Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juliana Hatfield

I used to be an over-packer! It took me a while to be smart about what I brought with me. I used to tour with a huge bag full of clothes and another one full of shoes because I wanted to have choices. And I ended up wearing the same pair of shoes all the time!

Chris Hadfield

Think about what happens on Earth when you throw up. You throw up and you have a bag of something horrible and then you throw it away, but if I have this bag, what am I going to do with it? This bag is going to stay with me in space for months, so we want a really good barf bag.

Tom Hardy

It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!'

Jose Andres Puerta

Don't skimp on the ice. Bags from the grocery store melt so fast and water down your drinks. I prefer beautiful, big squares for my cocktails.

Jay Fisette

We've had a long history with the Department of Defense. This is a mixed bag for us.

Ken Simonson

Consumers who are doing repairs or additions to their home will notice the effect when they buy a bag of cement.

Thomas Ken

This woman walked in with the bottle in an old carrier bag and said she thought it might be worth money, and the more I looked into it the more exciting it became.

Aaron Ross

Vince brings out his bag of tricks all the time. It's like you're playing with him on 'PlayStation.' You never know what's going to happen.

Mark Bruener

To see people carrying all their worldly possessions in a black trash bag is tough to see. This weekend is going to be one of acknowledgement to the hurricane victims. When you see what these people are going through, it's hard to complain about your life. This is a tough situation for so many people.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

Russell Baker

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Brian Paddick

There is a possibility that the person with the bomb died on the bus, there is a possibility they left the bomb, ... We're not ruling anything out, we're not ruling anything in.

Graham Chapman

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

Mike Mitchell

We also have a Bomb Laden and a Hot and Proud patriotic sauce. The Bomb Laden bottle has a turban on the cap and the Hot and Proud has an American flag on top.

Conor Oberst

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

David Lloyd

We have to reserve the right to bomb the niggers.

Todd Barry

Anyone who bombs is my friend.

Dylan McDermott

New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.

David Ritchie

If it is just a hoax to delay a test, it's pretty immature. If it is a bomb threat, I'm glad (the authorities) are taking precautions.

Jackie Spinner

If the borough of Manhattan was peaceful, but there was a car bomb in Brooklyn every day, it's tough to talk about the tranquility.

M. Wolfe

Our slogan is 'Money for Nothing, Checks for Free,'

Kevin Cosgrove

The one thing about Steve, he's got a tremendous motor. But he still has a ways to go as far as his checks and things like that. We're looking for the exactness in his play, and that's got to continue to develop.

Kirk Douglas

Because I love you, I will be checking up on you, ... You have honored me and I thank all of you.

Katherine Miller

This one looked like we needed to have it checked out,

Andrej Meszaros

This was a big opportunity for me to show the coach I can play 30 minutes if need be. My focus was to keep Jagr in check and not letting him score any goals. I think I had a pretty good game.

Will Landreth

We show up an hour before practice, and we are always the last to leave. We get everything ready for practice. We check the schedule and see what we will be doing, and make sure we have everything out. Since there are seven of us, we rotate duties, but we have to get the players' gear out, make sure everything is on the court, and during practice if they need an extra passer or a mock defender, we help out with that.

Peggy Riley

The credit is too valuable to overlook. If you think you might be eligible to claim the EITC, check it out. The EITC could put money in your pocket.

Bill Goodman

The fact that the president is now seeding the Supreme Court with people who have been handmaidens in his efforts to increase the power of the executive without any check or oversight whatsoever is very disturbing.

Craig Newmark

The problem is that with blogging, the model is publish first, maybe fact-check later. In newspapers, the model is you fact check first and then publish. But those models are merging.

Lee Hamilton

No one could order the troops in, they couldn't get the equipment in, they couldn't evacuate the people who needed to be evacuated, ... that was glaringly absent.

Tony Brown

I have a huge problem with generated power, ... Maybe the equipment is substandard or maybe you oversold the capabilities.

Jake Moreland

The equipment does a pretty good job of protecting us, plus you never think about getting hurt. You think only about stopping the puck.

Scott Simons

Our feeds quit because of the equipment failure.

David Millar

I think if I get the training spot on, the equipment perfect and I'm in the right state of mind, I can get a result there from no competitive action.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Nick Vujicic

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Sandy Greenberg

We're looking at palm trees now to replace the shade trees.

Allen Iverson

We're looking at our own sizes, we're looking at our friends' sizes,

Jared Bernstein

We're looking at a recession/jobless recovery that's two years old to the day.

Bobby Shelton

I'm a little set back. I had no idea they were looking at retirement. I thought it would stay around for many, many years kind of like the old B-52s did.

Chris Rudge

One would rightfully say that you shouldn't just be looking at the quantity of medals, you should also be looking at the quality of medals.

Kate Jackson

She was looking for something that she really wanted to do. Something that made her happy. And this did,

Jarno Trulli

I am not in a rush and we are talking but I have other options and I don't want to wait until September to sort out my future.

Scott Gerber

We are going to pursue every option to get it passed.

Nicholas Kristof

Doesn't it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there's no such option for a gun?

Fabio Capello

We had other options but Vieira was the one I wanted,

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Dodie Smith

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

David Christian

I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".

Ambrose Bierce

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Alfred Brendel

If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

Alfred de Vigny

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Anatoly Karpov

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

John Hurt

I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Jason Mraz

I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.

John Chaney

I'm sending a message, and I'm going to do what we used to do years ago - send in the goons.

Sun Microsystems

If the U.S. side is willing to send an envoy here, we are willing to have consultations,

Bashir Ahmed

This is a good-will gesture, ... Today is a start and we will send a lot more aid.

Robert Scoble

I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!'

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Lance Henriksen

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

Michael Myers

I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has a 95 percent and CO2 a 3.6 percent contribution to the 'greenhouse effect.' Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number.

Brad Radke

I think these two teams have a lot in common. We can look out and say, 'Look what the A's can do with a small payroll' and we're in the same boat.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Ang Lee

I thought it was a small work of love. I never thought it would play like this.

Milton McGregor

You'll have big winners, and you'll have small winners.

Bill Forsyth

Financiers are suspicious because I work in low-budget.

Gail Collins

I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

Henry Ellis

The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

Alfred Marshall

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Jack Canfield

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

David Hare

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Charles Frazier

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Stephen Harper

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

Sly Stone

My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.

Michael Moore

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

Maria Montessori

Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

Nikita Khrushchev

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

Frank Miller

I take his weapons away from him. Both of them.

Helmut Schmidt

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Of all the weapons in the Federal Reserve arsenal, words were the the most unpredictable in their consequences.

Julio Cortazar

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.