Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Brad Clark

The building has been vacant for so long that it's almost like starting from scratch.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

David Hendler

The brokers have been almost like the old Internet stocks. The stocks have been on a huge ride and they're starting to cool off and come back to reality.

Rocky Smith

The business is doing really well. Each semester my customer base almost doubles.

Peter Capaldi

The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!

Scott Elarton

The big thing is, there is no tension on this team. I've been with some (Houston) clubs going down the stretch in a playoff race, and teams get on edge. On this club, everyone is so relaxed it's almost like they don't care. But the results say otherwise.

Carrie Barker

The Big Ten is almost like restarting the season again. Once the Big Ten starts, it's like starting from scratch. The Big Ten is like a different life.

Tom Orlich

At this time of the year everybody is ready for almost anything.

Jackson Pollock

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Trey Parker

You start animating it and you get to Friday and you get to Saturday and you go, 'This is not funny, like we haven't figured something out, scrap it.'

Georgia O'Keeffe

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

Captain Beefheart

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

Captain Beefheart

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

Captain Beefheart

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

Captain Beefheart

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

Captain Beefheart

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

Captain Beefheart

The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

John Anton

Demand is high, but growth will be difficult for 2006. Galvanized sheet is used heavily in consumer durables-especially items such as sports utility vehicles. This sector carried the manufacturing economy during the recession; now it is due to cool.

Jim Tharp

The term gets used a lot, but we do think this is a movie that can be carried by word of mouth,

Buzz Hargrove

(It was) the strategy during the election that was carried out and mandated for me to carry out as the president, and I was suspended for that.

Don Capshaw

The process started back in summer. We've talked about these things and carried them out. Number one was developing a Website where we could put all of our information out there and we've done that.

Jim McCormick

We have positive, enthusiastic learning centers in all our schools and that has carried over to Southern Lee, ... I'm hoping for a large turnout. Even people who don't or won't have children in school will have a very positive experience walking through Southern Lee High School. They will also see how schools have changed. As we consider renovations to Lee County High School, we will be looking at what we've done at Southern Lee." ()

William Boyd

We had positive plays on offense in the end of the second quarter that carried into the second half. We will continue to work to get better.

Scott Bokelman

You get a freshman (Abramson) in there, and he hasn't been around enough to feel the pressure, like the varsity guys do. He just took it to (Chase County) and the other guys started to feed off that, and I think he carried us there for a while.

Maj. Lundy

The crew who were in the vehicle would have been a little shaken up, but they've carried on with their task.

Joe Sakic

We were just trying to get two points, just trying to win a game. There was no sense getting carried away with anything. We just wanted to win a game and that's the most important thing.

Kirk Hammett

The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire.

Baltasar Gracian

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

Brian Eno

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

Brian Posehn

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

Aristotle

Talent is culture with insolence.

Arlen Specter

embedded deep in the culture of the country.

Mario Batali

English food in the last 30 years has come to grips with English products, their dairy culture and their cheeses and their creams and their seafood.

Georgia Perez

Eagles are very important to me and my culture.

Dennis Latta

The race fits the culture of New Mexico well.

As a young boy, when you get splashed by a mud puddle on the way to school, you wonder if you should go home and change, but be late for school, or go to school the way you are; dirty and soaking wet. Well, while he tried to decide, I drove by and splashed him again.

Mike Morgan

Arson investigation is very slow, tedious, dirty work,

Jules Carlysle

A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Al Green

Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

Brian Regan

Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel that way at all. I just think it's different. It's different. There's rock music, there's jazz music, there's reggae music: All of those forms are different.

Bradley Whitford

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

Billie Piper

Yeah, I fancy women big time... I check them out more than I check men out. Maybe I would want to sleep with a woman... Not Beyonce, although I like the look of her, I don't think she's that dirty.

Roma Downey

People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile.

Nathan Lane

The thing that everyone remembers about 'Bambi' is that moment. 'The Lion King,' took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede - I related, because mine was, too.

Carine Roitfeld

The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.

Andy Landers

It was the type of game we envisioned. They're very good defensively and make you work extremely hard on offense to get what you want.

Amy Daner

It was very hard for me to do. Extremely hard for me to do. I truly felt like a failure. I feel like I'm letting someone down. I can't say no.

Terri Johnson

Issaquah has a different style and they play extremely hard. If we don't prepare ourselves, they will take advantage.

Jose Maria

is extremely solid, strong. It's firm, and we want it to be that way, not only now, but also in the future.

Joe Gibbs

I've been proud of our guys, the way they fight. We fight extremely hard.

Ram Shriram

I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

Jess Walter

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

Laura Miller

It's very, very troubling, and very subjective and very unfair,

Nigel Barker

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

Mary Scott

No one should have been treated like that.

Ted Demme

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.

Markie Workman

They're a lot better than what we play on the Western Slope.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

David Nash

If it works for you, then that's great. It's what makes you feel safe.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Dan Ryan

It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.