Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Weiland

Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am.

Chris Huffman

As far as the radio stuff ... it still blows me away that this would happen to us. We'll all say without hesitating that we aren't rock stars, we aren't anybody special. We are just normal goofy ordinary people that get to do this for a living.

Tom Izzo

As far as my confidence in the team, as crazy as it sounds, I still think we have a chance to win our last two games. If we do that, I think we go into the Big Ten Tournament on a high and have every bit a chance to win as anybody else.

Richard Maloney

As anybody in the United States is aware, the skyrocketing costs of health care are at crisis proportions. The union has been very reluctant to pay any of that.

Charles Adams

As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.

Curt Schilling

The bottom line is that the ball should not have hit him. You've got to be able to get out of the way of that pitch. I threw a ball in and jammed him the pitch before. I threw in a couple of times during his first at-bat. That's just the way it goes. I'm not trying to hit anybody in the head. Everybody I have been on the field with knows I play the game the way it's supposed to be played.

Jeremy Affeldt

The bottom line is I blew it. It was a routine double play. I can't look anybody in the eye right now. It was an embarrassment.

Gary Sheffield

The bottom line, ... is why should you be trying to get anybody on your side if you're doing the right thing in the first place?

Dale Mays

The boys were just 15, 16 years old, cutting up when we walked into the room. It got a little quieter when they saw us. Then James said something and gave them a look, and that's all it took. Everybody got quiet. I never knew anybody who was as respected by his peers. He didn't demand respect. He commanded it. The great ones have that. They have a presence.

Tony Stewart

A season's still a season. Let's not reinvent the wheel. We're starting this year with the same guys and the same attitude we did the year before, and the year before that.

Lindy Ruff

As a team, there's nights when you need his enthusiasm, you need that desire to go through anybody. His fearless attitude on the ice is something that keeps other teams on their toes. There's nights you just can't have another player do that. He's full bore, straight ahead, and the first guy there when there's trouble for any of his teammates.

Orlando McGuire

As Cro-Magnon as it sounds, the problem with attitudes is some people have just never had their ass kicked -- and I don't mean necessarily in the physical sense.

Stan Bergman

As always, our main goal is to go out and compete with a positive attitude and to have a good experience.

Juande Ramos

The boys really deserve to be in the final. Not only because of their efforts tonight, but because of their attitude throughout the tournament.

Tammie Adair

The big thing was just getting them to focus. We just want them to take with them a positive attitude and still have their goals and dreams in focus.

Mitchell Moore

Attitude is everything. How you see it is how you treat it. What is our perspective about underage drinking?

Troy Bell

Attitude had a lot to do with it. It had to be a person that when you first met them, you were immediately at ease. And it's real important to sense a high level of enthusiasm about we were doing at the airport.

Source Unknown

Attitude Adjuster: When you smile at someone, nine times out of 10 the other person will smile back and you've made two people's days brighter and better.

Marcia Gay Harden

A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'

Paul Grasmanis

Another very intense guy. He plays hard when he's in there. He plays violent. We call him 'Violent Gras.'

John Hales

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

M. Wolfe

As analysts we are paid to make anticipatory calls on things, and if all we do is repeat what management says to us, we are not doing our jobs. So I don't spend that much time listening to the companies.

Terry Fleck

As a matter of fact, I'm going to call the governor's office right now to encourage that.

Sian Jones

The call would go out: 'Who can drive a bulldozer?' and inevitably someone would raise their hand.

Bill Cowher

The call was made to try to get us a spark and get us another possession. That's my decision. If it works, it's a good play. If it doesn't, you're open to second guessing, which is the nature of this business. But I have no second thoughts about that, I really don't.

Brent Sutter

The call was made. They had the opportunity to review it. As far as the IIHF was concerned, they didn't feel it was worth a suspension or worth a review. I trust them on that.

Brad Dean

The call volume has been higher and more steady than preceding some of the hurricanes we had last year.

