Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dirk Benedict

I wouldn't refuse stardom, recognition, acclaim. I had no axe to grind either way... I wasn't wishing I was somewhere else, somebody else, richer or more famous. I was happy and secure with who I was, what I was and where I was. I didn't have to have what they all had.

Arturo Chavez

I'll use a body spray sometimes if I have to change real quick and don't have time to take a shower. I have Axe Body Spray.

William Shakespeare

And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.

Bible Bible

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

David Ploss

All he says is that he has a one-year contract. They will probably find someone else to take over as CEO. I'm not saying Joe is a guy who couldn't do it, but generally the guy who has to wield the axe is there for a short period of time.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Sleep! I feel the need of it. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!

Albert Einstein

All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Mark Sunner

A lot of companies in the midst of Linux development have put their plans on hold because they don't want to be in a situation where they would have to owe SCO some royalties. So you can see why there's an axe to grind.

Nancy L. Johnson

This bill takes an effective axe to gas prices as we work to get the flow of oil back through the port and to restore rigs, refineries and pipelines,

Matt Berry

I would've missed the leaves changing. When fall hit, that's when it would have hurt me.

Mark Richt

I would think he is going to roll into the fall as the No. 1 guy. I still haven't seen anything to make me think we shouldn't do that.

Marton Csokas

I would take lots of falls and you know, get shot three or four times and this sort of thing, so all that sort of stuff. And there are tussles with various characters. I like that kind of thing.

Cecelia Ahern

I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected.

Author unknown

Just remember...if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

Johnny Damon

Just not hitting with guys in scoring position. It falls to our hitters.

Shaquille O'Neal

As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I'd score 40 points. I'd come home and say, 'Look dad, I scored 40.' He'd never have a smile on his face. He'd be like, 'I saw that move you did. What if you'd hurt your knee?'

Kevin Callahan

Her focus is on the important issues now. The fall is the time to focus on campaigning.

David Holmes

I think the market is very healthy. With investors still waiting on the sidelines to get in, I just don't see the market falling away.

Oscar Hammerstein II

I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm.

Henri Rousseau

The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

Jennifer Wilson

In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one.

Oskar Schindler

I thank my personal staff for their restless sacrifice for my work.

Jim Boeheim

His side of the room was always neat,

Peter Max

When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs.

Jim Martin

When he spoke, the room was quiet. It was very moving.

Bob Geldof

We've got to go up to the room now.

Rosie Jones

Laura's never been in our team room so I don't know how she can say that.

Richard Baxter

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

Tyler Cowen

Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.

Zig Ziglar

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.

Nancy Pelosi

The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.

Roger Moore

Go out there and row faster.

Josh Smith

That's the first time we've won three in a row since I've been here.

Paul Celan

you're rowing by wordlight

Elaine Dundy

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

Robert Ray

They got us tonight, but we've got two more with them, that's why it's two out of three, ... Everyone's relaxed, we've won two in a row before. I can't tell you how many times we've won two in a row.

Mike Day

We've been here three years in a row ... we're the most experienced team left.

Jim Shannon

We've won three in a row now. We're getting better. This is the time of year you like to see that. We feel like we're starting to turn the corner.

Catriona Matthew

To start with three birdies in a row was perfect,

Theodore Roethke

To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...

Kevin Quinn

I think they'll get on with their lives, get more sleep.

Adam Blanton

I ain't been able to eat, sleep, nothing for 36 days.

Mariano Rivera

I didn't want to give in, ... I didn't want him to get a little blooper or something. I wouldn't have been able to sleep tonight.

Dave Adams

He had been sleeping the whole time and was totally disoriented,

Richelle Mead

I disconnected as a sleepy Seth stepped out of the bedroom. “Who’s Dante? Was that a collect call to the Inferno?” “They won’t accept the charges,” I murmured.

Richelle Mead

Rose. Roza. Open your eyes." I've never heard heard his voice so strained, so frantic. "Don't go to sleep on me. Not yet.

Richard Avedon

He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.

Ryan Kwanten

Sleep has never been a priority in my life.

Umberto Eco

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

Greg Walker

When he was on opposing teams, we actually used his swing to teach off of. Some of the things he does, we talked about for two years ... so we know his swing pretty good.

Buddy Bell

I don't know what to say. We didn't swing the bats.

Virginia Woolf

For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...

Wynton Marsalis

Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your world view and gives you more confidence in your cultural achievements. Improvisational jazz teaches you about yourself while the swing in jazz teaches you how to work with others

Wynton Marsalis

Everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

Wynton Marsalis

Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.

Drew Martin

I just get in there and swung the bat. You're not taking pitches. Just swing it and see what happens.

John Gibbons

I'm just going to go with Reed. I like the way Reed's swinging it,

Frederick W. Smith

I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss.

Whit Ayres

There's weariness and frustration. But that's different from active, nationwide protests.