Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Leakey

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Ashley Hanhurst

We've almost been a team that likes to come back.

Becky Christofferson

We usually play full court almost every game. The second half has been ours the whole season. We play better in the second half for some reason.

Samir Haj

We struggled until almost the end. But it will show our kids that if you don't concentrate and play hard from the beginning anything can happen.

Jamie Mauthe

We struggled to put Sarah through college so that she could become a certified X-ray technician. But we are not big spenders and have almost no personal debt. It's all in the farm.

Mike Urich

We are a different ball team than we were almost two months ago. We feel a lot of what we do they may know what's coming, but as long as we execute like we have, I think we will be OK.

Paul Murphy

We are at the point now, for the first time in this peace process, where almost all of the parties are at the table,

Rob Stewart

There are continually mixed messages, and there is almost increasing confusion in the mind of the average Joe.

Jeff Lenard

We're in hyperdrive. These wholesale increases are going to be felt almost immediately.

Alan Perlis

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Alan Jackson

It's a scary word, 'cancer.

Alan Bennett

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

Al Ries

A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.

Edward Hoagland

Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.

Eddie Long

The doctor can X-Ray you and say, 'You got cancer.' And then you go home and God let me see, does Christ have cancer? If Christ don't, I don't have cancer. All I need to do is get a picture of what he looks like. Because, if I can see Him I become like Him.

Athol Fugard

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

Arnold Palmer

I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.

Denis Leary

When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with 'No Cure For Cancer.'

John Vucetich

The others would disperse. Some would join other packs, some would starve. It's a live by the sword, die by the sword kind of thing.

Michael Baden

The people who died were hit by shrapnel.

Gwen Stefani

I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.

William Shakespeare

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

C. S. Lewis

You die and you die and then you are beyond death.

Casey Higgins

We have a small lineup and we live and die by the 3. We weren't able to hit enough of them tonight.

Montel Williams

The whole idea of juicing is good if you are trying to diet and use it in limited basis. I use juice drinks only once a week. I use emulsified drinks because in emulsification you are keeping everything. You are keeping the pulp, you are keeping the skin with all of the phytonutrients.

Montel Williams

I've been able to learn a lot through diet and exercise, but I've got to tell you, it's having true love in your life and somebody who has your back 24 hours a day that makes the difference.

Noreena Hertz

You want to challenge experts, because experts get a lot wrong. Doctors misdiagnose one time in five. In the U.S. and Canada, 50,000 people die every year who would not have had to.

Dave Strang

They are doing quite well in the conference. They've got three scorers, basically, from what I've seen on their stats.

John Taylor

They are showing they are quite intransigent and showing they are going to be very difficult.

Colin Firth

There was quite a lot of your rear end that didn't make it either.

Stephen Hess

There were big, big items, and that was really quite exceptional for one of these speeches.

Anne Fox

They probably will be here for quite some time, ... There's a possibility they could be absorbed into the community.

I. Stone

I try not to get quite so pushy,

Brett Buckles

It was quite the jump, being thrown into it. It's been a blast.

Thomas Breuer

It was quite surprising to me and my team to make this observation.

Ali Alatas

It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.

Rumi

You have Within you more love than you could ever understand.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Alan Ayckbourn

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

Chris Abani

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

Edith Sitwell

Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

Edith Sitwell

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Edith Sitwell

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Edith Wharton

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Earl Wilson

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.