Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Henry Yennie

Of the almost 1,500, we suspect there's a 'nugget' who are truly missing ? washed out into the Gulf. Then there's a small subset that honestly don't want to be found. How do we know when we're done? How long do you keep looking? What do you do when you've done all the DNA testing you can, when you've called everyone and you still can't find the person?

Anthony Chan

The momentum going into 2006 is clearly healthy. We will be able to withstand weaker growth for the rest of the quarter and almost not miss a heart beat.

Joe Crocco

During one stretch, Jericho seemed to be scoring on almost every possession in the fourth quarter and there were times when we couldn't get a rebound. Turnovers also came into play. They're a killer.

Jackie Stewart

During my time as president we have fought many battles, not least almost annually the one to retain the British Grand Prix.

Ron Watson

Defensively we were able to control the tempo of almost every game.

Jim Walker

Deflationary pressures are building in China. In the December survey input prices have dropped for the second month in a row but output prices are almost matching the decline.

Kristi Toliver

Definitely, just because that?s what I came to Maryland to do ? to be an impact player and make a difference right off the bat. Those are the expectations I had for myself. Now that it?s happened, it?s almost a dream come true.

Scott Strasemeier

Definitely, it's a Navy town. It's almost like playing a game in Annapolis, except the weather's better.

Mike Turner

There are no refugees, no displaced persons here, ... They are our guests and we treat them as such.

Elina Kazan

We're making every effort to offer jobs to displaced employees.

J. C. Watts

We're doing it on a case-by-case basis. We'll be happy to be of service to any Louisiana or Mississippi student displaced as a result of the hurricane,

Christopher Abbott

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

John Brantley

I've always been drawn to Texas. I just want to go on the visit, see what they're trying to do. Everything I've heard from people is that they like Austin.

Megan Boone

I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

Jesmyn Ward

When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders.

Taryn Simon

I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.

Josh Bowman

Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.

Ann Rice

. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.

Michael Robertson

Microsoft has conceded that the server will have some Linux competition, but they've drawn a line in the sand at the desktop.

Liz Nichols

I think people are drawn to it because of the lifestyle.

Ron Artest

You really feel for those families that lost everything. Hopefully we'll put on a good show for everyone at the game.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night.

Khloe Kardashian

Most families aren't all in the public eye as we are. It works as a blessing. It works in our favor.

William Collins

I would rather see words out on their own, awayfrom their families and the warehouse of Rogetwandering the world where they sometimes fallin love with a completely different word.

Josh Williams

Oh, without a doubt. You know it's a tool that with our technology that we have that can reunite families and that's just so precious to use here at Wal-Mart.

Ben Jackson

I feel fortunate because I have my family. They're healthy, and they're in the same place. ...There are a lot of other families going (through) a whole lot worse and our prayers go out to them.

Edward Markey

How can any of you justify no testing of these tires after two years? I want to hear you justify to American families with two kids strapped into the back seat: How can you justify that you have not done the tests?

Charlize Theron

I think the most important thing that I got from them was when I got to be with their families and with their children,

Matt Murphy

Jennifer Deleon is not a victim in this case, ... Thomas and Jackie Hawks and John Jarvi and their families are the victims in this case.

Woodrow Wilson

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.

Brian Kenny

I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does. Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't.

Larry Hagman

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

John Schwartz

We have a fifteen year lead in this market and we will retain our leadership.

Frank Thomas

Fifteen years now. I think of all the great teams we've had, and if we'd had this pitching, you never know how many rings we'd have won. But I'm just happy to be around and be a part of this.

Mitch Miller

Fifteen months ago I had a heart operation and the things they were able to do for me was because people like you raised money.

Steve Brown

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Bill Trumbo

You really like to win the home games. Split on the road, win at home. That's how you win championships.

Barbara Johnson

When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead of you, have it! But if worries stand in your way, put them off until tomorrow. Give yourself a day off from worry. You deserve it. Some people live with a low-grade anxiety tugging at their spirit all day long. They go to sleep with it, wake up with it, carry it around at home, in town, to church, and with friends. Here's a remedy: Take the present moment and find something to laugh at. People who laugh, last.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Augusten Burroughs

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

Steven Tyler

The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.

Brad Johnson

The only player left was Matt Birk, ... He was a rookie in '98. Now he's hurt.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Steven Aftergood

FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken.

Sarah Kendall

Did he have weapons with him when he left the house?

Gary Smith

Corporations left and right are dumping their obligations and promises.

Dan Kusnetzky

This type of movement is likely to see a lot of momentum. No one wants to be left out of a major trend like this.

Floyd Landis

There's one day left and it doesn't look too eventful.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Luke Cartin

People should come out just to realize what's going on around them. It's about the big picture.

Robert Rosenberg

People should be vigilant about such extraneous charges. But this will probably be only a one-time shocker for most people. It won't be repeated because you'll be watching for it.

Jeb Bush

People should be preparing for this, ... I'm sure they're not taking it nonchalantly.

Robert Henderson

People should be able to say what they want, as long as it's on their property and they own the property, it should be able to be put up.

Jack Davis

People shot anything. It was like going on a safari.

Lindsey Kildow

As long as I can physically do it, I can suck it up for a minute, 55 seconds.

John Bromley

We really haven't physically merged the railroads at all,

Mark McHale

That wasn't physically getting beat. It was a miscommunication deal.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Jon Gruden

You'd have to take a big yellow excavator to get me out of here. I'm here for the long haul, unless someone comes and physically removes me.

Gary Apodaca

We just didn't come ready to play; I could see it when we were warming up. We were there physically but not mentally, and we had a long talk after the game.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.

Elizabeth Strout

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Imtiaz Ali

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.