Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

William Rose Benet

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

Vonda Shepard

My advice is if you have to do music, then do it! There's no choice in your heart and your soul - unless you have that kind of great need, desire and determination, it's pretty tough out there!

Angela Knight

The picture that is emerging is of investors using the online services for their smaller trades, but seeking out expert research and advice when it comes to their larger involvements.

Neymar

I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've always tried to follow my parents' advice because these are people who want the best for me.

Bertrand Russell

My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

Peter Gregory

The advice we received from Ashley's specialist is that it will take time to derive full benefit from the surgery he underwent in December.

Jane Choc

The advice they give you in the field is, if you're an artist get established as an artist first and then once you are established they are more apt to look at your work. Never team up with a writer; they like to team up the artist with a manuscript.

Kara Ratliff

The advice that they've given me has definitely given me an advantage.

Bruce Braley

I have represented farmers in federal court during the Iowa farm crisis. A farmer from Butler County. I don't think Sen. Grassley had that life experience. It's just a simple difference of who we are and where we've come from.

Steve Irwin

We need to increase the perception for people who live in Apollo, Butler and everywhere else that it's OK to come into the city.

Steve Boone

John will be remembered and thought of as one of the premiere songwriters of the mid '60s era, ... Joe Butler and myself (they played together a long time before the Spoonful,) were unique as the rhythm section. We were very tight. Our original guitarist had a very unique style.

Mark Evans

We played fairly well, and they just struggled. Butler had an off night.

Douglas Rappaport

He would have no motive whatsoever to set a fire. Mark may be the obvious culprit, as in 'the butler did it.' But I've played enough Clue to know that the butler never does it.

Larry Hays

With Tomlin and Hynes out we're looking for something. If those two guys come back healthy the fact that we're finding some other people - Butler had a good outing last night -- it's going to help us later on hopefully. Richardson's had two great games in a row. We need him to be ready to go next Thursday and do it again.

Dave Anderson

We're hoping Butler will only be out for two to four weeks,

Karen Joy Fowler

Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

Karen Joy Fowler

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

Niecy Nash

I am deeply saddened to hear that the man who murdered my brother, Michael Ensley, has been charged with murder again. I grieve for every family who has been victimized by this heinous individual. My prayers and love go out to the family of Demetra Doyle Heard during this trying time.

David Young

We have two individuals charged with very serious crimes. And they have to understand there are some consequences to their actions,

Robert Ekstrand

Today, two young men have been charged with crimes they did not commit.

Timothy McVeigh

Michael Fortier was charged with every charge we could convict him of.

Alan Johnson

It is difficult today to be a professional athlete. It's difficult when you're charged with this for anyone, but especially difficult if you are a professional athlete,

Britt Beemer

I won't be surprised if a day comes very soon when the customer is charged $5 for every return. On the one hand, tougher measures frustrate the consumer. But retailers also don't want to struggle with unnecessary discounts.

Jason Davidson

We don't get charged for an extra lifeguard. So far, it's going pretty well.

David Russell

We don't feel we should be charged for helping the city do its job.

I. Stone

Unfortunately, ... young people who have been subpoenaed but will never be charged have run up legal bills. Frankly, they're the ones being hurt by this.

Pat Riley

That was the first time I've seen Gary play like Gary in a long time.

Jim Brinkerhoff

We had Damien Mudge, the No. 1 player in the world on the right side of the wall, and Gary Waite, the No. 1 player on the left side of the wall.

Brian Cox

I was very inspired by people like Tim Roth and Gary Oldman. I just thought, if they could do it, I could do it.

Bobby Robson

We've got great speed in the team, not just Gary Speed, but great speed!

Kenny Brown

We worked so hard and Gary Cochrane and Gordon Moffat got through a lot of unseen work in the middle of the park.

Donald Trump

I'd rather have head to head and right now they're not getting any numbers. She's [Jill Stein] doing better than he [Gary Johnson] is, but right now in some polls she's actually not doing badly.

Chris DiMarco

I was paired with Gary (Nicklaus) in a junior event. We were 16. I get there, and there's Mr. Nicklaus watching. That was the most nerve-racking round of golf of my life.

Tim Bald

When this thing started, I had listed and jotted some names down of people. Gary was at the top of my list on that. He was from the very beginning.

Jim Jackson

I grew up here (in South Hall), so it was natural for me to want to come back and set up a practice. And Gary had moved down here as well.

Moises Arias

I can see myself doing production work and handling projects behind the scenes.

Mike Strong

We just did a nice job handling their pressure.

Scott Meyers

You can have a 19-year-old kid handling the refueling of a B-2, ... That's a billion-dollar asset.

Linda Fox

I think they're fabulous, the way they're handling this. I didn't plan on doing anything today. I can't shop or anything.

Jay Dillon

People were very upset but were handling it well.

Randolph Bourne

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

William Poole

From what I know of that situation, markets are handling it very well,

Dan Edwards

We're pleased she is safe and that the police are handling this situation.

Peter Jackson

We take as much inspiration from what he's doing and how he's handling it as he takes from the club.

David Horsey

I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.

Jim Kelly

I don't know why a journalist in that position would not talk.

Bernard Goldberg

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

Brigitte Boisselier

I amused myself playing with the journalists.

Bertie Carvel

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

Annalena McAfee

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

Joe Sacco

I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet so many interesting people and have all kinds of experiences.

Rik Mayall

It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.

Gerard Depardieu

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

Byron Katie

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

Charlotte Bronte

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Alan Jay Lerner

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

Dean Acheson

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

Bryant H. McGill

Let your resistance, judgements, angers and fears inform you.

Brian Jacques

A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement gets clouded. —Abbot Saxtus

Baltasar Gracian

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

Ayn Rand

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

Bill Vaughan

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Bertrand Russell

Almost all education has a political motive.

Bertrand Russell

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

Fatos Nano

We will rebuild Albania without Berisha as a political factor.

David Sanchez

Wilson was right when he called us a relentless political machine, and we will be in the Prop. 75 fight.

Asa Hutchinson

I think (Oklahoma) has made it a political issue.

Rudi Giuliani

I think I'll return to politics. I have some political visions. I don't know what they are yet, they're a little foggy.

Keith McKenzie

Without a political solution things will get worse. The situation is deteriorating in the remote areas.

Zharmakhan Tuyakbai

We know it is the result of the political system in our country, because our society is sliding more and more into illegality.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Chris Tarry

Swissair has been strengthening its relationship with American over recent months.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Brandon Jennings

During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.

Riley Wallace

It disappoints me that we're not as sharp as we should be at this stage. But it's a win.

Joe Glenn

I thought Jake would play a little better. Jake probably wasn't as sharp as I hoped.

Jeff Bower

We took a step back on offense. We weren't very sharp at anything on that side of the ball.

Steve Roberts

He was real sharp for the most part.

Frank Robinson

He was very sharp today with his pitches,

Brad Richards

I can just tell, personally, that we're just not as sharp as we were in the past,

Margaret Cavendish

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd

Ken Starr

I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

Joey Lina

The expulsion, my friends, is utterly without any basis.

Cate Blanchett

The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

Herman Gorter

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.