Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Dario Franchitti

A wheel bearing went in the rear suspension, which I think is the same problem as Tony (Kanaan). It almost put me into the wall and almost put Tony in the wall as well. It's unfortunate and the ArcaEx team deserves better. It's the same problem we had at Nashville.

Joe Clark

Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Susan Williamson

Autistic children who go missing are almost always found dead in a ditch or at a lake. They get frightened of new things. Their instinct might be to hide in a small, dark place.

Robert Whaley

At Walsh, ... it was almost like, 'Let Rob post up and give him the ball.'

Carson Kainer

At San Diego, there was almost a sense of we were scared to fail. Our biggest change has been at the plate. It's black and white.

Tomas Scheckter

A win in Chevy's final race would be unbelievable. I'm almost in tears that Chevy is going from the series with all the horsepower we've got. I think Chevy is now on par with the Honda on the ovals.

Tomas Scheckter

A win in Chevy's final race would be unbelievable, ... I'm almost in tears that Chevy is going from the series with all the horsepower we've got. I think Chevy is now on par with the Honda on the ovals.

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Carol Bruess

As a culture, we decide what is a good word and we decide what is a bad word and that's changing over time.

Raymond Floyd

As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

Andy Reid

The bottom line is, as bad as it seems today we are two games out of first place in the NFC East, ... We have a great opportunity to go forward here and put the remaining part of this season together in a plus manner.

JoEllen Kenney

The building was in bad shape. It needed a new roof and wiring. It was a monumental event when we got appropriate wiring and cabling. We went from a manual typewriter to a computer.

Daniel Kim

The building just has a bad history, ... We didn't know it in the beginning, so we had to bless the set to make sure it let us work in there safely. We went through this Hawaiian ritual. It was the building nobody wanted to go into.

Joseph Keyes

The building is solid; the (prior) management was bad. The problem with the building from the outside is it's dated. People look at it and think is in bad shape (inside). All the outside will be re-done.

John Hanley

The building is in very, very, very bad shape.

Peter Power

The boycott is bad for all those concerned.

Susan Sontag

Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize,

Steven Ross

Our customers are going to be shut out with all the closed streets.

Kate Delhagen

The window of opportunity for Internet startups to get in before the big guys is closed in most cases. There's a difference these days from the heady early days. The cost of entry is getting higher by the week, and the venture-capital firms are more rigorous about their funding decisions.

LeBron James

We wanted to be mentally focused and not give a team like Portland back into the game. We closed the game out.

Joe Gillis

What we've done is we've closed the units to outside visitors in an effort to contain the spread of the virus.

Dennis Green

We need the public to be patient and understanding. We want to get this project done as soon as possible. We realize it is going to be an inconvenience, but it is much better than what would happen if the road has to be closed during the ski season.

Abu Abbas

If all options are closed before the Palestinians to get their rights, then only God knows what the Palestinians would do.

Mark Blackburn

If we didn't have two other facilities, it would've been a major disaster for us to be closed for four consecutive days. Parking is still quite difficult.

Rubie Jenkins

If the school is closed and the students are transferred they will have to get up earlier to be sent to Lyon, Friars Point and/or Jonestown.

Jeff Allen

I can't even get in to watch it. I have been wanting to. But, it's a closed debate.

Jeremy Teela

Other courses there's a lot of rest, you can work hard and rest, work hard and rest. And if you don't have as good a physiology, you can get away with the techniques of speed and power. But this kind of course, the guys who are genetically gifted ...

Charles Curtis

A plane is not just a big toy but a useful thing. You can use it for travel, research and of course fun, like sightseeing.

Matt Hasselbeck

The thing that I've learned through the course of this week is that it means a lot to a lot of people.

John McCarthy

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

Tiger Woods

I've played well here. But this golf course didn't really handle the weather too well, and this time of year, you get rain. We've been lucky to finish this tournament on time.

Jessica Bird

The stories are what they are in my head. They take their own course and refuse to be influenced by anything or anybody. So I just record what I see and hope that people like it.

Jim Brown

They all know that they have to play better. Most of it is course management and short game. We have really been trying to concentrate on that the whole year.

Kevin Eggan

The work that has been reported there is extremely important, so we are of course troubled by the allegations that have been made and are hopeful that they are not true.

Andrew Magee

This is one of the top-five golf courses on the PGA Tour already after just one practice round,

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Tom Rosenstiel

Normally, the press imposes a sports template and tends to create a winner,

Lauren Spillers

Defense creates offense. We create turnovers and steals and that gives us easy chances.

Michael Strauss

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

Chucky Atkins

The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.

Alan Young

Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.

Perry Farrell

Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atrocious. They created mayhem. Now you just throw on a plaid-that's not style.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Chris Dailey

She was very much a small-town girl. I always knew that she'd be successful and happy in her life because she's generally a happy person, someone who always looks at things in a positive way. She's great with people. I'm not surprised at all that she's back home.

Michael Dixon

Most all of them are pretty much word-for-word the same. Most every impact statement is negative. Generally that's what they are because people talk about how much the resources pull away.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

John Updike

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Jane D. Hull

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Charlene Li

Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating semi-spontaneous 'groundswells' of opinions to which companies and other institutions are realizing they must respond. From marketing to consumers organizations are being pulled into engaging with individuals.

Billy Connolly

Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.

Elif Safak

Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.

Edward Ruscha

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

Eduardo Galeano

To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

Bobby Miller

Even though the media has dubbed me America's most controversial writer, occasionally my words find an open mind and I end up with a new friend, and at least on that day, I win.

Don Watson

Language is butchered by the media

Daniel Radcliffe

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Steve Jobs

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Brett Ratner

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

Anthony Weiner

You've gotta stop making stuff up.

Art Spiegelman

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Benjamin Booker

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

Burton Rascoe

I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Conor McGregor

I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

Breaux Greer

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Bonnie Wright

In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.

Candice Olson

I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.

Riley Wallace

The worst part about it is that payback game. And when you don't get a TV game, it doesn't feel worth it.

Todd Marks

The (Web sites) you see on TV could end up costing you something.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Dominic West

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Richard LaGravenese

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

Courteney Cox

I like TV. It all depends what it is.

Alia Shawkat

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.