Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Budd Booth

That was a big accomplishment for them. They all seem to be playing well together, and we have a lot of youth and depth, so that's encouraging for the next few seasons.

Dave Tragethon

People should make reservations, because if they wait until they get to the mountain we might be full. There are people who come up, make a few runs, come in and party a little bit, then go back out. Then there's those who come just for dinner, the party and the fireworks.

Tracii Guns

Actually, it's funny that you mention that, we just started making plans within the last few days. We're going to hopefully do at least three videos for this album. We have tons of live footage and tons of the making of this record on film so we're hoping that by the end of next summer here that it will be out and it will run for about two hours.

Josh Stewart

Dramas for me are where it's at, but a great drama, a great character-driven drama, there's very few of them that get made; there's very few of them that actually make it to theaters. There's just very few of them.

Jason Gerken

During the final round, we sprayed the ball, left ourselves long putts and made a few big numbers that sent our scores soaring,?. . ?And as has been our problem all year long, we finished poorly over the last few holes.

Greg Davidson

Defensively, we're playing pretty sound. There've been lower-scoring games, but we've been able to pull out some shutouts for a few games.

Aaron Rowand

After playing 14 innings, when my head finally hits that pillow, I don't think I'm going to have any trouble sleeping tonight.

Lauri Hakala

Sometimes it goes that way, sometimes it doesn't. I've been really mindful of my footwork. I'm happy it finally worked.

Andy White

I slept in today until about 12. I had finals (scheduled), but I hadn't studied for any of them, and I was really tired, so I took a break.

Nancy Evans

This is the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle which will let us get the most prized piece of information about a star, that is, its mass.

Darin Erstad

We're happy that spring training is finally over. It's always fun to get the season under way and to keep score for real.

Dennis Schain

We did go through the proper process here in issuing the final permit.

Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Linda Kilpatrick

We're just too inconsistent right now. We're not ready for the playoffs. We're not playing like we should be in the playoffs. Our players need to do a little self-analyzing before our final three games.

Dynelle Tadlock

We ran our offense to get open shots and it finally paid off. I wanted the girls to recover from those two losses as a team, and I think we showed we can play team basketball.

Joe Krabbenhoft

Ray finished it off with those free throws like I knew he would. I'm just glad I could help the team's goal of sending Ray out on a good note at home.

John Oliver

People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.

Wally Buono

The teams that finished at the low end of the totem pole, they'll get the impact players. If you're picking where we are, they're going to be gone.

Luis Aragones

The three teams are complicated. They've finished second so they must be. All three are dangerous.

Linda Cardellini

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

Sheryl Swoopes

Somebody said to me, 'Well, you went in at halftime and you had nine assists, and you only finished with 10,'

Tyler Haynes

Someone's season is going to be finished -- nobody wants that.

Steve Squyres

Once we've finished the rest of the list, we'll start the descent.

Mark Mazzoleni

Sometimes they go in, and sometimes they don't. The thing is, we finished our scoring opportunities.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Gary Pruitt

You're the last mass medium here. Everything else is fragmenting.

Edward Hirsch

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

Busta Rhymes

You stop at all of the greasy nasty-ass truck stops and you never get a proper rest. But every night you party like it's the last night that you're ever going to have to party.

Steven Tyler

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

Gerard Kennedy

This is a serious problem that should not be left unchecked,

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.

David Moorcroft

Essentially, what she left on the table at the TSX, they're making up for it here.

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.

Ashley Scott

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

Vandana Shiva

The problem of numbers can only be dealt with by recognizing that people have a fundamental right to economic security. If you provide them with economic and environmental security, the population will stabilize itself.

Jane Addams

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Baldwin Spencer

5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fools are without number.

Edward Snowden

There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

Brit Marling

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.

Brian Greene

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

Ehud Olmert

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Jim Gabella

Right now we're not playing very well. We're not putting anything together offensively. We can do one of two things ? we can feel sorry for ourselves or we can come back out (today) and work.

Claude Julien

We're putting ourselves in that situation. Over 82 games, once in a while, you like to find ways to make it easier.

Rick Adelman

We've put ourselves in playoff position now, we're right there. There are expectations, and this is good, but there's no time to relax.

Jean Fontaine

Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves

Jim Waggoner

We're setting ourselves up for some kind of rally.

Carl Edwards

I got a trick up my sleeve for when we really need it so we'll just get ourselves in position, and we're going to be alright, guys.

Dick Whittington

If we recycle the trees, we give ourselves a present.

Randy Foye

If we're going to make this program go, it had to start with us. We took it upon ourselves that we've got to do this.

Gary Parlin

(Barker) threw very poorly in practice on Tuesday.

Jason Kubel

No problems at all to report. It hasn't been sore in a long time.

Michael Boyd

Delta's problem is not labour, it's debt. Until they can restructure their debt, they are in big trouble.

Benjamin Raich

I've always been strong in slalom. This season I've had some trouble finishing, but that wasn't a problem today.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Kurt Woerner

These weren't short-term problems. Some of those violations must have been there for years.

Bernie Ecclestone

I understand now that there may be some problems with that.

Christopher Williams

I understand they had a problem yesterday, a student problem, ... I talked with Matthews and he said everything was under control.

Pat Duffy

This isn't a problem of one district. It's a problem of many districts.

Jeff Berliner

The upside to the disk problem was that we recovered the old system to the SAN.

Tracy Konopacky

As a team, I thought we really did well. We stuck our landings in the vault, and had two 9-point scores on the floor.

Ed Cange

One night, somebody scores a lot, then another (night), it's someone else. That's our bedrock. It's a team concept.

Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Robert Johnson

I sent somebody to take it down, which I think is the wrong thing to do. But I have to do it,

Catherine Holland

I sent out 502 e-mails and got one response.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

William Shakespeare

Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.

John Tkacik

There is no sentiment in the administration for humoring the Chinese,

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all