Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fallon McClanahan

It seems like every game we've played with Jefferson has been hard-fought. There's lots of hitting, lots of covering and lots of offense. That's what makes for good volleyball.

Adam Clymer

A lot of the reporters have really been wondering and doubting their editors. It wasn't that they knew the defense of Judy was wrong, but they didn't have a sense of what was being defended. . . . People all over the paper think the Times should have been covering the story harder.

Emery Wallace

They knew where I was going to be. The girl that was covering me knew everywhere I was going. That was pretty hard, but if I didn't have a look, I was trying to pass it to my teammates. They had a good scouting report. They knew all of our plays.

Jack Beven

It is still quite large. We will have hurricane-force and tropical storm-force winds covering a large area.

Barry Alvarez

It never looked like he was tired. I guess that's a good thing with having those 18-year-old legs. They don't get tired, those kids. Man, did he play. I'm really proud of him. That's unbelievable. Then he's covering punts and on the punt return and kickoff team. We took him off some of that.

Joe Collins

It wasn't easy covering 6-7 and 6-6 shooters. We weren't playing hard in the first half. In the second half we outplayed them, but they did the same to us in the first half.

Ron Ream

We practiced covering the option all week. The defense did a great job of staying with their assignments.

Brian Wolk

Our customers 18-year-old Japanese girls to 65-year-old ladies like the idea of covering their arms.

Jeff Fager

People don't want to leave it. They want to stay, even though covering Katrina has been so difficult and painful in so many ways.

Charles Dickens

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!

Alan Chambers

t's really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we're offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life. It's about pursuing a relationship with Christ.

Alan Alda

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

Edith Schaeffer

Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the people of God. The only way we can have personal victory in the midst of these flying arrows raining down on us is to call upon the Lord for help. It is His strength, supplied to us in our weakness, that makes victory after victory possible.

Frederic Bastiat

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.

Clayton Jolley

We always encourage the owners to do it themselves. We don't really want to mow any lots.

Debra Brown

We also target youth in schools as a preventive method. We talk to them about safe and unsafe behaviors. We encourage them to speak to their friends who may be on runaway status about practicing safe behaviors and finding a safe place so they won't be victimized on the street.

Denise Juneau

Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

Denise Levertov

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

Charles Gounod

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

Bing Gordon

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

Steven Hatfill

Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.

Carl Jung

I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

Bill Gates

I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.

Mark Stanley

The young guys have worked hard. They show up, don't say anything and do what they're supposed to. ... That's the foundation they need to have right now and pass it on to guys later.

Judy Taylor

This is a fund-raising project for the Decatur Public Schools Foundation and also to beautify the front of Eisenhower.

Carl Jung

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

Mark Feehily

...Always be proud of yourself and understand that it's your individuality that makes you beautiful.

Arthur Koestler

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

Bertrand Russell

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

Busy Philipps

Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated.

Bella Abzug

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

No one can transcend their own individuality.

Jerry Jarrell

It's as natural as day for us to be here.

Josh Lawrence

It's not that pretty, but I think he's just worked on at it so much. He's had that rhythm and that shot for so long, I think it just comes natural to him.

Carlos Hokama

There was some profit-taking today, which is natural after the rises we've seen.

Adriano Galliani

It's a day to remember. It seems to me (to be) the natural continuation, after much thought.

James Malone

This is a true positive from a very unfortunate natural disaster.

Robert Artelt

You really won't find natural pearls in the marketplace.

Aretha Franklin

I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me.

Aubrey McClendon

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.

Jane Austen

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Ricky Boren

It's a perception issue, ... It's the way the public perceives our investigation of our own officers.

Lord Puttnam

The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Jeffrey Gitomer

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

Spencer Waller

I don't think they want to be perceived as doing a lay-down in some kind of face-saving settlement, especially where that won't end the case, with the states going forward.

Jodi Picoult

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Paul Arden

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

Scott McCallum

I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we were getting a fair shake from the media.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Alan Ayckbourn

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

Chris Abani

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

Edith Sitwell

Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

Edith Sitwell

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Edith Sitwell

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Edith Wharton

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Earl Wilson

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

Cher

I'm going to have wrinkles really soon

Benjamin Franklin

He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

Clark Gable

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

Brooke Shields

People say, 'I love my wrinkles.' I don't love my wrinkles - come on!

Charles Bukowski

Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.

Andrew Mason

If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.

Alber Elbaz

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

Thomas Browne

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Tig Notaro

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.