Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Stoll

In sport we have moved away from honorable behavior.

Roz Chast

I'm sure that my parents' behavior has entered my work, I'm sorry to say. I don't think you need to have a difficult childhood to be funny, but it helps.

Jim Scherr

In Beijing, China's public will have the opportunity to experience firsthand our country through the conduct of our delegation at those Games. So their behavior and how they conduct themselves will be exceptionally important.

Capt. Conklin

Initially, there was a lot fear and concern, but you've got a lot of family-oriented people bringing up families out there, and I think they realize that this type of behavior has to stop or their loved ones could fall victim to it.

Laura Liddicoat

The driving was so bizarre - such as driving on the opposite side of the road, having head-on collisions. Simply bizarre behavior - it wasn't simply weaving in the lane.

Red Cavaney

The claims that anticompetitive behavior has contributed to recent gasoline price increases, nationally and in the Midwest, are without any factual basis.

O. J. Simpson

This is a common sense case. This is a study of human behavior. This is a case that involves nothing more than reacting, putting your foot on the brake of a car.

J. J. Johnson

This screener's behavior doesn't meet our standards of security and professionalism.

Ken Lay

The biggest problem in California is consumers are not going to see the price signals. If they don't see the price signals, they are not changing behavior so the problem is going to get worse.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Mike Lowell

Josh was crying to me for five years with the Marlins that he always wanted No. 19 so I told him I'd be willing to give it up. I think change is good sometimes. So I figured why not? I'm on a new team, new number and everything is new. I'm kind of starting from scratch. I feel good about that.

John Silvia

I suspect that there's a little optimism that the Fed will signal that they are just about done, that they'll change their language from saying 'further policy firming may be' to saying it 'might be' needed.

Jim Zandri

I think it is a combination of things. A lot has changed in New Year's over the past few years.

Jim Duquette

It all started in his mind right after his wife went into the hospital. He started thinking about whether he really had the desire to keep going. We let him take a couple extra days just to make sure that was his final decision. He's not going to change his mind at this point.

Mack Brown

It¹s a compliment, because it¹s a place we haven¹t been in a long time and it sets our standard even higher. We also understand that the percentage points and the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning. That's the only thing we have control over. It¹s only October, and what we want to do is to be one of the top two teams in December.

Carrie Shelver

It also comes down to how society perceives the role of men, as opposed to the role of women. Men can do well to change these perceptions, and the violation of women's rights, by redefining their role as the dominant partner.

Mike O'Connell

He wants a better opportunity. I think he looks at our team and sees he's not going to be able to make our team. I don't know what it is. I think he just wants a change of scenery.

Jeffrey Lichtman

He did not want the life his father had lived. He changed diapers, he drove a minivan.

Greg Waits

I think a shot clock would be good for the game. For the up-tempo style we like to play, it wouldn't matter.

Kevin Lisch

I just saw that the shot clock was running down. I hadn't really done much all game. I decided I'm going to create a shot and it went down, which is good.

Roy H. Williams

I look at Sean and the clock said zero and C.B. McGrath (assistant) said something nice and here comes Sean, big and sweaty, ... And in my coaching life, it's the single greatest coaching moment I've ever had.

Jacque Jones

I'm on my own clock now. I've been on everybody else's clock for the last five years. When you earn that right ... .

Daniel Kurtzer

The Israelis have been very serious in wanting diplomacy to succeed. They've been urgently trying to get us to get diplomacy working. The problem is, at some point they're going to say, 'The clock has run out, and we have to think of something else.

Jerry Farber

You can't foul that much. We just didn't play good defense, and we let them back into the game with the clock stopped. That's not a good thing to do when you've got a lead.

Jann Taber

The magnitude of this storm is tremendous. We have 1,062 crews in the field. We're working around the clock to restore power.

Gary Flowers

The clock is ticking but we will put the right structure and the right coaching team in place to put the Wallabies in a winning position for 2007.

Carl Bildt

The clock is now ticking toward gradual European Union withdrawal,

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Woodrow Wilson

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Werner Herzog

I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that.

W. G. Sebald

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.

William Cobbett

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

Walt Kelly

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

Walt Whitman

I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.

Walt Whitman

O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.

Walt Whitman

Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Joni Pitkanen

The first period we weren't ready, that's for sure.

Tom Cross

This is just the start of a period of strong growth.

Cindy Sheehan

It's remarkable that in a 27- day period Crawford has stood for something other than war. It has stood for peace.

David Cutcliffe

That's probably the one position that has stayed the same the most over that period of time.

David Greenberg

They can be done in a short period of time,

Pat Robertson

Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken!

Aaron Stern

A lot of his stuff was a lot slower, so there was a period of time where we were all worried. I was really worried because I was like man, this is nothing like our old stuff.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Mackenzie Astin

Life can only be understood backwards.

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Andre Dubus

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Jet Li

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

George Clooney

I think it's important to be on the right side of history.

John Stevens

We're on the wrong side of being close.

Carl Jung

Mine. I'm on my side.

Vincent Van Gogh

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides...

Salman Rushdie

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

John Callahan

It has three sides missing, but it has a roof,

Winston Justice

I like telling my side of the story.

Morgan Freeman

Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.

John Buchan

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.