Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clara Shih

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Buck Showalter

Joaquin was outstanding. His background is that he struggles from the fourth through the sixth. It's been a challenge, but today he was outstanding,

Grant McCasland

He comes from a really tough background as far as growing up in Brooklyn and he's helped really helped our team by being someone who can go and get a tough basket or a rebound. We're going to need him to be successful at the regional tournament.

Nick Saban

He is respected throughout the league and has a strong background in player personnel,

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Arnold Fielkow

I think it's important to let the presentation be made. Because I think you have to give some background to it.

Kantathi Suphamongkhon

He has management skills, and he has international experience. He is dedicated to the work of the international community. So he has the strength, background and experience, ... We feel that he is appropriate for that position.

Russell Baker

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

John Grady

Patient care volunteers work with the team, of doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other disciplines. There are 24 hours of training required and medical and background checks because they go into the homes to provide practical and emotional support for the patients and families.

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,

Mary Simpson

I don't know why I was so optimistic about this transition. About every situation you can imagine, we have been dealing with.

Chelan Simmons

I'm not good with sci-fi stuff. I'll be in it, as long as I can see what I'm dealing with and know it's fake. As soon as I watch it on TV, though, my brain registers it as 'Everything's real!'

Diane Swonk

The Fed doesn't want to be dealing with the old economy, with deficits returning. They're trying to have some impact on decisions made now without getting us into permanent problems.

Patrick Lynch

These forums are insulting and laughable, given that we're dealing with an administration hellbent on placing these terminals wherever the industry sees fit.

Mark Rush

This has taken a toll, financially and emotionally. His family is dealing with this in a very real way every day.

Bill Murray

This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with.

Rob Hinchliffe

These things take time, and now that you're dealing with three-way talks ...

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Jerry Snyder

I talked to the coach; he said that'd be great. He's actually one of the reasons I'm pushing so hard is because he was so enthusiastic about it. I think if I do get to play I'm going to love that coach.

Ron Polk

He used to be a power pitcher, but after shoulder surgery he's had some hard luck.

Joey Cora

He didn't pitch that bad. He threw strikes, and that's the key for him. He didn't get hit hard at all. He just wasn't lucky.

Ben Braun

He can take a lot of pride knowing he is playing for a championship now as he leaves Cal. He has worked so hard over the years.

Hal Chiodo

He keeps it simple and pushes the kids hard and teaches to take pride in your responsibilities.

Gary Pinkel

He just worked hard and got back in, so he's ready to go.

Ron Gardenhire

He's just rushing. It looks like to me he's not patient. I'm just letting him play and not think about it, see if he can work his way through some of these things.

Mick Jagger

It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Bryan Bridges

We're playing smart hockey. You don't want to be sitting back and letting the other team pressure you when you have a lead.

Trace Adkins

I thought the song would be a hit, but this is something else. It has taken on a life of its own. I?m just standing on the side letting it be.

Carl Jung

This is where we go our seperate ways. Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls me back to him and says, "Yes." I look at him, unsure of what he's saying yes to. "The questions you asked earlier, about wanting to settle down, start a family, see my family? Yes. Yes to all of it." I try to swallow but can't, try to speak but the words just won't come. His hands sliding around me, grasping me to him, he lets go of the vial, allows it to fall, to crash to the ground. The sparkling green liquid seeping out all around as he says, "But mostly yes to you.

Richard Bach

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

William S. Burroughs

According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent image. The boy peopled the garden with male phantoms that rose from his ejaculations. This angered God, who was getting on in years. He decided it endangered his position as CREATOR. So he crept upon the boy and anaesthetized him and made Eve from his rib. Henceforth all creation of beings would process through female channels. But some of Adam's phantoms refused to let God near them under any pretext.

William James

Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.

Sarah Addison Allen

First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.

Chad Knaus

Drive it like you stole it, homie.

Joe Nemechek

All types of racing costs a lot of money no matter what you're doing.

Cassandra Clare

He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.

Murray Walker

And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte

Puff Daddy

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.

Katy Perry

Recycle those nerves and make them adreneline.

Charlie Kimball

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.

Charlie Munger

Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

Bode Miller

From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

Tom Wilson

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

Bob Curran

He did shoot around with us. He seems to be fine.

Tony Oller

Let's be honest, Netflix has stepped up its game up. It seems to have a lot more of an assortment of stuff.

Hans Blix

I think it seems ... they are making an effort.

David Walton

I think a lot of guys you see - there seems to be this thing where you can have all the fun in the world, but in the end of the day, there's no one to share it with.

Virginia Woolf

We insist, it seems, on living.

Yogi Berra

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

Elizabeth Blackburn

In humans, the thing is that as we mature, our telomeres slowly wear down. So the question has always been: 'Did that matter?' Well, more and more, it seems like it matters.

Steven Scalet

I'm not anticipating a problem. It seems like everyone's cooperating. It'll be made to work out one way or the other.

Robert Brown

Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, / And did he stop and speak to you / And did he speak to you again? / How strange it seems and new!

Crystal Merillat

He had to go sign up. There was no stopping him then.

Theo Holtwijk

In concept, I'm willing to sign off on it.

Adam Fritz

Their absences are excused with a signed form.

James Joyce

Signatures of all things I am here to read.

Eric Alterman

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

Joe Hurwitz

There was a sign that said, 'Church for sale' and some of the parishioners were upset.

Grant Thomas

Once he's signed off he's able to play and I take that as if he's able to play anywhere.

Margot Asquith

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Kazimir Malevich

To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.

Richard Dawkins

It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions is the word you are struggling hypocritially to avoid.

Richelle Mead

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

Ronda Rousey

The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

Romeo Dallaire

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

Vincent Kartheiser

Well, I think certain roles are chosen for us. The moment I read Pete Campbell I thought: I can do this, this is mine. And in Money, too. The truth is I turn down a lot of projects. If a character doesn't have some kind of internal struggle, it's no good for me.

Warren Buffett

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

Vladimir Lenin

It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.

Vladimir Lenin

You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.

Vladimir Lenin

The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter is not a current of opinion, not a tendency; it (opportunism) has now become the organised tool of the bourgeoisie within the working class movement.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time