Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for ""bliss."" It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.

Chris Anstey

We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared to after because of all the media. Later, it's more about the ceremony itself and not the films.

Steve Sampson

I thought that the first 20-25 minutes of the game we played quite well. We created a couple opportunities. If we put one of those away it's a different game. I think the emotion of the match, and all the pre-game ceremony before we stepped on the pitch, hopefully wasn't that much of a distraction but in the end I think we'll evaluate that it was.

Jacques Rogge

It is never easy to prepare the games, but what counts is what is happening from the day of the opening ceremony and not what is happening before. I am definitely not having a negative view of it. The least problems you can have in the preparations the better, but the proof is in the eating.

Anne Frank

Our opening ceremony this year is really exciting.

Valerie Fleming

I have watched every Opening Ceremony growing up and always dreamed about walking into a Games. When I walked in, the first thing I felt was that I am really part of it. ... The minute they said, 'And now the United States of America,' you got such a rush.

Jacques Rogge

I'm looking forward to seeing the National Games, which are always of the high quality. I remember very well of the opening ceremony in Guangzhou four years ago and I expect something that is very, very spectacular,

Brian Hickman

The Coronation Ceremony isn't one of the most publicized events, but it's a really nice ceremony and I would encourage people to come.

Elton John

The ceremony will be very private, a small family affair, David's parents, my parents and the two of us. They'll be our witnesses.

John Newsom

Keeling is also wanted for two counts of rape and 24 counts of gross sexual imposition involving a child,

Ron Hill

He knows the league. He's been around the league for 12 years. That's a quality I think counts for something. He's been around some good programs. You look at the success of those teams, he's had his fingerprints on them. I think he's a good hire for the Vikings.

John Macdonald

I think the jury saw right through those fraud counts and voted accordingly.

John Anderson

I thought we didn't play well on defense. The game starts and ends with pitching. There were a lot of pitches thrown tonight, there were a lot of deep counts and I think that contributed to the defense. Its harder for the guys to concentrate and stay in the game.

Bryan Kramer

I think we have the potential to score more runs (than last year). We looked at too many pitches early in the counts (today).

Alessandro Piero

I don't have anything to prove. I don't think I will be judged by this game. I'm hoping the rest of the season counts more, mostly the league.

Jim Tracy

He had a few more three-ball counts -- too many -- than I'd like to see. That puts him in a vulnerable position.

Andy Emanuel

Our morale is still high. We enjoy each others' company, and that counts for a lot.

Adlai E. Stevenson

In the long run, it is not the years in your life, but the life in your years that counts

Nate Kaeding

I was lucky enough to get it loosened up (thanks to a medicinal shot). It was definitely there, but I could still kick on it. With some good treatment on it, it shouldn't be any problem.

Chad Brown

I was in Pittsburgh and they let Rod Woodson go. There were posters that (read) 'Rod Is God' inside the stadium. If a team can let God go, they'll definitely let me go, too.

Paul Davies

Knowing there's a guy right there that's going to do all the dirty work and do anything he can definitely helps my game. I know it helps everyone else's, too.

Zach Duke

Knowing that it feels good after that is definitely a positive sign.

Jean Vaughn

Kids are definitely online with these sites. And they are definitely accessible.

Jeff Parker

Kevin's first run was huge. It definitely swung the momentum our way for sure. We've got athletes, and when you have athletes, you have the luxury of hitting the big play at any given time.

Jeff Parker

Kevin's first run was huge, ... It definitely swung the momentum our way for sure. We've got athletes, and when you have athletes, you have the luxury of hitting the big play at any given time.

Dylan Ball

Kids can be cruel. They definitely made fun of me.

Mark Williams

I wouldn't say I'm obsessed. I do other things with my life, ... but monitoring the weather is definitely my passion, the way other people have golfing or gardening.

Mark Martin

Kind of made it easy on me here at the end without me having to fight for it.

Gail Goestenkors

I wouldn't say it's an easy fix. I think it's a mentality. Once again, I feel like we have to become mentally tougher.

Rick Soracco

I think in that first quarter we could have been out by a lot more. We missed some easy shots.

Jim Kramer

It can be easy to be not ready to go. We liken it to a game. You have to be up for every game.

Marcus Banks

He just told me just run the team, make stuff easy and let's get this victory. I kind of patted him on the butt and told him don't worry about it, we'll go get it for him.

