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.

Jenji Kohan

A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show.

Melissa McCarthy

At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.

Mark Waters

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

Ray William Johnson

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

Mitch Hedberg

Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what if they don't have a hand? They'll think you're cocky. 'Look what I got... This thing is useful. I'm gonna go pick somethin' up.'

Reese Witherspoon

Romantic comedy has really evolved since that time when there used to be a lot of social conventions and all sorts of reasons why people couldn't be together,

Christy Romano

It would be a half-hour comedy that would really showcase my personality so my fans could get to know me. And I'd love to keep working with ABC.

Roberto Benigni

This is an homage to the master, because I love this movie, and, of course, making a movie -- a comedy about concentration camp, I watched this movie a lot of time,

Douglas Muzzio

This is really a comedy of errors and missteps for the candidate, the party, the consultants, everybody. Everybody wants an opponent like these guys.

H. Auden

Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.

Jose Theodore

People talk a lot about Pittsburgh, but Pittsburgh showed tonight they're really a good team. They have so many skilled players, it's scary to face them.

Fernando Ferrer

Oh, he went into the valley to do battle, and all the smart money was on Goliath. And, then, who had to face 'em?

Moises Alou

Anything can happen in the playoffs, especially when you face good pitching,

Armon Johnson

After a while, I think we got a hand in his face and cooled him down a little. But he's a great player. It's tough to stop a shooter when he gets hot like that.

J. Horton

Somebody out there knows this man. I know his face is covered, but if it were my husband and I saw him, I would still recognize his movements and his body.

C.C. Sabathia

Some people may not know us. But I guarantee you that in clubhouses around the league, they know who we are. We don't have to see our faces on TV every night. As long as we're playing in October.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Ted Shaw

Quite a few of the men I've recommended for release have failed, and I've had to face that.

Brian Tracy

You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.

Jane Green

Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

C. S. Lewis

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

Bryant H. McGill

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

Alan Lightman

And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice, will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.

Alain de Botton

We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.

Boris Kodjoe

We are willing to weather the storm of multiple failures to achieve a goal. We're so convinced in the destination that we are able to let go of the reins and give it to God.

Booker T. Washington

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Brene Brown

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Ruth Rendell

The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better.

Kaley Cuoco

I've never been in an acting class in my life.

Orlando Bloom

I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.

Magnus Scheving

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

Murray Bartlett

I've never been a big nightlife person. I have a pretty low-key life.

Robby Benson

I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

Daniel Craig

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

Layne Staley

I've always looked for the perfect life to step into.

Anton Chekhov

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

Dean Koontz

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

Arthur Young

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Abraham Verghese

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Alexander Pope

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

David Perlmutter

Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.

Thomas de Quincey

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

Thomas Sydenham

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

Thomas Sydenham

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

Mark Whitaker

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

Steve Robinson

That's what we want to do. We want to put some pressure on and just run, run, run.

David Eckstein

That's what we try to do, put pressure on the other pitcher.

Paul Brinkman

This puts a lot of pressure on us. It is unfortunate, but that is the way it is. It could be pretty rough for students.

Carnie Wilson

If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel.

Jan de Bont

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Jamie Redknapp

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Ari Graynor

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

Billie Jean King

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

Aretha Franklin

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

Ben Nicholson

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Baha'u'llah

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

Baha'u'llah

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

C. S. Lewis

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

bell hooks

To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.

Bob Dylan

The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.

Billy Crystal

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Blaise Pascal

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only the suffering God can help.

Bob Dylan

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Arthur Schopenhauer

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Elie Wiesel

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Elie Wiesel

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

Elie Wiesel

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.