Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

Iain Duncan Smith

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

Irwin Thomas

I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.

Gallagher

I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.

Zaha Hadid

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

William Shockley

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

William Henry Bragg

Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

Evangeline Lilly

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

Yani Tseng

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

Tina Fey

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

Thomas Friedman

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

Isabella Bird

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression.

Ian Watson

It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Gabriel Mann

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

Glenn Tipton

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

Gin Wigmore

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

George Bernard Shaw

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.

Reinhard Buetikofer

We have always said that opposition is an option for us... We won't compromise on the content of our policies.

Jerry Jones

With the free agents, we were really able to cover our needs spots. That allows us not to compromise our pick in any way. We don't have to take a lesser player because he plays a position of need.

Jill Gerber

I think this was a compromise that everyone could live with.

Peter Callero

Management is taking a very hard line, refusing to compromise. We are open to compromise, and unless they do, we will have a strike.

Julie Salz

We'd rather that be left up to the patient and their physician. With this, unfortunately, compromise has to be made in order to get something passed.

Harry Moberly

We realize that the legislative process is a compromise. We won't get everything that we want, and he (Fletcher) won't get everything he wants and the Senate won't get everything they want.

Zhu Bangzao

We hope the two sides will continually enhance mutual respect in a spirit of compromise and cooperation, and strengthen exchanges and cooperation in every field in order to create favorable conditions to realize final, peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

Andy Roberts

We'll never, ever compromise safety. We never have.

Yasuhiro Wada

We are seeing some signs of getting closer, some compromise and some good discussions.

Russ Rader

Typically rollovers represent a small percentage of crashes but are disproportionately high in the number of deaths because they're so lethal.

Tyler Hamilton

I'm still not at 100 percent since the crash last week.

Steve Kinser

I was glad to see Kraig win the Nationals the other night, ... I probably would have given him a pretty good race if I wouldn't have crashed (in a preliminary race).

Terry Donahue

I tell everybody that my time at the 49ers was a great flight, ... except for the crash landing.

Paul Tracy

I think I just want to finish the race. I think if we don't get involved in any crashes that happen and don't have any problems and our stops go OK, then maybe we can finish inside the top 15. That would be great.

Raja Bell

We can play the same pace we want, but some of that has to do with them (the Wizards) just crashing the offensive glass. You can't run if you can't get a rebound.

Pamela Williams

We're all right. At least the roof didn't come crashing down.

Martin Biron

We played a very good road game for two periods. We were all over them. Marty made some big saves that kept them in the game. If we play like that on the road, defensively and crashing the net, we'll be OK.

Jason Bacashihua

Those guys just threw everything at the net, and they were crashing the net hard.

Joan Rachetto

The 40 was really good from Tara. That was an excellent score for her.

Glenn Lincoln

That was the major problem in the game, and the Connolly team really hustled. They did an excellent job.

Dana Ferry

That was really a great goal. Just the way she scored the goal was impressive. She's really turned into an excellent player.

Michael Wright

We have always strived for excellence with our products, so it's satisfying to be involved with an organization that rewards excellence in its industry.

Juergen Schrempp

We have what we need. The name of the game now is operational excellence. The group is structured as it will be in the long term.

Michael Kelly

Tyler fits the Dayton mold. He's a quality student, has outstanding parental support and excellent leadership skills. He's not just a football player, but a well-rounded young man.

Steve Rives

We have a first-team all-conference player in Jeremy Richardson, a 6-7 kid who plays small forward. He gives us an excellent perimeter player. He's been at 18 or 19 a game.

Richard Giannini

We've had excellent discussions recently and our goals are the same for this football program.

Don Flanagan

We have had some inconsistency. But I do feel this is an excellent team. When they're good, they're very, very good. Last night I thought they were very, very good, and I think they can replicate that.

David Nash

We have tons of files on this one.

John Stossel

Why try to squeeze a 19-inch screen on a 3-inch display? What do you want? Files and e-mails. Let's get them and be done with it.

David Ellis

like it or not, e-mail is used for file transfer.

Tony Jones

We really start to disadvantage the consumer. The file gets weaker and weaker.

Don Bishop

We really read these (application) files carefully. I think there is more leadership in this class, and we're proud of that.

Rose Smith

We'll have a young guy in here from Kansas and his wife is from Maine and they need to file at least four returns. We make sense out of it all.

Sue Hales

One of the big reasons I think this money is just sitting out there is because people think they don't meet the filing requirements for their income. A lot of people don't need to file, and they don't have to file, but they really should file because a lot of people who have income under the income requirements actually had taxes withheld and they should get that money back. We want them to get their money back.

Tom Jackson

Basically, someone picked up the wrong file and sent the wrong letter. It was a mistake, and we are very, very sorry.

Jim Griffiths

If a substantial number of growers don't get paid, I would imagine someone would file a lawsuit.

Ken Dulaney

Hackers could infect your system or network with software that uses the PDA as a Trojan horse to get into the enterprise,

Richard D. James

I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.

Paul Graham

So hackers start original, and get good, and scientists start good, and get original.

Kevin Mitnick

I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.

Heather Brooke

Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.

Bud Selig

We have the toughest program now in American sports, ... and I'm proud of that.

Dana Gioia

We wanted to make sure the program could work as broadly as possible, so we wanted to test it in more challenging markets.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Jonathan Brandis

I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.

Beverly Thomas

We realize that not every program is going to be at the top of the list. Different programs have different appeals. We try to have something that everyone will enjoy.

Robert Redford

We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.

Mayor Lederer

Unfortunately, the program is a victim of its own success, and as result my description of it would be a program in crisis.

Henry Spencer

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

Lisa Williams

But all you really need to get started is a software program to record audio.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.

Mike Johnson

We've done an hour-and 15-minute workouts and not said a word to each other.

Shizuka Arakawa

I'm so surprised. I can't find the words for it.

Irina Slutskaya

I'm so surprised, and I can't find any words for it.

Matt Silverman

When you see the word devil, you think evil.

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

Ron Moody

He was such a professional. ... He was always word perfect.

Bruce Bennett

He was a wordsmith. A blacksmith works with metal, he worked with words.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.