Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Larkin

We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

David Kahn

As we age, not only do we lose fat in our faces but our bones actually change in contour, often making us look older than we feel.

Susie Gardner

It's even more exciting when you hear it after a great play, when it's more spontaneous... when it just happens because it's the right thing to do or it's the inspired thing to do. Somebody just feels it in their bones that they need to stand up and do that, and then everybody joins in. I think that's when it really hits home.

Arthur Conan

It was a very tall man, if, indeed, it might be called a man, for the gaunt bones were protruding through the corroding flesh, and the features were of a leaden hue. A winding-sheet was wrapped round the figure, and formed a hood over the head, from under the shadow of which two fiendish eyes, deep set in their grisly sockets, blazed and sparkled like red-hot coals.

John Milton

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones / Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; / Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old / When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.

Camilla Bowles

Osteoporosis is not an inevitable part of ageing; it is preventable. So it is vital that all of us, of all ages, start taking care of our bones now, before it is too late.

Miriam Nelson

Osteoporosis and thinning bones is a major but underappreciated public health problem,

Henry Williamson

The moose are gone, and their bones lie under the sand in the soft coal which was the forest by the estuary, thousands of years ago.

Ken Williams

I've made no bones about it, ... Priority No. 1 when this is all said and done is to try and get him signed.

Arthur Scargill

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

George Casey

the possibility for condition-based reductions of coalition forces still exists for 2006.

Miroljub Labus

We are pleased with the contents of the coalition contract and especially with that part dealing with the economy,

Michael Chertoff

We are pleased to have the American Red Cross, which has long been a leader in emergency preparedness and response, co-sponsor National Preparedness Month 2005, ... The commitment of the American Red Cross and the members of National Preparedness Month Coalition are integral as we work to encourage all Americans to prepare for emergencies. As leaders in their communities, these organizations will help spread life saving information and move the entire nation toward a greater state of preparedness.

Jesper Koll

There are some details that need to be worked out (in determining) exactly what form of coalition government we're going to get. But essentially, the message for financial markets is 'yes -- reform,' but it's not going to be dictated by the conservative LDP.

Jeff Wallace

With the increasing volatility in the gas and coal markets, it makes good sense to consider nuclear power as an option to expand our generating fleet.

Scott Plotkin

We're hoping that's where the conversation starts, because the Education Coalition has already taken the position that we'd like to see a sizeable down payment being made, then a reasonable payback over time.

Tony Oppegard

With the price of coal so high, you have operators coming out of the woodwork, trying to get into any seam of coal they can to make a quick buck, opening up a lot of little dog holes.

Jim Owens

With the peak summer season for electricity approaching and rail deliveries of coal still not where we would like them to be, we are monitoring this situation carefully.

Robert Vaughan

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

J. K. Rowling

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Lewis Carroll

'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, very gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'

Henry Williamson

Long ago, when moose roamed in the forest at the mountain of the Two Rivers, otters had followed eels migrating from ponds and swamps to the seas.

Thomas Malory

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

J. K. Rowling

There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seak it.

Mary Shelley

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

Mary Shelley

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

Mary Shelley

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

John Curry

When you talk about all of these things and weave them together, for the first time, conservationists have something in which they can see the forest for the trees. It screams that it needs our attention.

Bill Nye

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

William Shakespeare

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

Sherri Coale

Forests shouldn't exist. The trees in the middle of the forest don't get enough light or nutrients to survive.

Kevin Lenz

I told the kids at the half that River Forest wanted the game more than we did and that we had to go back out there and take it away from them.

Ronald Reagan

There is today in the United States as much forest as there was when Washington was at Valley Forge

Robert Townsend

Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Peter Jackson

We have done well since losing at Forest and considering the run at the end of last season have lost once in 16 games,

Dale Hall

You got to hand it to Nate Samson. He got a big hit for them. The game was on the line and Forest got the job done.

William Gale

They're telling kind of a big lie about tax reform.

Guy Ritchie

a very serious relationship. ... I will say marriage may lie in the future.

Simon Smith

The story she sold was something she had fabricated. She lied to the News of the World.

Sean Penn

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

John Cummings

Right now, we can comfortably shelter about 257,000 residents on island. Now when we talk about shelter space, we plan for a 3-by-5 space, just enough for you to lie down and get in.

Andy Cole

It would be a lie if I said I didn't have any reservations about returning to Manchester,

Jeffrey Lichtman

These witnesses lied to you and they lied to you repeatedly,

Pete Best

The way I look at it, ... just let it lie now.

Atharva Veda

The women that lie upon couches and upon beds, and they that rest in litters, the women all that exhale sweet fragrance, do we put to sleep.

Caspar David Friedrich

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

Edward Gorey

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

Alber Elbaz

I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Sparky Anderson

The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

Taron Egerton

I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.

Roy Keane

They have a few drinks, and maybe the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch.

Tony Gilroy

You change or you hide your head in the sand.

Alan Moore

As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them in further with your second sentence and have them in a mild trance by the third. Then, being careful not to wake them, you carry them away up the back alley of your narrative and when they are hopelessly lost within the story, having surrendered themselves to it, you do them terrible violence with a softball bag and then lead them whimpering to the exit on the last page. Believe me, they'll thank you for it.

Alan Jackson

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

Cassandra Wilson

I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.

Bill Veeck

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Bill Walsh

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

Chelsea Handler

It's hard on an all-gay softball team because no one knows if they want to be a pitcher or a catcher.

Beverly Johnson

Rocks make no compromise for sex... rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal.

Philip Schiller

This is to do a whole different set of things. There's been no software that does what Aperture does.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.