Abdullah A. Badawi

As far as we are concerned, he has committed a serious offense and we cannot hand him over to others to be extradited,

Jalal Rumi

A shadow cannot ignorethe sun that all day creates and movesit.

Jessye Norman

As for my voice, it cannot be categorised - and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range.

Rig Veda

A scholar cannot sit with an ignorant person and expect to gain by the meeting.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.

Lord Chesterfield

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones

Gloria Bergquist

Automakers need a consistent national policy for fuel economy, and national fuel economy standards cannot be written by any single state or group of states.

Kofi Annan

a unique evil, which cannot simply be consigned to the past or forgotten.

Jose Maria

As far as we can, I hope and desire that they are soon out of prison.

Marlo Raynolds

As oil prices have gone up, you get this increased desire to get out onto the new frontiers of oil. We're now getting into the dirtiest sources of oil anywhere.

David Long

Our size has always held (opponents) under their average. But also our guards are very athletic. Athleticism and desire are what you need to play defense.

Dennis Miller

Our desire was to be annexed into one of the villages of Columbia, but it didn't turn out that way.

Mark Wheeler

Our desire is to consolidate the market as well so we'd be interested in what their view is. Anything could happen.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

Mike Baker

Our effort and desire were there throughout the game. We just weren't very smart with some things we did.

Manmohan Singh

Our emphasis and sincere desire is that this matter should be resolved without taking recourse to coercive methods and any sort of confrontation, as they only exacerbate tensions in the region and beyond.

Alphonso Jackson

Of the families I talked to, 90% of the families have no desire to go back, ... But that's not what I'm hearing from Texas. It's a whole different perspective.

Chris Lilley

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, 'No, it's for me.'

John Harrison

We have victims from around the country, as well as from outside the country. They (scam artists) promise the world, but can never deliver. They victimize communities; they victimize families and the elderly in particular,

Stephanie McDonald

As far as day-to-day life, he's a very happy baby. He's not miserable. He loves music. Knowing that he's not in any pain and that he can express his feelings is wonderful. It relieves us a lot. All we want is for him to enjoy his life.

Adrian Gonzalez

As long as the kids can get to enjoy this, they can take it back to their school and tell their friends about it, and get their friends to do well so they can come back here next year.

John Beilein

Rather than those gut-wrenching last seconds, it was good to just get some of these guys out of there and let them enjoy the experience of playing in the NCAA Tournament.

Karen Smith

People come from week to week, they enjoy each other and start forming friendships.

Jerome Flynn

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

Darren Criss

I've always enjoyed fashion and dressing up for things, whether it's high fashion or play fashion.

Tamra Duncan

I've always enjoyed cooking, and I have just loved giving people recipes that can warm up a home.

Wilma Askinas

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

Bill Steiner

See? We didn't want you to stress and miss out on enjoying your weekend.

Olli Rehn

Turkey's fit to open the negotiations with the European Union,

Klaus Liebscher

I think European integration -- and this is a must for me -- must not be counteracted by nationalist, protectionist measures.

Michael Caine

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

Chris Tomlinson

I feel I've lost ground. I got to 22, I'd been to the finals of the Olympics, the Commonwealths, Worlds and Europeans and you think, 'This is it, 23, time to do it.' I'm now 24 and time moves on.

Jeremy Corbyn

Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.

Jason Winston George

American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.

Brian Shea

For many of the European insurers, Katrina will likely push the full-year 2005 (earnings) to an above-average year with respect to large losses.

Pascal Lamy

It is the Europeans and the Americans that must budge,

Warren Christopher

At heart, ... this is a European problem.

John Gibbons

As good as the team has played he feels if he's around we're that much better. That frustrates him, he's the leader of the pitching staff.

Chet Faker

Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.

E. Hicks

People relate to wood in ways that they don't to other materials. It feels real and natural, unlike plastic and steel. It feels like you really can make something out of it, rather than just put something together.

Gillian Apps

People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck.

Darnell Jenkins

Originally, I prayed for an increase in attendees. We started with only five people and now that there's near 100, it feels real. It is real.

