Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Waters

Had partition not occurred, or had it proved less controversial and problematic, there would be no sense of discomfort now about remembering the beginnings of independent Ireland.

Jay Grymes

Parts of the state have been suffering for quite some time. In the southern third of Louisiana, the dry spell goes back to the beginnings of 2005, and even sections of northern Louisiana have been dealing with dry weather over the past 12 to 15 months.

Ozan Akcin

Investors are edgy and nervous. That tends to mark the beginnings of rotation.

John Dryden

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

John Krasinski

I had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun.

Norman Foster

In Britain the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable.

Ben Okri

The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one.

Ben Smith

You could probably tell from the early beginnings maybe a tenseness and the pressure that was on the home team. We never have that luxury.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The majority of men are bundles of beginnings

Lee Mazzilli

Joe is the master in terms of dealing with people. But that has come with experience. He has a way about him now he may not have had before.

Mike Krogel

He's a kid that's dealing with all this hoopla - the recruiting - it's frustrating for him at times. Sometimes it's just overwhelming - the letters and phone calls.

Richard Crawford

When he was dealing with me, he made me feel as if I were the only thing important to him.

Gregg Harris

I think we've taken a step back in dealing with gangs,

Colin Shaha

I think that they are an example to the other freshman of perseverance and what can happen if you dedicate yourself to something. And I don't think it is easy. I don't think it is easy dealing with me.

Dick Skrinjar

Humor is my mechanism for dealing with the hard reality of the world.

Samantha Smith

He was honestly the greatest guy I have ever known in my life. I was so in love with him. And this is the hardest thing I have ever dealt with, if you can even say that I'm dealing with it.

Melissa Rosenberg

I have been working in television for quite a long time. In television, the writer is the constant, and the director is rotated in and out. I am very use to dealing with people's methods. And perspectives.

Billy Donovan

I don't know there's a clear-cut favorite right now. If you're going to look at what's happened, LSU has been the most impressive in our league. You're dealing with depth issues for everybody, you're going to be dealing with fatigue issues, you're going to have to deal with foul trouble, you're going to have to deal with playing three teams in a row and you have to deal and move from one day to the next.

Ken Hill

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

Bill Hines

Having our lawyers back in town working will jumpstart the dry cleaners, the drug stores, the gas stations. They need us as customers.

Mike Trapasso

We are fortunate to have the return trip to Louisiana. It's not ideal, but it's better to play in sunny, dry weather rather than playing on the sponge we have.

Mitch Hedberg

I was walking down the street at 3am, and I passed a dry cleaner. The sign in the window said -"Sorry, We're Closed". You don't have to be sorry. It's 3am. And you're a dry cleaners. Its not like I was gonna come back at 10 and say "Hey man, I was here at 3 and you guys were closed... somebody owes me an apology.

Mary Roach

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.

Peter Moody

He was making ground on Primus in Sydney and wet or dry I think he will run well at Caulfield because he has won there.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Hark," he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?

Sara Gruen

Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.

Warren Christopher

To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're hung out to dry and, finally, you're framed.

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Brett Lebda

Just throw it at the net sometimes and it goes in.

Julius Peppers

Jordan (Carstens) has played and Kindal (Moorehead) has played, so we feel good about those guys. You have to go to be ready when someone goes down.

Robert Gottlieb

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Dana Martell

It can't just be something that goes on for one year and just stops. It has to keep going.

Bob Stern

It always raises questions when someone goes from one side to the other. One of the questions that comes up is, where is his loyalty?

Lorenzo Bundy

He just goes with the flow, wherever the water takes him. He knows he's going to play in the leagues. He knows he's a big leaguer waiting to happen.

Kathleen Blanco

Rita has Louisiana in her sights and we must move,

Donald Powell

I think New Orleans and Louisiana need to be safe,

Karl Malone

I love it the way Terry always mentions Louisiana Tech,

Michael Clayton

You can't picture something natural doing something like that. It's devastating. People in Louisiana haven't seen anything like this in a long, long time. This was one of the most powerful hurricanes Louisiana has ever had to take on.

Harry Roberts

That Mississippi mud is perhaps the most valuable thing we have in Louisiana at this time.

Reggie Theus

It's everything I thought it would be. Us winning at Pacific and Louisiana Tech winning. Fresno State played Creighton very strong. It bodes well for us in general.

David Stern

It was important to the Hornets and the NBA that we maintain a presence in Louisiana in anticipation of a return to New Orleans next season.

Charles Taylor

I've been through about 12 hurricanes in Louisiana and nothing was ever this bad,

Robbie Berg

We are urging all residents from south Texas to Louisiana to keep watch.

