Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bracey Barker

Our defense was barely there. We didn't have any rotation.

Jamie Cullum

Now I have other demands on my time that are not flexible, I just can't wander into the studio at 2 A.M. like I used to. If I have an idea in the middle of the night, I will go and get the bare bones down, but mostly you can learn to tame it to your needs.

Aristotle

Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life

Robert Poulin

The state just wants to do the bare minimum, and that is wrong.

Tom Leighton

We cut to the bare bone. That's how we got to this point, ... Expenses continue to rise, but revenues are staying in a straight line.

Doug Thornton

You get the feeling that if you could take this thing down to the bare walls and replace some of the mechanical, electrical and plumbing (systems), you could be back in business. I don't know how long that would take, but structurally the building seems to be in pretty good shape.

Michelle Paver

It's true to say that once I've got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places.

Jerry Kilgore

There's one case that sticks out in particular: two small children had to watch as their mother was beaten to death by their father with his bare hands,

Makhaya Ntini

There's nothing like putting your bare feet into fresh cow dung on a cold day. It's great.

Guy Stout

As far as distribution goes, we definitely sell more wines here that are off the beaten path than we would even in Houston, because there's a demand for them here.

S. Hughes

The Nasdaq stocks that have been the most beaten up are rallying, and that's a positive,

Peter Coolidge

The Nasdaq has been beaten up so much that there's room for a technical rebound if not more. It's still very murky as to where valuations should be and how much more room there is on the downside.

Tim Funkhouser

Once we get going, it's every day. And that's what we like. We've played very well this season and beaten some good teams, but there are some more good teams coming.

Sam Stovall

December is one of the best months of the year for retailers. Of the past four years, retailers have beaten the market. Typically, everyone says the Christmas season is going to be horrible and they don't want to be in retailers, only to see December do very well for the market and even better for retailers.

Jack Hoffman

Deep down, I know she's beaten the odds. God definitely had a hand in this.

Mike McGee

I've never beaten UR in my career. I think it'll be a slow-paced game.

Michael Campbell

I've beaten him -- that gives me an extra edge.

Augustine Choge

I've beaten him once and he's beaten me once, he's a very good runner.

Xiao Yang

As of July 1, 2006, all the second-instance trials of death sentence cases shall be heard in open court.

Samuel Daniel

Princes in this case / Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.

Gary Williams

Osteoporosis in men is extremely unrecognized. Too many fail to realize that 20 percent of osteoporosis cases in this country are men.

Mary Curtis

People say, hey, I'm not going to let this happen, I'm going to report this case I suspect.

Cem Dinc

People see that I'm 6-10 and they automatically expect me to play inside, but that's not necessarily the case with me. I can run, I can jump and I can shoot. I think I can give Indiana a different dimension.

Randeep Hooda

People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

Jamie Selway

People perceived that as a downgrade. She'd made a good case to investors for the exchange.

Sam Miller

Office is not in this case yet, but it could be in the next case.

Jason Stanford

Of course the Texas Residential Construction Commission is a case study in corruption. The Comptroller doesn't have to misuse her state office to prove that.

Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Debbie Smith

Reaching out to children in need and touching their lives in this special way is so important.

Peter Craig

Our thoughts and prayers are with her children and her family.

Mark Madsen

Our thoughts and prayers are with Fred Hoiberg and his family and his children, because there's not a finer human being around than Fred Hoiberg. But hey, we've got to make adjustments, and we've got some good players who will hopefully come in and fill the void.

Sharon Lewis

Our detectives are interviewing the parents of the two children we found, to see whether they can't throw any light on the subject ... At the moment we have no leads.

Joe Biden

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

Jason O'Mara

People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!

KP Kushwaha

People are still coming to hospitals with unconscious children in their arms. Some of them are coming to us very late.

Teresa Belew

People going, starting to drink at 12-o'clock with children and leaving after a long day in the sun out there, that's just a risky, risky combination.

Nora Ephron

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

Njeru Ndwiga

Death has robbed us of a true servant who was keen on his job.

Bill Richardson

devastated by the ravages and terror of human smuggling, drug smuggling, kidnapping, murder, destruction of property and death of livestock.

Doug Howard

Any kind of death sentence is cruel. It doesn't matter what kind of death, I think the psychological punishment of knowing you're going to die is cruel.

John Kyl

The tax on inheritances, or the 'death tax' is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

Scott Turow

I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90 percent are guilty. But a ten percent error rate if that's what it is, or even five percent, is really way too high.

J. K. Rowling

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Gerald Pruitt

After my wife's death I was totally devastated and hardly left the house for 2 1/2 years.

Benon Sevan

tens of thousands of innocent people from death from starvation and disease.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Archie Panjabi

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

Barbara Mertz

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Ayelet Waldman

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

Ayelet Waldman

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

Ayelet Waldman

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Ayelet Waldman

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

Ayelet Waldman

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Ayelet Waldman

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Samuel Liles

We're a small congregation, but we're not going to let this turn us around.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Ricky Gutierrez

There is already mold, ... There was one small window broken.

Andrew Rannells

I'm 6'2 and not a small person.

Slavoj Zizek

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Lance Henriksen

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Chuck Eddy

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Thomas S. Monson

Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you. . .for beginners are many, but finishers few.

Tina St. John

Holy Moses on a pogo stick!!

Steffi Graf

I am a person who sticks to her word.

Stephen Covey

When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

Steven Moffat

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

Randy Quaid

If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Something of calumny always sticks.

Brian Jacques

Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

Erinn Hayes

I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.

Erik Estrada

I like to watch the Fox News Network. I like 'Nightline.' I like to watch 'The Sopranos,' of course. That is one of my favorite shows. 'Entourage' is another one. I like 'The Shield.'

Elizabeth Scott

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Dennis Quaid

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

Bono

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Ben Katchor

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

Dave Rowntree

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.