Curtis Stinson

He left the point guard spot and started roaming around. He got easy shots that way.

Gary Dilts

Half a point of market share is tough to get and easy to lose.

Jeff Horner

Grier didn't make it easy on us, but I didn't expect him to. He's a senior and they have a veteran team like we do. This meant a lot to them, too.

Adam Gilchrist

There are strong opinions being thrown around about who should be in or out of the side at a time when they are pretty easy to throw around,

Helen Clark

I think we should see what's happening in the currency, which is still strong, as positive for exporting.

William Gibson

I think what's actually happening is I'm just being more overt in terms of what I've always been doing,

Craig Bellamy

I don't know what is happening (next season) - I just want to get this out of the way.

David Wood

I do not see it happening before we get into the political pressure cooker in Hong Kong.

H. Hart

He has a story to tell that is universal, and he wants the viewer to understand this is mankind's problem, that we're all in this together. It's more about what's happening in the painting rather than who it is happening to.

Ray Lovell

Part of what's happening is to double-check these places because we need to find what needs to be done for remediation.

David Goyer

In science fiction, historically, you're telling allegorical tales. You're shining a light back on society -- what's happening now. It's a way to talk about what's going on, but from a sideways angle.

Bill Nye

If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.

Jim Sturgess

In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.

Mike Tice

I was a little annoyed, ... The tone was stern, stern. I didn't throw anything, but I talked negatively for the first time in two years.

Russell Lynes

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

Venus Williams

I don't have time to be negative.

Saul Alinsky

If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.

William Faulkner

Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.

Walter Payton

I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.

Zig Ziglar

When you respond to life, that's positive; when you react to life, that's negative.

Nick Kinsella

People who say 'I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist' are actually just negative people who think they are always right.

Paul Carvel

Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion.

Tom Driscoll

We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Richelle Mead

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Winston Churchill

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Cynthia Johnson

In the past two years, since so many burrito places have been opening up, people have been going there.

Peter Hall

I have to pour it on the opening weekend, then go back into battle.

Frank Robinson

I promise you tomorrow you'll see the Opening Day lineup.

Richard Eyre

I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.

David Sanderson

We're prepared to sit down and talk, I'm not quite sure they're ready to talk yet.

Kevan Barlow

Regardless if it's Terrell Owens or Marvin Harrison, we are going to prepare the same way.

Deion Sanders

I prepare to win, I prepare to dominate, I prepare to conquer, ... I prepare to win it all, and that's one of the reasons I'm here.

Roland Mesnier

In the White House, you have to be prepared for any eventuality.

Dilip Shanghvi

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

ReShard Lee

I really don't know the situation. All I can do is prepare and be ready when called on.

James Rogan

I'm prepared to win and I'm prepared to lose, but I'm not prepared to sell out my principles,

Bill Cowher

I'm prepared to latch on to his coattails and ride him for a long time.

Lonnie Bartley

I had to go into the season prepared not to have her. So we had a plan.

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Timothy Fisher

The range of a vehicle on one tank should be about the same as what we have today, 300 to 400 miles. And the fueling process should be about the same as what we're used to, it shouldn't take much more time than it takes today. And there are some serious problems with that.

Bob Bowlsby

I never would have taken the first step if I thought I was going to risk problems at Iowa. That was an important part of this process.

Christopher Hill

Clearly, they have some problems with the draft, but we have some problems as well.

Russell Crowe

If there are any problems and you do get up here and go on too long, ... Then 'hello' to my little friend.

Roberto Heras

I had no problems at all, the team had everything under control.

Roy Halladay

I had some time off to rest and haven't had any problems ever since then. It's kind of disappeared this winter so that's nice.

Jon Heacock

I know they are special team problems, but they are important ones.

Steve DeLuca

I'm not embarrassed at all. I had no problems showing the scar,

Maria Edgeworth

Confidence is the best proof of love.

Patrick Ness

Faith with proof is no faith at all.

Peter Greenaway

Too many proofs spoil the truth.

David Ricardo

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

Robert Keats

Where's the proof here? I have no facts, just allegations.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

Ben Bradlee

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

Karen Osborne

This is identification at the polls, not proof of citizenship.

Jim Ramstad

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

Terry Gilliam

He just had a different view of the film.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Tyler Oakley

I remember having 100 views on a video and being like, "I don't have a hundred friends." So that was a moment.