Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don McKinnon

I think the plea is falling on deaf ears.

Don Haskins

I remember a lot of name calling. If I didn't turn around, they didn't get to turn around. Whatever was said was said to deaf ears.

Juliette G. Low

The first woman I approached tried to tell me she wasn't interested. I pretended that my deafness prevented me from hearing her refusals.

Connie Stevens

It's one of the places you can go and know that there will always be a deaf person for you to talk to.

Patti LaBelle

They have the right name. They must be deaf if they don't hear me.

Eric Martinez

It's a way for the deaf and hearing communities in the Valley to come together.

Alex Garcia

At home, I'm the only deaf person. When I'm here, I can communicate.

Joe Elford

The supervisors have turned a deaf ear to the pleas of sick and dying people, and now they have shown that they are equally willing to ignore the law.

Judy Leiterman

The word is out (among deaf people) that there's an opportunity to live independently.

Matthew Fox

I think when people watch this show and get to the end of the episode, they're dying to find out what's going to happen next week and they really don't have any idea.

Walter Long

I think that dying is something that Napoleon has thought about from the very moment the sentence was pronounced in his case.

Raymond Chandler

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

Kurt Cobain

His dying seemed to give total strangers a sense of integrity they never had wanted while he was alive.

Kathleen Norris

Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.

Julia Cameron

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

P. D. James

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

Marya Hornbacher

The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.

Marya Hornbacher

I either want to be completely recovered or completely emaciated. It's the in between that I can't stand, the limbo of failure where you know that you haven't done your best at one or the other: dying or living.

Keke Palmer

I've never really had a first date! Well, I had kind of a first date. I went out with this kid. We went ice skating, but it was not fun. It was so terrible that I told him my curfew was a lot earlier than it really was.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten those earlier roles in Vancouver, I wouldn't have gone to L.A. to get the show that launched my career.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

Helen Brown

I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine; it was before the movement really took shape. The early feminist movement felt I put a lot of emphasis on beauty, which was true.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

Manny Acta

I would start spring training a week earlier so the players would get five or six exhibition games in before starting.

Mike Ledsome

Katie was ready to go (Thursday). She got into a groove early and started hitting her spots and pitching stronger as the games progressed.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Ben Gordon

Just like Tuesday (against Dallas) we struggled early and in the second half we were able to make a run. It was just a little to late.

Gary Sheffield

If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.

Alicia Sacramone

I think we could have sent three people to the Olympics and done equally well. We have a lot of great girls in our generation right now.

Carnegie Hall

He was just magic. He was equally as wonderful offstage as on.

Tom Lantos

I only hope we will have an equally charismatic and visionary leader in the future as Kofi Annan has been.

Kiaran McLaughlin

I hope this gray horse, like Giacomo, keeps improving with each race and is headed for a big performance on the first Saturday in the May. Of course, we're hoping for an equally good performance in the Florida Derby.

Keith Hembre

The historical pattern is for shocks of this nature to initially be absorbed roughly equally between lower savings and lower purchases for other goods and services.

Caroline Shepherd

Do I think she's not equally guilty? No. That is 100 percent a negotiating tactic.

Tanith Belbin

It's so incredibly wonderful to see the movement, because it's unrealistic to think that each team has equally strong compulsory, original and free (programs). Everybody has different strengths, and we're so glad to be part of this generation of ice dancing.

John Roberts

Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.

Hugh Johnson

I'm not going to ignore the deterioration in a stock.

Tom Knight

The DOE numbers are with range of expectations and traders could ignore the data.

Terry Pratchett

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

Adam Ereli

This is unfortunately not inconsistent with past North Korean practice, which is to ignore the needs of its people and let them starve for inexplicable reasons.

Lone Star

It was signed by like 110 little signatures. Who can ignore that?

Clive Sinclair

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

Todd McCarthy

The specter of death, or at least the end of something, hovers over the enterprise, but in the lightest possible way, as if to ignore it is the only possible policy.

Dennis Poust

Now it can't be ignored and the Legislature needs to negotiate it.

Nick Cave

They all have their share of thoughts about what needs to be done. So we just ignored them.

Heather Stewart

I think we've shown that we're a team that can compete.

Jim Riccitelli

He has shown us little glimpses here and there, and I told him tonight he had to be better than the other goaltender, and he was.

Larry Coker

He has shown me a lot. He's going to be an outstanding player.

Joyce Smith

She's shown us things we didn't know about.

Ted Johnson

shown you no hair, no fibers, no eyewitnesses. Not one.

Carl Forti

Hostettler has shown through his getting re-elected that he's more than a one-issue candidate.

Karen Thurman

I think the Republicans have shown us that they're corrupt, more important lately, they've show us how incompetent (they are) and how they have been divided. I think those are important themes and strategies for us as we go forward.

Peter Sorensen

Using these extracts has been shown to work,

Stephen Hawking

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

Jimmy Rollins

Keep him sick all year long. I have this new virus, Ryan, I want you to try it.

David Davenport

It could have been worse had she not been sick that day, ... She didn't come to school. So she was very fortunate.

David Davenport

It could have been worse had she not been sick that day,

William Wilberforce

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy. I am healthy. I am not sick anymore,

Richelle Mead

I still couldn’t stop the sick feeling rising in my stomach. “This could be a disaster.” “How? If anyone even finds it—and it’s not just sitting under a table right now—they’ll just have a good laugh at our sappy talk. No one’s going to be like, ‘Aha! Proof of an illicit human-and-vampire affair.

Ryan Lochte

I suddenly said, 'I'm sick of losing'. After that, I trained hard and I never lost there again.

William Wordsworth

The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

Wesley Willis

Take your ass to the barber shop. Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Joseph Pierce

Can I make the play, ... Am I willing to make the play?

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Piper

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.