Voltaire

No snowflake in an avalanch ever feels responsible.

Nate Clements

(Defensive coordinator) Jerry Gray feels the same way I feel,

John Greene

DB2 Express-C just feels like a much more profound piece of software.

Hillel Hillel

a place that feels like family, the warmth of home.

Alan Cohen

God is a frequency. Stay tuned.

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.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Source Unknown

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Brian Billick

Just a lack of focus. I don't know what to tell you. We'll work at it.

Olympia Snowe

Just because we have different views, that doesn't mean that we lack principles.

Justin Taylor

I think development has been stifled for 40 years because of a lack of parking,

Craig Montgomery

I think everyone was surprised at the lack of crowds. There was no one in the neighborhood.

O. J. Simpson

I saw a total lack of concentration. I'm at a loss as to why we didn't make the adjustments that we talked about.

Calvin Coolidge

Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.

Will Kemp

As an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Rachel Lawson

The thing about our sport is you have to turn around and it's a new game. You can't live in the past, you have to learn from your mistakes and keep moving.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Evan Esar

Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.

Edwin Way Teale

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

John Hueston

This is a simple case. It's not about accounting. It's about lies.

Susan Love

Breast cancer: Where we are and what lies ahead.

Imron Cotan

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide.

Tom Nalen

Playing doesn't lie, you've got to go out there and get it done. And if you do, it doesn't matter how you got there, they'll find a place for you to play.

John Rzeznik

All we are is what we're told and most of thats been lies.

Jason Dourisseau

It's going to be tough on Wednesday, I'm not going to lie. But I think we'll be ready to go.

Eric Anderson

As you say, ... the power lies with all the heterosexuals.

Marianne Williamson

My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.

John T. Flynn

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

James Shapiro

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

Jeevan Sivasubramaniam

As long as the book's vision is about something that's making life better for all people. That's our criteria.

Francis Mathew

As long as life exist, Overtaking is allowed.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

Asif Kapadia

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

Rich Coleman

Reading and writing are life skills that everyone should have the opportunity to learn,

Anthony Head

People said, 'That's going to be around your neck for the rest of your life. I didn't have a problem with it.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Joan Felt

My father's memory is impaired, but mostly he's just an old man.

Manny Lawson

Getting a shutout here is going to be a memory for the rest of my life.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

When you want any memory you can use the mind just as you can put on your tape recorder.

E. Joseph Cossman

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Julie Burchill

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle.

Liz Ryan

Are they all 50-year-old white men? Did they all come from the same set of companies?

Samuel Barnett

Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.

Bible Bible

And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Megan Callahan

Roose has tremendous physical and mental toughness, leadership, skills, and experience.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Lindsey Graham

putting too much pressure on the men and women in uniform.

Carlos Parreira

We want to preserve his health. He's not being dropped.

Derek Jarman

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Allan Bristow

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be the best.

Jeff Sluman

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Ray Evernham

The more aerodynamics become involved, the more Dodges seem to suffer,

Ahmed Nazif

are the ones that seem to be doing those violent acts.

James Fitzgerald

The spelling of 'penicillin' may be a way for him to 'dumb down;' to make it seem like he's somebody other than he really is.

Diane Siri

I've accomplished most of the things I set out to do. It just seems like the right time to make a transition.

Rick Dickson

Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.

Rick Ankiel

Now I can go out there and just concentrate on playing. Every day I seem to be getting a little more comfortable. The more I see of it, the better off I'll be.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Angela Merkel

There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.

Roger Williams

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

David Castillo

It was one shot. The thing is, it was the same stuff in me all three times. That's what happened. That's what it was, because it stays in your system. It was the same stuff, and there was nothing I could do about it.

Antonia Bird

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Charles V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Nikita Khrushchev

The thought sometimes -- the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of ... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came -- if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just -- it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.

Nikita Khrushchev

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

Michel Hazanavicius

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Jeff Kinney

fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Auguste Comte

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Juvenal

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Barry Watson

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.