Lena Headey

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.

Rob Collins

If there's a better player in Northern California, I haven't seen him.

John Stephens

It took us seven years to saturate Northern California.

Carlos Alberto

They will come for a victory and they will come to play football, not volleyball like Northern Ireland.

David Cook

There's a lot of flatland in Texas and in the northern part of the state.

Tom Greene

It's all Northern Telecom. It was U.S. selling; they just started selling it and it took a lot of the other tech stocks with it.

Brian Sky

To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.

Bruce LaRoque

Rapids and Roseau have had a long-standing rivalry. Sometimes you like to see the two northern schools not playing (each other in the first round), but I suppose the southern schools could say that, too.

Ryan Cartwright

Often, Americans think any northern English accent is Australian.

Harland Braun

He's being well-treated and he's getting his regular medications . He said it's ... like some of the parts that he's played.

Julie Johnson

Our own rendition of the show is made up of parts of three different scripts of the play.

Michele Lee

In 'Seesaw,' I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I don't get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

Jack Santino

In some parts of Europe, they'd look for bears.

Claudia Schiffer

I only want to do small parts for now.

Paul Erlich

The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts

Valentino Castellani

It will be one of the most important parts of the games.

Mark Jones

It's a pretty comprehensive plan. There's some parts that play off one another and are supportive of one another.

Henry Ford

Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.

Rick Dinse

We are going to revisit those situations and those individuals we have contacted in the past,

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Richard Holbrooke

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.

Richard Hofstadter

The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.

Richard Dawkins

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

Richelle Mead

History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.

Richelle Mead

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Richelle Mead

Somehow, Sydney had an internal clock that told her when time was up. I think it was part of her inherent ability to keep track of a hundred things at once. Not me. In these moments, my thoughts were usually focused on getting her shirt off and whether I’d get past the bra this time. So far, I hadn’t.

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Mike Schmitt

He didn't quite make it back to the house.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

James Williams

I was completely speechless. I really had no idea at all, and it was quite a wonderful surprise.

Helen Clark

I think this is going to take quite some time to work through simply because the writs (final results) won't be until two Fridays' time,

Kimberley Nixon

I'm a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I'm more like the anti-sexy icon.

Gwendoline Christie

I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look.

Kevin Flanagan

In San Diego, we don't try quite as hard.

Kevin Durkin

His contribution to the world is quite profound,

Richard Morris

Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.

Patrick Carney

There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

Patrick Swayze

There were wonderful sections of Winnipeg that you could play for New York easy.

Jordan Lawley

I feel like everything after sections was just extra.

Jack Kirby

I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!

Woodrow Wilson

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Wilbur Smith

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

Katy Mixon

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

Cal Brown

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.

Joe Slovo

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

Kathie Lee Gifford

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

Pat Robertson

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

Tori Spelling

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

Winnie Pooh

Piglet: "Pooh, how do you spell love?" Pooh: "You don't spell it, you feel it.

Len Goodman

I won't eat anything I can't spell or wouldn't tread in.

Michael Gambon

There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.

Tom Dougherty

We'll have a little warm spell for the weekend. And it should be dry.

Alexandra Robbins

If someone doesn't spell 'you' out in an e-mail,

Anthony Marra

I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

J. M. Roberts

Yeah. That's the right way to spell it.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Somehow, a scrubbed house spells a fresh start.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.

W. H. Auden

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

Rory Bremner

My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

Roberto Assagioli

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

Pete Shelley

They weren't headlining. They were third down the bill,

Evan Benjamin

They got in some pretty big plays. I thought we were stout in getting them into third down and in second-and-long, but they made some pretty big plays.

Lofa Tatupu

Third downs. That's all I'm going to say.

Matthew Stafford

Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL.

Robert Adler

It's the third week of outflows we've seen.

Paul Duca

It's the third time I've done it. It doesn't feel weird any more.

Chris Sanders

This is the third year I've been in business.

Jack Roush

This is the third time this week you've tried to get my goat,

Ben Roethlisberger

This is the third one. We've got one more to get. One more.

Ellen Brown

I will be monitoring the weather all weekend.

Steve Anderson

Hopefully, this will be the end of the wet period. In all indications, it will be the end of the long-standing wet weather pattern.

Richard P. Feynman

On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics . It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!

Ruben Hinojosa

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

Roald Dahl

There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

William Henry Ashley

The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.

Robin Morgan

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

Willard Scott

These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.

Rick Warren

Nothing works perfectly. The weather doesn't work perfectly. Because of sin in the world, nothing works perfectly. But in spite of that we can find comfort. We can find strength.