Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

Gordon W. Allport

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

Naomi Hasegawa

Bond prices got a boost from the fairly good outcome of today's two-year debt auction, while index-trackers actively purchased government debt paper, which supported the market.

Shelley Duvall

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?

Toni Simonetti

We are still actively engaged in discussions about Hughes with multiple interested parties. Those discussions are progressing.

Gary Loveman

We are very actively pursuing that. We think we have a very good chance to win.

Daniel Okrent

We think it's crucially important for us to understand and be actively involved in the digital distribution of content.

Jhumpa Lahiri

There's obviously a message, or a moral, or something. I think that's good - but it's not something I actively think about, to be honest with you.

Steve Ellis

The traditional bait and switch approach to credit card marketing doesn't work online. On the web, consumers are in the driver's seat. They are actively shopping for a card that meets their needs. Sites that make that process easy outperform those that don't.

Daunte Culpepper

I have found over the years that people with knowledge of the situation are usually the most ignorant, and anonymous sources are usually synonymous with cowards who don't want to go on the record. My position has been and continues to be that I am focusing on rehabilitating my knee so that I can come back and play the game I love at the highest level.

Maria Bamford

I'm sort of shy, and Twitter feels like chatting all day with a group. I like to follow people. I'm following Joel Osteen, Steve Martin, and an anonymous purple egg - just to see where they go with it.

David Rosenberg

A year ago, 'deflation' was dripping off everybody's lips. Today, core inflation is off its low, but it's about the same as it was a year ago, yet all anybody can talk about is how far the Fed will hike.

Mark Powers

Anybody who owns a station is committed to that particular geography to try to serve it. They'll try to make sure their audience is satisfied, or they go out of business.

John Gillis

Anybody who needs to do this, who feels they need to help by raising money, must come into my office and sign a specific form and carry it around with them, ... It is a document which says they have my authority as executive director of the Red Cross to do what they have to do in the way of fundraising.

Janet Reno

Anybody who looks at this case and doesn't know the circumstances of it is going to say 'why?', and I think that's what the president kind of naturally asked,

Bill Curry

Anybody who knows the cash flow dynamics of our business gets that. We ended the first quarter with more than a $1 billion in the bank, and we expect to generate positive cash flow from operations over the rest of the year.

Alan Adler

Anybody who has the problem -- in any state -- can get the service for it. They should bring their vehicles in. If it's the issue covered by the recall, it will be taken care of.

Bill Clinton

Anybody who has ever had kids can tell you that if things aren't going right for your kids, it doesn't matter what else is going right in your life.

Anybody who has an identity problem had better wise up and get with the program!

Barry Hyman

Anybody who has all their money in one sector is making a big mistake,

Kreayshawn

I'm, like, a person who likes love. And I can find love in any type of person. I've dated girls, and I've liked girls. But they're usually straight girls, so it never works out. I mean, I'm not that gay, so I don't have the energy to convince someone else to be gay, you know?

Greg Gardner

We met with family members of the suspect and convinced the family members, when they heard from their son to have him turn himself in.

Jack Paradise

To many doctors this will come as a surprise because it's been a matter of some controversy and speculation and some doctors are convinced it's a problem,

Amelie Mauresmo

We have a very strong squad and I'm convinced I'm not the only one able to win a singles. We have won many ties despite injury worries.

John Dean

I failed to convince President Nixon that morning and the rest, as they say, is history.

Bobby Frankel

I'm still not convinced he can get a mile and a quarter.

Charles Kennedy

Like John Major in her wake, Thatcher was convinced that she understood the Scots - yet couldn't understand why we remained so stubbornly resistant towards the notion of understanding her.

Roberto Heras

I was very surprised ... I am convinced it is a mistake because I have never taken anything.

John Roberts

I think if you've looked at what I've done since I took the judicial oath, that should convince you that I'm not an ideologue.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brian Tracy

The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Bruce Goldstein

Before Clara Bow, all the screen sirens were kind of exotic.

Angus King

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

Kathy Valentine

together we're trying to make a wish come true that somebody else wasn't going to let happen.

Mary Carillo

There's somebody to look at, and I think that really helped.

Peter Schmitz

Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.

Jonathan Hickman

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.

Doug Adkins

Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.

Chauncey Billups

Somebody is always going to come up big in the stretch. We never know who, but somebody will come up big.

Cristie Kerr

You just know when somebody is good. You can just tell.

Lofa Tatupu

He is somebody you really have to worry about and you have to know where he is at all times.

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

Jim Noonan

I was surprised that one didn't go in too.

Maria Sharapova

I surprised myself in the first round, that's for sure.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

David Hayes

I'm surprised to see him doing so well