Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

INSECTIVORA, n.""See,"" cries the chorus of admiring preachers,""How Providence provides for all His creatures!""""His care,"" the gnat said, ""even the insects follows: For us He has provided wrens and swallows."" --Sempen Railey

Abby Aronowitz

If you idolize someone for their accomplishments, and those accomplishments spurn you on to make gains in your own life, then admiring a celebrity can have a positive influence on your ambition, or even your mental health.

Frederick Douglass

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.

Ryan Swanson

It's my Kansas, it's my Duke, it's my North Carolina. Growing up here and growing up as a little kid during the national tournament and helping out in the dressing rooms with my dad, watching all the great teams and great coaches that have passed through this building ... and also coming to Blue Dragon games since I was a little kid and admiring the players ...

Robert Half

Not admiring a mistake is a bigger mistake.

Nick Cannon

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

Thomas Jones

It's a great feeling to have your name mentioned with him, especially. I grew up admiring him my whole life, so as a running back, even to be playing here in Chicago where he played and to see his name all over, obviously to have your name mentioned with him is something special.

Deion Branch

When we got the rings, ... we were just looking at 'em, admiring how beautiful they were. And then one of the guys was like, 'Gotta get another one.'

Bob Graham

admiring of the diplomatic skills that President Bush has displayed throughout this incident. He was able to keep the matter contained, keep it within appropriate diplomatic channels and avoid this incident from becoming a major source of rupture of the US-China relationship.

Jason Bay

There are still a lot of things that need to be worked out, ... but it's flattering to have that offer.

David Bruce

I've heard a great many flattering things about Roosevelt, but never that he was notable for his skill in administration.

Donovan Hand

It's flattering to see people show up for our home games from the community.

Kenny Dalglish

The scoreline is a bit flattering really.

Bible Bible

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

Michelle Smurl

It was flattering to get them in Brevard.

Megan Jasper

As flattering as it is to be the only label on that map, we're not alone,

Twiggy

Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.

Annika Sorenstam

I find it flattering to be compared to Tige

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Pete Boone

I think you weigh all of the issues together, including the interview. It still may be close, but you've got to have all of the components.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

John Powell

We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Mark Trakh

They are going to be scary for a long time. And I'm including this year when I say that.

John Gregory

They are effectively going to get several minutes worth of return, not including promo time, for the supply of the goods.

Tom Izzo

That was a big game, including the way we won it.

Sushil Koirala

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison.

Michael Korda

To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.

Jayne Meadows

Steve Laurence is the only person that was on the first 'Tonight Show,' right to the end. He was a little high school boy, 14 years old.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

Jeremy Newberry

I think the life expectancy for offensive linemen isn't great. For me, having young children, it's a somber thought. But it's part of the job.

Charlie Chaplin

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning!

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Azzam Tamimi

I actually have a moderating influence, rather than radicalizing influences,

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Yvonne Johnson

I think we need to do that rather than just talk about it.

Luigi Speranza

We look at this a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Kelly Slater

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.

Lois Capps

I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive,

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Marc Warren

Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Jenna Morasca

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Dan Bennett

Dale Hansen is a tremendous talent, and we wish him the very best.

Carol Davis

They've really been tremendous with everything -- they just do so much for us,

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Larry Coker

We need to find out about ourselves. We're going to get a tremendous test.

Steve Coppell

We had a tremendous year. It's been dreamlike in many ways.

Steve Lee

We put up some tremendous numbers, but we just couldn't get it done.