Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Stephen Colbert

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Christopher Meyer

Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.

Greg Nie

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

Jose Maria Aznar

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

Juan Lubroth

It is important to underline that there is no evidence that the H5N1 virus is present in poultry in Italy. At the moment, the disease remains confined to individual cases in wild birds only. The current situation in Italy does not provide consumers with any cause to avoid eating poultry products.

Ted Stevens

It is important for us to get the facts and avoid speculation.

Olli Rehn

It is high time that Serbia reaches full co-operation with the ICTY. That is the way to avoid the disruption of the negotiations, that the negotiations would be put on hold when the next round takes place.

Stanley Fischer

It is in Israel's interests to avoid a collapse of the Palestinian economy.

Mona Sutphen

I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

Elliott Sadler

Kevin's done a great job, ... He's been the man behind the scenes for the last two years. Everybody's been behind him the last two weeks and things are going really well.

Robert Gamez

I would've made a double bogey but I double-chipped, ... The wind caught me on my downswing on the first shot and I went long. The guys behind me hit good shots and came up short. The wind switched that quickly.

John Jones

I would say that we won when we had to win and did what it took to win (in the first half of district). I wouldn't say our wins were pretty, but we have to put that behind us.

Rohan Verplank

Katie skied great and was only 0.6 and 0.3 seconds behind the winner.

Jeff Tedford

Joe took the game pretty hard. He just needs to know we're behind him 100 percent.

Tim Rooney

He was behind the Chrysler turnaround in the 1980s.

Eric Bruntlett

He left it up and out over the plate. I got lucky there. I got behind in the count and had a pitch earlier in the at-bat and missed it.

Kathleen Bergen

He left behind his cowboy boots and luggage but he came back and the police were there.

Stephen Slifer

Greenspan is trying to be cautious by tapping the brakes ever so lightly, which I think will mean another quarter-point increase soon. This thing has so much momentum that, even though we've raised the speed limit, we're still going a little too fast.

Jimmy Fennig

With those long straights and tight corners, Martinsville is a tough track on the brakes and the motors. It really puts a lot of it on the driver too because it is so mentally exhausting to go run around for 500 laps on those tight turns. We had a good run going in the spring here before we were wrecked, and Kurt has taken the car to victory lane here before. We all know he knows how to run short tracks, so we'll see if he can keep the fenders clean and get a good finish.

Byron Dorgan

For the Fed to put its foot on the brakes to slow the economy down will hurt everyone in this country,

Jeffrey Rosen

With exceptional efficiency and amiability, he led a court that put the brakes on some of the excesses of the Earl Warren era while keeping pace with the sentiments of a majority of the country. His administration of the court was brilliantly if quietly effective, making him one of the most impressive chief justices of the past hundred years.

Joe Nemechek

I was looking to get back to the front on the next (green-flag) run, but the car got loose -- it was a struggle just to maintain our position.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's sham economic indicator says that our economy was better under Jimmy Carter than under Ronald Reagan, a deception few Ohioans are likely to believe.

Chris McKay

Key would be the detection of carbon and nitrogen containing particles.

Gary Griffiths

Kids need to be connected to the school and they need to feel someone cares about them. In a large school setting it can be extremely impersonal. There's nothing worse than a student in a large setting not being connected to anything. That's the height of loneliness.

Ayn Rand

know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Kids, did the car scare you, huh? We're all scared of the car tax,

Anthony Principi

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan . . . deserve to come back to 21st-century medical care, ... Whatever it costs, we need to incur that cost to provide that world-class care to an extraordinary group of men and women in harm's way.

Dave Forney

I would think that the committee would certainly look at that and say that South Carolina has done well and deserves a chance to be part of this new format. I don't think it would be automatic. I think a lot would depend on how we play in our next couple of games, win or lose.

Tony Scott

Here's someone who loves touching the dark side.

Zach Galligan

L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

Rose McIver

There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.

Rob Brydon

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

Richard Paul Evans

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

Richard Dawkins

Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.

Richelle Mead

See? There it is again. My flame in the dark.

Richelle Mead

You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.

Russell Baker

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

Mike McCue

Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.

Carlos Delgado

I take a lot of pride in getting big hits and driving in big runs.

Brian Jenkins

He said he was driving on U.S. 250 and said someone ran in front of him.

Russ Rader

It is important that parents enforce strict rules about driving: no nighttime driving, no driving around with friends in the car. These are the riskiest situations.

Jonathan Pritchard

There is ample evidence that selection has been a major driving point in our evolution during the last 10,000 years, and there is no reason to suppose that it has stopped.

Robert Wood

We mentor the merchant on how to successfully sell online, and we think we have the formula for driving local shoppers to local businesses.

Linda Doyle

We may not go as frequently as we do now. But the food is extremely worth driving for.

Russ Rader

We look at this from the standpoint that the more parental involvement the better because too many teens end up driving in risky situations, even with graduated driving laws in many states.

Bill Proffitt

He was driving up and down 34th Street trying to find his hotel.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

John Sacchi

There aren't any soft spots left in our schedule. We need to realize that every upcoming match is going to be a brawl and we better be ready fight.

Wayne Brady

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Orlando Bloom

Right where i left you... Not where i left you?

Kurt Busch

Roger told me to stand on the right pedal, turn left and go fast. He doesn't want me to do anything different. Just race hard, race smart.

Bill Womack

Our left side should be really solid and we should be strong up the middle.

Brady Bomber

It's going to be a battle. They can shoot the lights out on any night.

Larry Porter

As you can see we don't have any lights on.

Richard Tolbert

They're going to tax people who have to get a payday loan just to keep their lights from being turned off.

Mike Gillian

We wanted them to shoot jumpers and they made them. They were shooting 3s lights out.

Sarah Jones

Did you see any brake lights at any time?

Mark Chandler

What it comes down to (is that) Lachapelle was lights out. He was the man.

Jessica D'Onofrio

Police pursued the vehicle, which had its lights flashing and sirens blaring.

Ned Yost

Carlos is one of those special guys. When the lights go on, he's ready to go.

Kim Smith

She can shoot the lights out and that's what she did tonight.

Moises Alou

I know if someone could do what he's doing, it's going to be him, but I didn't think he'd be locked in that quick.

Steve Alford

Right now we've got seven really solid teams that have probably locked up NCAA bids. I think we've got a minimum of seven right now.

Tom Carper

We wandered over to the speaker's office, but it was locked up,

Chris Kearney

Like every other private psychiatric hospital, we are a locked and secure facility, but not 'maximum security.

David Shearer

I can't remember (the West Bank) being that locked down for such a long period of time.

Joe Girardi

Miguel seems to be right where he always is -- locked in.

Sam Perlozzo

He's obviously locked in. I don't know where we'd be without him.

Paulo Coelho

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Isabel Allende

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go out. I'm just locked away, writing. It's a time of meditation, of going into the story.

William Maxwell

My wife has to tell me I haven't said anything all day. I've stopped talking, and I'm totally unaware of it.

Vijay Batra

We have stopped work on the footbridge after objections from Pakistani soldiers,

William Patterson

I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

J. F. Powers

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.