Famous Quotes & Sayings

G. H. Hardy

The people who come to us are desperate. It's as if they're in a burning building. Their lives are at stake.... We didn't feel that we could morally back out and put these people back in the fire and let them die.

Bill Bailey

I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...

Ben Holmes

A lot of people were left holding the burning carcasses of those companies. We've learned a lot in the last few years. The market has become more selective.

Phil Goff

a man probably responsible for 50 deaths, the burning of hundreds of homes, destruction of villages and who currently holds several dozen people as hostage.

Rupert Grint

They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans.

Rob Jones

There were some people out there burning the ditches, and it got a little too close to the structure.

Sam Endicott

There may be some burning animals, ... We'll see what happens.

Bridget Bohnet

The remaining crews will now be conducting mop up operations and making sure that there are no burning embers or hot spots.

Jeff Powell

It is that smell of burning flesh and rubber that I just love. You can just tell rugby is being played.

Ed Helms

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

Jay Cutler

It's the steak I always get when I go there. It's my favorite cut.

Christopher Davis

It's one of our favorite large value funds, and has offered very good long-term returns with a lot of stability.

Steve Solomon

It's one of my favorite times of the year to be down here in the Grand.

Jake Shears

I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

Danton Cole

This is why playoffs are great. This has always been my favorite time of the year.

Pete Sampras

They're all very valid: Not only is he winning majors, but the way he's winning them -- with pretty much ease. He's pretty much the favorite in every major for the rest of his career.

Jim Rosborough

It was a whale of a game. That's my favorite memory of the place.

Elena Dementieva

It was a very tough match but I am just thinking, 'Why is my favorite score 7-6 in the third?

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Ed Bradley

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

David Riesman

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

David Hockney

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

Derek Fisher

You have to work hard at things.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Derek Jeter

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Dee Dee Ramone

It's very hard to tour.

Kara Walker

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

Jane Austen

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

Jesmyn Ward

I wanted to be my own heroine.

John Gibbons

We're going to give this a go. That's our plan. If somebody is really hot and we're trying to win games, it may come down to that.

Andre Woodson

We're going to give it to the hot hand.

John Hamilton

When we got here on Monday, we rented a hotel and started to get help.

Andre Owens

We're looking for a win, because we want to be as hot as we can be going into the tournament. We have to look at it that way.

Betty Wright

You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot.

Gina Lombardi

With the light-rail going in right next to us and all the development around, it makes our land a hot spot. You can't really stand in the way of it.

Curt Shaw

We knew what was on the line. The pressure was off after the loss to Hot Springs (Thursday).

Richard Rushing

At any point in time, I can reach out and touch everyone's laptop at the hot spot, and there's usually not any way of preventing that -- from me touching and looking at other people's stuff at the hot spot itself.

David Cook

All people who know her know she's not a hot dog, she's a serious journalist.

Clive Sinclair

The word 'western' usually refers to movies, of course, but there is a literary tradition of the same name that pre-dates the moving picture and retains its vitality yet.

Charles Dickens

A literary man - with a wooden leg.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Anne Fadiman

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Sylvester McCoy

'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.

Stella Pence

This year is also shaping up to be a very literate and literary Festival.

Laurie Levenson

We don't usually think of them as literary giants.

Rick Moody

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

Martin Jacques

We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.

Jude Law

What's it all about, Alfie? /Is it just for the moment we live? /What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie? /Are we meant to take more than we give or are we meant to be kind?

Gideon Gono

This is a modest payment meant to demonstrate our sincerity with respect to our international obligations,

Jeremy P. Johnson

It's one of the most wonderful places to run, and everyone is so supportive of you. It's where I'm meant to be.

Kathleen Hohl

It's a dispensation. It's meant to be observed in an appropriate way.

Lance Armstrong

It really meant a lot, and for a number of different reasons,

George Williams

It probably wasn't real official, but boy, it meant everything to me.

Damian Miller

It was a special day for the team. It was just meant to be our day.

Tony Kaye

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.

Chuck D.

This is the second Pearl Harbor. I don't think that I overstate it.

Matt Brooks

I don't think you can overstate how important it is.

Brian Nelson

They are the boss, plain and simple and we know that. We didn't do anything wrong, we just didn't have their approval.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

Brian Billick

We've got a lot of work to do, plain and simple.

Russ Anderson

I have more flexibility, more stamina, I just plain feel better. It's a wonderful thing.

Owen Meredith

One of the sublimest thing in the world is plain truth.

Ken Wilber

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

Seth Greenberg

We just have to find a way to make more plays, make more shots. We have to take it over the hump. Plain and simple.

Peter Ustinov

It is of course, reprehensible to steal from others, but plain stupid to steal from yourself

Ann Miller

He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.

Alan Lowenthal

Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.

Bobby Flay

An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

David Whitehouse

We are reaching the point where the temperature standstill is becoming the major feature of the recent global warm period that began in 1980. In brief, the global temperature has remained constant for longer than it has increased."

Jamie Farr

One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.

Janet Jackson

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Anthony Horowitz

Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.

Stephen Sondheim

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

Stephenie Meyer

You've got a bit of a temper, don't you?

Stephen King

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.