Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Tilly

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

Jennifer Weiner

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.

Jeff Miller

I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores

Jean Pigozzi

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

Gemma Ward

I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean.

Gary Lineker

When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

Fred Brooks

The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.

Enya

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

Eoin Colfer

Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Butler. “Are you sure you’re at the library? I thought I heard water.” Artemis smiled, enjoying the exchange. “Water? Surely not. The only thing flowing here is information.” “Are you grinning, Artemis? For some reason I get the feeling that you’re wearing that smug smile of yours.

Paul Gregg

So we have every reason to believe that he'll be with the team when he recovers from his foot injury, early in the season.

Bill Gross

So, the lower inflation goes and the more and more investors believe that inflation will stay low, the better it is for the bond market.

John Edwards

South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds.

Mark Rylance

So whoever you believe wrote the plays, they felt it was important to mask them, to mask the identity, the personality of the author.

Joanna Field

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

William Slemaker

Sometimes I feel like she might not be around. But I have to believe that she's alive.

Maureen Buice

One gentleman had what I believe was a single (red) rose. Someone had a teddy bear. There was one suspect who was particularly scary because he showed up with duct tape and rope.

Ruth Adams

Once you join the military you become a guardian of the United States, ... You are trained to believe the United States is worth defending.

Sarah Lowe

Now, it's not like a joke, but in a sense, it's something that we laugh about and can't believe that's what we went through.

Scott Young

Huge. County championship. Oughtta be another big one.

Sandy Greenberg

The county needs to educate the public and come up with better recommendations for what types of trees should be planted.

Paul Mullen

It probably would be east of Ashland somewhere. It's going to be south of Highway 370 in Sarpy County -- north of I-680 in Douglas County.

Tom Tryon

They're not only getting the Calaveras County sales tax, we're paying to improve their roads for them,

Charles Martin

There's far greater demand now in Kent County for housing than there is current supply and that has driven the price up.

Mike McHugh

There's a lot of talent that leaves the county every day.

Ronda Storms

It's a terrible loss. I'm sorry Pat didn't do more to keep him. I think it creates a gaping, yawning hole in county leadership.

Ann Beard

It's a big election, with the 24-member County Commission. There's interest, especially in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th districts.

Chris Cauble

It's a county rival. Every time we've played, it's been a big game ? it goes back years and years and years. They've kinda owned us the last few outings, so it was a big win for us.

Clint Eastwood

I can't do that to myself!

Susan B. Anthony

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

John Jay Hooker

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.

Stuart Murray

We felt it was important that we introduced what will ultimately be part of our election platform. We know that we're a ways from an election, but we just think that Manitobans need to know that there's an alternative out there in terms of making our communities safer.

James Mercer

The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Michael Dowd

Facts are God’s native tongue.

Martin Jacques

One of the unique features of China is that, notwithstanding the fact that it has a population of 1.3 billion, around 92% regard themselves as Han Chinese. This is quite different from the world's other most populous countries, such as India, the U.S. and Indonesia, which are ethnically diverse.

Doug Day

Of all the great shooters there have been, to think that I would still be third after 12 years, that's pretty surprising. But, I don't think it's any more surprising than the fact that the Nos. 1, 2 and 4 players on the 3-point list would all be from the same area.

Steve Siegel

Lars is a great pool player. But I'm more proud of the fact that he's always studying. He's an honor student. He wants to go to pharmacy school, and his schooling is foremost in his mind right now.

Lily James

I saw Cate Blanchett in 'Big and Small,' and it was mind-blowing. The fact that she can do theatre and is also a huge movie star is really exciting.

Mark Twain

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that was the fact that it is past - and can't be restored

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

John Silva

It worked well. The officer should be given a commendation.

Kay Redfield Jamison

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

Tim Laatsch

At this point, we've given everything we can give in terms of the contract.

Chris Mooney

At times, they would go on scoring runs, which we haven't really had. We hadn't given up a significant scoring run, I think, all season.

Annie Golden

Every time you're given a job, you're given a gift, and if you're flexible, you never know what's going to happen.

Mike Paul

The kids have stayed together and haven't given up, even though we're playing a lot of young kids.

Philippa Gregory

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

Brian Tracy

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Michelle Collins

Successful homeownership is not just putting people into homes, it's also making sure people keep their homes.

Rachel Zoe

Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.

Cindy Funkhouser

Some people have done it in 3. Most people get it in 11 or 15.

Gary Davis

Some people go to church. We shoot. It's the same type of get-together. To us, this is our sport. This is what we like to do.

Alex Rocco

Some people go to acting classes to learn. I just kind of went for the dates.

Mim Myren

Some people go for visits all throughout the week.

Gregory Jackson

Some people feel that there's some racism involved, ... I'm wondering myself.

Scott Bowles

Some people feel it?s better than Shadow Creek.

Albert Camus

What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

Albert Camus

For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

Albert Camus

We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

Amanda Palmer

There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It's so threatening to people, to women as well, and it's threatening the order of things.

Amanda Palmer

Meditation, especially for people who dont know very much about it and think its this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

Amanda Palmer

American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully. And to be sure: when you ask, there's always the possibility of a no on the other side of the request. If we don't allow for that no, we're not actually asking, we're either begging or demanding. But it is the fear of the no that keeps so many of our mouths sewn tightly shut.

Annie Lennox

When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.

Annie Lennox

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.

Annie Lennox

If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.

Demi Lovato

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

E. P. Thompson

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.

Morihei Ueshiba

I want considerate people to listen to the voice of Aikido. It is not for correcting others; it is for correcting your own mind. This is Aikido. This is the mission of Aikido and should be your mission.

Morihei Ueshiba

Do not fail to learn from The pure voice of an Ever-flowing mountain stream Splashing over the rocks.

Morgan Freeman

Working on stage is really a great voice developer.

Milan Kundera

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

Joseph Addison

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

Jordin Sparks

I'd love to do something with Kelly Clarkson because she's been a monumental influence on me. I love how she handles her celebrity. She's not in the tabloids a lot but everyone knows and respects her because she's got an amazing voice. That's something I aim towards.