Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Hayden

It was a long, difficult summer of 2004. That was a leap year, so several things happened - the Olympics and presidential election. And right in the middle of the election campaign - and I don't think this was an accident - the 9/11 Commission delivers its report.

Felipe Alou

That must be some kind of accident I'm playing this guy so much.

David Vitter

Unfortunately, we're at the top of a really bad list, ... That is railway crossing accidents and fatalities. Although we're not a populous state, we rank in the Top 3 in railway accidents and the Top 5 in deaths related to railway accidents. We have as many dangerous railway crossing as just about any state, except maybe for California and Illinois.

Bob Orr

Nobody really thought this mine accident would have a happy ending, but no one could have envisioned how much pain the families would suffer.

George Bernard Shaw

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

Jim Hall

On Monday, I met with FBI Director Louis Freeh to inform him that this accident might -- and again I emphasize the word might -- be the result of a deliberate act.

R. Robinson

No-one likes to injure a fellow professional, but it was a freak accident and it's good news for everybody involved that he's on the road to recovery now.

Joelle McGinnis

I don't think anyone will have a handle on how the fingers of the Dan Ryan will be affected. All the roads are interconnected, and one accident can have a domino effect on everything.

Maggie Lynch

If an operator is involved in a second avoidable accident within 12 months, they are required to receive an additional 16 hours of training. Operators who have had three collisions or more within the last 12 months, avoidable or unavoidable, may be required to attend our five-day, 40-hour Refresher Training class depending on the nature of the accidents.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Lon Buchheit

She's a natural born leader. She knows what needs to be done and how to do it.

Gary Murphy

She's a natural born leader for us. I thought that bucket helped us to get (the momentum) back our way.

Joe Girardi

Since high school I've wanted to do this. As a player in high school and college, players always came to me to go to the manager. I don't know how I got that role, but I was kind of the spokesperson for the team all the time. I enjoyed it. I enjoy the competition, and I love studying the game. I think that's why I was born to manage.

Judy Davis

I had quite a repressed childhood. I was born in '55 and by the mid '60s it was still very much a sort of '50s mentality there, being so remote. I just found it stifling. And at some point - I think I was about 12 - I came to the conclusion that it was going to be difficult to survive that little society somehow intact.

Deborah Eisenberg

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.

Jason Burke

I feel extremely fortunate to be able to lead this squadron, ... My oldest daughter was born in Meridian and my family just loves it here.

Ruby Rose

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

Mary Crosby

I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas.

E. Hicks

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

Aretha Franklin

On the sly, scoping for love.

Bruce Lee

Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.

Jerry Garcia

What a long strange trip it's been.

Winston Churchill

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

Yann Martel

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

Julio Cortazar

I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.

Oskar Kokoschka

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

Judy Holliday

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

Ronnie Bond

It all flows through her. We knew that going in, but she did a heck of a job. She's a good player.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Blake Edwards

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Diana Ross

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

James Van Allen

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

James Van Allen

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

Douglas Adams

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is to be happy.

Simon Mainwaring

The future of profit is purpose.

Saadi

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

Thomas Watson

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

Reggie McNeal

You were created on purpose for a purpose.

Rollo May

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.