business involvement to support, expand, and energize it. We believe that MLG is uniquely positioned to deliver on the player, fan, and sponsor requirements for legitimate, global, video game competition across all live and media platforms.

Larry Lang

A revolution is taking place right now in mobility. Customers today demand a variety of services that will allow them to live, work and play in their fast-paced, mobile world. These new services drive new packet traffic, not only across new air interfaces, but also in the transport to each cell site.

Robin Cook

are getting very close to agreement across a number of fronts.

Matthew Hirsch

Areas across the interior Treasure Coast definitely had a hard freeze, but toward the coast, it was only a few hours. It was pretty much what we expected.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Todd Engle

It was very big to get that win and something we kind of played off. I felt no matter what happened that we had a successful run, but it was of major importance to the kids to get that win. I could really tell in the fourth quarter and there was a lot of excitement.

Lisa Nash

That's what we had to do for us, ... and I would hope that people who felt this was inappropriate would feel it was inappropriate for them and not judge me unless they've been where I've been.

Leroy Ortiz

That's what they do. I felt that Mora was still going to win. They always find a way to win.

Mike McKenzie

That's my first time really hearing of that, ... I know that's a first-class organization over there, so from that standpoint, they felt that was a move that they needed to make.

Jay Payton

That's mainly why I wanted to get out of Boston. Fortunately, it's worked out well ? maybe a little better than anticipated. But I felt confident. I thought I could help a team win.

Jay Payton

That's mainly why I wanted to get out of Boston, ... Fortunately, it's worked out well -- maybe a little better than anticipated. But I felt confident. I thought I could help a team win.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Colin Anderson

She was there when her mom died. She saw what happened to her mom.

Dan Reeves

because of what happened to us last year.

James Doe

I don't remember. It happened a long time ago.

Peter Cohen

I feel that so much has happened that I didn't think would happen. I'm shocked. My judgement has been wrong for two years.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Jeff Reed

Who knows what would have happened if I had made that kick?

Jesus Ramirez

I woke up very depressed, thinking about everything that happened and those who did not live to tell about it.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Theodor Mommsen

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Maynard James Keenan

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Polybius

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Nicolas Berggruen

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Virginia Henley

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Ismail Haniya

We are optimistic that our people will go to vote in this historical event.

Joe Hughes

That's kind of an odd statistic. You don't see that too often.

Ricky Gervais

I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

Charles Bukowski

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor

Marina Warner

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

Patricia Clarkson

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

Patricia Cornwell

Thoughts are odd misfires.

John Stuart Mill

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

Nick Cave

If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

Ambrose Bierce

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Johann Georg Hamann

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Michael Gregory

all the pieces of evidence, all the statements that have been reviewed, all the witnesses that have been spoken to.

Gustav Mahler

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Thomas Frank

We're trying to put all the pieces together.

Brett Favre

I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.

Alphonsus Liguori

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.

Soren Kierkegaard

To be a saint is to will the one thing.

Max von Sydow

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

Francis of Assisi

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

Francis of Assisi

Preach always. Use words if necessary.

Ignatius of Loyola

No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.

George Herbert

Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.

George Herbert

Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.

Edward Abbey

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

David Attenborough

The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

Studs Terkel

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

Patricia Briggs

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

Merv Griffin

I will not be back after these messages

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.

Franco Nero

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Jose Rizal

Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.

Henry Blodget

Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive.