Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Shaffer

Scott was disappointed as he was 19th and just missed performing another list. We have talked all year about his improvement from where he was when he came in, in August and where he is now. He has had a great season and will only get better.

Mark Koenig

My life has been on the line since August 2004.

Benjamin Moore

One of the things I'm proudest of in my career is producing so much of August's work here. I'm going to believe that since August is such feisty guy, he'll meet this health challenge like he's met the challenge of writing an extraordinary cultural history.

Jack McGuire

One of the things that we kicked around, we moved out of our house in August 2001 and we were in storage until November. Possibly something got mishandled during storage and went someplace else.

Carey Perloff

One forgets that before August, there was a very limited literature for black actors. August created a generation of actors, a huge number of very talented people who have their careers because of the depth and complexity they could find in the roles he wrote. And the work is so undeniably powerful that it crosses all kinds of lines.

Vince Farrell

I think they should be very, very cautious. There's no rush but if you have some cash, now is the time buy selectively, ... I believe we're going to have a very quiet August but there's an old rule: Never sell short a dull market because you usually get pretty good rallies.

Mark Vitner

I think spending will be pretty solid the rest of the year. The August numbers will be important due to back-to-school sales.

Roy McDonald

I saw it in August of '77 when I was 11 years old, ... It was the perfect film for a young boy. Up until that point, science fiction/fantasy films were very hit and miss. I remember the buildup for Logan's Run and seeing the movie and being completely disappointed. But Star Wars delivered. I was completely blown away. I've seen every one since.

Robert Lowell

I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed dayIn latter August when the hayCame creaking to the barn.

Ed Dunlop

As for the future hopefully he will carry on but today is the day, let's live it up.

Joel Pineiro

I've been feeling great all year. It was just a matter of having that extra confidence to go out there and challenge people. Maybe it's a little too late in the season, but it's something I can carry over to next year.

Pierce Brown

My roommates are all such happy-go-lucky guys, and I carry some of the stress around a lot more.

Richard Lamm

The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement officers to identify criminals and terrorists.

Simon Schama

The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power.

Takeo Hiranuma

We should carry out reforms that are necessary, but when it comes to tradition, we should protect it with all our might.

Saeb Erakat

We should be prepared for elections and carry out whatever is possible to implement,

Eric Fehrnstrom

We think special legislation is called for, and we're willing to work with the church to help them carry out their charitable mission.

Ian Stannard

We think next year will be a very different story as excess global liquidity, the driver for carry trades, is drained by central banks.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Max Cleland

Deployments have increased some 300 percent, and the military has been decreased by a third: Hello, good morning -- you can't keep that up forever, ... Sooner or later you're going to get people stressed out, spread too thin around the world, and they just won't put up with it anymore.

John Feehery

Denny is good at picking up the pieces. He is a very soothing influence. At the end of the day, I think people will be looking to Denny for leadership.

Bill Walsh

Dennis Green is as good as they get,

Randy Martin

DeMorius had a good night and Markie had some good, tough runs on second effort.

Thomas Carlyle

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.

Evan Kohlmann

You have some from poor families, some jobless. You also have individuals that come from wealthy families, that come from a life of privilege and substance and material goods and material wealth.

Peter Thompson

I would have thought maybe that's the sort of information we might be hoping to get from people who are actually moving hazardous goods through our jurisdiction. We have some pretty tricky areas, particularly in West Vancouver. You're right in the midst of residential.

Vajira Premawardhana

If they are going to run a higher deficit, then they will have to resort to higher borrowings, pushing up interest rates and fueling inflation. Whenever there's inflation, spending on manufactured goods comes down.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Richard Gilhooly

There's nothing surprising in this when you see day after day after day after day, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 layoffs, ... So if anyone's shocked by this, they haven't been reading the newspapers for the past three months.

Norman Cousins

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Gary Pruitt

Newspapers are not dying. That's just wrong, and we are going to prove it wrong together.

Gloria Borger

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

Lutfi Hakim

He (Bashir) did not get the remission at all. I have just called him and he said that he had received the news from the prison.

I. F. Stone

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.

Francis Quarles

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Patricia Ireland

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

Paul Weller

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60.

Robert Gottlieb

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Edgar Allan Poe

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

Thomas S. Monson

We learn and grow and become stronger as we face and survive the trials through which we must pass.

Margaret J. Wheatley

To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.

Lance Armstrong

What is stronger, fear or hope?

John Trudell

Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What kills me makes others stronger,

N. Scott Momaday

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.