Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moe Ammar

Any time I asked him for anything that Pacific Grove needed, any cause, he always pulled his checkbook and wrote a big check. Mr. Chamberlin, as your neighbor, as your friend, I will miss you.

Jimmy Carter

Another thing that we share is a need to earn a living after we leave the White House. Rosalyn asked me to announce, by the way, that our books are still on sale.

Sharon Dawley

Ashleigh was tremendous on Ray Williams. (Williams) is a great post player ... but she doesn't like it when a guard defends her, so that's a switch we made and we were going to keep Ashleigh on her until she asked to come out of the game.

Tadahito Iguchi

As far as being asked to play in the WBC, I am incredibly happy and incredibly honored to be asked. It just didn't work out this year. I definitely wanted to perform here in the camp in the beginning, especially with the change in the batting order.

Martin Freeman

As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.

Nat Friedman

As a programmer, it's sometimes difficult to know how ordinary people with no technical experience are reacting to your software. Linux people tend to know other Linux people. In these usability tests, we selected test subjects who were experienced with Windows, but who had never heard of Linux, and asked them to perform basic tasks using the Linux desktop.

Harry Reid

As bright and brilliant and as good a lawyer as Judge Roberts was, I asked him - he'd never taken a deposition, he'd never picked a jury, never tried a case, ... He never tried a case. She has. We need people like that who have real-life experiences.

Mark Williams

As coach, I could have asked for nothing more from Matthew as a player and as the captain of the Port Adelaide Football Club for the past five years,

Brad Clark

As a player, it's all the hype and running out on the court, the excitement of 15,000 people. As a coach, it's the experience that I've had that I've shared with these guys throughout the whole year. They've asked me many questions since we've won on Saturday.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Mark Perakh

No relevant data which support hypotheses, laws, models and theories could be found in the papers and books by proponents of intelligent design, only unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, it can justifiably be viewed as pseudoscience.

Richard Curtis

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Chipper Jones

Any win is important nowadays. Obviously, Philly has been playing well and their score was posted on the scoreboard before we started. They lost and we knew we had a golden opportunity to gain a game. We went out and did it. So it's two more off the magic number, whatever it is. It's probably 100. But nonetheless, it's another day in the books and we gained a game.

L. Estrange

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Dan Wasserman

The rule has been on the books a number of years and only been enforced sporadically at best, to our knowledge. We think this exceeds what is reasonable in governing the conduct of players on the court.

Lynsey Addario

I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.

Andrea Seigel

I've never read any of the '50 Shades of Grey' books because the Internet pre-educated me about the 'my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves' material.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

David Albright

And that's one of the things that has to give you pause, is that they have been thinking about this a long time, ... And so the question is, when did they start in earnest to learn how to make a nuclear explosive?

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Barry Hyman

The moves in media stocks are never earnings based.

Jack Ablin

Right now, we have this positive confluence of earnings and economic news that has been propelling the market.

Jim Volk

Right now the perception is we are not going to get the earnings recovery we thought we were going to get.

Takashi Ushio

Right now the market is showing a positive reaction to yesterday's earnings results.

Takashi Ushio

Right now, the market is showing a positive reaction to yesterday's earnings results. But investors are also in something of a wait-and-see mood, as we have earnings from industrial electronics firms tomorrow.

Brian Gendreau

Practically in every quarter lately, we've had this feeling that we're at the peak, this is it, no more growth. That's why you see a lot of volatility but, ultimately, the Dow or the other indexes end up not having moved much. But one day we may see earnings growth decelerate, and it could be this year.

John Barnes

Another thing would be just leave and go home. You know, pick another day that you can come shopping.

Rep. Zuckerman

The big question is will he leave the seat unfilled.

Jeff Lenard

People price shop. There is no loyalty. They will leave you for a penny a gallon.

Pierre Corneille

Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.

Jim Beattie

Defensively, it would be a big uplift. He plays hard. He bounces off walls. He doesn't leave anything out there.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Mark Harris

After a while, it's kind of demoralizing. You train someone in, and then they leave for better pay somewhere else.

Brian Butler

Some people were already trying to leave and others were just sitting there going 'Yeah that's great!' and I remember that statement because I was like, 'This is not great, this is time to leave.'

Mel Tillis

So when I leave here at the first of the year it'll become... well, it's already open on Sundays as a church. But it'll be a full-time church.

Michael Short

There are no new charges, no evidence, and multiple people living in that house.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

David Russell

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic

Garret Anderson

Very obviously, they've pitched well not making mistakes, living on the corners,

Caroline Shaw

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

Boyd Palmer

We have survived. There is plenty of living to do.

Marcus Aurelius

How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.

H. Hart

I don't like this kind of excitement. But living on U.S. 40 and I-70, if you are between the interstate and the highway, it just happens.

Stephen Evans

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Paul Reid

We don't want to share it. We want to win it outright.

Tyler Perry

When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.

Warren Buffett

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

Tyler Oakley

You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience.

Rosa Durando

Addie did nothing different than her white counterparts have been doing for years.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Janis Joplin

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

bell hooks

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.

bell hooks

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive

bell hooks

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.